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The 2019 Paris Men’s Fashion Week closed its curtain on Sunday with two high-concept shows that had walk-on roles for Solange and K-pop sensation Lisa.

 

Kenzo’s design duo Carol Lim and Humberto Leon said goodbye to the French label after their eight-year reign with Solange as the surprise performer at their Paris Men’s Fashion Week show. She performed in the same Paris stadium which Elton John previously packed to the rafters a few nights before.

 

The American star appeared on a platform to sing “I’m a Witness” in between the men’s and womenswear lines.

 

Prior to this, the brilliantly choreographed event started with a similar wow moment when they pulled a huge curtain away in front of 600 or so fashionistas to reveal several thousand more people on the other side.

 

Having conducted her 11-piece black-clad brass band, Beyonce’s younger sister then walked arm-in-arm with the designers to acknowledge the ovation at the end.

 

Kenzo’s designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, and singer Solange Knowles. (AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)

 

Real-life Japanese mermaids

The young French creator — who often dresses big music stars for their tours — also threw open the doors by giving away 2,000 tickets.

 

“Everyone is talking about inclusivity from behind their screens, but no one is actually doing something,” he told reporters.

 

Inclusion has been one of Lim and Leon’s watchwords. Their final Kenzo collection took inspiration from Japanese Ama divers, the “sea women” who have been diving for pearls for 2,000 years.

 

Traditionally, the divers only wore a loincloth, and the pair picked up that motif with rippling, silkily aquatic clothes that weren’t obviously s**y but were utterly sensual at the same time.

 

The brand peppered the men’s and women’s lines with gorgeously original fishing and mermaid metaphors, with a fluidity and a dreaminess about the clothes, particularly in the play with pearls, urchins and little touches of foaming silk and organza.

 

Kenzo’s life aquatic: Inspired by female Japanese divers, the French brand summoned up an undersea mermaid world. (AFP Photo/Anne-Christine POUJOULAT)

 

While Lim and Leon went out on a high, you could be forgiven for feeling that Hedi Slimane, Mr Rock Chic himself, was treading water somewhat.

 

The style superstar, credited with the skinny look, took a terrible kicking from critics since unseating the beloved feminist creator Phoebe Philo at Celine.

 

Check out clips from the show below.

 

 

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Slimane’s retro flares

He closed fashion week with another no-expense-spared show that began with an awesome theatrical device.

 

As for the clothes, the big news is that the “Sultan of Slim” has jettisoned his trademark drainpipes. These were the trousers the late Karl Lagerfeld once lost nearly 42 kilos (92 pounds) to fit into, for flares worn long over heeled boots.

 

Skinny though lives on in the rake-thin male models, everyone wearing black aviator shades.

 

In fact, Slimane’s “Celine 04” collection was very much like a male version of “Celine 03” — a walk down memory lane.

 

This time, it was a sometimes literalist re-creation of what American West Coast rock star types wore circa 1973. It had a sharp couture sheen and added sparkles.

 

Tight leather jackets and flares, unbuttoned shirts and three-piece double-breasted suits with white cowboy boots, red carnation buttonholes and long thin scarves.

 

Fans scream for Lisa

Some tops carried downbeat slogans from New York artist David Kramer’s paintings such as “Yesterday was better”, “My own worst enemy” and “Downhill from here”.

 

You could not help but wonder if Slimane was teasing his critics, with one of Kramer’s images carrying the caption, “…There is no irony here.”

 

Fans did scream at the end but it was more for Lisa, the Thai-born rapper of Blackpink fame who is Slimane’s new “official muse” and who was in the front row.

 

The reinvigorated British brand Dunhill and Paul Smith, the doyen of English tailoring, showed that there is plenty of creative life left in variations on the suit.

 

But the big breath of fresh air was the young French designer Bruno Sialelli. He confirmed the promise of his debut collection for Lanvin with a show held at a swimming pool.

 

Sialelli turned out a collection that played with every cliche of the French summer and seaside. He also somehow made them look new. It was quirky, cool, cute and a lot of fun to look at — and clearly to wear.

 

It was hard not to smile at his tricorne straw hats.

 

Not for him the pasty, androgynous models that often dominate the Paris catwalk.

 

“I wanted the boys to eat well and to look healthy and strong,” he told AFP.

 

“Now I need a holiday, he added. “I mean, I love my work but holidays are the best things in life, no?”

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