Focus on AW 23-24 decorations: dissonant harmony  The 26 October 2022 - Autumn-Winter 23-24 - Prints - Fabrics

Houndstooths are the season’s must-have. Not-so-classic this time, the look is updated via a variety of techniques.  

More or less disproportionate, patterns are hatched, pixelated or naively hand-penciled. Dissonant chromatic combinations create highly colorful contrasts. The overall feeling is accentuated by dark backgrounds, such as “grey opulence” and “relic blue”, spiced up with bright and intense hues like “controversial pink”, and punctuated with an acidic touch with “high-tech lime”.

Geometric motifs depart from a purely vintage influence to move into a more modern register. The elaboration of color is both modernist and multi-colored, challenging the conventions of the genre. More or less regular circles, squares and triangles are assembled like a chaotic puzzle. Elements are interpreted in peppy, optimistic color schemes, favoring fun and self-deprecating harmonies, sometimes verging on bad taste. Backgrounds lean towards greenish and grayish neutrals –  “green day” and “grey silence” –  punctuated by clashing accents like “egg yolk” or “vitamin halo”.

Flowers and vegetation remain an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

This season they’re given a fresh interpretation via arty references, collages and hand-drawn lines, resulting in exuberant taschist motifs. Graphic elements are more or less compact and colorful, for an equally taschist and poetic take on camouflage, poised between abstract design and floral motif. The colors look derived from fantastical recyclings, firing creative imaginings.

“mastic” and “kraft” shades bring to mind dried vegetation. They are jolted by touches of an intense chlorophyll hue, “green epilogue” or “high-tech lime”, and digitized florals such as “trivial violet” or “controversial pink”.

Folklore references are less literally interpreted. Patterns are bigger, and their deliberately blurry, ill-defined contours have an almost delirious, hallucinatory quality. An impression accentuated by fantastical chromatic ranges. Color mixes create amalgams evoking recycled materials. Grounds worked in browns such as “molasses” are reassuring and are teamed with bright colors like “egg yolk” or “vitamin halo”, and intense brights such as “menthol blister” or “clearly red”. For a guaranteed psychedelic effect!