PARIS, July 6 (Reuters) – Males swept down Elie Saab’s high fashion runway on Wednesday in voluminous capes teeming with feathers and glittering beadwork – including further flash and new vitality to the Lebanese designer’s lineup of signature, purple carpet-ready clothes for ladies.
“Individuals who come to us for this sort of fashion, they wish to be spectacular — it is the identical for women and men,” Saab stated in an interview after the present, as company swarmed round to greet him.
“We now have plenty of demand from shoppers, however that is the primary time we have proven it on the runway.”
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The designer strutted out his males’s appears to be like quick on the heels of the wide-skirted gown that opened the present. The primary male mannequin entered in a sweeping cape adorned with lengthy purple and black feathers that curled up on the ends, organized in a stark zig-zag sample.
Different male fashions adopted with embellished coats and capes thrown over black or gold fits, sprinkled into the gathering of the label’s distinct, female kinds.
For girls, there have been sheer, fitted clothes dripping with lace and glittering beadwork whereas lengthy, floor-sweeping ballgowns had puffs of ostrich feathers augmenting the shoulders. Elaborations ran all the way down to the fingertips, utilized to sheer, skin-colored gloves.
One significantly placing males’s coat had a stylized python sample, delineated in beadwork, each grand and reptilian.
Recognized for intricate craftsmanship, high fashion homes are more and more catering to males.
In a excessive profile instance, Balenciaga designer Demna Gvasalia launched made-to-measure items for women and men final yr when he resumed the Kering-owned label’s couture line for the primary time in over half a century.
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Reporting by Mimosa Spencer; Modifying by Richard Chang
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