Paris Fashion Week: Limi Feu
Hilary Alexander reviews the Limi Feu spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.
By
Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at
Paris Fashion Week
Published: 3:26PM BST 30 Sep 2009
"What do you think of my clothes?” Limi Feu posed the question in the little notebook that formed her invitation. "Are they a little Yohji Yamamoto?"
Hardly surprising if they were, since Limi is Yohji”s daughter.
The Japanese fashion maestro, who slipped quietly into a front-row seat in a baggy suit and hat, laughed when asked the same question.
“DNA,” he said with a smile.
Not that we mind. No designer can live forever. It’s a pleasure to see that Limi is so capable of continuing the tradition of wearable, albeit occasionally a bit wonky, avant-garde dressing.
She uses as her second name, the French word for fire because, apparently, she has quite a fiery nature.
The same could be said for the atmosphere in the stiflingly hot Turbigo Studio where she unveiled her spring/summer 2010 men's and women’s collection.
The models (including a cute Yorkshire terrier who gazed inquisitively at the cameras) walked on a shocking-pink carpet – a colour, incidentally, echoed in the invitations to papa’s show tomorrow night. The theme was largely black-and-white, and oversized: white shirts with square, rolled-up or raglan sleeves, or else cut like a cape; drop-crotch, cropped trousers; waistcoats with shoestring straps, paired with full, asymmetric skirts; tailcoat and robe-coat variations.
Black-and-white, wide-stripe trousers, with turn-ups, pockets and waistband in a smaller stripe, and a series of voluminous, gathered smocks, in black-and-white spots the size of saucers, or else in plain blue and fiery red, provided a quick flash of print and colour.
Pointy-toe lace-ups and ‘Chelsea’ boots were flat to the floor, and the models’ hair was dressed with metal-spiked headbands, with cuffs to match.