Friday, June 23, 2023

BEAUTY: Clothing--EGONlab

Florentin Glémarec and Kévin Nompeix, the life partners and creative directors of EGONlab created a collection that seems to be fitting into the zeitgeist...halter tops, off-the-shoulder tops, bandeau wraps, overskirts, but mixed with some over-sized jackets to play with contrast. It's feminine glam balanced with wide-shouldered power suiting. And just ogle that amazing last look: a metal breastplate that looks like billowing fabric which recalls Issey Miyake's legendary metal breastplate from his FW 1980 collection, famously worn by Grace Jones.

EGONlab's statement about this Spring Summer '24 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week is interesting:

TOUTE PREMIERE FOIS
THE EIGHTH COLLECTION BY EGONLAB

“I can choose what I am, I can choose my gender, choose my nationality and my name, my place of birth, all simply by opening my mouth. Nobody has to remain the person they were born; we can put ourselves together like a jigsaw.”
— Patjim Statovci

For this 8th collection, EGONLAB urges us to redefine our relationship with our bodies and reminds us of moments of choice. That tipping point when two directions lay before us and the decisive moment when we venture into the unknown.

"Toute première fois" evokes this rebirth, the power of decision-making and liberation. The power of life, growth, and pleasure. An inner exploration that involves exploring the body we discover, defying gender, and revealing forms. For the upcoming spring, bodies are blossoming like the "flower of evil."

Tailoring is ever-present, serving as a reminder and landmark, a signature. It sculpts the body and captivates the blossoming hearts.

Curves are meticulously crafted to enhance silhouettes and shape unique, open, and subversive identities. A scent of punk and sensuality takes hold of the wardrobe as bodies break free from conventions and mingle in an endless soirée.

Denim, leather, and exquisite materials punctuate this open wardrobe. Skin against skin. If to touch our souls, we must taste sweat, feel flesh, then so be it.

Where life presents a multiple-choice questionnaire, the collection becomes a command. Experience everything, live intensely. A reminder of our first time, a radiant promise of all that we could accomplish.

A new masculinity lies before us.
It is time to embrace it, to embrace the body that draws us in.

Man yesterday, feminine today, it doesn't matter.

In the puzzle of life, all combinations are winners.




https://egonlab.fr/

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