Givenchy releases its Women’s and Men’s ready-to-wear for summer next year at the PFW show designed by Matthew M. Williams in collaboration with Josh Smith.
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Fashion designers are coming out of the pandemic looking not only for new ways of working, but new moods to reflect the purgatory-like state of late 2021. Matthew M. Williams has found both at Givenchy with the help of the American artist Josh Smith, whose ceramic sculptures and Grim Reaper paintings are rendered in vibrant, joyous colours. Together, they have translated the happy-freaky mood of Smith’s artistic practice to Williams’s spring 2022 collection which was presented in Paris this evening.
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“Collaboration and dialogue with other artists is a great way to bring the work to a new place,” said Williams over a Zoom call with Smith. “Josh’s basket weaving, woodwork, and different source materials were great starting points for me and led the collection into a really special and unique place.”
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After launching the Monumental Mallow shoes, Givenchy creative director Matthew M. Williams has been hard at work on a new pair of jaw-dropping sneakers, as described on his Instagram: “This shoe uses Kevlar mix with TPU thread on the sole unit for durability to create full 360-degree knit shoe from upper to sole.’’
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Check out the new collections on givenchy.com.
Published on HOLR Magazine.