Athletes won’t be the only ones running in Paris this summer. The French fashion week presents itself as an intense relay for the professionals, busy from next June 18th until the 27th, to follow the menswear fashion shows, which will be joined by the high fashion catwalks without the usual ‘break’ . A long series of events therefore (more than one hundred fashion shows and presentations, ndr), which will liven up the capital for ten consecutive days (in the still provisional calendars, men’swear ends on June 23rd and haute couture begins the following day, a week early, ndr) so as to leave ample space for the maxi preparations for the Olympics, whose opening ceremony is scheduled for 26 July. An event that Paris has been buzzing about for months and in which the world‘s number one luxury group will also take part, Lvmhin the role of premium partner.
Returning to the ‘marathon’ of fashion shows, the most awaited event of the season will certainly be the défilé which marks the farewell to fashion of Dries Van Noten, to be released, as announced last March, by its own brand. “When I was young my dream was to have a voice in fashion – the Belgian designer announced in a statement -. Through a journey that took me to London, Paris and beyond, and with the help of countless people who supported me, that dream became a reality. Now I want to shift my focus to all the things I never had time for.”
What will make the week equally ‘bitter’ will be the absence of Valentinowhich after the appointment of Alessandro Michele he creative director chose to skip the appointments for menswear and high fashion in order to start again with the new direction with the September fashion show. Other absentees on the calendar also include Givenchystill without a creative director following the release of Matthew Williamse GmbHof the stylistic duo formed by Serhat Işık e Benjamin A. Huseby. Among the big names in luxury, the proposals will kick off Pharrell Williams per Louis Vuitton (exactly one year after its debut, ndr), while in the following days the usual pillars of the French event will alternate, from Dior for men a Loeweyes Issey Miyake a Rick Owens e Balmain, present for the second time after his absence from the men’s catwalks. They are also back on the calendar, with the presentation formula, too Arturo Obegero, Courrèges, Creoles, Studio studies e Y-3.
The days dedicated to couture will once again be characterized by the clothes of Thom Brownedealing as a guest with his second haute couture collection, and the reinterpretation he will do Nicolas Di Felicecreative soul of Courrègesof the imagination and heritage of jean paul Gaultier.