A go-to among minimalists since the brand was founded a decade ago, Gauchère this season stepped away from the runway, instead staging the spring collection in its airy Haussmannian showroom opposite the Louvre.
It was a smart move, not least because the season’s inspiration was vibrations and electricity, or as designer Marie-Christine Statz put it, “a tremor with varying degrees of intensity, with a mix of materials so the movement happens within the pieces.” Given the incremental details, in person was the best possible format for unexpected pairings and silhouettes that explored larger volumes within smaller ones, and twist effects not shown here. The designer described it as “two tectonic plates colliding and creating a twist between both layers.”
A case in point was a simple-looking white tank top stitched to its black tulle overlayer, which Statz called “two pieces living together on the body in a different way.” Suiting, one of the brand’s strengths, offered up a color block proposition, in a mix of khaki, white and black. Semi-transparent nylons kept company with silk and cotton fabric shot through with metallic fibers that created a deliberately wrinkled effect. For evening, dresses in jersey, such as in look 11, rose to the occasion. Linen separates, graphic pairings, mesh, and transparency with leather or coated fabrics neatly blended romance and strength.
