Fashion Fame

Clean, pure and intensely focused, Riccardo Tisci’s spring/summer 2010 vision for Givenchy showed designer art at the height of his powers. Undoubtedly, Tisci has moved up to the elite group of designers who matter most in Paris.

From the very first look with a geometrically striped black & white jersey jacket over a graphic, lozenge-fronted top and draped pants everyone was on high alert, jostling and craning for best possible view. The out-brows were bleached, and dresses were matched with bandage-wrap wedge-heeled ankle boots, making clear to all that this would be a show that mattered.

What he sent out was a fusion of Arabic influences, with goddess-like draping and his new research into sixties Roman couture. Almost every garment had an intensity of proportion and detail that looked incredible like the tiny kilts; graphic jackets; attenuated drop-crotch harem pants; multi-layered, modernized tutus; and draped, wrapped, and swathed tulle dresses.

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Grecian draping, Roman couture, and op art prints were the influences of this collection, with graphic black and white stripe jackets, draped harem pants, intensely ruffled skirts, skinny leggings and gorgeous tulle dresses. These all things have been seen before in his collection. But for this season, it was pared down, refined, beautifully executed and insanely desirable.

This highly resolved series of looks could have come about only because of Tisci’s experience in Givenchy’s haute couture. The cleverness shown in his collections is that, everything he’s doing now has been designed taking youth in consideration.

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