Givenchy’s menswear
Riccardo Tisci, presented menswear Spring 2017 by Givenchy show.
Givenchy’s menswear has been dark and foreboding for many a season, collection was “much more spiritual and happy! Images of sunshine!”
Models were staged in the open air, in almost karmic lightness to flyaway, zippered panels at the hips, or nylon sportswear falling open into panes that seemed to effervescently lift up and away from the body. The sunshine was quite literal, too, refracted off multiple mirrors embroidered across hems, looping peplums, and tramlining zips.
Givenchy’s haute couture, Tisci added his Fall showing to his men’s, tagging on 13 slender couture looks to the end of his stream of butched-out, beefed-up, macho-man militia gear, also added business’s suits and by his fan base.
This collection was most effectively achieved by multiple zippered pockets, some attached to the coats, others strapped into a Desert Strike harness a spin-off from a backpack that could oddly make viable commercial sense. Three times the space to store your junk, after all.
Haute couture, Tisci embroidered pieces will cost a king of ransom, but they aren’t meant to sell in any great quantities. The other key decorative motif in the collection was a graphic morphing camouflage with dollar bill image, other hand sportswear pieces undoubtedly spell for Givenchy, even if you couldn’t silence the niggling feeling that digital print has had its day, certainly as an exciting runway statement.
Although often center stage, with graphics have never been the sum total of Tisci’s aesthetic man. As the models filed past, there was no danger of thinking that this collection had come from the hand of another designer.
