PARIS, FALL WINTER 2006 / 2007
photography by STÉPHANE FEUGÈRE
These shows weren’t the only good ones of the last women’s fashion week in Paris, but they were definitely representative of the mood—heavy, medival in spirit, opulent but dark, bell-skirted warrior-women with armored looks, and masked faces. This winter the beautiful is eccentric, elegant, and yet sometimes scary, as if our fear itself were being glamorized. Dressed in uniforms fit for an ultra-glam war, or an aristocratic theatrical parade, youthful innocence looks cruel. This rigorous elegance transforms fashion clichés into cold, antisexual shrouds, and tends to define the power of femininity by way of extending the tension between male and female relationships. A sound piece by Bruce Nauman in Viktor and Rolf says it all— “No communication of any kind. I can suck you dry… Don’t touch.”
– Olivier Zahm
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by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Bob Nickas
by Gary Indiana
by Olivier Zahm
by Yan Céh
by Glenn O'Brien
by Carlo Antonelli
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Horst Diekgerdes
by Alexei Hay
by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
by Matthias Vriens
by Katja Rahlwes
by Serge Leblon
by Liz Collins
by Jork Weismann
by Vava Ribeiro
by Juergen Teller
by Hedi Slimane
by Nathaniel Goldberg