Paris Men's Fashion Week SS17

Cristobal Balenciaga said "a couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance". 

Because fashion is not only about fabrics and clothes, it is much more. It's an art that embodies different disciplines, diverse inspirations, changing reflections which vary depending on who creates it or looks at it.

During this Parisian week, while Bill Cunningham (the "father" of street photography) left us and Maria Grazia Chiuri is said to be about to start a new adventure as Dior's creative director, on the catwalk we saw bohemians, dancers, cadets, world travelers, romantic boys, young explorers, rockers.

Here are the most interesting inspirations behind this Paris Fashion Week SS17.

An homage to:

Balenciaga  - David Byrne 

Thom Browne - The invisible man

Louis Vuitton - Serengeti bird

Valentino - Valentino 1967

Y/Project - Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2006

Art & Design:

Balmain - Lithograph by Walter Fusi

Valentino - Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled, 1969

Walter Van Beirendonck - Josef Frank's textile

Dries Van Noten - William Morris' illustration

Dries Van Noten - Acanthus wallpaper by William Morris

Louis Vuitton - Pieter Hugo's photography

Dries Van Noten - Yorgos Sapountzis

Dior - Pavel Tchelitchew's painting

Louis Vuitton - Ilya Repin "N. Wentzell"

Comme des garçons - Fornasetti "La follia pratica"

Ann Demeulemeester  - Nnenna Okore "When the Heavens meet the Earth"

Maison Margiela - Jeff Elrod's work - vintage Margiela

Givenchy - Dalì photography - Dalì "El hombre invisible"