Bringing bows back into trend, Givenchy’s Studio Prêt-à-Porter Femme continues its dialogue with the archives of founder Hubert de Givenchy for its Fall-Winter 2024 womenswear collection.
The silhouettes elegantly add eveningwear elements into daywear. The cinematic palette pairs black with navy, electrified by Hubert de Givenchy’s beloved sapphire.
A legendary designer, Hubert de Givenchy knew how to shape the female body with his dresses in the most sophisticated way. Not vulgar, just highly shaped and subtly seductive. It was almost like a worship of the female form. Taking inspiration from that, this collection too has sharp forms that seem to hug the body.
Sharply constructed décolletés inform the collection. Dresses are constructed with cut-glass collars and bustier dresses with hirondelle décolletage. They are not your Audrey Hepburn dresses, but certainly more feline than that.
Necklines are tied up in rigid petal-shaped bows, a motif that reverberates throughout the collection, including opera gloves and shoes, highlighting the ankles.
Dramatic draping and raised shoulder blazers sculpt the silhouettes – there are enough pant suits to highlight that. Bulky-in-form yet light faux furs exude glamour. Ethereal embroidered feathers exude a feeling of softness – like a white wedding dress that speaks high fashion.
The language of form echoes in coats and cabans cut with beetle-backs or scooped trapeze volumes, and circular-cut coats and wraps in faux fur. The shapes invoke the grammar of haute couture.
Wingback tuxedo coats and lustred alpaca overcoats delight, while tailcoats are transmuted into cabans.
Trousers adapt the collection’s lines in wide silhouettes with hems gesturally cut as if they were tucked into the shoe, and jodhpurs have kick-back cutaway ankle contours.
For eveningwear, a long metallic, off-shoulder dress seems to melt deliciously.
Echoing the men’s Fall-Winter 2024 collection, archival motifs re-emerge, including a chandelier graphic that transforms a sumptuous laminated lace dress with embroidered pearls, or cats with piercing eyes.
In accessories, large-scale necklaces and bracelets are made with crystal and enamel, again inspired by archival pieces. Feline pendants grace jewelry in metals and strass.
The Voyou it-bag welcomes the P’tit Voyou, an elongated shoulder bag in supple lambskin and patent leather. Honoring the archive, the Pumpkin bag is reimagined as an evening pouch in velvet, replete with chains and ring details.
