Paris S/S 2024 Highlights Part 4

Joyful, colorful, beautiful!

To decipher fashion’s oracle every season is what fashion’s most serious pundits are striving for. Even Pharrell Williams sat down on a simple wooden chair to join the crowd. Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons is without a doubt the holy grail of creative fashion in this world. She never speaks to the press after the show, she doesn’t hand out lengthy press releases and only let’s her unfiltered ideas speak. Attending yesterday’s show was a joyful experience as colors, plastic helmet wigs in neon and fabric mountains kept on stepping on the runway to annihilate the season’s real clothes spirit and bring it into more lofty fashion territory. Let’s call it an exercise in fashion sculpture, as Rei Kawakubo might be the originator of the concept to get maximum runway show attention while her shop shelves are filled with much more accessible and commercial merchandise. Her heart logo is even featured on children’s sweatshirts. The trick is that the catwalk ideas pollinate the commercial offering, which is standard procedure for LVMH and Kering fashion houses. Apart from Williams, there were no major celebrities and the code of the house requires everyone to play it cool so no paparazzi mayhem ensued. Try to google Pharrell attending the CDG show and no results will probably show up. This show would perfectly fit into the Haute Couture calendar as well.

Plastic helmet wigs in neon

Fabric mountains

The silhouette?

Kawakubo has invented many new shapes, which cannot be found in any fashion dictionary. Yesterday she pretty much stuck to bare legs topped with light bulbs and even some carriage-without-a-horse resembling silhouettes. Many looks were split open in the front and back and printed with historical portraits inside.

Bare legs topped with light bulbs 

Carriage-without-a-horse resembling silhouettes

Historical portraits

Split open in the front

Details?

Giant collars in patent leather red anchored some looks and the oversized floral prints in bright colors delivered the season’s much needed fashion buzz.

Giant collars in patent leather red

Oversized floral prints