Icicle<\/a>\u2019s \u201cnatural way,\u201d a shorthand that describes the 30-year-old company\u2019s approach built on natural fibers used with their original hues or dyed with natural pigments.<\/p>\n\n\tOn display were monochromatic smart-breezy silhouettes for urbanites drawn from its five product lines, one for each of the five elements in Chinese culture \u2014 metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Accompanying them were a smattering of artworks and objects but more importantly, spotlights on age-old techniques.<\/p>\n
\n\tTake a glossy generously-proportioned trenchcoat.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt was made from Dong cloth, a traditional fabric from the southwestern province of Guizhou, whose luster comes from an egg-white wash beaten into the fiber throughout its spinning and weaving process, not a coating.<\/p>\n
\n\tElsewhere, cartels revealed what plant cocktail resulted in each colorway of a boxy tote.<\/p>\n
\n\tDownstairs, the lineup that creative director B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Laloux offered was steeped in those ideas and colors, delivered as palatable, almost-familiar silhouettes that will do well on a retail rack.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere were full volumes, deceptively simple constructions, a hint of proportion play in collars, cuffs and the puffiness of various layers. Suits for him and her came in a variety of widths, but all felt easy polish rather than overly dressy.<\/p>\n
\n\tSupersize coats came with wide collars, tops looked like they were made from a single bolt of fabric while shoulders and necklines had interesting constructions, like tweaked raglan sleeves for jackets or a slash-neck collar on a sweater.<\/p>\n
\n\tUp close, loops and trailing panels emerged, suggesting multiwear and enabling the wearer to make them more or less sculptural depending what the moment called for.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn hand, textures sang. Some would argue this was the kind of detail lost in a runway format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The internet fad of Chinamaxxing has the shelf life of unrefrigerated milk, but the country\u2019s centuries-old learnings will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,44564,172059,19,17,32784,82],"class_list":["post-372635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-fashion-show-reviews","tag-icicle","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paris-fashion-week","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116187648856646465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}