Monday February 21, back across the Channel for the fall-winter 2022-23 fashion week, the Paul & Joe woman, a beret on her head and free from any corset, asserts her independence.
It is in homage to Emmeline Pankhurst, an English feminist figure and activist from the end of the 19th century that Sophie Méchaly, for her brand Paul & Joe, reinvested on Monday February 21 the London catwalk. ” We are back in England and today, female freedom is more than claimed. Paul & Joe for 25 years, has always sublimated itshe shares backstage to the applause of the press and her models. This collection therefore starts from this touching woman, a mother of five children who managed her family affairs while advocating the right to vote for women in her country. It was thanks to her that everything changed. »
Under the high ceilings of the Charterhouse, a listed priory, and the amazed eyes of Daisie Lowe en front rowthe designer delivers a fresh collection, combining femininity with pieces that look like a “gentle woman farmer”: “ Little by little, women have accessed to work the land like men, continues the artistic director. To express this on this parade, thehe corsets fade little by little: they free themselves from the shackles and mix dressing rooms and genders, while remaining women and mothers. »
Lace, tweed and printed silk collars
In the viewfinder, in this horde of suffragettes of a new kind, the ennobled XXL necks lace appliqués on impeccable suits, coats with micro belts attached under the Bridgerton-style chesttweeds and tartans, wool tights under platform shoes, knitted balaclavas and rhinestone feathers playing casually and printed silk dresses of drawings by painter Zoe Hawk. The past that inspires him so much is no longer so past and these silhouettes, nicely outdated, have all the spirit of the times.
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Micro belts enhanced the silhouettes of the Paul & Joe show. Paul & Joe
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The new kind of suffragettes in their knitted berets proclaimed their independence. Paul & Joe
Embodying this freedom herself and stepping back into the ring every morning, it was with her son that the designer adored by the Japanese and preppy lovers came to greet her audience: Adrien Albou signs the great return of the Paul & Joe man. The transmission is done and the talented young man, using fabrics from his mother’s line, illustrates through a successful tailoring work, that the masculine goes well with the feminine.
