Harikrishnan – Eyes on Talents

London's Harikrishnan Explains His Divisive Inflatable Trousers

Hypebeast by Jake Silbert

Mar. 4, 2020

Fashion

Last week, 26-year-old Harikrishnan’s inflatable trousers set the internet alight, as critics derided and delighted over the young London College of Fashion student’s graduate presentation. The hand-crafted latex pants wholly transform the proportions of the lower body, enlarging certai

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n areas and minimizing others in a dramatic demonstration of body warping. HYPEBEAST France spoke with the mononymous designer about his divisive wearables, design ethos and artisinal craftsmanship.

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This student's inflatable trousers just won fashion week

I-D by Ryan White

Feb. 28, 2020

This week, 26-year-old Harikrishnan became the latest London student to go viral with an astonishing graduate collection. As part of London College of Fashion’s MA degree show, Harikrishnan presented menswear that, at its most simple was elegant and wearable, and at its most dramatic was pure art. Am

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ong intricate beaded two-piece vests and shorts, and boxy bolero jackets, were pairs of wildly inflated latex trousers. Instagram went mad, as it is wont to do.

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Do Not Ask Emerging Designer Harikrishnan About His Inflatable Trousers

British Vogue by Alice Newbold

Feb. 26, 2020

Emerging menswear designer Harikrishnan set Instagram alight, when he sent models wearing inflatable latex trousers of balloon-like proportions down the runway during his graduate show at London College of Fashion.

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Harikrishnan's inflatable latex trousers create "anatomically impossible" proportions

Dezeen by Jennifer Hahn

Feb. 24, 2020

For his graduate collection at the London College of Fashion, menswear designer Harikrishnan has matched cropped tailored jackets with billowing latex trousers to create exaggerated silhouettes.

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