LATEX REVENGE
LATEX REVENGE
The latex women that Anthony Vaccarello brought to the Saint Laurent catwalk during Paris Fashion Week are already the sexiest vision of autumn winter 2020 fashion. Femmes fatales who tread the scene with a confident and daring air, wearing double-breasted tailored blazers but wrapped in stretch patent leather pants: here is the new obsession of the season. Yes, because those shiny black, red or purple pants have already become for many the new fetish of the season. After all, Vaccarello's vision of femininity has always been clear and it is even more so since he has been at the helm of the French maison: he dares, provokes, intrigues, teases. His women continue to be hyper sexualized even where they flirt with masculine aesthetic codes or with the cornerstones of classic elegance. Anthony celebrates the alluring sensuality of the woman's body, which shows itself in all its sex appeal without fear of being judged, rather with the desire to be admired and to dominate the scene.
The Saint Laurent woman lives the night, loves risk and expresses herself through intriguing contrasts: she combines patent leather with cashmere, the mat of houndstooth wool with glossy latex textures, the masculine silhouettes of jackets and coats with fits hyper stretch of latex pants or sheath dresses.
Elegance and perversion coexist in perfect balance without ever exceeding in vulgarity, but not even in bourgeois attitude. And in this Anthony Vaccarello gives us a collection that is exquisitely Saint Laurent, as he himself says. "I wanted to rediscover the balance between control and abandonment, the tension between discipline and pleasure that defines the modernity of Saint Laurent. For Saint Laurent, elegance is something necessary, but it is also accompanied by a certain sense of perversity, a without the other it would be banal bourgeoisie or vulgarity. Monsieur Yves had a very peculiar vision of the bourgeoisie, he had almost a refusal of it. And it was precisely this restlessness that inspired me in this collection, it made me want to break the more conventional codes. Saint Lauren is dealing with danger."
It can't be more true than this: these super tight pants, these high-waisted, latex models that show all the curves - and who compete for the scene with the patent pencil skirts, glossy cuissardes and night dresses - are dangerously sexy and extremely intriguing. They light up pleasure and desire and have all the credentials to become the new forbidden dream of the season. They are worn during the day with wide transparent silk shirts in delicate pastel shades or in warm and vibrant tones such as mustard and magenta, combined with double-breasted tartan checked blazers or bon chic bon genre jackets, while at night they are worn only with lace bralettes and body lingerie. They are transgressive and cool enough to be an essential must-have for all women who love to express their attitude with boldness, courage and independence, without fear that charm and intelligence will be obscured. Anthony Vaccarello brought his vision of femininity to the catwalk: bold and very sensual.
