It’s T minus less than 48 hours until Chloé’s Spring 2017 show in Paris. Clare Waight Keller and co. are expecting a nice turnout, as usual, and the assorted actresses, pop stars, and famous offspring will be wearing the label’s Pre-Spring offering, which arrives in stores in about three weeks. Consider the front row pics that will stream across the Internet and Instagram on Thursday a sort of see-now-buy-now collection.
Describing it, Waight Keller said she was thinking about Los Angeles and points further south. The great-looking graphic striped denim could’ve walked straight out of Topanga Canyon circa the 1970s, while the big ponchos and gaucho pants “came from South America,” she explained. The serape-style striped ponchos were among the collection’s most distinctive pieces; their urbanized sisters were shown in solid camel or black with thick lacing at the neck. Waight Keller paired the camel one with a new pant silhouette that she based on a cool vintage military pair she came across, baggy through the thigh and tapered at the ankle. One of the main attractions at Chloé is Waight Keller’s hippie-chic dresses, and no wonder. With their trapeze shapes, they supply drama and ease in equal measure. The Pre-Spring versions have not quite as much flair as the ones we’re likely to see on the runway Thursday morning, but it’s nevertheless a good bet that a few of them will be worn by the It girls in the front row.
