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SHOTLIST(including transcript):-
AP Television
Paris France June 30 2012
1.Exterior La Maison Du Judo
2. People arriving
3. Backstage make-up
4. Parkour 91 doing a show
5. Fashion show
6. Finale
7. Designer Humberto Leon takes a bow
8. Cutaway of Humberto Leon
9. SOUNDBITE (English)Humberto Leon-designer :
"We really wanted to twist this idea of tailoring and really show new ways of wearing suits - a lot of it were these t-shirts over these suit pants, all made out of Italian suit fabrics - really looking at how do we communicate the idea of tailoring.
10. Cutaway of Humberto Leon (designer)
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Humberto Leon- designer: "We went to the jungles of Thailand and we were really inspired by, you know, I think the idea of really referencing the brand "Jungle" is something that Kenzo introduced in 1970 and it was a really important part of the brand's history and so for us we wanted to really look at what to play around with with jungle and so we decided to go and visit and really play around with it and it's our interpretation of what we saw in the jungle that we're reinterpreting into the brand."
12.Cutaway of Humberto Leon
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Humberto Leon- designer: "I think that having the parkour guys I think we also wanted to reference the city and I think that having it was this venue - every time we came to look at this space there were kids here doing judo and I think it's really exciting to have that kind of mix between the city and the jungle."
14. Cutaway of Humberto Leon
KENZO TREKS TO THE VIVID ASIAN JUNGLE
Kenzo understands color.
For spring-summer 2013, the Japanese fashion house travelled to the South Asian jungle - to return with one of the strongest and subtly vivid menswear collections of the season.
"We were inspired by a trip to Thailand last year," said one half of the design duo, Humberto Leon.
Down the catwalk trekked bright camouflage prints, deer-stalker hats and even canteens with a harness to stay hydrated.
But the flirtation with the tropics was just the far-flung concept.
The true strength of the show lay with its grounded and subtle working of tonal color - a trick that few designers manage to grasp.
Light short-sleeved shirts with rolled sleeves and wide Asian-style deep-pleated pants came in yellow, blue and orange.
But the clothes' color was muted, not primary: a careful effect produced by carefully dying material to an exactly matching tonal strength.
The rare result was comfortable harmony.
It invoked founder Kenzo Takada's key philosophy: Clothes should be wearable.
Flashes of vivid color occasionally punctuated the muted palette.
Camouflage print in flashes of bright jewel tones made sure of that - print, another of Takada's codes given good mileage here.
The intense, hazy patterns perfectly captured the rainforest's dappled light, while referencing busy Asian fabric patterning.
One of the must-haves of the show was a pair of pleated baggy pants in florid vermilion.
On their sophomore outing in menswear, Leon and his design partner Carol Lim passed with flying colors.
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