Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated last queen of France, once declared that she wanted to be the most fashionable woman in the world.
The world is a much wider place in 2014 than it was in 1789, when cherie Marie was carted off to the Conciergerie and uncertain doom. But, with the latest round of spring/summer 2015 shows, Paris is asserting its reign across the world of la mode.
Nobody – and nowhere, it seems – does it better.
Why? Because Paris is bubbling with ideas. Some we’ll want to wear – like much of Phoebe Philo’s spring Céline collection, with its ruffled and printed pastoralism and fringy-frayed craftiness. Others, we won’t, at least not so readily.
Rei Kawakubo’s formidable Comme des Garcons show, inspired by “blood and roses” and transforming her models into perambulating contemporary art installations drenched in single shades of riding-hood red, was aggressively, anarchically unwearable.
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