Yumi Katsura has successfully showcased 2019 AW Couture Collection<The poetry of Sumingashi> at The Intercontinental Paris Le Grand on July 1st, 2019.

The new collection presented 25 dresses inspired by the beauty of Japanese calligraphy, expressing powerful and elegant straight lines, with pleats and Japanese traditional techniques – “suminagashi” (marbling ink) and gradation dyeing.

18 kinds of pleats inspired by Japanese temple architecture and Japanese residential architecture “Sukiya-zukuri”. Tense of straight line and shadow of pleats with suminagashi and gradation dyeing, has brought our guests into a great journey where tradition and modernity merge in a poetic embrace.