Couture Week, which concluded earlier this month, saw designers push the boundaries of high fashion in eye-catching and unexpected ways
Paris Couture Week—Paris Fashion Week’s haute couture counterpart—is the event in which high fashion takes centre stage. It’s the time when luxury maisons and couturiers put their most elaborate and intricate foot forward, presenting the best of the best in craftsmanship, testing the limits of fabric, creating exquisite ensembles and blending design with drama.
And at this year’s Paris Couture Week, which ran from July 3 to 6, fashion houses did just that—bringing together fashion, flair and flamboyance in their 2023 fall/winter couture collections. From provocative pieces to hidden motifs, there were plenty of creations that made us take a closer look—here, we revisit six of them that stood out the most.
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1. Pigeon and bell people at the Thom Browne show
Thom Browne pulled out all the theatrical stops for his haute couture debut in Paris. His show at the Paris Garnier Opera house featured an auditorium full of cardboard cut-out characters, outfits in urban grey shades, a sombre soundtrack and an oversized bell hanging from the ceiling. Models wore off-kilter wigs and abstract make-up, but it was the headwear resembling bells and pigeons that left a lasting impression.