Girbaud: All Things Familiar
By Mari Davis
(Photos by Javier Mateo)
PARIS, Mar 6, 2003/ FW/ --- With François Girbaud sitting in the front row, the Girbaud Fall
2003 collection opened to the beat of techno music and ice-blue lighting.
And just like last season, a professional dance troop was positioned along the runway,
performing modern choreography in slow motion, while the models walked around them.
Husband and wife design team Marithé + François Girbaud has historically shown very
wearable collections aimed to the youth market.
For Fall 2003, they followed their formula. But don't think that the collection is
formulaic! It is very far from that.
Using a theme of 'all things familiar' Girbaud's Fall 2003 collection shapes and graphics
that we find in our everyday life. In short, patterns and garments that we are familiar
with.
Starting with the cargo pants with oversized pockets and big zippers, to the
tannery-apron-turned-into-a-dress, to the double-hooded igloo parka and multi-pocketed
leather jacket, the cuts were precise and sure, thanks to the minute precision of
laser cutting which the designers used.
Denim was invented anew, making it gentrified, a far cry from James Dean's Rebel Without A
Cause look which launched denim over 40 years ago as the garment of choice of the youth.
Definitely for the downtown crowd, these items will easily find buyers at the
new Girbaud flagship store opened in SoHo New York last month.
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