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Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter looked at the work of the artist Kees van Dongen this season. Van Dongen was a Dutch painter who moved to Paris at the turn of the last century and found success. That makes for a useful metaphor. Herrebrugh and Botter are themselves outsiders in Paris with a burgeoning men’s collection of their own and a prominent appointment at Nina Ricci. This is a city of fashion Picassos and Matisses, but step by step, this young duo is making progress.
Pre-show, Botter described the collection as neoromantic. “We went back to the old heritage of Nina Ricci,” he said. With no prior experience in womenswear, working from an established template—modeling after the Old Masters, to extend the painting metaphor—seems like the right instinct. They started by lightening up their palette, cribbing from both the “soft and blended” colors of Van Dongen’s early work and the bold, more brazen colors of his Paris years.
Herrebrugh and Botter still feel most at ease with tailoring. Their silhouette this season remained rather masculine, despite the way they cropped their double-breasted jackets at the midriff to expose the breezy button-down shirts underneath. The shoulder coverings—in Dutch—only managed to weigh down their efforts, but the lacing at the back of a pair of shapely peacoats was a welcome softening touch. Soft femininity is what this brand has historically stood for.
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