Fashion house Loewe debuted its Spring Summer 2024 Collection during the recently concluded Paris Fashion Week. The collection revolves around a study of perspective, examining how angles of view alter perceptions and scales, which in turn influence silhouette creation. Against the backdrop of Lynda Benglis’ awe-inspiring, water-spouting fountains, attendees saw the catwalk from a wide angle and from below, captivated by a sense of grandeur. The silhouettes of the collection play with proportions, featuring long legs, high waists, and compact busts.
SPRING SUMMER 2024 COLLECTIONS
Elongation, gestures, and cutting-edge fabrication techniques convert the seemingly simple into the complicated, and the subtle into the bold. Blazers, coats, banker shirts, knitted polos, twin-sets, argyle knits, jeans, and chinos are all part of the collection. While the clothing appeared simple at first glance, twists and turns misled the eye. Crystals are used to cover entire surfaces, much like filters, or to make intricate stripes and pinstripes. Gestural cuts transform the body into a structure, and shoes melt smoothly with pants, giving the impression that fabric is growing from the ground.
Loewe, as always, believes in the power of unexpected components to question traditions. Tops are made to look like huge fabric samples, complete with pins. Accessories, such as a shredded brocade top ornamented with a crystal hummingbird and crystal-embellished sunglasses, take on the function of clothing components. The collection’s color scheme features a cerebral combination of soft pastels, solid blues, black, and khakis. Round-toe Chelsea boots, sandals, ballerina shoes, and giant bags like the suede Pebble bucket and Puzzle Fold totes are used to further explore proportions.
Notably, the show’s backdrop was centered on three fountains designed by artist Lynda Benglis. Throughout her six-decade career, Benglis has redefined the art object via her creativity and investigation of form and materiality. Her fountains, such as Crescendo, a dramatic cantilevered structure evoking a crashing wave or volcanic eruption, and monumental towers such as Bounty, Amber Waves, and Fruited Plane, which are constructed of layered flower-like forms, gave an extra layer of inspiration to the collection. Benglis’ fountains pulsated with energy, eliciting visceral reactions and stimulating the senses with their massive presence as well as intimate scale.
Discover every look from the Loewe Spring Summer 2024 Collection in the gallery below:
