Officially his first time on the Milan calendar, Malaysian designer Moto Guo brought his A-game to the catwalk, complete with the childlike innocence and the distorted silhouettes similar to the ones which made him a forerunner for the 2016 LVMH Prize earlier this year. Although the prize would later be awarded to British menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner, the competition brought Guo out from Southeast Asia and into an international arena.
This season, he introduced a game-changing collection into the Milan Spring/Summer 2017 schedule, where, instead of presenting classical tailoring and traditional suiting, Guo offered a lineup of outsized jackets, paperbag waistlined pants and bib-like tops. The models, who walked to nursery rhymes and sported exaggerated bedhead and acne-covered faces, were not your ordinary, run of the mill casting. But it couldn’t have been any more perfect.
By the time the collection had made its final walk, the general attitude and state of approval among those attending were commentary enough to say this was a milestone moment for the 24-year-old designer. Goofy and decidedly unpretentious, Moto Guo’s Jeremy Scott-meets-Margiela aesthetics have made him one of the industry’s most highly watched designers this season, and there’s no doubt we’ll be seeing even greater things from him in the not-too-distant future.
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