Lemaire Presents Its New Fall-Winter 2022 Collection

It’s all about movement, walking, racing forward every now and again. The movement of the body in time and space, sweeping along the fabric, the garments, which themselves enliven, release, anticipate and prolong the momentum.

Like a chronophotographic series drawn from the research of Etienne-Jules Marey, the runway show sequences successive states, such as the silhouettes whose shoulders and waist descend in step with the stride, the layers which shed volume or swell with downy feathers.

The silhouettes move against the massive backdrop, an imaginary landscape from the mind of stage director Philippe Quesne—thirty meters of painted canvas, a memory bathed in the humid, autumnal light of the sun soaking up the sky after the rain. This expansive theater décor sets a poetic scene for the kinetic stream of models and clothing.

Amidst this motion, the colors ebb and flow as they bake in the sun and darken in the mist, worn by time, electrified by the storm. Everywhere, ties slide, ribbons float, collars are undone, trousers tightened at the ankles to better pick up speed, drawstring bags hugging the back or waist like a quiver-knapsack with a flexible form.

The clothing joins in our delight and leaves us free to spring into motion, hair in the wind, with locks hanging over the ears, bunches of pearls tangled in the strands, an amulet in the form of a lacquer mirror, the body facing forward, turned toward the future, the joy on the horizon.

These men’s, women’s, and unisex silhouettes, valiant and fleeting like those of anime, form an urban horde of modern-day hunter-gatherers with rustic, precious and modest sophistication, who leave in their collective wake the irregular trail of a tribe in which everyone advances at their own pace, but is united in heart. LEMAIR.

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