With her “Mirror, Mirror” collection, Alexis Mabille celebrated the countless possibilities that clothing and makeup offer women, allowing them to change their personalities at will. “It's an opportunity for a woman, you have a huge palette that you can play with, you can be an actress if you want, or you can just be yourself and sensitive,” she said backstage after her show. “The idea was to work on intimacy, when you talk to yourself every morning, and make parallels with haute couture, shaping the body, using colors, lines that combine with a personality, and the same goes for makeup,” he said. .
Deviating from her usual palette of bright jewel tones, her registry was a showcase of ivory, ballet pink, beige, moiré bronze and brown, with pops of black and red, and plenty of glitter.
In the most literal designs, bright scarlet lips were embroidered on the front of a high-necked sheath dress. A second jersey number featured a single eye and eyebrow that shadowed the shape of her asymmetrical neckline.
He shaped crepe and satin with his usual ease into tuxedo dresses with elaborate collar details or voluminous capes like sculptures with the female body as a frame. Other looks featured puff sleeves in gradient taffeta or delicate lace inlays.
The understated color palette left plenty of room to go to town with embellishments, whether it be tone-on-tone embroidery, sequins on a cat suit, ostrich feathers adorning a voluminous bathrobe, or the signature giant bow details. by Mabille. but she had been less present in her most recent outings.
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