AP/AFP – The main talking point of Marine Serre’s trendy, hipster recent collection was what was not in the show. Kate Moss was not in it. This even though a model resembling Kate Moss walked the runway and had everyone in the audience gasping and reaching for their cameras. Serre tricked her audience, using a famous Moss impersonator, Denise Ohnona, to showcase her designs.
Tricks and tongue-in-cheek abounded for this fashion forward French designer who recently rose to prominence after winning the coveted LVMH prize. A real actual live baby was camouflaged on a signature Moon print skin-tight onesie in the designer’s favourite, jacquard spandex. Real leeks poked out of a “handbag”, that resembled – and perhaps even was – a refrigerator bag used to shop for frozen goods. Reflective shades added the feeling of mix and match cool, with dropped ruffled mini skirts and a take on tennis garb.
