\n\tAfter seeing Matthieu Blazy\u2019s clever reboot of Chanel Monday night, one might have sat front row at the Pierre Cardin show wondering, what could be done to make this brand feel current?<\/p>\n
\n\tThe entire collection, designed by Cardin\u2019s nephew and chosen heir Rodrigo Basilicati, was built on the foundations of black or white back-zipped catsuits for both men and women, garments that felt lifted straight from \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tModular pieces unfolded from various wearable compartments attached to the suits, such as an orange bib cascading down the front, green fans velcroed to the shoulders and extending out like a flying gurnard fish, or undulating yellow waves protruding from the hips.<\/p>\n
\n\tWatching the series of somewhat baffling looks come down the runway in the brand\u2019s flagship on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honor\u00e9, another question to be asked is, \u201cWhat modern person would wear these clothes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd the answer is: it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
\n\tBasilicati is designing for the future. Not the utopian future his uncle once imagined (the flying-car Space Age we should be in by now) but one shaped by climate collapse and human migration.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe is preparing for a world 50 years ahead, one where the ice caps have melted and humans must live on the water. The catsuits, he explained, are envisioned as temperature-regulated, allowing wearers to conserve energy otherwise spent heating or cooling their homes.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe\u2019s also not designing with the average consumer in mind. While there were some attendees wearing the brand\u2019s signature tilted halo hats, or a great glimmering gold coat from the fall 2024 collection, the runway show was positioned less for fashion customers and more for Cardin\u2019s licensees.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe house currently has over 140 worldwide, 100 of whom were in the audience Tuesday night, Basilicati said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI can inspire my licensees with the shapes,\u201d he said backstage after the show.<\/p>\n
\n\tMany of those licensees are based in Asia. And according to a highly informal poll of those in attendance (sample size of three), the collection could be a hit. They said the Asian market, which associates Cardin with 1980s-era gray business suits that their dads wore, feels this collection is new (even if that newness echoes the futurism Cardin was designing in the 1960s, which they aren\u2019t familiar with). In China, they said, it feels fresh. Ditto in Korea, where the designs could resonate with pop performers.<\/p>\n
\n\tThat positive reception is precisely why Basilicati plans to re-stage the show in China next month, with a visit to partners in Vietnam soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After seeing Matthieu Blazy\u2019s clever reboot of Chanel Monday night, one might have sat front row at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,11062,85,46,11092,46422],"class_list":["post-63234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion-show-reviews","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-paris-fashion-week","tag-pierre-cardin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}