Couture particularly lends itself to all kinds of luxury and extravagance. For its autumn/winter
made-to-measure collection, Maison Natan deploys volumes of femininity with eccentric and
sober mixes, and sensualised garçonne lines.
The fashion show, which included a photographic array of classic shapes, took place on the grand plaza of the Brussels Musée des Beaux-Arts. The tenderness of the designs was inspired by Monet’s painting, which combined pointillist touches in a precise production rooted in the company’s ateliers under Haute Couture design circumstances, intimately connected to an art of delicate swaths of beguiling colours.
Colorful fabric with rich floral colours is at the heart of the collection’s mood. Green, vivid, or rendered in gentle designs will be the colour of winter, merging and lighting the seasons. The natural and technological fabrics, such as gathered tulle and translucent cotton lace, have body and delicately expose it; the cuts imply roundness, like 1950s Couture revisited in current textures.
The sleeves are exaggerated this season, and the lengths are emphasised. A purposeful preference for over-scaled designs, which gives each piece its Couture significance. Summer has here, and the carefree flowers of felted tulle are in full bloom. The superimpositions are polished and contrast aesthetically with the subtle juxtaposition of black and white in winter, complementing the design of current silhouettes and, for everyone’s enjoyment, stylishly bold.
