Vogue The Top 9 Collections of Paris Fashion Week

From: Vogue Runway - Wednesday Mar 07, 2018 06:22 pm

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Nobody sent out an agenda, but this season’s Paris shows effectively felt like a huge conference of voices speaking about how to represent women in the era of Time’s Up. Threads of the same conversations kept coming up and intertwining: in what designers said in interviews, in the symbolism we read into their clothes, and the running commentaries between colleagues in cars and cafés.

We all saw, felt, and engaged in the issues. For one: How can fashion act as a conduit for female power? We saw throwbacks to the ’80s skirtsuits and shoulders, and serial cases of classics—tweeds, camel coats, tartans morphed into modernity by brainiac imaginers. We witnessed cultural influences in the form of head coverings and modest dressing.

Finally, at such a moment when there are so many wildly complicated issues to process, there was love for the designers who backed up and calmed us down with beautifully simple clothes—and equally as much for the ones who took us off, up, and away into the realms of visual wonder.

Closing remarks, then? Hard to summarize, but this much is true: When smart designers work into the creative tensions of our times, great things can happen. The top nine shows in Paris did just that, from newcomer Marine Serre to Dior and Louis Vuitton.

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