This season, Khalid Al Qasimi has chosen to express a darker side of his creative personality and take us into the world of confidential celebrations.
Mysterious and intriguing, Qasimi’s man slips like a shadow into the darkness to join masked balls and other baroque and secret rituals, and even when he decides to wear colors, they are never flashy or showy, because in his desire for secrecy, he is discreet.
Black leather worked to resemble paper evokes a man who, at the turn of a dark corner, brushes against but doesn’t touch, the material accompanying the movement in a light, airy way. Versatile? He’s a tortured character, but in his psychosis, he remains elegant.
The volumes are inevitably dramatic – the collection’s inspiration being expressionist film noir – and bring out the colors in relief, because yes, the colors are present and above all cyclothymic like the character who wears them: burgundy, chocolate, duck green and chocolate, each evoking one of the obsessive aspects of the personality because they’re generally worn as a total look.
Mary Yasmine Arrouche
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