Paris Fashion: Loewe Inspiration, VTMNTS Presents Cool Coats

Here are some ready-to-wear highlights for Fall-Winter 2022, including how major fashion houses are starting to show their mounting for the victims of the Ukrainian conflict. Giant pumpkin skins crushed on a brown "earth" carpet had fashion editors grab their cameras at Paris Fashion Week on Friday. 

This whimsical scene, the brainchild of Jonathan Anderson, begins an honest and thought-provoking collection for Loewe best of the strongest seen this season.

Anderson, his 37-year-old Northern Irish designer, has been in good form this season, bringing a real encyclopedia and creative gifts to VIP audiences - all in front of a giant brain installation by artist Antea Hamilton.

A black fetish dress appeared along with lip bibs, molded bustiers, and a balloon bra—boots, foamed in silver. Meanwhile, several dresses featured the most unusual hemline ever presented in Paris: a car.

It was an almost indescribable moment of creative genius.

Textures, colors, styles, and shapes collide and contrast in a collection that can be fun - without ever falling into dirty kind.

He received a standing ovation and pointed the way for the century-old house, which has received renewed attention recently. The brand VTMNTS, or Vetements - which means "clothing" in French - sees fall and winter as winter. Perhaps that is the reason why the entire collection of the Zurich fashion house is dedicated to the coat - as a work of art, but also as practical protection against the cold.

Guram Gvasalia - the younger brother of Balenciaga Creative Director Demna Gvasalia - designs the usually cool designs. The house prides itself on projecting a view that might be taken from the street. And here - with its cropped black pouf, double-breasted jacket, and half denim, half leather jacket - it feels like the streets of East London.

A plain double-breasted jacket in dark vanilla is paired with basic baggy jeans and simple black shoes. Only the black gloves and turtleneck give off an haute couture look. Elsewhere there is a similar subtlety: Under the double-breasted jacket, wide trousers shimmer in blue, on the legs, there are slits, which only flash through silver space shoes.