Rochas Presents Its New Spring-Summer 2023 Collection

Night on the edge of day. Here, a terrace for dancing. The fountains have stilled.
Yet a glow remains; the after-party stretches on.

The dew begins to glisten. A silver, iridescent taffeta shimmers in waves. The roses and golden yellows emerge as dawn breaks. A silhouette moves with spontaneity; the dark, draped, transparent volume billows freely. Atop, a sheer black blouson in the crisp air.

This sleepless night pulses with joy. Ruffles, layered, circle higher up the body; ruffles, cascading, descend with drama to the ground. Sculptural dimensions of silk, organza, and fine cotton - poufs from crinolines, flounced sleeves, tiered skirts - experimental and impossibly light.

In these hours, fresh, artful expressions: explosive fuchsia, a curaçao blue before sunrise. Sketched blacks, traces of shadow. On fine cotton, a swaying leaf motif, giant and graphic. Patterned, illustrated cats imbued with whimsy and love.
Surrealist heels that reveal an aquatic world; laced boots that climb up the legs. A magical energy flows through the collection.

A season like an ode to insouciance.

"I embraced the summer dawn.

Nothing yet stirred on the face of the palaces. The water is dead. The shadows still camped in the woodland road. I walked, waking quick warm breaths, and gems looked on, and wings rose without a sound.

The first venture was, in a path already filled with fresh, pale gleams, a flower who told me her name..."

Rimbaud from Dawn (Illuminations)