Paris Fashion Week S/S 2024 arrives in the French capital this week, with a schedule spanning both the city’s established houses and some new arrivals – from Peter Do’s Paris debut to a one-off show from Italian house Marni
guide to creative America), as well as the first collection from former Lacoste creative director Louise Trotter at Carven.
Finally, Chloé and Celine alum Phoebe Philo will also reveal her much-anticipated first eponymous collection digitally, promised at some point in September. Just when remains to be seen – her devoted following awaits.
This season, Chiuri looked toward the witch, a cultural archetype that for centuries was used to punish women, though here the designer sought a different narrative, recasting the supernatural figure as a ‘custodian of the knowledge of the mother-goddess, who passes on the science of plants and respect the time of nature’. Chiuri had been informed by the work of anthropologist Michela Zucca, who in a preview film describes the witch as ‘a pluriform figure, a leader figure...