ICICLE Presents Its Spring Summer 2022 Collection

In 2022, ICICLE celebrates harmony with Nature and the Earth’s most precious resource: water. Fluidity, ease, innovation, and an aquatic palette shine in the “Water Players” collection for Spring / Summer 2022.

This year, ICICLE pays tribute to Water — the source of all life and Earth’s most precious treasure of all — with a collection showcasing silhouettes in noble, natural, and responsibly sourced fabrics, softly luminous colorways and chic, timeless proportions.

Creative Director Bénédicte Laloux, who developed the collection with studios in Paris and Shanghai, notes that at ICICLE everything starts with the fabrics.

“The Spring / Summer 2022 ‘Water’ collection incorporates several exciting fabric developments, particularly with respect to water-saving and waterproof qualities, rendered in fresh proportions and an aquatic color palette. Each element of an ICICLE garment is as Nature-friendly as we can make it, so that customers will feel as good about their clothes as they do wearing them,” said Bénédicte Laloux.

With the first, fair days of spring, Nature reawakens, stirring in the warmth of the sun’s rays. Key pieces in watercolor hues of green and blue accentuated by contrasting hues such as shell pink reflect ICICLE’s philosophy of a caring, harmonious approach to fashion that can be felt through the clothes’ look, feel and construction.

ICICLE DEW is a lightweight yet hard-wearing fabric in wool and silk whose naturally water-repellent weave needs no further chemical treatment. Travel-friendly trenches and timeless, easy-to-layer jackets such as a hybrid hoodie-trench stand out for their minimalistic, versatile cuts and couture-inspired details like pleating or piping that echo ever-shifting seascapes.

Seemingly as changeable as water itself, flowing habotai envelop the body in a range of colors from cloud white and ocean gray to radiant yellow and sunset orange. Ancestral craftsmanship meets a modern, youthful spirit in ample, breezy cuts that enhance freedom of movement, as in a flowing hybrid blouse-hoodie in peach pink for her, or a French-cut hybrid jacket-blazer in crab green for him.

Inspired by the way the sky meets the sea, ultra-soft mohair and merino knitwear are woven to mimic how sunlight dances over water, and at times playfully reprise the fishnet motif, for example on a cream-colored wool hoodie. This season’s deconstructed, asymmetrical, and double-layered denims were developed according to a process that is virtuous as possible, using GOTS-certified cotton, biodegradable elastic yarn, vegetable indigo dye and ocean-friendly natural washing. Essentials include a sleeveless jacket with asymmetrical pockets, and wide-cut jeans inspired by traditional sailor pants.

Spring-Summer accessories include the new SEED family of iconic, organically shaped bags. It all began with a seed, from the origin of life to the story of ICICLE today. These handcrafted pieces are made from a single piece of leather and fitted with a double-zip, a hand-braided tab, and a shoulder strap that can be adjusted for crossbody wear. Available in three sizes and colors such as ice blue, sand, gold, seaweed, and black, the SEED design harmonizes perfectly with other spring accessories such as bucket hats in melon green wool and silk and footwear essentials like crossover slides in olive green or cream-colored nappa leather, or loafers in cream-colored calf leather or linen.

Capturing the season’s hope and optimism, photo and filmmaker Koto Bolofo evokes the water theme through colorful, ethereal choreography that brings to life the freshness and fluidity of ICICLE silks, the coziness of its mohair knitwear, the resilience and comfort of ICICLE DEW fabric and the subtly quirky allure of unstructured GOTS-certified cotton denim. Poetic visuals show fabrics from the Spring-Summer 2022 catching the wind like graceful sails as models and dancers take to the beach dressed in ICICLE essentials.

The ICICLE Spring-Summer 2022 collection is available in-store as of January 2022.

ICCF Group (Icicle Carven China France)

The “ICCF Group”, a Franco-Chinese fashion group with international stature unites since 2021, ICICLE, the established natural and durable fashion brand in China, and the Parisian fashion house CARVEN. ICCF Group reflects the original and fruitful collaboration between western and eastern cultures and their two markets: France, the homeland of fashion, creation and talents and China, the carrier of oriental culture with its industrial power and booming growth. The group’s logo, intertwining the initials of the two brands and their origins, illustrates the "Franco-Chinese" synergy that is "key" to the international development of both brands.