Over the course of his collections for
Courrèges
, Nicolas di Felice, its artistic director for two years, has succeeded in bringing together around the Space Age label a community of women (and men) who find themselves in this radical, cool and festive.
Eclectic, given the front row of its parade next winter, which took place yesterday on the grounds of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
On the same bench, the Belgian rapper Shay, the
socialite
American Julia Fox, reality TV star Lisa Rinna, 2000s singer Avril Lavigne… And Florent Pagny.
All these beautiful people wait on the sounds of car horns, cars and footsteps on the sidewalk when the first girl tumbles out, hunched over in her slightly ovoid black overcoat, her eyes riveted on her phone.
Others follow suit, in the same position, absorbed by their screens.
"I worked on the cut of the first coats to stick to this new posture, a little more inclined, that we all have, in the metro or going to work, absorbed by this vortex that our smartphones have become",
says he backstage.
The shoulder line of cashmere three-quarters, hoodies and stiff leather jackets has therefore been tilted slightly forward.
Then the Belgian introduces the circle.
A form, even a word, that he particularly appreciates:
“Because it has neither beginning nor end.
There is also the circle of friends, it is like an emblem of this community which, not to judge, but to question itself.
Little by little, the urban silhouette is transformed into modern Vestal dresses, with airy drapes, punctuated by a large round mirror jewel.
"
The wardrobe becomes more hedonistic, almost new age
", in the words of the designer.
Some are marked with a gigantic logo.
“
It's the name of my parish, Courrèges.
And that's where the feat lies: by breaking away from the clichés of "André's" heritage, the little vinyl jacket and the trapeze miniskirt, the artistic director pays him the most beautiful tribute. .
That of modernity.
