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| Some rather dapper friends of Amélie |
After Alexis Mabille, Amélie and I rushed down to Jean Paul Gaultier, held at his showroom on the Rue St Martin. Th collection was a 1940s city gent meets a semi-underground urban New York look. The set, a silver scaffolding affair with neon lights, from which models descended and returned to take a tour in this "salon show" was part building site part photographic set, working perfectly with the brickwork prints and orange jumpsuits. Pinstipe, leather and suiting was mixed with sportswear in courdroy and jersey.
There were big hoods and shoulders exaggerated with shearling; tattoo-, camouflage- and leopard-print and on pants, jackets and a gorgeous twirling design across a tie and shirt ensemble. There was also the signature Jean Paul Gaultier mix of masculine and feminine elements; floor-sweeping kilts and high necks as well as bare chests and long haired models. I especially loved all the texture in the shearling and the way heavily layered looks, comprising of knits, coats ad capes, were deconstructed, some tied around waists or reworked as the models walked. At one point, an 80s bum bag was unfurled into a classic mac.
The fedoras and trilbies really pulled this almost androgynous, city-of-any-decades collection, and the show finished with designer and mannequins tossing theirs into the crowd. Our star girl Andrei Pejic also walked in tight leather, and we bumped into her after the show (to her credit, Amélie originally thought we had spotted a particularly beautiful female model!). She recognised me too, and complimented my style transformation from the night before! Then it was straight of to Yohji Yamamoto, only down the road on the very same street. Paris is so wonderfully compact! See below for my favourite catwalk out-takes and when Amélie met Andreij.....
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| African print scarf meet animal print. Raow! |
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| Dark picture, but you get the idea.... |
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