Lemaire A/W 2016

Lemaire A/W 2016
(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Scene setting: The vista out onto a historic sandstone quadrangle within Paris’ Université René Descartes made for a fitting outlook for Christophe Lemaire’s A/W 2016 collection; his fresh faced model students looking right at home on the city’s Sorbonne campus in their effortlessly chic, collegiate tailoring.

Mood board: The Frenchman combined a louche Seventies vibe with a buttoned-up Victorian primness, seen through his high collared, bell sleeved blouses and twice-pleated virgin wool trousers, which offered a monastic yet youthful mélange.

Best in show: Lemaire’s subtle reworking of the traditional cable knit sweater – now inflated with leg-of-mutton sleeves – and front seamed flares cut in retro hues of mustard and tangerine, looked especially campus appropriate when paired with his heeled leather oxfords and vegetable tanned leather camera bags.

Ladies with different fashion costumes

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Ladies with differnt fashion costumes

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Ladies with overcoats

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Ladies with their black and white overcoats

(Image credit: : Jason Lloyd-Evans)

Ladies with their black and white dresses

(Image credit: Jason Lloyd-Evans)
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