Boys were given baggy Fair Isle cardigans, worn with double belts and variations on knitwear accented by statement plaids of their own.īy adorning hair with crystal-covered barrettes and feathers for an elevated festival-girl feel and giving every other look a pair of buckle-covered boots sure to make the street style rounds, Bönström was onto something. She then added sex appeal via short shorts in knit and lacy varieties and high-shine trousers that clung to models’ bodies. Beginning with the glossy boilersuit worn by Stella Maxwell and detailed with crystals, Bönström kept a menswear influence going throughout the collection with loose-fitting trenches and jean jackets layered beneath peacoats. That fascination with opposing forces-high versus low, masculine versus feminine, hard versus soft-gave the lineup its theme and strongest moments.
“She is free she is herself she is a girl who assumes her masculine femininity infused with sexiness.” “Whether we look at her or not, she doesn’t care-she keeps living,” quipped Bönström postshow. Not into the look? Well, the Z&V woman isn’t searching for your approval. With Zadig & Voltaire’s Fall 2018 collection, creative director Cecilia Bönström aimed to capture that spirit of nonchalance and raw sex appeal via leather, denim, and an assortment of borrowed-from-the-boys plaids crafted into boxy blazers and luxurious outerwear.
Of course, that doesn’t stop people from trying. With women like Kate Moss and Jane Birkin, one gets the feeling that even if another person wore the same clothes, they’d never be able to re-create their cool. There’s an insouciance to rock ’n’ roll muses that can’t be replicated.