![]() The eternally chic Catherine Deneuve, now 79, was in the audience. Chandeliers the size of taxis, expensively rippled moiré carpet, a catwalk elevated so that the audience gazes up at its goddesses. At Saint Laurent, the designer Anthony Vaccarello brought back the spirit of the late Yves with a show set that recreated the Hotel Intercontinental, where Yves Saint Laurent showed his haute-couture collections in the 1990s. Millions of floating particles form clouds that take on shapes that’s how the zeitgeist works. Photograph: Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Imagesįashion week is as much about the feel-it-in-your-fingertips stuff as it is about the clothes. Going for goddess … a model at Saint Laurent ready-to-wear fall/winter 2023-24 in Paris. Three years after the pandemic turned us into comfort dressers, is it time to stop dressing for imaginary picnics and sharpen up? Are you ready to quit the easy-care layers and get back on chummy terms with your dry cleaner? Pin-sharp silhouettes, not floaty layers. Instead, there were shoulder-padded blazers over silk blouses and fishnet tights with spike heels. There was not a pastoral puff sleeve nor a ditzy floral milkmaid dress to be seen on Paris catwalks this week. That, mes chéri s, is a vibe shift.Ī month after John Lewis scandalised the nation by cancelling the floral midi, pointing out that there isn’t a woman in this country who needs another one and gently proposing neutral tailoring instead, Paris fashion week has seconded the motion. ![]() ![]() When a trend unites both, that is not just a fashion trend. Saint Laurent, meanwhile, is the high church of Parisian chic, as well as a luxury boutique. J ohn Lewis is a byword for plain-speaking British common sense as much as it is an actual shop everyone knows that.
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