PFW: Marine Serre FW19

February 27, 2019

[x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/4″ style=”padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px; “][x_text class=”center-text “]by Mabel Gago

Photo credit: Etienne Tordoir for Marine Serre[/x_text][/x_column][x_column bg_color=”” type=”3/4″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_text]“ENOUGH” — it’s the slogan used by designer Marine Serre towards stopping the damage we have been causing to our planet. And this powerful slogan drove the collection shown at Paris Fashion Week for the Fall/Winter 2019 season.

The setting — a cold environment simulating a refuge located in the suburbs in the industrial port of Issy-les-Moulineaux. The world has passed away due to our behaviour and environmental irresponsibility. Only a few has survived — a new tribe of beings who have reinvented themselves after an ecological apocalypse. They use fashion to vindicate their power despite the fragility of man and they create beauty by recycling garbage.

In Marine Serre’s words “They are morphing and transforming a weird new style. A new pluriversal mode, equipping them for embattling a hostile old world, while defending their delicate own”.

The new style is filled with fluorescent yellow uniforms , shiny puffed jackets, ponchos made of bedcovers and hanging hybrid robes. There are also dresses made from garbage. One also finds the iconic tattooed fabric which is quintessenial Marine Serre.

This new tribe also uses jewellery to symbolize their new society and their historic “souvenirs”. Jewellery is embellished with driftwood and shells and paired with valuables from the trash-heaps of history: microchips, glistening metals and old coins.

Such dramatic exhibition required a proper makeup created by Janeen Witherspoon, from MAC COSMETICS. Fluorescent touches around the face and tattooed eyes completed the looks.

There’s beauty and utility by giving a second chance to things. This will be for sure, the passport to assure a second chance to our planet and ourselves.