AP/AFP – In line with tradition, up-and-coming French designer Louis Gabriel Nouchi based his collection around a book theme again.
This season, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis spawned a fun, if sometimes-overly literal, rendering of themes in the famed tale of a deranged, murderous executive – who perhaps inhabits every American businessman (the writer suggests).
A white shirt look was accessorised with a killer’s sheeny black gloves, while one double breasted wool jacket with full shoulders androgynous long full skirt evoking the 1980s was worn on a model with (fake) blood spatter on his face.
Draping – in torch red fabric tightly rippling over the body – evoked the cellophane the killer Patrick Bateman wrapped his victims in.
Colours included blood red, white and black to evoke the office, as well as what the house called “city bank” blue.
