Paris Fashion
Paris FashionParis Fashion: Tea dress, scarf or tunic?
By Suzy Menkes
Thursday, July 5, 2007
High on the rooftops of Paris, the wind blew silken scarves every which way but loose. For Michèle and Olivier Chatenet built their new E2 collection on vintage silk scarves transformed into a series of imaginative shapes to wear and to tie as fashion clothing.
So Hermès horses would gallop across the torso of a vest or a Jacques Fath silk square was twisted into an elegant collar. As tea dress or tunic, the French foulard, so fashionable from the 1930s through the 1970s, was given a second life.
That is the essence of the E2 concept to vintage clothing, applied for the first time this season to accessories. And with creative imagination, the humble or grand square of fabric becomes something, as Michèle Chatenet puts it, "that you can fold into your bag and transform into an outfit at night."
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