Vetements’s Demna Gvasalia is the most-talked-about man in Parisian fashion right now. He’s about to take up the mantle at Balenciaga, and his designs for Vetements are among the most-copied in the biz. What to do, then, when all eyes are on your Fall 2016 show? Gvasalia and co. presented a collection that evolved the Vetements brand slowly, sending out new versions of their hoodies, ditzy floral dresses, and thigh-high sock boots. As a counter to their continuity was the setting, a church, and the brazen IDGAF nature of certain pieces, like a shirt with an expletive-laden accusation printed on the front. We’ll leave what it all means to Sarah Mower, whose review of the show will be live shortly. Until then, catch up on the 11 highs of Vetements’s fashion show here.
1. The American Cathedral in Paris played host to Vetements’s Fall 2016 show tonight where flags of all 50 American states are suspended from the ceiling. Pews were turned to run parallel down the nave for the show.
2. Kanye West and Simon Porte Jacquemus were some of the recognizable faces in the front row—er, pew.
3. Stylist Lotta Volkova opened the show in a short brown minidress with exaggerated ruffles at the shoulder, carrying a bouquet in her hands.
4. Catholic school students will recognize the show’s opening looks as twisted takes on classic school uniforms. Vetements accessorized its with extra-long ties knotted around models’ necks that trailed down the runway behind them.
5. The sweatsuit got an update this season, with a maxi skirt in lieu of pants and the shoulders on the sweatshirt. “Sexual fantasies” was printed on the skirts and hoodies.
6. Beliebers, rejoice. Vetements sent out a “justin4ever” sweatshirt.
7. The phrase “drink from me and live forever” came emblazoned down pant seams and on sweatshirts, though its most poignant placement was across the pubic regions of a maxi skirt.
8. A novel solution for what to do with your coat when you arrive at a party: Loop it through your belt’s oversize ring.
9. Perhaps channeling the T-shirt vendors that run down Broadway, Vetements sent out tops that read, “Are we having fun yet?” and “You fuck’n asshole.”
10. Big shoulders mean an “unskinny” silhouette.
11. A Western theme emerged midway through the show, with an oversize denim outfit with embroidered details and thigh-high boots with motorcycle motifs.
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