The Opening Ceremony fashion show always comes with a big surprise. This season, fashion wunderkinds Humberto Leon and Carol Lim set their collection to a multi-sensory backdrop, namely a stage scented with the aroma of chocolate and a sloping wall that began dripping with chocolate as the show progressed. The wall itself boasted a relief pattern of topographic lines, which turned out to be inspired by fingerprints - a motif that recurred through the men's and women's collections. The swirling graphics not only appeared as prints on sweatshirts, but also took the form of curling trapeze hems on tunic tops and skater skirts. Opening Ceremony roped in the talents of Belgian food science lab Callebaut to masterfully execute the chocolate experience, and the respect for them didn't stop there. The Belgian flair for design and architecture also made its way into the collection with diagonally spliced hems, high collared shirts and waffle-textured jackets in a Flemish palette of blues, white and black. Rounded silhouettes were both urban and avant-grade, which remained true to the Opening Ceremony DNA. At the end of the show, attendees who munched on fingerprinted Callebaut chocolate bars during the show were sent back into the snow with tumblers of hot white chocolate for an extra sweet finish.
Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans
