The collection featured small and large checks, tartan, houndstooth, and gingham patterns, leopard and floral prints, polka dots, and tassels, as well as leather and wool. Dossena handled the contrasts gracefully, with a keen eye for detail, such as crystals set into a sweater's thick turtleneck collar.
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The mood was radically different at Rabanne, amidst an explosion of different styles, motifs, materials and hues. The models charged down the runway to a frenetic disco beat riffing on the notes of Tom’s Diner , the 1980 Suzanne Vega hit. Creative Director Julien Dossena had a field day concocting mix & match looks for daring young girls who just want to have fun, in which multi-coloured tights, their patterns in some instances enhanced with studs and sequins, added the final tweak to the silhouette.
The collection consisted of an array of seemingly very disparate items that could in fact be easily combined, giving the chance to endlessly assemble and disassemble new looks, putting together new compositions at will.
There were small and large checks, tartan, houndstooth and gingham patterns, leopard and floral prints, polka dots and tassels, leather and wool, cocooning dresses and others instead made with glittering fishnet-like chains. The secret lay in the art of the perfect match. Wardrobe essentials combined naturally with shimmering items.
Like the shirt in black and turquoise lurex houndstooth fabric matched with rust-coloured velvet trousers, or the men’s herringbone jacket worn over an openwork metallic dress. Dossena handled the contrasts gracefully, with a keen eye for detail. Like the crystals set into a sweater’s thick turtleneck collar, looking like a diamond necklace.
For the evening, dresses with scarves or large tasselled gypsy shawls alternated with sleeveless silk dresses patterned with geometric motifs slipped over a marled wool sweater, and with sheer nightdresses decorated with rhinestones and sequins.
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