Alber Elbaz, who died earlier this year from Covid. Here was a designer who genuinely liked women – and who made it his mission to design clothes that enhanced the way they felt and looked.There were some decent clothes on the Paris catwalks, as you can see here.
But you had to scythe your way through thickets of swampy nihilism to find them. We all get it: most clothes on the catwalk are never intended for anything as banal as a normal person’s wardrobe.
They’re there to help sell bags, perfumes, lipsticks, key rings …Paris has long prided itself on being about conceptual fashion.
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