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Xavier Delcour: Kraftwerk Couture
By: Godfrey Deeny
Photos by: Gruber-FWD
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Paris, Jul 1, 2001/ FWD/ --- Get ready for Kraftwerk couture. It comes via Xavier Delcour, a talented
young French designer, whose high-tech imagery and futurist tailoring have deservedly been winning accolades
in Paris.
Though primarily a menswear designer, Delcour's lean silhouette has also won him a significant following
among women - not unlike the current darling of French fashion, Christian Dior's Hedi Slimane.
Sunday's show of just 14 outfits included five female models and was ironically entitled "only for men."
Underlining the unisex element, Xavier's male models looked très effeminate with makeup and eyeliner, just
like the girls.
Like Slimane, Delcour cuts with a scalpel, though his look is radically different. Xavier dresses his
heroes in open-necked red satin shirts, sleek peg leg pants and cotton mock motorbike jackets. His
accessories were also impressive - in particular, pointy boots with a sole that extended way ahead of the toe.
Staged in a Bastille gallery on a minimalist catwalk with techno sounds, the show was certainly small,
but Delcour's talent, and future, looked pretty large.
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Xavier Delcour Menswear
Xavier Delcour Menswear
Xavier Delcour Menswear
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