Each season, Louis Gabriel Nouchi tells a story through fashion. In the fall of 2022, the designer turned to Charles de Baudelaire’s his 1860 novel on recreational drug use. artificial paradiseand for Spring 2023, he designed around Pierre Choderlos de Lacrosse’s sophisticated tale of seduction. dangerous relationshipNow, heading into fall 2023, Nouchi has called a classic: Bret Easton Ellis’ american psycho.
Netflix opens the show as Lucas Bravo, the creepy Christian Bale lookalike portraying sweet French chef Gabrielle Emily in Paris, wore a sharply tailored coat that rippled dramatically to the floor in a bouncy rhythm. . Specifically, those with tight waists and protruding shoulders, and for a while latex gloves became part of the uniform, often peeking out from under his button-down shirt and complementing leather shoes. was.
La Grande Dame, Alumni drag racing franceThe first season of . In the back, the same bright red drenched his t-shirt on one leg, an asymmetrical top layered over her dress, straight pants, shirt and tie. The following look proved that the designer wasn’t trying to recreate Patrick Bateman’s wardrobe, but was inspired by the story’s exploration of masculinity.
white lotusStefano Ganino (the so-called “sweetheart” of Jennifer Coolidge’s sweetheart Tanya) wore a light blue silk suit in similar tones with a form-fitting semi-sheer top. fire islandZane Phillips wore a comfortable gray sweater paired with baggy black trousers.
Asymmetry played an important role in tailoring tops, which were often cut with a neck or one-shoulder design. Meanwhile, four looks made of a translucent fabric that eerily resembles flesh rounded out the show: her coat in a nude trench, her V-neck shirt and her tailored trousers in similar colors. Combined seamlessly. Together, it blended with the model’s skin in the same way loose-fitting iterations did in subsequent looks.
See Louis Gabriel Nouchi’s FW23 collection in the gallery above and FW23 content from Paris Fashion Week on Hypebeast.