Givenchy Releases Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection

French luxury fashion Givenchy released Sunday its Spring/Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection.

The collection marks American designer Matthew M. Williams's first live show for the house since he took the reins in June 2020.

Williams continued the celebrity dressing tradition with a focus on Gen Z rappers and actors such as Offset, Tyga, and Tommy Dorfman, all of whom sat in the front row in the giant hangar-like Paris La Défense Arena, a stadium in business district Nanterre in North West Paris.

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The SS22 collection was created in partnership with American artist Josh Smith, an artist who first found fame in the early 2000s with a series of canvases depicting his own name.

Smith’s Grim Reaper paintings were featured on leather designs while his demonic skeleton pumpkins were transferred basketball-like handbags.

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In a statement, Williams noted he wanted to build on the tradition of Givenchy’s history while also really looking towards the future.

In the new collection, the designer experimented more with his austere, subversive streetwear aesthetic than it explore any deference to the 70-year-old brand’s history. The only perceptible nod came via ruffled peplums, inspired by a sketch of Hubert de Givenchy.

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The collection also showcased oversized tailoring, raw-edged fishing vests, leather baseball caps, utilitarian shirting, neon high-arched sneakers contrasted with softer, and airier pieces such as Broderie Anglaise hot pants and sculpted tulle minis.

It also featured Crotch-skimming leather clog boots paired with flicking wavey-edged mini skirts and trouser-cum-mini skirt hybrids with slashes at the top of the leg celebrated the upper thigh as a new erogenous zone.