Paris Fashion Week 2022 kicked off on Monday, 28 February 2022, four days after Russian troops launched an attack on Ukraine, a Putin-led attack, during a report that saw more than 1.3 million people flee the country’s borders again.
Paris Fashion Week is taking over the world, and top designers predict the fall/winter season of 2022. Chanel paid tribute to the tweed, Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia spoke of the harsh realities of war and climate change, Loewe played irreverence, and Off-White presented their first show after the death of Virgil Abloh last year.
As the Paris show began, Ukrainian fashion journalists, now refugees, and Ukrainian designers – including Lilia Litkovskaya, preparing for her French capital show before the attack commenced fled Kyiv via Poland with her two-year-old daughter.
“It’s surreal,” Stella McCartney said behind the stage after her fall/winter 2022 show in Paris over the Center Pompidou. She described the strange experience of launching a fashion collection when Russia violently attacked Ukraine.
Her show was booked with two statements aimed at addressing the situation: it opened with the voice of President John F Kennedy reading his 1963 speech “A Strategy of Peace” and concluded with John Lennon’s song “Give Peace a Chance”.
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Fashion offers a dream, an escape, a solution, but also provides a social and political expression of the world around us. Giorgio Armani projected the outbreak of the war at the Milan Fashion Week show on February 27, 2022, to broaden the importance of peace.
While in Paris, Ralph Toledano, president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, issued a statement advising the people to ‘hear the visions of the days to come with dignity, and to discuss these hours of darkness.
The show covered a series of first. Among them is the first Paris exhibition of NYC label Vaquera, which brought a powerful makeover, 1980s bodysuits, many sequins, tinsel, and leopard print on the first day of the show.
Row and Cecilie Bahnsen also hosted air traffic shows for the first time in the French capital.
Louis Vuitton unveiled his Fall / Winter 2022 men’s clothing – Virgil Abloh’s latest collection — at Paris Fashion Week. Artistic director of Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh passed away two months ago after a private battle with a rare form of heart cancer.
For Louis Vuitton, the youth has always been an indicator. But in this collection, it became a source.
According to this season’s media notes, artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière aimed to capture “a special moment of the formative years, those that characterize. Infinity and good flexibility of puberty. ”
Ideismism is taken up by the open, unpredictable silhouettes as if you took out each of the piles of clothes found on the floor in a teen bedroom. Hoyeon Jung brings an important point — a good example of a humorous vision for the future.
Tweed is woven inside Chanel’s DNA. So, in the fall/winter collection of 2022, art director Virginie Viard has given us her iconic fabric. From the colorful Grand Palais Éphémère dotted with Scotland’s Tweed River to the catwalk dedicated to the Scottish Mountains, tweed was everywhere.
The models were embroidered with soft marled fabrics, loose-fitting suits and fleece jackets, and stylish jackets with knee-length jackets. The unusual dress code is the one we embrace with open arms.
A few days before the show, Balenciaga deleted his photos on Instagram and announced that he would use his platform to highlight the Ukrainian invasion.
To coincide with his Saturday, 5 March program, Georgia-born Demna Gvasalia wrote a personal message in which he wrote,
‘The Ukrainian war has caused the pain of the previous trauma I have been experiencing since 1993 when the same thing happened in our country and I became a permanent refugee,’ and left it on the audience seats in a large blue and yellow T-shirts.
He dealt with the precarious tensions that fashion brings when it comes to politics.
‘In a time like this, fashion loses its value and its real right to exist. Fashion Week sounds like nonsense. I thought for a moment about canceling the program that my team and I have worked so hard on and that we have all been looking forward to. But then I realized that canceling this show would mean admitting it, giving in to the evils that have already hurt me for 30 years… This show needs no explanation. It is a commitment not to be intimidated, to argue, and to win love and peace. ‘ Said Demna.
“Fashion somehow doesn’t matter to me right now,” said Gvasalia – and although her message was presented at a fashion show, the images she created went astray. In the years to come, it will seem to be the only fashion show that will be remembered in this weird fashion season.
The show has sparked conflicting responses to online viewers, where support messages have been posted by those who questioned whether the fashion show was a place to comment on atrocities. Of course, no other designer went there – however, no one else could.
Published By: Manan Khurana
Edited By: Subbuthai Padma
