Fashion house ÉTUDES unveiled its Fall Winter 2023.24 Centre-Ville Collection, that explores the epicentre of city life, and the way the most ancient and contemporary elements of civilizations intertwine, on January 17th, during the ongoing Paris Fashion Week. The collection reinterprets the archetypes of the masculine wardrobe, and it brings looks that fuse the structured elegance of tailoring with relaxed streetwear style. Color palette includes muted from dusty rose and arctic blue to deep green, chocolate, mud, concrete, black and beige. For the season, Études collaborated with the Amsterdam-based Swiss artist Batia Suter.
FALL WINTER 2023.24 COLLECTIONS
“Roller-printed felt wool, padded nylons and dark satins join winter sartorial fabrics in a layered discourse between notions of sportswear, uniform, and formality. Naive emblems of the street are revealed in hyperreal 3D and stitch embroidery, from padlocks and antique coins to playful memento mori. The Études bomber jacket finds new forms in parka and hooded shapes, and with new fabrics and finishes including stoned cotton canvas, optical nylon, leather and embroidered iconography. Ample fluid trousers are layered with hybrid mock-neck blazers, double-breasted suit jackets, and fuzzy textured knits. Accessories plumb the depths of nostalgia, from souvenir keychains, knotted leather belts lanyards to weathered baseball caps, fingerless gloves and mirrored metallic sunglasses.
Complementing the collection, a creative exchange with the Amsterdam-based Swiss artist Batia Suter unfolds. Suter’s practice centres on the reinterpretation and contextualisation of found imagery through installation, collage and print publishing. Returning to imagery from her seminal books Parallel Encyclopedia #1 (2004-07) and Parallel Encyclopedia #2 (2016), Suter intervenes directly upon a suite of garments. Her graphic assemblages appear as a palimpsest of time and place: printing, embroidery and appliqué patches that investigate the phenomenon of cities throughout the ages, from diagrams and folklore to fragments of mediaeval architecture and glimpses of a globalised urban history.” – from Études
