S/S22 Decoding by universe – Tops & Shirts : shirting The 22 February 2021 - Fabrics - Première Vision Paris

Supple, lightweight men’s shirts dispense with a certain formal rigidity. Blends with viscose, silk or synthetics target floaty styles, to accompany movement and glide gracefully over the body. Fluid handles contrast with straightforwardly graphic stripes, playing on the contrast between the motion of the fabric and the rigor of the pattern.

Women’s fabrics lend themselves to additions of ruffles and gathers, to accentuate the expressive freshness of shirtings.

A natural breeze blows through chic shirtings. Linen, whether pure or blended with cotton, enriches chambrays and semi-plains with a vegetal note. Stripes and checks embrace their discreet rusticity, and feature fine, slubbed irregularities. The inclination for natural fibers is part of a quest for more sustainable compositions, which favors organic and recycled fibers.

In shirtings, the search for lightness is combined with an urge to feel the fabric come alive; the season’s men’s stripes and checks are enlivened by seersucker or discreetly wrinkled effects, for simultaneously relaxed and clean looks. In women’s, this slight shiverings dare a more pronounced transparency, creponned surfaces elaborate a fantasy that veils and reveals candidly charming shirts and blouses.

Color-woven shirting designs favor stripes over checks. They are fresh and clean, colorfully dynamic. Patterns are neat and graphic, exploiting the contrast between paleness and liveliness for tops with a decisively optimistic look. Whether in  menswear or womenswear, these invigorating shirtings are a lively way to punctuate silhouettes.