Dries Van Noten<\/a> was a treat for the eyes, opening with an array of peachy neutrals and cycling through the spice rack, sunsets and sunrises, the water spectrum, and all the lovely shades you might find on a forest floor, or up in the canopy.<\/p>\n\n\tAll those powdery hues \u2014 sometimes solid, sometimes gradient and sometimes rendered in smudged botanical prints \u2014 were splashed on the filmiest, breeziest of clothes, adding up to one of the lightest and most unapologetically feminine collections so far this Paris season.<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring a preview, Klausner cited a wish \u201cfor something light, something delicate,\u201d and \u201cAfternoon of a Faun,\u201d a poem by St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9 dating from 1867, fed that narrative: \u201cIt tells the story of a fawn, half-man, half-animal, a kind of dream-like creature who wakes up after a nap in a forest, and he is in a haze.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPummeled by 100-degree temperatures in Paris, and airless venues like the Tennis Club of Paris, where Klausner laid out a vast chip-board runway, the fashion pack gets haze.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd it\u2019s also warming up to the lightweight, languid dressing that is gathering steam this European season. <\/p>\n
\n\tKlausner employed acetates, viscose, washed silks, chiffon, watery nylons and nearly sheer, stocking-weight knits \u201cto keep this kind of very floaty feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tRunny fabrics gave cargo pants a sensual flutter, and parkas a drifting, flyaway effect. Dropped shoulder constructions and languid sleeves heightened the sense of ease and carefreeness, as did a bevy of silky short shorts.<\/p>\n
\n\tAt times, the designer might have dipped a tad too deep into lingerie as a well of inspiration, but his tonal layering was nonpareil, and usually won you over.<\/p>\n
\n\tThis was Klausner\u2019s third show as creative director of the Antwerp-based house, and he\u2019s steering it sure-handedly, with interesting doses of fantasy and whimsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Klausner threw down a gauntlet \u2014 in butter-soft caramel leather, with a matching clutch bag to boot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16362,30,16024,4940],"class_list":["post-41646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-dries-van-noten","tag-paris","tag-paris-fashion-week-mens","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}