Cacharel's Cuties
By Melanie Rickey
Photos by Gruber-FWD
PARIS, Oct 8, 2002/ FWD/ --- The husband and wife design duo of Inacio Ribeiro and Suzanne
Clements have been designing Cacharel for two years, effectively reviving the house from
'not', to 'hot.'
Its fortunes have also increased thanks to higher perfume sales, as demonstrated at the show
today with the repeat play - for over an hour - of the advert for their newest scent 'Gloria.'
Most of the women in the audience today will remember Cacharel's most famous scent,
Anais Anais: it was the only perfume to wear if you were a teen in the ‘80s.
This nostalgic teen feeling is the signature of the house in 2002.
Cacharel is strictly a label for girlie coquettes who like to wear their ponytails high,
and their cheeks rosy with the first blush of womanhood.
The clothes are fun, colorful, pretty and playful.
This time Clements & Ribeiro, who show their own line on Tuesday, were inspired by the 1960s
versions of Brigitte Bardot and Jean Seberg.
Cute Breton striped baggy T-shirts in red/white and black/white were layered over each other,
and worn with leather jeans and flippy printed minis, or worn under mini pinafores covered
with childish floral appliqués.
Accessories included little leather caps and bandannas.
The best pieces were the slim-cut striped cross-back dungarees that stopped at the knee; a
white aviator inspired jumpsuit with big collars; a short white zip front tennis dress worn
over a striped tee, and a sexy lingerie inspired pale blue camisole.
Cacharel has also collaborated with famed British print designer Celia Birtwell on this
season’s signature print for the house a multicolored parasol which worked its way across
jaunty beach wraps; bikinis and cute skirts.
The finale dresses, a series of shiny duchesse satin minis in emerald green, pale blue, red,
orange and black, and decorated with huge bows were so short only real teenagers could wear
them.
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