This is Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s first collection as creative director for Chloé – it’s also the first time a Frenchwoman has been at the head of creation since Martine Sitbon in 1988. After getting her start at Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton in the Nicolas Ghesquière era, now Natacha Ramsay-Levi is giving us an exquisitely sensual collection for Spring/Summer 2018. The Chloé woman is stepping out in a demanding, on-point but joyful wardrobe – pants, jackets, skirts, dresses, and suits all have an aura that’s bubbling with creativity and inspiration.
“Chloé’s girls have a suave mixture of sophistication and humility; they’re timeless but never conventional,” explains Ramsay-Levi in the runway’s companion booklet. All while remaining loyal to the independent mind and cerebral look imagined by founder Gaby Aghion, then ew creative director created the key piece for this wardrobe in the folk print jabot dress. Her approach was indeed a tad different. Instead of imposing her own vision, Ramsay-Levi dug into the archives for her predecessors’ stylistic leanings.
From the Karl Lagerfeld era came the idea for printed dresses – but hers is made in a solid cotton and not silk. The print also digs into the founder’s surrealism with hands and funny eyes. She takes lightness and the sensuality of micro-floral prints from Clare Waight Keller, like the ones distinguished here. There were indeed many pieces to love in this Spring/Summer 2018 collection.The next Chloé it-shoes showed up on Hayett McCarthy’s feet: a highly desirable pair of python boots. Just like her, the Chloé woman is a tad stronger and vigorously svelte for next season.
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