BEAUTY: Clothing--EGONLAB

For Paris Fashion Week, Florentin Glémarec and Kévin Nompeix, the life partners and creative directors of EGONLAB showed a unique and weatrblae collection. "Calling the collection 'Lazarus' comes from an observation we made about our world, in an industry in crisis, which pushed us to be less and less creative just to survive and make a profit," Nompeix remarked. "It’s really a moment of awareness where we want to become ourselves again."

And who they are, clearly, are artists. An early mission statment said:
"WE SEE OURSELVES AS VISUAL ARTISTS. EACH COLLECTION WANTS TO PRESERVE THE AESTHETICS THAT A WORK OF ART MUST PROVOKE."

The pair have always used tailoring as a springboard, launching into territory that sees silhouettes enlarged and altered. And each collection usually has some sort of element that reminds me of historical clothing--here, the high feathered collars recall Elizabethan lace ruffs and the sweep of long coats brings to mind French symbolist poets of the 1880s.

They are also not afraid of features that could be considered "feminizing" like the sleeveless feathered tops (they have incorporated halters and bandeau tops in past collections). This all on top of genius touches like the surface dye on crinkled fabrics that allow the white inside the folds to be seen as the wearer moves, the incredible hip-high and fur-lined boots that zip off in sections in Look #20, and just take a gander at how the coat and jacket from Looks #17 and #19 close.

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