Loewe, Schiaparelli, and Issey Miyake to Victoria Beckham are the significant highlights from Paris Fashion Week.
Loewe’s latest VIP-filled collection dazzled on Friday at the Paris Fashion Week runway, presenting an explosion of flowers and form that captured designer Jonathan Anderson’s innovative spirit.
Once again, the Northern Irish designer proved adept at bringing a touch of the theatrical to his designs-with, for example, such fantasies as a surreal giant hoop skirt that imbued the display with an eccentric, circus-like quality.
There was even energy in a white gown radiated in vibrant floral prints.
These were unexpected lines and twists on classic silhouettes down the runway with giant hoop transforming floral patterns into eccentric spectacles.
Anderson took intricate historical inspirations from Renaissance-style silhouettes with the carefree looseness of the ’20s, combining surreal structured skirts and peplums with a rich sense of heritage. Something was always off-kilter about all designs.
Among the more showstopping items, I loved a beautiful, feathered poncho with a print of Van Gogh-so much artistry leaped from it, showing Anderson taking art and turning it into style for the camera-ready crowd.
Every piece seemed to cross boundaries, defy expectations, and push at the definitions of what is traditional fashion.
At times, it strayed to overly conceptual, but Anderson still presented a rich outfitting of wearable pieces:
From striking garment pieces, like a black trench coat with a rock-star-magnet fashion-forward cut-out at the midriff, which references the brand’s heritage of leather-wear, to more mood-piece executed designs.
