The Maison Schiaparelli has invited Monsieur Christian Lacroix to
celebrate its founder and together they are presenting their know-how
through 18 unique pieces; the first of a long series of homages, as other
artists will also be asked to celebrate the "Elsa” myth.
This is not just a collection. But a very special rendezvous, in a rare and
emblematic location in Paris, looking out onto the Tuileries gardens,
in the Pavillon de Flore of the Arts Décoratifs museum, quite precisely
in their wood-paneled salon, very rarely open.
Inspired by carnival fairs often installed in the neighboring gardens,
also a source of inspiration for Schiaparelli, a carrousel of mirrors
welcomes the eighteen silhouettes of the French designer in a circle of
wooden mannequins, with faces representing a modernized sphinx, a
distant echo of Elsa Schiaparelli’s own profile.
The mannequins were
dressed in the eighteen models created in homage to one of the most
striking and influential icons in the history of fashion and couture, to
her atypical style, so personal.
This unique collection exalts the universe of Schiaparelli, the timeless
vocabulary of her lines, the intact enchantment of her embroideries and
refined details. A research of excellence, exacting "couture" rigor, also
modeled by the eternal grace of renewed dreams.
Inspirations from '"elsewhere", associating exoticism and history,
merging space and time, mixing a practical spirit with a grandeur that is
very "place Vendôme", such is the kaleidoscope of this cultural mix, also
widely shared by Monsieur Christian Lacroix himself.
Monsieur Christian Lacroix drew 99 sketches, then synthesized into
eighteen models, exhibited, according to a process of shapes in
perpetual mutation, transformed emblems, constantly reborn under
diverse shapes and cleverly intermingled symbols.
Photos by Dominique Maitre.
What an awesome homage to legend and fashion-pioneer Elsa Schiaparelli! I also love to see the 'maestro of opulence' create fashion again. I hope he returns to designing soon.
How do you like monsieur Lacroix`s homage?
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