Urban bohemia was the theme of Michael Kors’ Fall/Winter 2023 runway show, which took place this morning at 11 AM in New York City. The show highlighted timeless glamour, celebrating the women Kors calls his influencers, those forever icons who have left a lasting impression on the designer and his work. Taking place in the West Village, this season serves as an ode to the rule-breaking spirit that has characterized Greenwich Village for decades.

“For this Collection, I was really thinking about the things that influenced me when I was coming of age in the ‘70s,” says designer Michael Kors, “the women who influenced me, the neighborhood that influenced me, and the combination of big city glamour and bohemia that I found in Greenwich Village at that time.”

Kors played with proportion, showing long sweeping coats and dramatic capes paired with leggy dresses, skirts and shorts. He used slashes, slits and lean knits to frame the body, and hip-slung belts to shift the eye. Sleek, glamorous jumpsuits made the case for a new kind of evening. The rich, hushed palette ranged from shades of graphite and charcoal to warm tones of chocolate and chestnut, with monochrome moments of merlot and forest. Accessories had a softer attitude, from fringed clutches and relaxed messengers to streamlined bucket bags, while boots grounded almost every look.

A live orchestra accompanied recorded tracks of “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane and Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way,” creating a multi-dimensional soundtrack as models including Vittoria Ceretti, Irina Shayk, Amber Valletta, Liya Kebede, Adut Akech and more walked the birch- and mirror-lined runway.

Gloria Steinem, Kate Hudson, Katie Holmes and Mindy Kaling were among the A-list front row, along with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Lea Michele, Ellen Pompeo, Isabelle Adjani, Beatrice Grannò, Simona Tabasco and more.

The live show experience premiered on the brand’s social and digital channels, including MichaelKors-Collection.com, which serves as the hub for all Fall/Winter 2023 Michael Kors Collection content. The programming was also available to the brand’s international audience across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter, as well as on WeChat, Weibo, LINE and Kakao.

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Maliziosa con garbo, femminile con ironia.

Vivetta ama il gioco e la leggerezza di un romanticismo che racconta sentimenti gentili.

La magia della natura la affascina, e ispira i disegni delle stampe, riprese da foulards vintage e popolate da piccoli animali, foglie e fiori autunnali, funghetti e muschio del sottobosco. Fittamente plissettati e uniti in combinazioni patchwork realizzate artigianalmente, i foulards si trasformano in festosi abiti dagli orli asimmetrici a fazzoletto in colori brillanti.

Un mood vivace percorre l’intera collezione Pre-Fall23, con tocchi sognanti e surreali che creano i magici trompe l’oeils cari a Vivetta. Un completo tre pezzi — blazer maschile, camicia e maxi gonna a pieghe in fresco di lana — è in realtà un unico abito; un lungo cappotto doppiopetto è costruito in modo da sembrare un tailleur spezzato giacca e gonna. Le piccole mani, da sempre simbolo portafortuna, compaiono come graziose spille sui maglioncini in mohair a trama compatta, si trasformano in chiusura a moschettone su braccialetti, o vengono trapuntate sui corti piumini zippati in vinile nero, indossati con minigonne assortite. Una cappa imbottita in rosa confetto ha piccole maniche a campana; i bordi della chiusura rappresentano il profilo di un volto femminile.

Amante dei contrasti, Vivetta gioca con volumi e lunghezze spesso opposte. Proporzioni generose si alternano a forme ridotte e vicine al corpo; lunghezze estreme fanno da contrappunto a minigonne cortissime e audaci.

Tessuti preziosi come velluto martellato, raso, chiffon, cady e fresco di lana, insieme a filati in cashmere, merino e mohair danno alla collezione un tono elegante, mentre la palette cromatica in colori densi e saturi — ametista, citrino, rosa bubblegum, eleva la vibrazione giocosa e maliziosa che risuona come un magico diapason nel mondo di Vivetta.

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The starting point of the Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection is Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment at 31, rue Cambon. It is the place where Virginie Viard took Xavier Veilhan at the very beginning of their work, and which includes a collection of objects, sculptures, drawings representing lions, does, stags, birds and camels. “For his third participation, I asked him to reinterpret the apartment’s bestiary and incorporate his own,” she says. “The whole embroidery universe of the collection is turned towards the animal world.”

Embroidered on short tweed suits and coat dresses, kittens, corgis, rabbits and swallows share the limelight with the does, stags or camellias emblematic of the House.
As if on a village square, a festive parade is being prepared and sets off. Eleven monumental animals made of wood, cardboard and paper created by Xavier Veilhan hide models, and then open to let them escape. “I like it when the marvellous bursts forth and the course of events is interrupted,” she continues.

The CHANEL suit borrows its codes from the female uniforms of parades and spectacles. Top hat, bow tie, white gloves, laced boots, satin cape, pleated skirt, jackets double-breasted or with tails, tuxedo shirt, sequins, short shorts, petticoats: it is in the poetry of majorettes that Virginie Viard also finds her inspiration.

Dresses and jumpsuits all in lightness and refinement, superpositions, transparencies, flounces, pleats, fine straps and repainted laces, are crafted in silk tulle, taffeta, organza, georgette crepe and chantilly lace.

And as in every beautiful story, the Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture collection, with its fairy parade, closes with the bride in a dress embroidered with swallows.§

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