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With reveals half their typical dimension, no cocktails, only a few dinners (although Naomi Campbell hosted an intimate dinner for Bianca Saunders on the not too long ago opened Soho Home Paris) and no Okay-pop stars, the temper in Paris Trend Week menswear was comparatively subdued. However Kenzo, Louis Vuitton, Dior and Ami, pulled some huge stars.
There have been 17 bodily reveals together with Loewe, Hermès, and Rick Owens, 29 bodily displays; and 30 digital-only occasions. Sunday’s arrival of Kanye West and Julia Fox for Nigo’s first assortment at Kenzo excited outdoors followers, whereas Virgil Abloh’s neighborhood of musicians, creatives and rappers had been out in power for Louis Vuitton.
“It’s not the identical scale however there’s vitality and complementarity with digital. It reveals the nice resilience of the style business, its skill to bounce again and innovate,” says Pascal Morand, government President of Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode.
Nigo’s debut assortment, additionally attended by Pharrell Williams, who was carrying diamond-rimmed sun shades he designed for Tiffany & Co. (extra to come back on this, he teased), was held beneath the arcades of Galerie Vivienne, the place Takada staged his first trend present on the backdrop of his new store, Jungle Jap in 1970. Nigo, who’s the primary Japanese designer on the inventive helm of the home since Takada, despatched out a flurry of items in Japanese denim and deconstructed tailoring referencing the home archives. The primary items Nigo designed will hit a choose variety of Kenzo shops as quickly as February, Vogue Enterprise has discovered. Sidney Toledano, chairman and CEO of LVMH Trend Group that features Kenzo, praised Nigo’s design abilities. “He’s quick, he delivers,” Toledano stated. He additionally advised Vogue Enterprise that it was Nigo who first launched Virgil Abloh to Louis Vuitton’s Michael Burke. Abloh was later instrumental in Nigo’s hiring at Kenzo.
