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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 25 June 2019

Longtime Kenzo designers stage final show in Paris

By THOMAS ADAMSON ___
Associated Press LANVIN IS NAUTICAL BUT
PARIS (AP) — It was quite NICE
literally the final curtain for Inside a lofty indoor swim-
Kenzo’s Carol Lim and Hum- ming pool, Bruno Sialelli un-
berto Leon at Paris Fashion veiled his highly-anticipat-
Week on Sunday, after the ed sophomore collection
duo’s eight successful years for Lanvin.
at the creative helm of the Given that the former
house came to a close. Loewe staffer is the storied
With a 100-meter (110- house’s fourth designer in
yard) curtain on set, a sur- four years, there are lots
prise performance by sing- of hopes pinned on him to
er Solange and thousands rescue the world’s oldest
of guests in attendance, continually running couture
the duo’s departure was a maison from the creative
farewell to remember. wilderness.
Here are some highlights Channeling styles that
from the final day of spring- might be described as “sail-
summer 2020 men’s and or punk,” Sialelli did just that
co-ed collections from the — rising to the challenge
Kenzo show and others by with a show that over-
Lanvin and Paul Smith. A model wears a creation for the Kenzo mens Spring-Summer 2020 fashion collection presented flowed with clever ideas.
___ in Paris, Sunday, June 23 2019. Rich color — which seems
A MONUMENTAL KENZO Associated Press to be Sialelli’s touchstone
SHOW pearly coral clusters. capped contradictorily by designers who’ve made thus far — was used with
For their final show, Leon Men’s bags were fashioned blue jeans and sneakers. a deep mark on the Paris panache in a carefully
and Lim went back to the in wide netting. Still, it felt as if many of the fashion industry. stage-managed set that
homeland of house found- A loose-fitting blue suit had exhaustive 74 designs had Loud bass music reverber- featured men’s and wom-
er Kenzo Takada: Japan a wrinkled look and white been seen before. ated around the ware- en’s designs. The pale blue
and its legendary seas. markings that suggested ___ house venue before the swimming pool doors and
More specifically, they it had been dried on the KENZO DESIGNERS’ FINAL curtain was sucked up into multicolor wall mosaics
paid homage to the Ama, sand and bleached in CURTAIN the roof in a split second, as were visible in the back-
a dying community of ag- the sun. It was a beautiful A large seascape-covered if by magic. The audience ground. A saffron hoodie
ing Japanese females who piece. curtain served as a power- gasped. accompanied a pair of
free dive into their late 70s. In the co-ed show, the ful element in the show. The surreal air defined the baggy indigo waterproof
“For over 2000 years (they) female models sported The monumental instal- entire presentation, as pants. A duffel coat was
have dived to the ocean floor-length hairpieces lation by photographer dancers moved by bend- fashioned in Air Force blue.
floor to forage for seafood while wearing anything Yamazaki Hiroshi charted ing forward and back on And a white sailor’s collar
such as shrimp, urchins or from swimsuit hybrids and the sun’s course over the Japanese “geta” clogs. looked like a large, almost
even pearls... They have Japanese Okobo sandals ocean using a long expo- Solange, wearing alien-like diagonal lapel in the Asian
become known as the last in sea-lily print, to a silver sure lens. beaded jewelry, appeared style.
mermaids,” Leon said. dress that had segmented The visual metaphor for the out of the darkness while Elsewhere, the collection
An accessorized neoprene pieces around the bust to passing of time had guests conducting a brass band. was just plain fun, with
suit began the show, her- resemble shells. spellbound and called at- She then sang “a capella” a boat print on what re-
alding the aquatic-theme Typical of Leon and Lim, tention to the end of an era on the catwalk to raucous sembled a silvery loose
with ankle bracelets in the mermaid look was for the duo of American whoops. pajama.q

Flying Wallendas safely cross Times Square on high wire

Associated Press to the opposite side. Their from a high wire strung
NEW YORK (AP) — Two sib- latest daredevil stunt was between two buildings in
lings from the famed Flying streamed live on ABC and Puerto Rico. In 1962, Karl
Wallendas safely crossed watched by thousands of Wallenda’s nephew and
Times Square on a high wire spectators from below. The son-in-law died, and his
strung between two sky- two were wearing tethered son was paralyzed, after
scrapers 25 stories above safety harnesses required a seven-person pyramid
the pavement. by the city in case they fell. collapsed during a perfor-
Nik Wallenda is a seventh- The Wallenda family has mance. Lijana Wallenda’s
generation acrobat, but been a star tightrope-walk- fall happened during an
this time, he said he was ing troupe for generations, attempt to break a Guin-
nervous. His sister, Lijana tracing their roots to 1780 ness world record with an
Wallenda, joined him Sun- in Austria-Hungary, when eight-person pyramid.
day night for the first time their ancestors traveled as Nik Wallenda’s high-wire
since her near-fatal ac- a band of acrobats, aerial- walks above Niagara Falls,
cident in 2017, when she Aerialist Lijana Wallenda walks on a high wire above Times ists, jugglers, animal train- the Chicago skyline, and
broke nearly every bone Square, Sunday, June 23, 2019, in New York. ers, and trapeze artists. the Little Colorado River
in her face. The siblings Associated Press They never use nets in live Gorge near Grand Can-
walked from opposite ed between the towers, lenda sat on the wire and shows or in rehearsals. yon National Park were
ends of the 1,300-foot crossing each other in the let her brother step over In 1978, 73-year-old Karl broadcast on national
wire (396-meter) suspend- middle, where Lijana Wal- her. Both then continued Wallenda fell to his death television.q