Rabih Kayrouz subscribes to the philosophy that vogue isn’t about seasons—it’s a continuum, a quiet evolution of silhouettes that talk to emotion and class.
“I discover it arduous to speak every season a few theme or a style,” the designer noticed. “Typically I believe I’m doing the identical factor, however it’s truly by no means the identical as a result of the materials, colours, and angle are at all times totally different.”
For fall, Kayrouz reached for satin and silk in a placing palette of fuchsia, orange, silver, chocolate, and a teal inexperienced that he described collectively as “vitamin colours.” “They’re meant to uplift,” he famous.
Kayrouz tends to favor beneficiant volumes impressed by spontaneous motion. Cinched waists, sculpted hips, a “pumpkin” gown, and his signature cocoon shapes are a tactile dialogue between material and angle, intention and intuition, “like enveloping a lady in a gesture,” he supplied.
A lot of the appears right here illustrate that prepare of thought. A fuchsia coat appears stripped right down to the essence of line. A fitted black gown flares right into a saucer-like hem, balancing restraint and launch. After which there’s a halter neck goddess robe seemingly labored from quicksilver, with artisanally woven trim. That quantity was a nod to the couture piece at the moment on show within the ornamental arts division at Louvre Couture; it can probably additionally spring up right here and there as soon as movie competition and gala season decide up; ditto a placing fuchsia bustier robe.
Strongest among the many real-life choices have been jackets, trenches, and coats in white, beige, fuchsia, or teal. These seemed just like the sort of timeless problem-solvers that could possibly be worn season-in, season-out for years. “No dogma right here, solely an invite to really feel robust, seen, and luminous,” the designer famous. That final phrase is apt: in additional than a decade of working in a captivating transformed artist’s atelier within the sixth arrondissement, Kayrouz has quietly grown right into a collector’s designer. Right here, he supplied many a covetable piece that can certainly resonate along with his buyer.
