Jean-Paul Lespagnard Presents ESCALE N°7 during Paris Fashion Week. Jean-Paul Lespagnard Presents the collection entitled THE FREEDOM TO CREATE. During last Paris Fashion Week, Jean-Paul Lespagnard made an “Escale” in Paris to present his work.
Jean-Paul Lespagnard chose a pop-up showroom to display his collection combining clothing, accessories and objects. The collection that aim all genders reflects the designer’s travels and inspirations in India, Mexico, Morocco and Belgium. Blending silk, Japanese fabrics, accessories and handcrafted objects, the collection is timeless. An ephemeral boutique, traveling like a suitcase that will soon have a fixed point in Brussels.
Belgium’s favorite quirky designer has distanced himself from the traditional fashion agenda. He creates as he travels, depending on artisans and encounters, cultivating an atypical, poetic approach. Coherent, almost selfless.
He was one of the first to take a step aside, to present his collections if, and how, he wanted them. When alternative production by world craftsmen met his requirements, adding decorative elements, body accessories and home accessories to his multi-dimensional catalog. After a few months preparing his return to the Greek island of Hydra, where he now makes his summer home, surrounded by an inspiring, inspired and glittering clique, Jean-Paul Lespagnard relaunched a ready-to-wear collection that he presented in Paris during Fashion Week, before depositing his colorful boxes at the Villa Noailles for the Hyères Festival.
A creative galaxy of multisexes and multiverses – It’s a collection for men, for women, for anyone in the middle or anywhere in between.
His designs, with prints that tell his stories and transcribe the aesthetic shocks of his peregrinations in India, Mexico, Morocco or on the banks of the Amblève in Liège, come and go, rotate and modulate. Each garment is woven with a strong identity, and together they make up a wardrobe, almost a bestiary, mid-season yet timeless. Silk shirts, rare Japanese fabrics, hats, pendants, glass and terracotta tableware. Gold paperweight waffles, so gourmet that a load of them was stolen from her in August – ui en a volé un chargement en août.
His collection travels far and wide, and his boutique is a suitcase, which from November will be anchored in downtown Brussels. More than a collection to be classified by department, it’s an accomplished panoply.
All images by Jean-Paul Lespagnard. PR Agency Autrement PR Paris.