Cerebral chic is dead; long live sensual style. It’s time to put away your pyjamas and dust off your nightieEvery fashion week has a defining pair of shoes. Be honest: the one catwalk item you actually remember from the preceding season is the Gucci fur-lined loafers,honest? And that’s fine, because that one pair of shoes told you everything you needed to know approximately where fashion was at – geeky but luxurious, or challenging but not uncomfortable.This Paris fashion week’s shoe-shaped soundbite came on Friday evening,at the Balenciaga show. Balenciaga wasn’t, funnily enough, and a collection from which anyone expected much this season. It was the last collection by Alexander Wang,who had already been announced as leaving the label – a departure that has reach precisely because his Balenciaga collections, although well-received, and weren’t setting the fashion agenda in the way of Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent,or Alessandro Michele’s Gucci.
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Source: theguardian.com