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Impressum

Vol.11  Issue 12/01, 11.12.2011

Impressions Prêt-À-Porter S/S 2012 Part 1

Collection Paco Rabanne "Femme Lumiere"

PROLOG :

... a model is posing

during the rehearsal ... !

In his debut season as Creative Director of Women's Wear, Manish Arora reinterprets the Paco Rabanne woman as a FEMME LUMIERE. Lighting up a new era, she is given liberty through her clothes, not limited by them. She looks to the future today as a place of possibility and empowerment, seeking fashion that corresponds to her life, her likes, and her body.
For this collection Manish Arora has looked to contemporary art, architecture and the natural world, taking inspiration from organic forms, reinterpreting them along the natural lines of the female body. And exaggerating those lines for a result that is all-woman and more. The notion of light is paramount, and hi-tech luxury comes to the fore. Fiber optics light up clothes from the inside and, in shades such as organic teal, antique gold and fiery red, the use of iridescent silks, graphic moire effects, degrade mesh, and numerous specially-created fabrics provide lustrousness.

Manish Arora subtly dipped into the past for some archival signature pieces, reinventing them, injecting ergonomic innovation and building a body where before the surface was flat. Raglan sleeves ingeniously fold inward to create powerful but soft shoulders, panels move out and away from the body, creating sculptural, spiraling movement, and a place for contrasts. From a pave of tiny twinkling sequins to calibrated panes of glossy python, light is everywhere. The FEMME LUMIERE is reflected in her own clothes, literally.

Radically new, but unmistakably Paco Rabanne, Manish Arora's designs up the ante of what is luxury today, utilizing intense research and incomparable craftsmanship, breaking down barriers, and arriving at fashion that is visionary, sensual, and unforgettable.

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