Faith Connexion brought its Pre-Fall collection to New York this time around. An earlier date means an extended selling season, and if there’s one thing this Paris brand is doing, it’s selling. It helps when Beyoncé wears your graffiti-tagged military jacket. Hers says Blue, in honor of her daughter, Blue Ivy. FC does custom orders for top clients, and that notion of personalization, of new clothes that appear as if they’ve been worn and loved for years, is key to the label’s current buzz. One pair of jeans in the lineup is so faded and patched it looks like it has lived several lifetimes. Other pieces, such as a shaggy, oversize cardigan and washed-out flannel shirts and pants, take their cue from grunge.
But as the brand gets older, the mix is growing and diversifying. The news this season was ’80s-ish pieces, like a strapless gold lamé ruched cocktail frock with a pouf worthy of Christian Lacroix at one hip and a little black dress with point d’esprit sleeves extending from copious ruffles at the shoulders. Look past the clown shoes that all of the outfits in the lookbook are paired with and you’ll also notice there’s a straight-up-black pantsuit lurking in plain sight.
