When the world goes disconcertingly haywire, Marie-Christine Statz finds solace in shade and dealing on materiality and light-weight. “We have to discover pleasure in what we’re doing each day, within the concrete world of making garments, but additionally by issues in a different way,” the designer stated throughout a go to to her showroom, in a grand Haussmannian residence reverse the Louvre. “ shade helps us categorical ourselves creatively. Doing an all-black assortment wasn’t going to assist,” she quipped.
To underscore the theme, Statz structured her area with monumental panes of tinted glass echoing a wealthy palette of brown, burgundy and smoky grays mingled with accents of ocher yellow or misty blue. For fall, Gauchere leaned into its signature elongated seems to be, taking cargos into extra elevated territory as trousers or high-waisted skirts, paired variously with sleeveless salt-and-pepper cargo jackets or tailor-made blazers with invisible seam pockets. Statz cuts a few of the sharpest, most flattering trousers on the town, and right here she delivered various covetable choices, notably in chocolate leather-based or in khaki with deep pockets, to put on with relaxed cashmeres or tonal ribbed tops and roomy coats in mouliné wool.
The Gauchere philosophy has these days caught the eye of latest collaborators close to and much. The label has simply unveiled a 15-style capsule with the mid-priced Chinese language label Mo&Co, for one. And, having designed the costumes for Benjamin Millepied’s hit “Grace: Jeff Buckley Dances”, which premiered in Paris final November, Statz and the star choreographer will reprise their collaboration for one more manufacturing, this time on the Philharmonie de Paris, later this month.
Like its shade palette, this fall assortment appeared to symbolize an evolution by levels and quarter tones. Right here have been garments that appeared as reassuring as a favourite pair of denims, for a buyer who needs to look calm and polished even—and particularly—when the world weighs heavy on her thoughts.
