TRIBUTE TO ALBER ELBAZ

At the end of the Paris fashion week, forty designers presented their interpretation of Alber Elbaz's creativity. Demna Gvasalia, Virgil Abloh, Donatella Versace, Nicolas Ghesquière, Thebe Magugu, Vivienne Westwood, Alessandro Michele, Glenn Martens, Grace Wales Bonner, Jean Paul Gaultier, are some of the forty-four names in fashion who have worked to produce a collection in homage to Alber Elbaz, the brilliant designer who passed away at just 59 years old, shortly after the presentation of his new inclusive project AZ Factory. The show-event, entitled Love Brings Love, is inspired by the Theater of Fashion exhibition held in 1945, when sixty couturiers of the time, Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain and Cristóbal Balenciaga among others, gathered in solidarity at the end of the Second World War to revive fashion."Love brings love" was the mantra of Elbaz, who has always dreamed of organizing a modern reinterpretation of this event. The show closed with the AZ Factory design collective’s powerful tribute of their own, again riffing on the founder’s signature looks