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Designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi, Artistic Director of Accessories and Menswear, the collection is a perfect fusion of sophisticated comfort, relaxed opulence and the elegance of the unexpected. The designer sent out a wardrobe marked by classicism, with trompe-l’œil pieces that play with asymmetry and volume. Expressing exquisite craftsmanship, the House celebrates its hallmark materiality with double-faced cashmere, engineered leathers and jacquard silks. The sober palette undulates between shades of gray, oatmeal, burnt umber, mocha, mauve, lavender, navy and black. The Fendi astuccio motif is reimagined as Fendi Shadow, a larger-than-life logo woven into mohair scarves. For accessories, the Peekaboo evolves with bold metallic strap hardware and an all-leather Baguette bag is finished in suede or grained leather.
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For its Fall-Winter 2023-24 men’s collection, the Parisian house unveiled a classic wardrobe in evolution. Artistic Director Matthew M. Williams spotlights a traditional approach to menswear adapted to a dressing culture founded in individual ideas of formality, ease and confidence. The collection rethinks tailoring, including four black suits created in the Haute couture atelier with unhemmed seams that unravel. A study of volumes continues with layered looks created with cropped sweatshirts or jerseys. A deconstruction of workwear is expressed in cargo trousers transformed into skirts or tartan kilts. This new masculinity takes form in an array of materials – denim, polyurethane-coated nylon, reversed sheepskin, tweed – with a color palette ranging from neon to pastels.
A deep dive into the history of Maison Dior, the new collection by Kim Jones explores the confluence of present and future, echoing the first collection by Yves Saint Laurent for Dior in 1958 with contemporary creativity infused by poetry. With a backdrop of poetry read by actors Gwendoline Christie and Robert Pattinson, the silhouettes formed slow waves against white foam, pearl gray and pink sand. Inspired by the flow of rejuvenating waters, the artistic director fluidly melded masculine and feminine with wide shorts, structured skirts, subtle touches of faux leopard and transparent effects. Amalgamating formal and casual, the silhouettes bring together the art of draping, with knits revealing shirt sleeves, and British tailoring. The influence of the sea creates a resolutely contemporary conversation between the original Paris ensemble by Yves Saint Laurent – revisited in cavalry twill to become an elongated fisherman’s smock – and urban tunics, rain hats, leather dyed in yellow sea-faring outerwear or 3D printed boots. Effortless simplicity infuses everything, belying the precision and complexity of the collection
At Kenzo, Nigo presented his singular creative vision while elaborating on the legacy of Kenzo Takada in a wardrobe composed across cultures, eras and styles. At the confluence of British, American and Japanese street cultures, the Fall-Winter 2023 collection proposes a dialogue exemplified in collarless tunic jackets, tapered trousers and mini-skirts in a 1980s suiting shape. This Western grammar blends with the language of the Japanese martial arts wardrobe. The uniform of kendo inspires jackets, voluminous hakama skirts echo a British kilt and American workwear. The Japanese sashiko quilting technique is employed throughout the collection to develop new fabric expressions across nylon, denim, wool bases, knitwear and jersey. Jacquards and fil coupé appear alongside a multitude of velvets, from fluidly sophisticated to subversive devoré and heritage corduroy. Bags and shoes play on both Western and Japanese codes with a re-interpretation of the sporran bag and a Kinchaku pouch. And the Kenzo Western ankle boot is rooted in authentic cowboy boots, another celebration of archetypes.
The work of a creative collective, the new Louis Vuitton collection is designed by the Louis Vuitton Studio de Prêt-à-Porter Homme and American designer Colm Dillane of the KidSuper brand (winner of the 2021 Karl Lagerfeld prize), along with Sierra Leonean stylist Ibrahim Kamara and Ukrainian creative director Lina Kutsovskaya. Following a cinematic prelude by French filmmakers Michel and Olivier Gondry, the show featured a performance by Spanish singer Rosalía, who served as musical curator. The theme of the collection is the passage from childhood to adulthood, expressed by yarns that unravel from suits or form decorative fringes. Memories of the Studio’s designers from the 1990s become embroideries in sequins and pearls, inspired by television and the advent of the digital age. Bedroom motifs evoke the intimate world of adolescents when magnified eyes create a pixilated effect. A spectacular patchwork of leather reveals a face in camouflaged Monogram on coats or iconic Louis Vuitton bags. Digital footprints are manifested in a white silhouette structured from fragments of leather, printed with scans of actual letters written by members of the studio. Camera bags blur the lines between fiction and reality with messages such as “Blurry vision of a bright future”, or “Fantastic Imagination?” A powerful vision of creativity, savoir-faire and the art of staging, signed Louis Vuitton.
For the latest LOEWE collection, Jonathan Anderson placed the accent on art history and materials. A steel jacket crafted in collaboration with metal artist Elie Hirsch achieves an undulating fabric-like shape. Inspired by origami, the Puzzle Tote introduces a new expression of the iconic bag in supple leather. The parchment t-shirt references the vellum bases employed by Renaissance Old Masters and inspired the invitation to the runway show created by American artist Julien Nguyen. Silhouettes were presented in a minimalist space, evoking both white canvas and contemporary art galleries. In the center of the stage, two large-scale images created specially for the presentation by Julien Nguyen depict his muse Nikos in boxer shorts. Silk briefs and boxer shorts replace pants, worn under men’s jackets and coats. Wings and colored contact lenses created alternating angelic and demonic looks for models walking in derbies and boots with ultra-rounded toes. The molded shapes of sculptural trench coats articulated the fantasy that defines this collection.
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