Will you be there?
This was the question locked in the mysterious white boxes, brought by the couriers a few days before the parade.
Inside these was a Ludo game board, folded on itself, and around twenty pawns.
Either the invitation to the Off-White fashion show invited its recipients to the Carrousel du Louvre on February 29.
And the miniature of the decor that they will discover when they arrive at the show.
In a dark room of the Parisian museum there is a giant board with two immense rhinestone dice at its center, lying as if they had been thrown there.
Once the guests are seated, the light slowly goes out, before coming back in pulses.
Laughter and cries of children ring out, followed by the sound of dice being shaken and then thrown.
Let the game begin!
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Ludo chic
The first player, a model with a shaved head, advances on the podium: he wears a black suit with green faux fur cuffs, matching collar.
On his torso two straps cross, a recurring module of the young designer, both in his first collection and in this second making up 20% of the looks.
The silhouettes follow one another, are variegated, sporty, noisy.
As the fifteenth figure progresses through the game, Ibrahim Kamara's Sierra Leonean heritage comes into view.
Hundreds of tiny red, white and black pearls stream down fringes, decorate a neckline and twirl under the ears.
Everything about this collection exudes fun, from the neon fox thrown over the shoulders to the butterflies cut out in the sweatshirt.
Sport is also omnipresent.
Basketballs, deconstructed, are transformed into shoes, and nets into handbags.
The young designer imagines Off-White fashion as the antithesis of “
quiet luxury
”.
An eccentric and colorful maximalism, perhaps borrowed from the city of London where he grew up.
A certain “letting go” is felt, a taking of creative freedom.
The title of the parade, “Black by Popular Demand”
itself
is audacious, he knows it.
And if anyone is not happy, they should read on the clothes in the collection: “
Ask
Legal
”
.
End of the
game
.
Fashion show - Off-white - Ready to wear Fall-Winter 24-25
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