Longchamp Fall/Winter 2016-2017 RTW

Photos complimentary of Vogue

Is it possible to combine country-style attire with overall urban-chic vibes? Sophie Delafontaine, Longchamp’s creative director, took this challenge when designing her Longchamp fall/winter 2016-17 ready-to-wear collection, fearlessly mixing these two worlds just to create something anew. Unveiled at Paris Fashion Week, the collection celebrates Longchamp’s iconic legacy as well, as it both travels back in time looking for retro sources of inspiration and is filled with leather fabrics and statement handbags from the brand’s most famous accessory line.

Particularly developed for the “woman who is in the town but has observed the attraction of characteristics and the woodlands,” as Delafontaine herself announced behind the scenes, the Longchamp drop 2016 selection concentrates on comfortable collections when it comes to tops and tunic outfits, and on distinct and obvious reduces when it comes to layers, miniskirts and grip, emphasizing the sharpness through significant suede components and padded candy striped styles. Never tedious, although at times recurring, the collection is an overall well-served mixture of solid-colored suggestions (among which luscious lemon, solid yellow-colored and wealthy dark red undoubtedly are the main protagonists) and unique printing, wherein animal-printed styles and zig-zag applied collections got combined so efficiently that they almost became indistinguishable from one another.

Luckily, for those who love Longchamp’s styles but are not that interested in dressed in creature and cover up styles, Delafontaine delivers in undoable suggestions too, which convert the styles from creature styles to strong olive and dark in the flicker of an eye. Such a choice signifies a desire to properly pay attention to her customers’ wishes and to what they have to say regarding design, but also for more variety and flexibility, making sure each person discovers something real to her design in the gathering.

While most of her other co-workers selected floor-length frocks, Delafontaine experienced baring the feet more, protecting them just with horizontally candy striped tights or, to further emphasize their shapes, with velvet/suede components. Shearling and bunny fur places add an overall feeling of low-profile elegance while also directing out the collection’s ‘when two planets collide’ concept, being showed by the label’s trademark fabric purses and handbags. The equipment line allows itself get taken away by the looks’ elements, suggesting exactly the same styles with an advanced, yet conventional Longchamp perspective.

With its obvious reduces and sensitive silhouettes, the gathering doesn’t display any type of impressive determine, as it seems to be developed for stylish inside activities (both at the landscapes and in the city), or, why not, for a long day invested at the office.