Here are the best collections that graced Paris’ runways
Dior
Kicking off Paris Fashion Week on a high-tech note is Dior with Maria Grazia Churi’s autumn-winter 2022 collection. The luxury brand’s creative director collaborated with D-Air Lab, an Italian company focused on developing personal safety clothing, in making “The New Era” line with pieces that blur the line between style and technology and heritage and modern.
Loewe
Surreal, that is what Jonathan Anderson’s fall-winter 2022 collection for Loewe is. The collection presents wearable art through molded leather dresses, felt bustiers, draped dresses with lips breastplates, and balloon bras, among others, creating a parade of beauty and madness.
Hermès
Fusing tradition with modernity, Hermès’ creative director Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski showcases sleek, sexy, with a touch of sporty designs for the luxury brand’s fall-winter 2022 offering. The collection’s urban leather jackets, knitwear with geometric seams, and a play on sheer present how Hermès merge contemporary with heritage.
Givenchy
Matthew Williams’ latest collection for Givenchy is definitely for the cool kids. Luxury streetwear is seen on the runway as femininity meets tailoring with pieces in worn denim paired with spectacular sequins and pearls in homage to Hubert de Givenchy’s sense of practical ornamentality. The day-to-day familiarity of washed jersey is explored with a new, intricate, layered rigor where an experiment in graphics and 4D print embroidery is brought to the fore.
Valentino
The latest to make a big pink statement is Pierpaolo Piccioli with his “Pink PP” fall-winter 2022 collection for luxury fashion house,Valentino. There’s a celebration of texture courtesy of embellished garbs, metallic pieces, and coats that have floral appliques and feathers. Movement is also present as designs in sheer and tulle dance as the models walk down its pink runway. Tailoring becomes more relaxed as it gains new silhouettes, some pieces are even paired with street style items.
Balenciaga
Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia expressed how the tragedy in Ukraine “has triggered the pain of a past trauma” in him as a refugee and dedicates his show to “fearlessness, to resistance, and to the victory of love and peace.” The collection, dubbed “360 Degrees,” takes place in a globe creating an artificial snowstorm, and also addresses the problem of climate change.
Louis Vuitton
Nicolas Ghesquière brings youth culture to the runway with his fall-winter 2022 presentation for Louis Vuitton. Oversized layering, chunky sweaters over dresses, luxe and casual take on suiting, and graphics-imbued pieces are seen on the collection that is all about the “impermanence and beautiful volatility of adolescence.”
Chanel
If there is a material that represents the house of Chanel, it would be tweed. Legendary designers Gabrielle Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld presented many designs during their time reimagining the fabric. This time, Virginie Viard showcases her take on the textile as her muses walk on the tweed-lined runway wearing knits and fleece jackets, some are in over-the-knee wellies marked with the iconic double C insignia.
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