West side story
Isabel Marant brings us to the Wild West with her spectacular runway show, which wasn't lacking in Indians, cowgirls, saloon girls and poker players. Long duster coats and three-piece suits with jeweled belts in the guise of cartridge belts or a vest studded with bullets provide the costumes for modern-day games of cowboys and Indians. The pants are studded or decorated with feathers, gaucho style. The skirts are very long and flared, often low-waisted. The saloon girls' delicate lingerie-inspired dresses revealed garter belts underneath, and there was an Indian girl in a sexy bustier mini dress in shredded red suede. Of course denim is omnipresent on long dresses, pants and stoles, in a deep, almost black indigo. Leather is found on short jackets, tunics and dresses, and fur appears on long, slitted skirts, capes, asymmetrical bustiers, sweaters, pants, on collars and stoles or as a lining on a small, straight leather jacket. Feathers adorn collars and belts, serve as "sleeves" on sleeveless dresses, and are worn in the hair different from the funny tall hats of the citizens of the West. For evening, there is a very feminine fluidity with the slightly transparent, cowl-neck dresses. The color scheme includes lots of black, dark greys and natural shades which are suddenly brightened up, as in the case of a large bright red and gold shawl with Indian motifs worn over a red dress. Yahoo!
Virginie Transon
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