PRS_048 Ensemble de cricket, Thom Browne, 2020
Thom Browne relies on gender fluidity to make an impact in his often unsettling fashion shows. Both of the designs presented here draw inspiration from 18th-century art, but revisit the period in different and complementary ways. The women's look is a deconstructed reinterpretation of a wide-hipped dress with side hoops in a deconstructed allusion, while the men's look is made up of a suit in seersucker, a puckered fabric printed with alternating blue and white stripes, which has also been reimagined as a dress with side hoops. With this total confusion of gender presentation, the classic and demure Versailles-Trianon inspiration acquires a hint of Marquis de Sade-style scandal.
Louvre Couture, Objets d'art, objets de mode
Musée du Louvre Paris
PRS_048 Ensemble de cricket, Thom Browne, 2020
Thom Browne relies on gender fluidity to make an impact in his often unsettling fashion shows. Both of the designs presented here draw inspiration from 18th-century art, but revisit the period in different and complementary ways. The women's look is a deconstructed reinterpretation of a wide-hipped dress with side hoops in a deconstructed allusion, while the men's look is made up of a suit in seersucker, a puckered fabric printed with alternating blue and white stripes, which has also been reimagined as a dress with side hoops. With this total confusion of gender presentation, the classic and demure Versailles-Trianon inspiration acquires a hint of Marquis de Sade-style scandal.
Louvre Couture, Objets d'art, objets de mode
Musée du Louvre Paris