For Eudon Choi’s Autumn/Winter 2024 collection, the Korean-born designer expressed a fascination with the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and its illustrious history of decadence and destruction. The show, titled “Temporis Processum” meaning “Time Process” wonderfully illustrated Eudon’s well-trodden narrative while avoiding wading into on-the-nose waters.
The collection featured “luxurious materials'', like velvet, cashmere, heavy wool, and silk satin, offset by raw edges, exposed seams and distressed finishes, that depicted Pompeii’s crumbling historic murals. The city’s preserved architectural grandeur comes across in the razor-sharp tailoring of oversized coats and neatly pleated trousers. While elegant draped silk resembles the dresses petrified in ancient Roman sculpture, wonderfully transporting a classical silhouette to Eudon’s well-defined contemporary woman.