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With an humungous fifty-look long AW12 show, held on an equally gigantic scale, nobody can contest that Carol Lim and Humberto Leon haven’t turned the spotlight back onto Kenzo with their second season of the mainline collection. Held across four levels of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, each guest had a colour coded invite denoting which floor their seat was on. First out was Karlie Kloss, who’s essentially the ballsiest model in the game, navigating the catwalk mazewithout making a wrong turn and even playing a little by posing and grinning when she saw i-D sitting at the bottom of the first escalator. The collection itself was a lot to take in, the show-notes said that interiors were the theme, that the prints were done by Juan Gatti and the jewelry (real walnuts dipped in resin and bangles from coloured enamel) were by Delfina Delettrez. A sweatshirt in bright, primary colours with a Kenzo tiger emblazoned across the front was paired with high-waisted, floor-length evening skirts in the colour of precious stones. Across this gigantic collection the themes were bright colours, kooky clashing prints, baseball caps in posh materials and a heel that had luminous grips on the sole; to describe it in any more detail than that would be an Herculean task. As Lim and Umberto descended into the huge atrium to meet their models, the multi-coloured neon strips (a cute continuation from their successful menswear show in January) hung from the ceiling, the production was unforgettable.
Text: Sarah Hay
Photography: Mitchell Sams
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