Saint Laurent's Sexy Winter at Paris Fashion Week

Many celebrities came to discover the latest Saint Laurent collection by Anthony Vaccarello and none were disappointed when they discovered the silhouettes, each more desirable than the other, on the catwalk. The tone is set before the show even opens, after reading the first notes of the press release. “Anthony Vaccarello reminds us of what was once at the center of fashion by making it invisible: clothes,” we can read. "Very fitted silk dresses, similar to transparent underwear, both reveal and hide the woman who wears them, like hypergraphic x-rays. Transparency — a signature of Saint Laurent — is replayed, minimizing the distance between the clothing and skin, so that the two blend together and the fabric evaporates like a mist.

The promise is kept from the first arrivals on the podium. The body turns out to be the most important accessory here, because clothes made from soft, thin fabrics emphasize the figure underneath rather than the garment itself. Many dresses stretch over the body and hit just below the knee, demurely. This juxtaposition presents a union between modesty and nudity, as the exhibition notes highlight: “Can purity be provocative?” Luxurious imposing furs and other structured oversized jackets contrast with the slender Saint Laurent women. Anthony Vaccarello delivers here a collection of duality, between extreme transparencies and XXL outerwear, the image of a woman who is sometimes chaste and sometimes sexy, oscillating between her frail appearance and her conquering position.

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