It’s in the tranquility and intimacy of her workshop in the 1st arrondissement of Paris that Bouchra Jarrar presented her Spring-Summer 2016 collection. This collection is composed like a wardrobe of essential and classic pieces, where masculine and feminine elements become one. The founder of the eponymous brand is putting a functional and wearable fashion into place, where the details subtly perfect the silhouette. This is a lesson in keeping it simple.
That’s how the Perfecto jacket ends up being imagined in a refined vein with a “modern couture” look. Superposition is definitely on the menu, but here it’s a superposition of intentions and graphicness. A bit long, a tad oversized, tailored where need be, the Perfecto is imagined with a black lining on a duo-chrome graphic motif, while soft cut-outs complete the overall look. These very cut-out sections become a motif when animal references jump into the mêlée…
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