For her third effort at the helm of the French sports label, British designer Louise Trotter zeroed in on the relationship between René Lacoste and his wife, French golf champion Simone Thion de La Chaume, whose legacy has been overshadowed by her husband’s embroidered gator. She recasted many of the brands signatures in a palette
Balenciaga has taken to Paris Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2020 with an ‘’immersive’’ experience: a floor covered with water up to the first three rows of seats, creating a vast, mesmerizing reflecting pool while LED graphics on the ceiling mimicked storm, fire and thunder. For the luxury label, its creative director Demna Gvasalia delivered commentary
Under the mammoth Celine tent built behind Napoleon’s tomb, Hedi Slimane showed off his latest outing for Celine men and women in a unisex collection ultra desirable. The French designer continued what he started two seasons ago: an evocation of the Parisian bourgeoisie of the 1970s and an ideal of the young rocker teenager of
With a giraffe mask on his head and hoof-like platform ankle boots on his feet, the first model who emerged from the Thom Browne’ backstage was clearly totally out of the set of the show: a winter birch wood doused in fake snow. Then followed other silhouettes with head covered in the shape of a
Clapped like crazy by an electrified Timothée Chalamet, Haider Ackermann’s Fall/Winter 2020 collection, commercial and accessible, was filled with ideas executed with calm and stable confidence. ‘’I wanted something more absent. I wanted the clothes to disappear in the background’’, he said backstage. ‘’It doesn’t do justice to my clothes, I know, but… I felt
At Lemaire, we used to focus on details because at the label of Sarah Linh Tran and Christophe Lemaire, every detail counts and counts for a lot. The duo of designers, and partners in life, continued their work focusing on a natural elegance and a very bourgeois sobriety. Based on an almost monochrome palette of
John Galliano has always been obsessed with ‘’the bourgeois gesture’’ which has occupied his thoughts of late, beginning with the Maison Margiela Haute Couture collection he showed in January. For ready-to-wear, he continued that investigation with grace and quiet power. There was in Galliano this strong desire to smash the codes of the most respectable
Bruno Sialelli hold his new inspired collection for Lanvin, one of the first luxury houses, at the Manufacture des Gobelins, the legendary creator of one of France’s greatest royal art forms – tapestry. Surrounded by magnificent tapestries which are ‘’a bridge between the past and the present. Between Jeanne Lanvin and myself’’, explained Sialelli, his
2019 LVMH Prize finalist Kenneth Ize, who was born in Lagos (Nigeria) and grew up in Austria, made quite the splash at Paris Fashion Week with the debut of his Fall/Winter 2020 collection. The show was inspired by his memories of going to church, and growing up between Nigeria and Austria. Primarily known for his
Welcome to the dreamlike, initiatory and travel world of Kenzo Takada, version Felipe Oliveira Baptista – Portuguese by birth and became recently French – who shares with the founder of the Maison Kenzo – born in Japan but French at heart – one thing in common: the multiculturalism. Two personalities blend and their common points
