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GOLD FORK & SPOON SATIN POINTED PUMPS, MOSCHINO, SHOP SIMILAR
TURTLENECK BEANIE FULL SLEEVE SWEATER, MAX MARA, SHOP SIMILAR
CHANGING OF THE GARDE
CREATIVE DIRECTION: MARNE SCHWARTZ & DANE STOJANOVIC
PHOTOGRAPHY: NAZAR CHERNIY
FASHION DIRECTION: ANNA CASTAN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: JEAN-MARC MONDELET
HAIR: EDDIE BRAVO
MAKEUP: ALISONN FETOUAKI
MODELS: MAYA WALLACE & ASHANTI HILDRETH / THE FACE PARIS, ORIANE STROHHACKER / NEXT MODEL MANAGEMENT PARIS
WORDS: ALISSA THOMAS
A swell of mutinous bandits are fronting a sartorial storm. Swerving fashion past ubiquitous hype – and with most flirtatious hyperbole – they are dashing the rules with an unyielding sword. There is no apology, no apology from such a renegade battalion. These are the governors of a new ideology and they stand for exultant expression. They have ripped down bygone banners and set fire to nostalgia, for a world that is nothing but futuristic.
Through scope and scale, distortion and exaggeration, the silhouette of the new avant-garde is both deceptive and determined. It’s a corset without symmetry, saddled and harnessed, it’s a sweater of elongated drapery, stretched and torn and it’s a shoe with fine silverware in place of a clasp. From Gucci to Fendi, Max Mara to Missoni, designers have emboldened this most amorous path. For Fall/Winter 2022 collections served not for the ingénue but for the queen – Alessandro Michele extrapolated the ideal of “reflecting our image in an expanded and transfigured dimension” for Gucci. Such freedom in direction mobilises a modernity with a thunderously exciting new atmosphere.
Rules are for the fearful, for the scions of antiquities. Now is the time for the style heretic, whose faith in a neo-nobility, means patents with tulles, quilting with satins, ensembles of the surreal and pieces both utilitarian and esoteric. For it is they who conjure the theatre of the elaborate in deliberate and fastidious detail. They delight in the schism of splintered opinions but they leave doubt and normale in their dust.
SHEER FRILL BRALLETE, SHOP SIMILAR, SHINY LEATHER SKIRT WITH SHEER FRILL OUTLINE, SHOP SIMILAR, FENDI
LEFT: TURTLENECK BEANIE FULL SLEEVE SWEATER, MAX MARA, SHOP SIMILAR. RIGHT: TURTLENECK KNIT LONG SLEEVE TOP, SHOP NOW, WOOLLEN BOX PLEAT SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, MAX MARA
TOP: BOLD SHOULDER MAXI COAT, SHOP NOW, POPLIN SHIRT, SHOP NOW, TIE, SHOP SIMILAR, SPORTMAX. BELOW: PIN STRIPE COAT, SHOP SIMILAR, KHAKI SHIRT, SHOP NOW, TIE, SHOP NOW, SPORTMAX
KNIT LONG SLEEVE BACKLESS SWEATER, SHOP SIMILAR, TEXTURED KNIT TROUSERS, SHOP SIMILAR, STRAPPY POINTED HEELS, SHOP SIMILAR, MISSONI
HAVANE LEATHER BONED BUSTIER, SHOP SIMILAR, DENIM TROUSERS, SHOP NOW, CLOSED POCKET & METAL MINI DROPPING BAG, SHOP SIMILAR, FENDI
LEFT TO RIGHT: SEQUIN SQUARE SHAPE LOW BACK STRAP DRESS WITH EMBROIDERED LACE & NET HEMLINE, SHOP SIMILAR, PUFFED VELVET COAT, SHOP NOW, GEOMETRIC VELVET BRASSIERE WITH SHEER CHIFFON FABRIC TOP, SHOP SIMILAR, VELVET WIDE LEGGED TROUSERS, SHOP NOW, ERMANNO SCERVINO
LEFT TO RIGHT: SEQUIN TANK TOP, SHOP SIMILAR, MINI SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, GLOSS LATEX DRESS WITH PLUNGE NECKLINE, SHOP SIMILAR, GLOSS LATEX TOP WITH PLUNGE NECKLINE, SHOP SIMILAR, SEQUIN SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, EMPORIO ARMANI
ONE BUTTON SATIN LAPEL BLAZER, SHOP SIMILAR, SHEER POINTED COLLAR SHIRT, SHOP NOW, DENIM HOT PANTS, SHOP SIMILAR, HEELS, SHOP NOW, PHILOSOPHY DI LORENZO SERAFINI
PUFFER QUILTED BOMBER JACKET, SHOP NOW, SQUARE QUILTED HIGH NECK PUFFER JACKET, SHOP SIMILAR, QUILTED SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, BOSS
PUFFER QUILTED BOMBER JACKET, SHOP NOW, SQUARE QUILTED HIGH NECK PUFFER JACKET, SHOP SIMILAR, QUILTED SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, BOSS
ONE BUTTON SATIN LAPEL BLAZER, SHOP SIMILAR, SHEER POINTED COLLAR SHIRT, SHOP NOW, PHILOSOPHY DI LORENZO SERAFINI
FUCHSIA BRALETTE, SHOP SIMILAR, FRAYED TWEED MINI SKIRT, SHOP NOW, FENDANCE GOLD LOGO ENGRAVED BELT, SHOP SIMILAR, MEDUSA ANKLE STRAP PLATFORM PUMPS, SHOP NOW, LATEX ABOVE THE KNEE STOCKINGS, SHOP SIMILAR, LATEX GLOVES, SHOP SIMILAR, VERSACE
JACQUARD MAXI COAT WITH ANAMELIER PRINT, GENNY, SHOP NOW
LEFT: EMBELLISHED OPULENCE JACKET, SHOP NOW, PENCIL MIDI SKIRT, SHOP NOW, GOLD CUTLERY POINTED PUMPS, SHOP SIMILAR, MOSCHINO. RIGHT: GOLD CUTLERY EMBELLISHED OPULENCE JACKET, SHOP NOW, GOLD CUTLERY EMBELLISHED TOP, SHOP NOW, PENCIL SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, GOLD LEATHER PUMPS, SHOP NOW, MOSCHINO
GOLD CUTLERY DRAPING EARRINGS, SHOP NOW, GOLD CUTLERY DRAPING NECKLACE, SHOP SIMILAR, MOSCHINO
MONOCHROME ANIMAL PRINT OVERSIZED FUR COAT, SHOP SIMILAR, WIRED BRASSIERE, SHOP SIMILAR, LEATHER MINI SKIRT, SHOP SIMILAR, HIGH CHUNKY PUMPS, SHOP NOW, GUCCI
LATEX GLOVES, SHOP SIMILAR, MEDUSA ANKLE STRAP PLATFORM PUMPS, SHOP NOW, LATEX ABOVE-THE-KNEE STOCKINGS, SHOP SIMILAR, VERSACE