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Fun in the Sun
PARIS, October 5 - Marithé and François Girbaud have always been eco-friendly. Their concept stores feature a living tapestry of vegetation, and their fabrics are developed from organic and synthetic sources so as to cause the least damage to the planet's ecosystem.
For summer 2005, these "green" designers staged their show before a rising sun enveloped by orange haze. An asphalt highway stretched out until it was lost in mounds of creamy white sand.
There has always been a youthful, street chic quality to Girbaud, but recently the collections have taken on more and more polish. The price-friendly label also gives young people a chance to buy Paris fashion that would otherwise be out of their grasp.
Amid the relaxed cargo pants, micro-shorts and bunched skirts that resembled old-fashioned Victorian culottes, lots of beautiful things were happening. Scalloped and layered cocktail dresses fluttered wistfully beneath a dusting of floral prints. Runched jackets, resembling boleros, were tossed atop asymmetrical hemline skirts. For evening, sleeveless black dresses breezed along with an overlay of satin scalloped pleats.
The ivy arm warmers and faux fur scarves could not have been presented on a better day. PETA staged a full-fledged protest of the Dior show on Tuesday, targeting John Galliano an "egomaniac who supports cruelty to animals."
Well there was no PETA at Girbaud, only lots of non-controversial legerity aimed at fun in the sun.
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