(Paris) Ibrahim Kamara had warned that, during the Parisian fashion show of the Off-White house, we would find “luxury which has nothing discreet”: the mixture of sportswear bling, hip-hop culture and genres gave an uninhibited and colorful parade, totally American.
“I thought about the way in which American and, more broadly Western, culture has been influenced by black culture,” he explains, citing jazz and hip-hop music in particular.
The show, which mixed outfits for “powerful women” and “softened men”, featured the brand’s signature finishes: the straps, the crossed collar and “color and print like never before”.
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Men returned from the 1990s with prints with Asian influences, such as red dragons, polo shirts and baseball jackets.
For women, faux fur, long, cinematic coats, and over-the-knee dresses.
Men returned from the 1990s with prints with Asian influences, such as red dragons, polo shirts and baseball jackets.
As for improbable or unwearable accessories, a basketball net all in rhinestones.
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For women, the Off-White show featured dresses over thigh-high boots.
The designer wanted to stay “on the joyful and playful side” of History, placing a huge game of dice, set with fake diamonds, in the middle of his podium, designed like a board game.
The death at the end of November 2021 of Off-White founder Virgil Abloh, an African-American designer popular among young people, capable of synthesizing luxury and streetwearleft the fashion world in shock.
IB Kamara, born in Sierra Leone in 1990, has taken up the torch and plays with the codes of the fashion house, which is very popular on social networks for its ambassadors.
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Among the stars from across the Atlantic, we noticed Serena Williams in blonde hair and a black openwork dress.
Among the stars from across the Atlantic, the sporty Serena Williams in blonde and openwork black dress or the actresses and singers Willow Smith and Halle Bailey, inseparable friends who jumped out of their chairs when the song Bootylicious by Destiny’s Child exploded through the speakers during the finale.
For stylist Jean-Philippe N’djoli, “the Off-White style is very contemporary, very sharp and fun”, he tells AFP, while British singer Shygirl describes it as “sexy and avant-garde”. guard.”
“Off-White allows those who were on the margins before to be at the center tomorrow,” summarizes Eniafe Momodu, Nigerian influencer.