"Le Papier" Jacquemus' Sentimental Parade at the Camargue Saltpans
A dive into childhood, a dedication by Simon-Porte Jacquemus to his grandmother Liline with an impressive collection that all starts with a white "sheet". At the Saline della Camargue the Jacquemus autumn winter 2022-23 fashion show entitled "Le Papier" is staged.
A sweet return to Provence. In the enchanting natural setting of the Camargue Park, also known as the S aline della Camargue di Arles, Simon-Porte Jacquemus presents the new collection entitled "Le Papier". A title that literally means "blank sheet" as if to indicate the extreme starting point of each collection that is metaphorically also returned by the absolute white setting and the salt dunes of the reserve. Although the creative director has repeatedly rejected the label of the seasonality of his collections, the show corresponds to the season of the women's and men's fashion collection fall winter 2022-23.
Not only a return to his places of origin but also a tribute to his grandmother Liline, who had introduced a passion for fashion to Simon when she took him to browse the traditional flea markets. For this reason, in the "Le Papier" fashion show, the designer brings quotes to the cult objects of the south of France: Provencal tablecloths, centerpieces , decorative ribbons, sheets and white tulle curtains. A dedication to his origins and his childhood spent in places set in the mind of the creative director.
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THE JACQUEMUS "LE PAPIER" SHOW
Jacquemus women's collection wears top with train, silk lingerie, draped white cool cotton dresses, and white drawstring dresses that create cunning ribbing on the female silhouette. Extremely fine embroidery, ultra-feminine decorative straps, three-dimensional knots that drape the garments and showers of floral fringes. And then the structured winter selection with utilitarian trench coats, fluffy sheepskin, puffer jackets and a shearling triumph that is omnipresent throughout the collection. The men's "Le Papier" wardrobe is structured with tailored jackets with a minimal cut, shirts, double-breasted linen vests with lapels, knitwear tank tops, padded accessories that become an integral part of outerwear and harnesses made with fettuccine used as ornamental styling elements.
THE MEANING OF THE PALETTE
The palette of the collection is restricted to a few colors: olive, ink, terracotta, brown and of course white, because white is the color that should be used to paint a new era. The thinker Jean Baudrillard tells in his work "Pataphysics and the art of seeing" that we are in a phase of 'Whitewashing' understood as an era of revisionism, and says that it is necessary to take into account some process dynamics to restore the counters to zero to start again towards another story. A tendency to worry about the origin, to find out where we come from, where everything comes from, to find the zero point, to know where we started from to understand where we have arrived, or where we have not arrived.
