300
Fashion Jobs
L'OREAL GROUP
Assistant CRM Manager
Permanent · HONG KONG
L'OREAL GROUP
Key Account Manager
Permanent · HONG KONG
H&M
Total Rewards Manager, Supply Chain
Permanent · TSIM SHA TSUI
H&M
Accounts Specialist
Permanent · TSIM SHA TSUI
ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES
Assistant Demand Planning Manager
Permanent · HONG KONG
ESTÉE LAUDER - BRAND
Retail Marketing Manager, Estée Lauder
Permanent · HONG KONG
CLINIQUE
Assistant Education Manager, Clinique
Permanent · HONG KONG
CLINIQUE
Senior Marketing Manager, Clinique
Permanent · HONG KONG
TOMMY HILFIGER
Senior Manager, Creative Services, Tommy Hilfiger Asia Pacific
Permanent · HONG KONG
AESOP
Retail Consultant
Permanent · SHA TIN
NEWELL
Senior Manager, Indirect Sourcing
Permanent · HONG KONG
L'OREAL GROUP
Group Product Manager
Permanent · HONG KONG
ADIDAS
Senior Manager, Materials Availability Management
Permanent · HONG KONG
L'OREAL GROUP
Assistant Purchasing Manager (Marketing, Digital IT)
Permanent · HONG KONG
PUMA
Manager Innovation Technical Apparel
Permanent · HONG KONG
DR. MARTENS
Head of Financial Accounting, Apac
Permanent · TSIM SHA TSUI
TJX COMPANIES
Director of Sourcing, Apparel -Hong Kong
Permanent · HONG KONG
A & F
Hollister CO. - Brand Representative (Part-Time / Full-Time), Hysan Place
Permanent · CAUSEWAY BAY
A & F
Hollister CO. - Brand Representative (Part-Time / Full-Time), Yoho Mall
Permanent · HONG KONG
A & F
Abercrombie & Fitch - Brand Representative (Part-Time / Full-Time), Harbour City
Permanent · TSIM SHA TSUI
KERING EYEWEAR
Kering Eyewear Assistant Trade Marketing Manager Travel Retail
Permanent · HONG KONG
JAEGER
Training Manager
Permanent · HONG KONG
Published
Jun 23, 2019
Reading time
2 minutes
Download
Download the article
Print
Text size

Thom Browne: Dressing the Raptors for Versailles

Published
Jun 23, 2019

An 18th century revival at Thom Browne this season; a Louis XIV moment enjoyed by a host of groovers, most notably Serge Ibaka, star of the new NBA basketball champions, the Toronto Raptors.


Thom Browne - Spring-Summer 2020 - Menswear - Paris - © PixelFormula


In the latest performance art show by Browne on Saturday afternoon, the key theme was the majesty of athletes meeting the academic oil painting and architecture of Charles Le Brun. Expressed as soon as one walked in the door of the Beaux Arts, where eight models were poised like modernist statues from 'The Draughtsman’s Contract'.
 
Except these eight live models were dressed in seersucker – rose, mink, lime and lilac – enormous figures, with 1.50-meter shoulders.

Though the star of the season was actually James Whiteside, principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, who put in a magnificent display of ballet along the marble floors of the Beaux Arts. He wore a plissé mini kilt and trompe-oeil New England seersucker jacket, waistcoat and tie. Following him were two seersucker-attired harpies wearing cut out American football helmets. Their job: to undress the statues, revealing more conventional seersucker suits beneath.
 
Eventually the full cast took their turn: in deconstructed crinolines, worn with codpieces (a tricky combo certainly), giant raglan-shouldered cricket blazers; enormous wicket-keeper cable sweaters; and posh piped redingotes with fabric buttons. All marching on wingtip high-heels in matching sherbet colors.
 

Thom Browne - Spring-Summer 2020 - Menswear - Paris - © PixelFormula

 
Another far-out Thom Browne show that one could easily see distilled into commercial looks. In a front row crammed with buyers, and an ebullient Gildo Zegna, the new patron of the house; and clan leader of the largest high-quality producer of men’s fabrics and apparel in Italy.
 
"We love Thom’s imagination; and we also like that a lot of the clothes are made of our Zegna fabrics," said Gildo, noting that a good deal of the seersucker was made of wool – and not cotton or linen – making it less likely to crease, and much better to travel.
 
Which Louis XIV, who spent his six decades of his reign expanding France’s borders, would have appreciated.

Copyright © 2024 FashionNetwork.com All rights reserved.