Givenchy has revealed its FW24 menswear collection at Paris Fashion Week.
The latest release is inspired by the character of the house’s founder, Hubert de Givenchy. In the show notes which accompanied the collection, the house said that the new collection “explores the duality of his public and personal wardrobes: a sartorial formality energised by an inimitable off-duty sense for nonchalance, flamboyance and seduction. Conveyed through a present-day lens, it reflects a wardrobe rooted in the virtues of dressing yet irresistibly invigorated by the shock of the new.”
The latest collection was presented in the salons of 3, Avenue George V – where the founder created his collections.
The collection also explored a tension between the masculine and feminine found in the founder’s wardrobe and the décors of his homes unfolds. An opulent chandelier motif from the archives – interpreted in metallic embroidery with crystal and pearls, in jacquards and prints – is contrasted in the collection by teddy coats as well as bombers and coats constructed in upholstery chenille, a resilient cloth that likewise appears in combinations and long-johns.
It sets the mood for an exploration of military staples materialised in flight and jump jackets in wools, leather and ponyskin.
The eccentric gestures with which Hubert de Givenchy imbued his personal wardrobe come to life in the collection’s graphics and surface decorations too.
For example, there is unshorn shearling is employed in outerwear and as adornment on trousers, while a twirled synthetic hair embellishment appears all over a jump jacket.
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