With “Dancing Diaries,” Patou’s creative director Guillaume Henry was without delay sending the weekend off with a bang and kicking off every week of couture shows in Paris with a zesty present stuffed with leg-baring social gathering appears to be like.
“This isn’t a manifesto assortment; it’s only a joyful assortment that desires, urgently, lightness,” he mentioned. “We all know [things] are going badly however I don’t need to spotlight this. As an artisan of trend, I needed to specific one thing that isn’t essentially the expertise we live exterior however quite the opposite, supply one thing that makes folks smile.”
The temper in Paris on Sunday afternoon was actually subdued, within the wake of the police killing of a young person that has spawned nightly rioting, looting and violence that resulted within the cancellation of Celine’s spring 2024 males’s present on account of be held on Sunday night time.
Backstage, the designer mentioned he’d needed to specific “who the Patou girl is within the night and the way she expresses the fantasy and love of clothes, with the codes of the model – pleasure, gaiety, enthusiasm.”
Calling the present a “secure house the place everyone seems to be invited,” he imagined a gang of mates assembly for one final weekend get collectively earlier than the work week, with an added nod to founder Jean Patou, who’d placed on Sunday night reveals within the ‘20s that might as a rule flip into events.
Cue a lineup of minidresses, brief skirts and blowsy crop tops, knit separates and well tailor-made outfits in a shade palette that ranged from black and white to peach and Pepto-Bismol pink.
Minimize excessive on the leg “as a result of it’s trend for dancing,” in keeping with Henry, hems had ruffles galore, since he didn’t need to impose on the Patou lady to know find out how to dance. “The gown will do it for her,” he mentioned with glee, displaying off just a few strikes himself.
Rhinestones, the season’s novelty, got here within the form of geometric borders that jazzed up a strappy little black gown, a prim and correct coat or a combo of a brassiere high and tailor-made slacks.
Topping off a energetic show that highlighted Henry’s nous for the commercially engaging, there have been equipment aplenty, from XXL scrunchies and a clutch-sized model of its Le Patou bag, to large hoop earrings and golden headbands that had Henry saying there was “nothing higher than a glimmer of gold as a result of who isn’t attracted by what shines.”