Eudon Choi spirited showgoers away to Gaelic lands with a palette-cleansing assortment that sprung from the fantastical work of John Anster Fitzgerald. The Victorian artist, identified for fairy-filled works that will have been opium-fueled, introduced an ethereal contact to Choi’s in any other case minimalist spring outing. The sprightly references got here by from the fragile sprays of pale blue lace that confirmed up on sleeves and skirts, proper all the way down to the pleasingly off-kilter, mismatched Victoriana boots. There was one other, very on-point temper at work right here although: the waif-like traces of the grunge period. This was a fairy fantasy with an undeniably ’90s edge. The last decade’s sturdy, stripped-back really feel appeared within the industrial slate materials that opened the present on layered attire and capes, and later within the raw-edged drape shirts and uneven slash skirts hewn in tactile, Irish linen.

Because the dreamy chords of Portishead’s “It Might Be Candy” performed out, the palette shifted from cerise to comfortable peach to midnight blue with Waterproof coat-y attire that Choi intends to be worn “to good gallery exhibits.” There was a breezy, oversize silhouette all through, in addition to a minor obsession with drawstrings, which allowed Choi free play with form and quantity. Gone have been the cruel and architectural traces of Fall. Of their place got here a lesson in restrained prettiness. For the finale, these proportions turned much more exaggerated in pale hued jacquard day robes that supplied full cowl. “There’s a lot physique consciousness on this planet,” Choi mentioned after the present, referring to the protecting really feel of the extra voluminous seems to be. “I wished to create a sublime and straightforward magnificence that permits an escape from that.”