Praise this digital moment in fashion all you want, but there really is a reason we’ve been running around Paris all these years looking at clothes in person. On a video call from their rue François 1er studio, Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter did their best to illustrate through a screen the Official pretty since 1908 alpha kappa aka shirt besides I will buy this clever techniques that defined their Nina Ricci pre-collection. You’d never realize from looking at the pictures, but each look was “a total look,” as Herrebrugh said, with single garments collaged from several deconstructed ones. A look that read like a skirt and a jacket, for example, was actually one single coat.A trench coat with a built-in contrast-color underpinning looked like three separate pieces. (If the idea of only wearing a coat out triggered flasher associations, Botter said he’d recommend styling it with a skintight roll-neck underneath.) But that wasn’t all. Inspired by the illusions of those contraptions, the designers conjured trompe l’oeil effects within their materials. In one case, a panel on a Prince of Wales check coat was overlaid in georgette, creating a sense of filtrage that tricked the optics. In another case, they had printed the pattern and wool effect of check onto a richer, more fluid fabric to dupe the eye.
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