Imaxtree:
Roll the dice, they will appear in the middle of the podium. Dear audience, place your bets, Ibrahim Kamara has just launched part of the Off-White Fall-Winter 2024-25 fashion show.
Will you be there? This was the question hidden in the mysterious white boxes that the couriers brought a few days before the parade. Inside these were placed a folded Ludo board and about twenty pawns. Or the invitation to the Off-White fashion show invited its recipients to the Carrousel du Louvre on February 29. And a miniature of the decor they’ll discover when they arrive at the show. In a dark room in a Parisian museum there is a giant board, in the center of which are two huge dice, lying as if they had been dropped there. As guests sit down, the light slowly dims before pulsing back on. Children’s laughter and cries are heard, followed by the sound of dice being shaken and thrown. Let the game begin!
Imaxtree:
Ludo chic
The first player, a model with a shaved head, steps up to the podium. he wears a black suit with green faux fur cuffs and a matching collar. The intersection of two straps at his waist, the young designer’s recurring motif, both in his first collection and in this second one, makes up 20% of the look. The silhouettes follow one another, are colorful, sporty, noisy. As the fifteenth over progresses through the game, Ibrahim Kamara’s Sierra Leonean heritage emerges. Hundreds of tiny red, white and black pearls cascade down the ends, adorn the necklace and swirl below the ears. Everything about this collection exudes joy, from the neon fox thrown on the shoulders to the butterflies cut into the sweatshirt. Sports are also everywhere. Basketballs, deconstructed, turn into shoes, and nets into handbags.
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The young designer imagines “Off-White” fashion as “quiet luxury“. Eccentric and colorful maximalism, probably borrowed from the city of London where he grew up. There is a feeling of a certain “indulgence”, a deprivation of creative freedom. The title of the parade is “Blacks by popular demand” (Black, by popular demand, French) dares himself, he knows it. And if someone is not satisfied, let them read on the clothes of the collection.Ask legal“or”Contact the legal department“. The end game.
Source: Le Figaro
