LEONARD SPRING – SUMMER 2013
The LEONARD woman is back. Confident in her tastes and her power, she takes her languorous elegance to the pool parties, from Palm Beach to Capri to Acapulco. She’s recognizable, yet imperceptibly different. With a new modernity, she wears Bamboo prints with lush, graphic vegetation, or Fantasia prints with black flowers played out as shadow puppets on an acid yellow background.
Delicious in-house silk jerseys are worked into short dresses with plunging necklines, Catwoman-style body-hugging jumpsuits or biker jackets for a close-up look, a veritable concentrate of charm and technicality (quilted silk jersey, partly embroidered with transparent sequins, Bamboo print on front on white background/back on black background).
While the silhouette gains in tension: less fuzziness, more structure through the grace of pagoda shoulder pads or leather inserts, the materials and treatments diversify (laser-cut leather on an organza background, printed double georgette with incredible spring, lacquered silk, dense laminated silk jersey…). The sharp aesthetic of the 60’s-70’s jet set, photographed by Slim Aarons, inspired this collection, but sometimes gives way to a refreshing poetry of little draped dresses printed on a white background, almost juvenile, and extremely delicate “jewel” pleats. By day, the colors pop, gush and burn like the midday sun. In the evening, they melt into faded coral, soft mint, petal-soft pale pink, to invade long organza dresses with original floral motifs.
This season, Raffaele Borriello signs his first collection for LEONARD. The Italian designer began his career at Balmain, then developed fur and leather at Gucci, under the direction of Tom Ford. He was then collection director at Sonia Rykiel and Yves Saint Laurent.
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