Ryan Lo Fall 2018 Ready-To-Wear....Fashionweekly...On Fow24news.com

This was high Lo—a collection, according to the designer, with “no theme, no mood board, and no show. It’s simply about everything I love.....
” Held in India Mahdavi’s pink-everywhere, ultra-upholstered interior at the restaurant Sketch, the presentation scattered models among mannequins, all attired as different variations of Lo-twisted archetypes.

These spanned French maids in black lace to Princess Margaret in a cloud of tulle that enveloped a glittering jacquard sheath of pastel chevrons. A kung fu outfit featured pressed track pants with a squint-to-see-it butterfly pattern and was, Lo said, his own twist on a Hollywood interpretation of Chinese dress. The extraordinary Yayoi Kusama–catalyzed oversize pumpkin berets by Lo and Stephen Jones looked like costumes from a Mario Bros. scene in Ready Player One. This designer’s archetypes are candy-cotton fantasy idealizations that are matched by fantastic fabrication: Lo says he takes pleasure in mixing hand-worked and machine-made elements plus synthetic and organic fabrics together in one untangle-able zhoosh. These dreamy, cloth-crafted alter egos should cry out to expressive fantasists who revel in looking (and feeling) something else.