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LEONOR FUNERAL COUTURE

m.hicks — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:33:04 +0000

Leonor Scherrer, designer, heiress (the youngest daughter of couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer), and model – and I mean that in the nicest way – thinks mourning is tacky. Well, at least the way it’s done today. She grew up visiting her father’s Avenue Montaigne boutique and admires the codes and character of traditional Parisian grieving. But widows weeds went the way of the ice box and the English empire. Something about black netting, jet necklaces, and wearing curls swiped from corpses just didn’t seem to find it’s place in the space age, and the archetype was ruthlessly recycled down to its current variant: the Dolce & Gabbana Sicilian merry widow, all underwire and overripe anatomy. Scherrer would like to pack all of that into a glass coffin and send it off to the catacombs. Her mission is anything but commercial, motivated, as she’s said repeatedly in interviews (notably in last November’s French Vogue), by the lack of decency, taste, and thought that attends mourning today. She’s also producing funeral music and a perfume, Maximilia (named after the Polish cleric who chose to be murdered at Auschwitz to spare another prisoner). Scherrer is still looking for an investor for these projects (if you know anyone), but her unique universe has already caught the attention of Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, whose been featuring her as muse in recent campaigns (that’s her lying on the bed):
www.leonorfuneralcouture.com/

Paris Fashion Week: Givenchy

kvdb — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:06:52 +0000

Riccardo Tisci married traditional luxury materials including lace, velvet and feathers with sporty details from the scuba and ski worlds like neoprene, fat zips and fold-down waists for his Winter 2011 collection presented on Sunday. The dramatic, geometric collection was predominantly red and black and white, lifted with superb, sparkling, embroidered bags in acid colours.
www.givenchy.fr/

Givenchy, 7 Mars, Lycée Carnot

Lou Douillon star of new Givenchy video

kvdb — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:17:31 +0000

Lou Doillon appears naked in a moody new video for Givenchy; a sort of animated fashion shoot and collaboration between Givenchy AD Riccardo Tisci, the online magazine Fly 16×9, and the photographer Karim Sadli, who here signs his first video.

Douillon (fyi, Jane Birkin’s daughter with film director Jacques Doillon) is also Vanessa Bruno’s muse in a film, by the artist Stéphanie Di Giusto, presenting the maison’s current winter collection.