Jeans Made From a Bunch of Other Jeans Fashion Week Ugly
Olga Nedbava (Agence France-Presse)
Paris, France ● Tue, March 2, 2021
Paris fashion week opened in unique way on Mon, with students cut the virtual ribbon for women'southward ready-to-clothing collections at a fourth dimension of unprecedented chaos in the style agenda.
Deserted by several heavyweight designers, and still imprisoned online by the pandemic, organisers turned to students from the French Institute of Fashion for a dose of hope and renewal.
"People have been much more open. They desire to keep fashion alive and give every bit many opportunities as possible to immature designers," said ane of those presenting in the opening video, Clement Picot.
He drew inspiration from horror films such every bit "The Shining" and "American Psycho" for his contribution, full of oversized comic-volume shoulders that he said were a mix of his dreams and nightmares.
For youngsters similar Picot, the demand to stay virtual is no problem: "I will be able to watch this video all my life. Information technology's maybe even more than personal this way."
But this fashion week, the fourth in Paris since the start of the pandemic, looks as disorganised equally e'er.
Dior and Louis Vuitton, function of the LVMH luxury grouping, pushed dorsum their video broadcasts at the last minute, with organisers calculation an extra day on March 10 to accommodate production delays.
Fashion designer Victor Weinsanto poses during a photo session, on March 1, 2021 in Paris. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
Rival property Kering (which includes Saint Laurent, Balenciaga) is not presenting at all. Anthony Vaccarello, Saint Laurent'due south Belgian designer appear his withdrawal from the official agenda during the get-go lockdown a year agone.
Others are setting their own timetables, reflecting the fact that many designers were tired of the relentless footstep of the fashion agenda fifty-fifty before the coronavirus created a new world of logistical headaches.
Hedi Slimane, creative director of Celine unveiled his men's collection in early February, bypassing the agenda entirely, with a video showing modern knights in leather jackets parading on the ramparts of the Chateau de Chambord on the Loire.
Adapt to the unexpected
"Everything is existence called into question," Kris Van Assche, Belgian creator of the celebrated French house Berluti (LVMH) told AFP, calculation that he had never seen such "radical" changes in his 20-year career.
He himself skipped Jan'due south menswear week in Paris in favour of presenting in Shanghai in April.
Asked what the young students should focus on, Assche said: "The main talent that'south needed on a CV today is flexibility, the ability to adapt to the unexpected."
For up-and-coming talents, these are rare opportunities, however.
Originally from Taiwan, Meng Che Chiang's contribution to the opening video was "a love letter to Paris" while also playing with the appetite for upcycling, with exaggerated outfits made from faded and repainted towels or jeans, "juxtaposing the ugly and the beautiful, the old and the new".
If the epidemic has "limited his research", he at least has more time to study mundane goings-on such equally Parisian garbage cans, and dream of the day when the streets will exist full of color and life again.
Some other educatee, Lucie Favreau, focused on clothes for the moment -- garments to make you "experience comfy, de-stressed" -- with oversize sweaters, and a "shaman suit" printed with healing easily.
She, too, sees no problem with the new digital iteration.
"It'southward not as if we don't take an audition," she said. "It'south just a different fashion of relating to the audience."
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