KENZO's pre-fall 2016 collection comes alive in "Sun to Sun", a folk tale-inspired film shot in Japan. Born from a giant peach to a childless couple, Momotaro left his parents to fight a band of marauding demons. On the way, he befriends a dog, a monkey and a pheasant, who
decide to become his allies. Momotaro is a beloved hero of Japanese folklore. He's a symbol of determination and strength.
Written by directors Partel Oliva in response to KENZO's Japanese-accented pre-fall collection, "Sun To Sun" is a girl-centric version of the classic folk tale. In their retelling,
Momotaro becomes Momoko, the center of an exploded narrative paying homage to Takashi Homma's suburbia photography, the Neo-Tokyo from Akira's father Katsuhiro
Otomo and delinquent girls' vitality in Sukeban cinema. In becoming a girl, demon-slayer Momotaro grows ambiguous. Through a slippery stream of images, Momoko is soft and hard, good and bad, dreamy and forceful. She starts as real, a solitary girl on the beach, only to morph into a lawless gang of anime bikers. Meanwhile, she begins to sport two black dots right above the eyes, a medieval ornament used by women, inspired by moths patterns, as magnetizing as inviting to keep your distance.
Shot over two days in Kamakura's coastline, Fujisawa'sinfinite suburbs and Tokyo's lights, "Sun to Sun" pairs four Harajuku queens (cast with help from street-style magazine "Fruits") with four stuntwomen. It features music by legendary collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi.
