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Costume Design · Hong Kong Ballet · 2025

Strange
Love

Choreography Andonis Foniadakis
Company Hong Kong Ballet
Venue Hong Kong
Season 2025
Choreography
Andonis Foniadakis
Costume Design
Anastasios Sofroniou
Company
Hong Kong Ballet
Season
2025
Photography
@tony.luk.photography
Depeche Mode · 80s · Alaia · Mugler · Gaultier

Compact colour as a global language
the costume as translation.

Depeche Mode, coloured vinyl and the birth of postmodernism in the excess of the colourful 80s — these were my starting points. I designed scuba-diving full-length, long-sleeve academic bodies from elastic mesh with hidden details that revealed new, exaggerated silhouettes.

Same design, multiple bodies, multiple colours. Fuchsia, cobalt, chrome yellow, deep crimson, electric blue, rich coral, acid pink — each dancer representing an emotion. When the lights dropped, their sharp shadows became additional costumes. And when colour falls away, the strong presence remains.

An homage to my childhood fashion heroes — Azzedine Alaïa, Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier — in the soundtrack of my youth, performed so vividly and seductively by a stellar cast in an incredible choreography.

Strange Love — Hong Kong Ballet — silhouette ensemble
Hong Kong Ballet · 2025
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