All Asian cast at Givenchy Haute Couture

Riccardo Tisci, creative director of Givenchy is inspired by Japanese robot toys and Kazuo Ohno (the legendary Japanese Butoh dancer who Tisci met through a mutual friend).

The collection is pastel in front with shocks of brighter color in the back — like with Pre-Fall, Tisci has left his usual black-based palette behind. One dress, with hand-dyed and hand-cut matte sequins, took 4,000 hours of handwork to assemble. And as for the model cast, Tisci went completely Asian!!!

Models: (back row) Ming Xi (Ford), Hye Park (Trump), Liu Wen (Marilyn) & Ai Tominaga (Marilyn)
(front row) Shu Pei (Next), Tao Okamoto (Ford), Sun FeiFei (Women), Jiang Xiao Yi (Silent), So Young Kang (Marilyn) & Du Juan (IMG)

Show: Givenchy Haute Couture, Spring/Summer 2011, Paris)