Sacai
Designer: Chitose Abe

• “Immensely creative and wearable takes on the masculine-feminine trend, and some truly novel outerwear.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “Karl Lagerfeld, the oracle, has already spoken: Sacai, he said on Sunday, is the most interesting current brand. And he had not even seen the stellar show Monday when the Japanese designer Chitose Abe excelled herself in giving polish and variety to her long-held idea of the masculine/feminine sides of women playing out on the front and back of an outfit.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “Conceptual meets wearable seamlessly. To sum it up, Abe creates contradictions that work, like an inside-out sports coat, a volumetric teddy composed from feminine looking orange lace spliced with sporty green checks.” [NOWFASHION]
• “Sacai’s Chitose Abe has been at her hybridized mash-ups for years, but they just don’t get boring. This was another outstanding outing for the Japanese designer, one that once more demonstrated how sensitive she is to the conceptual-commercial mix.” [Style.com]
• “Decoding the chemistry that informs the choices a woman makes behind her closet door—fueled at once by practical and emotional impulses—isn’t an easy science. Few designers understand that better than Sacai’s Chitose Abe, and the collection she showed today was yet another stellar example.” [Vogue.com]
• “By dealing in sturdy, sporty tradition–inviting windowpane plaids inspired by English hunting gear, rich navy and burgundy velvet and flight gear fabrics–she offset the inherently complicated nature of her splicing methods with a new sophistication and even practicality.” [WWD]