For Spring/Summer 2023, Stella McCartney left London and presented her collection to the Parisian public. It’s no coincidence that the designer chose Paris this season, as luxury titan Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton took a majority stake in her London-based fashion brand three years ago and appointed her as the group’s sustainability adviser.
She chose the piazza of the Centre Pompidou to present her resolutely glamorous Spring/Summer 2023 collection where minimal workwear was combined with sensual details. She sent a sensual range of flowing dresses and elegant low-rise pants down the runway, accessorized with alternative leather handbags.
“We are proud to be eco-weirdos, and hope you will join us in our mission to end the needless deaths of animals for fashion”, McCartney wrote in show notes, noting that 87 percent of the materials used for the collection were sustainable. Combining minimalism and sunny tones, the utilitarian pieces came in summery colors, as if echoing the pop tones of the building, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, while a series of pieces took us back to the ’90s, adorned with images of the strange, frowning children of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, with whom she worked 20 years ago for the opening of her New York store.
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