(by Patrizia Vacalebri) (ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 30 - The Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista, creative director of Kenzo since 2019, who succeeded the duo Carol Lim and Humberto Leon at the helm of the company that since 1993 has been headed by the French luxury giant LVMH, in creating the mosquito net hats protagonists of the new SS 2021 women's and men's collection, which paraded today in Paris in the garden of the Institut National des Jeunes Sourds, under the rain, he must not have intentionally thought of an alternative to masks, which have become essential to the survival of the genre human in a pandemic era.
Of course, your wide-brimmed hats, from which the tulle started up to even cover the legs, if they do not have the protective efficacy of the virus of the surgical masks, will in any case create social distancing and will be an excellent barrier against boring mosquitoes.
"I have never started a collection with so many questions in front of me - writes the designer in describing the sensations that inspired him - and so many conflicting feelings about the present and the future. Surely no one can expect linear answers to the current situation. The world is lost and everyone must try to find some sort of meaning (and possible order) in it.
How can one define and try to give answers to a reality that nobody fully understands or understands? How can one draw conclusions from a situation far from over and the consequences of which are impossible to predict? The world is sick, the world is bleeding, but it's still alive. And as long as there is life there is hope. An optimistic answer has to come with pragmatism.
So how do we proceed from this point? How do we move on? How can we help people ? Make her dream? Give her hope and at the same time lighten her life? "
The result is a collection where macro floral prints bloom almost everywhere, on jackets, parkas, oversized dusters, shirts, dresses, cargo pants and dungarees.
Flower colors.
Icon-accessories for men backpacks and hoods that start from the collars of outerwear or backpacks.
Mosquito net hats for women.
On the feet for all, new interpretations of the 'geta', the typical Japanese flip-flops with squared wooden sole.
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