CELEBRATING THE NIGHT

This season’s chic and dressed-up trend has also touched designer Chitose Abe, who offers a wardrobe where, for the very first time, evening-wear rules supreme. Of course, her signature fusions and deconstructions are still there, but she applies them to expansive pieces that come alive in movement, like ball gowns. Long coats lined in satin mutate into suit jackets with trains. Boiler-suits and tops are also prolonged by long veils. Fabrics shine, and space-inspired prints shimmer. Close-up, some rich pieces of jewelry are integrated to the garments.