Montreal, February 6, 2012 | Day 1 SMM22
Do you know women who exist only for themselves, who devote every breath, every blink of an eyelid, the tiniest shred of their existence to a single, sacred vocation: that of protecting poetry? Icons of Roman mythology. Icons of modern mythology.
Rhéa was assimilated to Cybèle, nicknamed the ancestress of the gods or the “Great Phrygian Goddess”.
In 2012, Marie Saint Pierre turned her into a Magna Mater in a Fall Winter 2012 collection of orgiastic worship, bordering on ritual mutilation, from Asia Minor to Rome to Montreal, where she defies the “Black Stone” with her lips.
Source : Bureau de la mode de Montréal | Photo : Vincenzo D’Alto
The need for us, the public, to identify with these rhyming superfemmes is no stranger. In fact, their seduction is due less to their powers than to their ability to transpose fabric blends into a fantasy world, even if the pose is rigid.
Long before the packed house was able to confront its everyday life with the ephemera, the Short Film, produced by Rodéo and directed by Leda & St. Jacques, announced a ‘Wolfgangesque’ spleen.
Marie Saint Pierre’s blacks are multiplied in taut feather-line sculptures. From head to wedges to cube.
Source : Bureau de la mode de Montréal | Photo : Vincenzo D’Alto
His winter focuses on the upper part of the silhouette – fierce collars, pseudo-capes, scarves as necklaces and whimsical scarves – wrapped in volumes that are distant from the body, yet never obliterate it. There are also pieces that are as obvious as they are stunning, such as these trompes l’oeil & dye or this admirable three-quarter length in silk with all seams folded down.
On Monday evening, the strength of his collection electrified an entire room from the very first model, despite the fact that the first day of Montreal Fashion Week featured 4 shows in a row. Nothing but tops, and very stylish ones at that. Marie in Saint Pierre at her best.
Alessandro Berga | @thecaprissimo
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