The fashion industry is synonymous with change - with creative heads rolling regularly at the top Paris houses, and new designers - and labels - sprouting forth.īut the buds of these spring shows are particularly new with several incoming designers of established houses unveiling much-anticipated first collections. The best moment came when a boring men's striped sports shirt was blown up, deconstructed and twisted into a loose and feminine one-shoulder sweater. Meanwhile, a classy cobalt blue shoulderless dress with no frills had a great sporty minimalism. The avuncular "Leon" star said he was attending the ready-to-wear debut to support his friend, Lapidus, whom he described as "a fantastic man as well as an artist."Īfter a 13-year run in New York, storied French clothing company Lacoste returned to Paris to celebrate 85 years since it was co-founded by tennis player Rene Lacoste in 1933.įirst of all, Paris is a more expensive place to host a show, and, secondly, sports brands like Lacoste are more readily associated with New York and less so with the couture-dominant French capital.īut the French brand is taking the risk - hoping to capitalize on the current Paris trend for sneakers and luxury sportswear.Īnd they did so seamlessly in Wednesday's sporty-meets-luxury display that packed some clever fashion twists.Ī clean white T-shirt was twinned with a floppy sleeveless navy jacket - its sharp collar and shiny buttons were a take on a man's sportswear blazer. "(Fashion) is - how can I put this? - almost a weapon of seduction," he added. "I believe I'm a little advanced in age, but I think seduction is almost the foundation of 98% of our doings," he said, perhaps summing up the way many assume Parisians approach daily life. Sixty-nine year old Reno, a relative stranger to the Paris fashion industry, attended Lanvin's Grand Palais display in his signature spectacles and a dark suit musing about the art of attraction. "This year is the beginning," said French actor Jean Reno of the collection, from the front row. Still, the collection improved toward the finale with a diaphanous black silk column dress that was set off figuratively with a 1-foot white flower resting on each shoulder like a cloud. They were a tad unoriginal - as was the use of the text "LANVIN" emblazoned blurrily across myriad dresses. In the clothes, black silken gowns rippled across the body contours - as one draped dress, sporting an asymmetrical voluminous sleeve, evoked Ancient Greece.Įlsewhere, crossover miniskirts in coral red or black read more like "Xena: Warrior Princess" than classic antiquity. Riffing on Grecian themes, models with ribboned ponytails marched down the runway with knee-length strap boots and crisscross belting. Understandably, the 59-year-old played it safe. The son of famed French designer Ted Lapidus, Olivier Lapidus had a lot to prove for his debut show at Lanvin, one of Paris' most respected, yet keenly-critiqued, fashion houses. Here are the highlights of the 2018 spring-summer ready-to-wear shows. It was debuts and fresh faces at Paris Fashion Week Wednesday as Lanvin's new designer unveiled his first collection and Lacoste returned to the French capital.
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