Regardless of the season, haute couture always aims to deliver refined artistry and the highest levels of craftsmanship on its runways. For example, at the Spring 2023 shows, Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen‘s “Carte Blanche” collection debuted otherworldly designs in water as an ode to women’s resilience. And Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri honored Josephine Baker with her collection, whom she discovered performing in Dior in 1951 while looking though the label’s archives.
But the definitively most buzzed-about trend for Spring 2023 was all about Animals.
As Fashionista reports, Lebanese designer Georges Hobeika added avian and equine appliqués on elegant eveningwear for Spring 2023. (Oh, and a model carried a real — and very well-behaved — puppy at his debut.)
At Chanel, larger-than-life animal sculptures adorned the set — as if decorating a giant baby’s playroom — while on the runway, while Creative Director Virginie Viard presented a tweed suit featuring a sequined corgis.
But perhaps no other designer took the animal motif as far as Schiaparelli, whose “Inferno”-inspired collection featured faux taxidermy that looked so real on supermodel Naomi Campbell, it almost broke the internet with people aghast and ready to protest.
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