University of Westminster student San Kim presented a line of inflatable couture for his graduate fashion collection inspired by Freudian theories of psychosexual development.
Continuing the current trend for inflatable fashion, Kim sent models down the runway enveloped in bulbous, air-filled garments in bold primary hues, paired with denim jeans and white slider shoes.
The designs were presented at the University of Westminster's Menswear MA 2019 graduate show.

The collection was informed by Kim's interest in Sigmund Freud's studies of psychosexual development.
His collection aims to pair seemingly contrasting ideas such as children and adults, playfulness and seriousness, and clumsiness and sophistication.
"I like to juxtapose different things in one collection ? things that seem very dissimilar to each other but actually are closely connected," said the designer. "Freud's theory is also similar to this. I wanted to visualise this in my collection."
"The main point of the theory is that children's behaviour consists of a repetition of pleasing behaviour, and this performance reappears in adult's sexual behaviours," he added.
"I needed a medium that would allow me to combine this idea of a child's playfulness and an adult's fetish, and I thought making balloon-like garments that reference an inflatable fetish was the most effective way to show both characteristics."

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