Marine Serre’s moving Fall/Winter 2023 showcase at Paris Fashion Week took place at the Grande Halle de La Villette and, as always, had a very important message behind it.
Potentially the first of its kind, the brand’s PFW offering was a zero-waste showcase, as “every element” of the show was based on “found items” and the eight-meter-tall towers of abandoned textiles (which provided the stage) were “intended to provide the raw material for future house designs,” according to the show notes.
The showcase polled attendees to consider the “unsustainable rates of [their] Everyday Lives”, hoping to draw necessary attention to the ongoing climate disaster. As a result, the show was opened up to members of the public, hoping that the more voices come together, the more meaningful change could take place.
The Marine Serre showcase was divided into five groups, with the first drawing attention to the unsustainable nature of “environmentally friendly” cotton bags. The notes explain that each tote would need to be worn 20,000 times to offset its initial production impact, and the pieces on display (comprised of trucker jackets, coats, bowling shirts, and skirts) offer an alternate use for the seemingly unnecessary resource. .
FW23 then turned its attention to the brand’s signature design codes, offering reinvented versions developed with reclaimed denim, linens and leather alongside recycled fishing lines and nets. Continuing its rebellion of dead stock, the house reworked patterned tapestries, jacquards, and brocade fabrics, transforming the materials into figure-hugging works of art.
Take a look at the full collection above.
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Source: news.google.com