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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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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Estasi architettonica. Segreti di luce. Vibrazioni materiche. Giochi di ombre. Una femminilità che è come un flash negli occhi, colpisce nel rendere tutto più nitido, toglie gli orpelli per svelare l’essenza di una sensualità couture. Con un battito artistico che scorre sottopelle. Sempre.

Minimal rich. Rigorosamente made in Italy. Con tessuti e lavorazioni couture. Dal fit rinnovato sempre più pensato per essere bodycentrico partendo proprio dalla stagione spring summer 2023. Phaeonia plasma la camicia, diventa una tela bianca di un pittore su cui iniziare innesti artigianali per siglare la nascita di una nuova specie. Una magnifica ossessione per creare una collisione di passioni. Strutturato come il sogno di un architetto, morbido come un velo soffiato dal vento. Maschile e femminile. Cotoni preziosi dalla grammatura alleggerita e reti con applicazioni di paillette. Sete impalpabili e fiocchi da indossare in più modi, un vero inno alla libertà.

Drappeggi per dare un’idea di quella tridimensionalità propria dell’arte, emettendo vibrazioni tra chiaro e scuro. Forme e luce creano movimenti ispirati ad una dimensione scultorea. Ricami esclusivi sulle balze nere, trasparenze ricercate per far aumentare mistero e passione. Un pattern geometrico con un tessuto stampa optical muta sapientemente mentre si muove lungo il corpo, creando una suggestione cinetica, come un’onda estetica. Inizia un brivido di seduzione con gli oblò aperti dalle coulisse, con quell’alternanza armoniosa tra pieni e vuoti come un’architettura da studiare. Creano più livelli sulla superficie, permettono di indossare la camicia in più versioni senza seguire regole. E la personalità di chi indossa diventa l’ingrediente magico.

Una speciale capsule è pronta a vestire la sera. Con il know how prezioso che arriva dall’alta moda. Delicate paillette, reti con un touch impalpabile. Bianco. Nero. Rigorosamente no size, nessuna taglia predefinita. Per cedere a una tentazione visiva.

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