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Lemaire Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Just when you thought you knew what you were going to get from Lemaire, designers Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran shake up the formula. Their Spring collection wasn’t a radical departure, but there were more than a few pleasant surprises. To click through last season’s show is to see ...

Rochas Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Since signing on to Rochas in 2013, Alessandro Dell’Acqua has put the accent on whimsy. A quick sweep of the e-commerce sites that stock the brand reveals duchesse satin floral-print skirts, gold lamé pants, and sequined Mary Janes, with the odd coat or two for ballast. For Spring, Dell’Acqua ...

Guy Laroche Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week It is Adam Andrascik’s fourth season at the helm of Guy Laroche and, boy, can he cut a great pant. It may not always be in the fabric that you’d prefer—dark sparkly denim, say, or a sheer plasticky nylon—but it is of optimal proportions, long of leg and ...

A.F. Vandevorst Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week For A.F. Vandevorst’s Spring collection, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx worked with artist Dirk Braeckman on a short film to bring their designs to life—departing from their usual runway show format. The clip, which features a trio of recalcitrant misfits ranging around the Belgian music festival Pukkelpop, opens ...

Maticevski Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week For Spring, there’s a rising tide of chatter around volume in clothing—and the wearability of revived forms and unconventional silhouettes in the day-to-day. We’ve seen it at Marni with gigantic cargo pockets; Jil Sander with statement shoulders; and at last night’s buzzy Jacquemus show with exaggerated shoulders and sleeves. ...

Dries Van Noten Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week “We wanted a more brutal way of doing things,” declared Dries Van Noten, who must be the least brutalist designer on earth. “We just started to chop up garments and throw flower prints on. Everything contrasting!” But you got what he was talking about. Spontaneity, the energy ...

Yang Li Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Is it too soon to start pulling out fashion month trends? From Milan to Paris, already we have a series of similarities among the clothes—or is it the lack of clothes? From Anthony Vaccarello’s 1980s-inspired decadence (and diamanté pastie!) for his debut at Saint Laurent to the sheer ...

Lanvin Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week In the season when not one but two women designers get to step up to the helm of major French luxury houses, there’s a mini feminist revolution going on at the center of the Paris fashion establishment. Maria Grazia Chiuri is to debut at Christian Dior on Friday, while ...

Maison Margiela Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week No matter how many years John Galliano has lived in Paris, he’s still an English eccentric. There’s his grand, poetic-historicist side, and then there’s the side of him with an eye for streetwear. He can’t look at a fashion rule without thinking about how to turn it upside ...

Courrèges Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant are on Paris show No. 3 for Courrèges. Their first two seasons were about re-establishing the Space Age-y label for the 21st century. They made remarkably swift work of it; their vinyl jackets, inspired by André Courrèges’s originals, have been spotted on many a ...

Y/Project Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week The recognizable operatic flourish of Carmina Burana that signaled the start of the Y/Project show felt ominous; was Glenn Martens beginning to take his label too seriously? The answer came within seconds once the music pivoted to cocktail bossa nova, restoring faith in his irreverence. Cue the collection, which ...

Paule Ka Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week A cliff-like perch within the grand greenhouse of the Jardin des Plantes afforded a panoramic view of Alithia Spuri-Zampetti’s latest collection for Paule Ka—and what a confident, vibrant, enticing vision it was. In just over a year, this former head designer of womenswear at Lanvin has breathed new ...

Saint Laurent Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Anthony Vaccarello chose to hold his debut show for Saint Laurent in the impressive surroundings of a palatial building site—a former monastery, later a military headquarters, which has been derelict in the heart of Paris and is now being restored as the Saint Laurent headquarters. The background worked ...

Jacquemus Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week The first day of Paris Fashion Week is suddenly all action. If you don’t arrive in time for Tuesday’s roster of young talent, you risk not knowing how the future might take shape—and that’s a new phenomenon here. What you really want to see are designers who reach the ...

Anrealage Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Our world is increasingly experienced through screens. We have them in our homes and at our offices, we carry them in our pockets, we stare at them in our hands as we walk down the street. They feed us information, companionship, affirmation, community, and content that is shaped by ...

Koché Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Rethinking the fashion show format—from the venue to the bonus entertainment to the actual season of the merchandise being sold—has become one of Spring 2017’s big stories. Paris up-and-comer Christelle Kocher was at it a year ago with her debut in the catacombs of Les Halles, the market and ...

Aalto Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Many a fashion mood board has boasted pictures of Kurt Cobain wearing a dress. Far, far fewer show him next to a Moomin, a Finnish cartoon character that looks like an amorphous manatee. For Aalto’s Spring collection, Tuomas Merikoski created an artisanal capsule inspired by Tove Jansson’s beloved comic ...

Nehera Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Nehera’s Samuel Drira is not a minimalist. The deconstructed apron-style jackets, ample patchwork skirts, and white shirt-sleeve pants that were among his opening looks confirmed as much. Usually, achieving such complicated designs while also conveying a strong impression of ease comes from a maximum amount of trial and error. Drira’s ...

Olivier Theyskens Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week Olivier Theyskens headed up some big-name fashion brands after launching his eponymous label in the late '90s: Rochas, Nina Ricci, and Theory. He stepped away from the runway two years ago, and eventually came back to Paris from New York. Today marked his grand return, but he's starting ...

Atlein Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear Paris Fashion Week A lot has changed for Antonin Tron since the much buzzed-about debut of Atlein last March. His brand has been picked up by stores like Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, The Line, Net-a-Porter, and The Webster. In July, he won ANDAM’s First Collections prize, a well-earned windfall that allowed him ...