Paris Fashion Week: Givenchy walks the line of hard and soft, doesn’t fall

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Riccardo Tisci’s collections for Givenchy have been uneven, but this season he showed a perfectly measured mix of hard and soft, primitive and frilly that should go a long way toward sealing the brand’s reputation as a source not only for cool accessories, but also for cool clothes as well.

Jackets sharply cut in primitive-looking, zigzag prints were paired with crepe jumpsuits and platform boots with stingray toes or short dresses with tiers of decorative flounces and fans of fabric. Other dresses came draped in ethereal-looking, nude-colored knit, topped by vests embroidered in so many crystals they looked like rock candy. Cue the Olsen twins.
-- Booth Moore

Photos: Givenchy’s Spring-Summer 2010 runway

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