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lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015

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Models present the creations for Songzio during the Men’s Spring/Summer collection show in .

returns and menswear gets fun

uirky touches infused the menswear a playful metaphor for Maison Margiela, a house held her own and rocked a black Givenchy look, striped sweater. On first glance, the meandering runways in Paris which, after all, built its name on dissecting and with slicked back hair and shades, and mingled lines on the front made it look like the sweater Q Friday, while Givenchy got serious, reassembling bric-a-brac. with Love. West had been in town Thursday to was creased, but it was in fact a trompe l’oeil reviving its long-neglected couture In Friday’s creative show there were hints of attend Paris Fashion Week, but skipped the effect and the sweater was as straight as Fashion roots. this “recycling” tradition. Collage-like singlets and Givenchy show - where he is a regular fixture - Week is long. long swinging coats were, the program notes because he had left for England to perform in the ’s color vision Givenchy’s unexpected return said, made from industrial rubber that was first Glastonbury music festival. His wife, Kim It was the most color-rich display seen so far It was a normal enough start for Givenchy’s molded onto mannequins, walls, and other Kardashian, met up with him there. this season, courtesy of Berluti. The house - a Riccardo Tisci. Sharp long tailored suit jackets clothes, then peeled off when dry, with the bootmaker since 1895 - branched out into were followed by embellished basketball-style T- underlying material sticking onto it. Juun J experiments clothes last year under the watchful eye of LVMH- shirts, denim and a sprinkling of cobalt blue But the collection played it safe overall. Classic It was fun, creative chaos for Korean designer owner Bernard Arnault’s powerful son, Antoine, coats. The ubiquitous gothic stars, giant mysteri- suits with long proportions were worn on a bare Juun J who showed off back-to-front tops, who is CEO. And it’s making a visual impact ous key-shaped pendants, images of the chest, and a glittery bronze tuxedo with large trompe l’oeil unfurling zippers and oversize already - their collections are certainly not for the Crucifixion, and Roman-style layered skirts - were retro lapels mixed in a dash of the Seventies. sweaters in his strong spring-summer collection color-shy. also designs expected from a serial provocateur Given it’s a change of direction for the house, the that riffed on the 80’s. The playful looks felt quirky On Friday, apple and earth green met joyously like Catholic Tisci. But what made fashion insiders collection left some wondering why the creative and fresh. with raw Sienna, bright yellow, and vivid blues in gasp in this very unexpected show was the envelope - now under the stewardship of John A pinstripe suit was twinned with voluminous loose Dandy jackets, high waist pants and insou- unforgettable image of Naomi Campbell strut- Galliano - was not pushed more. denim jeans that sported a cool unfurled zipper ciant baggy boho shirts. The setting - inside the ting the boards in her underwear in a glittering section that looked like the had left home 17th century manor, the Hotel Sale that houses black couture jacket. Kris jenner makes appearance on her own in a hurry. A baggy denim shirt sported a high the Picasso Museum - set of this color-rich Dandy Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner rocked up to collar, making it look back-to-front, continued musing to a tee. — AP Fashion Week Maison Margiela’s peeled rubber the Givenchy show without her son-in-law, Kanye this nice, and hurriedly-dressed idea. The best The setting of a former train repair depot was West, for company. Fifty-nine-year old Jenner look in the show was a baggy, oversize Breton Paris

Models present the creations for Kenzo during the men’s Spring/Summer collection in Paris. — AFP photos