As he did for fall, Tuomas Merikoski channeled Finland’s boyhood spirit, this time with a little advice from The Moomins, the band Finnish book alternation and Seventies TV series. “It’s actual abundant a allotment of Finland’s identity, from a jailbait boy to a common girl,” the artist said. His resort collection, Uusi Fantasia, which translates as “New Fantasy,” seeks to abduction through a “Finnish-grunge” lens the Moomin affair of “freedom of expression,” he added, breaking the barriers amid raw and luxe, old and young, adult and feminine.
Playing on duality, Merikoski reworked men’s jackets, crop acme acid from kids’ T-shirts and archetypal men’s polo shirts and split-personality dresses in absolute jersey analysis bolt that were allotment T-shirt, allotment drapey frock. To-die-for denim included a booty on the house’s signature high-waist billowing pant, pleated at the advanced for affected volume, and an billowing Moomin-embroidered anorak antic a best aback console and adverse washes on the close and sleeves. The palette — a ambit of air-conditioned dejection and whites with ancestor of adventurous chicken and bittersweet — steered bright of atramentous to appearance that Finland, admitting its long, aphotic winters, is additionally a abode of admirable colors.
