Paris Women's Fashion Week SS18

Art, heritage, theatricality: these are the adjectives that featured the Paris Fashion Week just finished.

Many designers have chosen to pay homage to artists through their Women's SS18: Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior celebrated the colorful art of Niki de Saint-Phalle; Undercover decorated his clothes with works by Cindy Sherman; while Comme des Garçons has created a mash-up between Arcimboldo and the world of Japanese manga; Rick Owens has reinterpreted Marinetti and Thayath; Dries Van Noten has been inspired for his fine patchwork dresses Femmes à leur toilette by Pablo Picasso.

For others, it was important to remember the history of their brands as did Carol Lim and Humberto Leon with The Kenzo “Momento” collection taking ideas from the archive of the 1970s of the founder of the Maison Kenzo Takada or Anthony Vaccarello who reported on the catwalk cult pieces Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent won the prize for the most spectacular location: under the moon at the Trocadero gardens with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Art & Design

Rick Owens – Thayath’s work

Dries Van Noten – Femmes à leur toilette by Pablo Picasso

Junya Watanabe - Marimekko Puutarhurin parhaat fabric

Comme des Garçons - Macoto Takahashi

Comme des Garçons – Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Comme des Garçons – Abraham Mignon A hanging gar

Comme des Garçons – Serge Vollin

Comme des Garçons – EbOy London

Comme des Garçons – Kawanabe Kyosai

An homage to

Kenzo La Collection Memento - Vintage Kenzo ad, by Hans Feurer

Saint Laurent - Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture FW1980 Poets and Shakespeare

Saint Laurent - Yasmeen Ghauri, Christian Dior Haute Couture, 1996

Saint Laurent - Karen Mulder in Yves Saint Laurent, SS 1993 Couture

Saint Laurent - Lucie de la Falaise in Yves Saint Laurent FW 1990 Couture

John Galliano – Johnny Depp in Cry baby

Rochas – The Flowers of War

Louis Vuitton – Stranger Things

Undercover – The Shining's Twins

Alexander McQueen – Detail of Great Dixter’s garden

Nina Ricci – French Foreign Legion

An homage to Niki De Saint-Phalle

Christian Dior – AIDS: You Can’t Catch it Holding Hands by Niki De Saint-Phalle

Christian Dior –Niki De Saint-Phalle Traces

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle You Are My Love Forever and Ever and Ever

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle Will I cry a million tears?

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle Do you like my brain?

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle Positive and Negative Dragon

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle Il giardino dei Tarocchi detail

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle

Christian Dior – Niki De Saint-Phalle in 1974

An homage to Cindy Sherman

Undercover – Cindy Sherman Untitled A

Undercover – Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #27

Undercover – Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #74

Undercover – Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #70

Undercover – Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #119

Paris Women's Fashion Week SS18 - Moodboard