FASHION

Proenza Schouler

A sublimely bare space with concrete floors and astonishing city views, where natural light flooded and fresh faced models of unbrushed hair walked. Proenza Schouler’s SS14 collection, an architectural perspective of warm and softened severity through long and impeccably tailored silhouettes, where the cold days of spring are not forgotten, complementing summer’s lighter pieces.

Coherent and precise, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough excelled through a perfect execution and invariable serene atmosphere. Clean lines with unexpected movement gave shape to controlled volumes and balanced proportions, filling the room with timeless classicism in a modern kind of way, where a lost, subtle feeling from the 50’s shows through the use of suede, wood and steel.

A perfectly cohesive combination of ivory, ecru and terracotta hues graced layers of various silks and suedes, while splashes of black, red, gold and silver metallics disrupted, graciously breaking the consistency of shades, as did carefully placed folds and seams that revealed well-measured flashes of skin. The pleats, firstly explored in the duo’s Resort collection, got the couture treatment, bonded with razor-thin strips of silver and bronze foil.

Tailored coats of elongated lines are worn over ankle length wide trousers, baring little to no flesh. Coats, coats, coats. For cold Spring days, beautifully tailored and uncomplicated, light colored coats. Pinafore suede dresses translate beautifully from day to night and for those New York hot summer nights please keep in mind the backless cast metal tops.

Effortlessly chic, polished, sharp, definitely sensual, a brilliant show - ultra parisienne.