A year on the job and Nicolas Di Felice has managed to turn Courrèges – from a brand struggling to find a sweet spot with the contemporary luxury shopper – into one of Paris Fashion Week’s hottest tickets. A drizzly, 10am start didn’t do much to discourage the city’s young fashion crowd, who flocked to the show space in the designer’s skimpy halter necks, miniskirts and now signature vinyl trucker jackets – many of whom posed for pictures in front of the thousands of silver cans which made up the set. (These, as the show notes point out, will be “used as compressions and decorative items along the season.”)

The aluminium pond wasn’t just an Instagramable moment, but a reflection of the collection itself. Bodycon minidresses were crumpled into oddly elegant silver formations, as if a crafty glamazon from the future had bent a sheet of metal into a club-ready frock. (One cropped pea coat came draped in a giant silver sheet across the shoulders.)

Di Felice had been inspired by a 1972 Courrèges film where the famous couturier showcased his colourful,  space-age dresses in a gritty Parisian car park (fittingly, the brand’s official after-party last night was held in a car park too). And so, Di Felice married his clean-cut vinyl trousers and form-hugging dresses – equipped with a singular, iPhone-sized pocket and sexy, diamond cut-outs down the leg – with the geometric pattern cutting of Courrèges’ past. Everything that’s great about Di Felice’s vision for the house, just now with added pizzazz.

Photography courtesy of Courreges.

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