Here’s the full looks from the Jitrois spring/summer 2014 collection, presented yesterday the 27th September in Paris.
Following a visit to this year’s summer exhibition at Paris’ Grand Palais, Dynamo, Jean Claude Jitrois endeavored to incorporate the exhibition’s interest in the relationship between space, light and movement into his spring/summer 2014 collection. As every work and installation at Dynamo demanded the viewer’s full engagement and participation, so does every piece in this collection serve to engage with and enable the Jitrois woman’s desire to elegantly seduce in her evermore active and demanding life.
Starting with his invention of stretch leather in 1995 and later the ‘skin jean’ line in 1998, Jean Claude Jitrois has been dedicated to creating leather couture which allows ease of movement. For spring/summer 2014, many elements of sportswear – pseudo-fluoro colours and the humble trackpant – have been borrowed and adapted in stretch leather and suede. The omnipresence of black in the hardware of jackets and dresses is a new departure for the label. Soft drapes, notably in the fall of a loose suede sleeve, are offset with the return of the glossy, ultra-streamlined ‘Minoray’ line – first created in 1998 for the iconic Helmut Newton calendar.
The dynamism and exaggerated aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s provide the key inspiration for this collection. The vision of the sixties’ Neo-Futurists for the architectural yet functional has been regenerated using digital graphic design to create prints, as well as surprisingly supple water- cut leatherwork and delicate bead latticework interwoven with elastic. The graphic set design of William Klein’s 1966 satirical film Qui Etes-vous, Polly Magoo lends stark monochrome elements, and the film provoked our collaboration with Laurent Weiss, whose bamboo stripes subtly echo those of Klein’s iconic backstage scene.
