Paris Men's Fashion Week FW16

In Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Ray, the main character played by Owen Wilson, gets on a vintage car and, as if by magic, is transported in the 20s, among the most interesting artists of that period, from Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway.

This is more or less what happened during the latest Paris men’s fashion week: Rick Owens and Raf Simons took us to the cinema, between creepy horror visions, Dior payd homage to dandies and teddy bears, while Van Noten and Balmain presented a new wave of aristocrats with a Napoleonic flair.    

And the others? Keep on reading.      

At the movies

Rick Owens -  "Le yeux sans visage"

Julien David - "Akira"

Balmain - Jeremy Brett in "War and Peace"

Art & Design

Comme des Garçons - Caravaggio "Bacco"

Dior - Marie-Louise-Catherine Breslau "Henry Davison"

Yohji Yamamoto - N.C. Wyeth "Self Portrait with Palette"

Dries Van Noten - Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Louis Vuitton - Jean Cocteau drawings

Dries Van Noten - Wes Wilson posters

An homage to

Thom Browne - 20s illustration

Givenchy - Frank Marshall "Botswana Renegades" 

Valentino's Anatomy

Valentino - Lucian Freud

Valentino - Lucian Freud and Lady Caroline Blackwood after their wedding, December 9, 1953

Valentino - Jack Kerouac

Valentino - William S. Burroughs

Valentino - Ian Grey and his wife as Pearly king and queen

Valentino - Woodstock 1969