Paris Fashion Week Highlights: Givenchy, Haider Ackermann, Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garçons, Kenzo and Celine
Givenchy’s futuristic ’70s and Haider Ackermann’s tailored punk
March 9, 2015 9:01 a.m. ET
1. Givenchy: The ’70s With a Twist
Sheesh, if Riccardo Tisci’s fall collection doesn’t move the fashion needle, nothing will.
There’s been a strong element of the ’70s in the collections for fall—following on the spring trend. Most designers have been pretty literal. Chloe’s Clare Waight Keller showed a
Stevie Nicks-like collection on Sunday (
to Fleetwood Mac music) that was hippy and swishy and roundly lovely, but it didn’t move the needle.
Tisci masterfully touched on a theme that was rife in the ’70s—a reverence for the Renaissance—but twisted it into futurism. Facial jewelry, embroidery creating Gothic crosses on black dresses, animal tails forming fringe on a fur jacket, tuxedo tails on suits, peasant-style dresses in black velvet—it was a cornucopia of fashion and his strongest collection in recent memory.
OK, the nose adornments looked comically like mustaches. All the better to sear that collection into memory.
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