Fashion Network – 22 juin 2018<\/p>\n
By Godfrey Deeny<\/p>\n
Nothing very gender specific in a notably romantic co-ed show by the house of Ann Demeulemeester, an nostalgic collection that captured the contemporary yearning for a little more poetry in our lives.<\/p>\n
The clothes were almost interchangeable between the guys and the gals in this collection, very much in keeping with the poetic rocker DNA of this Belgian house.<\/p>\n
The gents appeared in lace shirts and gloves; cut-off petticoats; ladylike woven leather sandals; girly white cotton blouses and bloomers; the ladies wearing similar gear. Half the cast sported battered leather and straw hats worthy of a peasant in a Van Gogh oil painting. Above all, some superbly cut linen planters coats and dusters in dusty pink jacquards and ecru. Plenty of good merchandise in other words; and all inspired by the late 19th century symbolist painter Odilon Redon, whose paintings phantasmagorical dream-like qualities were echoed in the clothes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOdilon came from moment a when people were beginning to doubt the need for constant progress. When people wanted to pause and dream more. That\u2019s what I wanted to suggest,\u201d said the house\u2019s creative director S\u00e9bastien Meunier, who took over the design helm after founder Ann retired in 2013.<\/p>\n
That need for dreams also apparent in an inspired soundtrack by Frederic Sanchez: four versions by, respectively, Marianne Faithful, Loreena McKennitt, Elizabeth Fraser and Joan Baez, of that great Irish romantic lament, She Moved Through the Fair. A moment of grace among an intensely busy day of traffic jams, multiple events and parties.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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