A month after Manish Arora amicably parted ways with Paco Rabanne, the design house has announced that Lydia Maurer will take on the role of artistic director.
Maurer, who has previously worked at Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent, had previously held the positon of studio design director since November 2011. The 29-year-old will present her first collection for the house at Paris Fashion Week in October.
READ: Manish Arora to revive Paco Rabanne
"She has a true vision of what Paco Rabanne's [fashion voice] is and what sets the house aside from the pack in terms of design signatures. She brings a real freshness," Vincent Thilloy told WWD . "She has this sensual Latin side, but also this sense of rigor that is very Germanic, with a real architectural approach to construction - she is very Rabanne."
The label hope that Maurer will continue the revival of the brand that was started upon Arora's appointment, but will sway more towards the side of elegance and wearability than her predecessors more outlandish attempts.
"We don't want to say no to performance artists like Lady Gaga [who wore pieces from Arora's first collection for the house] because obviously that is part of [the Paco Rabanne] universe, but that is not the only reason we are here," Maurer said.
"Obviously, the Paco Rabanne woman likes to go out, she's a woman of the world.…She is not necessarily going to come to Paco Rabanne to buy clothes for wearing to the office, but we also want to appeal to women who don't necessarily want to be living sculptures."
Via: Paco Rabanne announce new artistic director
0 comments:
Post a Comment