Baudelaire meets Seoul street style at Givenchy’s spring/summer 20 show pittiuomo
"We call it ‘nouveau glitch’, this fusion of old and new world aesthetics, Baudelaire then and Asian street style now,” Clare Waight Keller excitedly explained during a press preview of the Givenchy spring/summer 20 men’s show. Having included men’s looks in her couture show from the outset, the Birmingham-born artistic director was ready to push her Givenchy man centre stage.
Despite the formal setting, Clare both reawakened and warped the spirit of classicism that is part of Florence’s cultural fabric, taking traditional prints and distorting them. “Tapestries are spliced and patched together, some look like they’ve gone through a computer program,” Clare explained of the archive Italian jacquards which were inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s floral book cover graphics.
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