From Iris van Herpen’s latest flights of fancy to Dior’s first in-person show in three seasons, and everywhere in between, we look at some of the highlights that stilled the first day of Paris Couture Week
As if holding a gilded mirror up to the lifting of lockdowns all across Europe, the most important week in the fashion calendar has come—and its timing cannot get any perfect.
While various storied fashion houses still opt for a digital and cinematic approach to presenting their latest creations—with intimate and socially distanced salon viewings that follow––this season also marks the triumphant and long-awaited return of equally socially distanced physical fashion shows.
Between the death-defying feats of fashion that seem to soar and keep us spellbound at Iris van Herpen, and Christian Dior’s great catwalk comeback in three seasons; along with Schiaparelli’s best showing yet; Tatler Singapore contextualises some of the stellar sartorial successes that money can buy you on the first day of Paris Couture Week Fall/Winter 2021.
Iris Van Herpen
Putting the ‘high’ in ‘fashion’, and the ‘extra’ in ‘terrestrial’ is the Iris van Herpen couture fall/winter 2021 collection entitled Earthwise. Pushing more than just physical and sartorial boundaries, the Dutch designer paints us an image of dawn breaking on a distant planet very much like ours in her film; as otherworldly beings clad in van Herpen’s signature symmetrical dresses are perched atop mountain peaks to worship the sun and exalt what looks to be their higher power: Freedom. Considering how we have all been cooped up and grounded for almost two years now, the designer’s liberated new world looks incredibly appealing in the face of our new normal.
