Lemaire: The Flowing Line

Grace need not always be asserted. A winter that comes effortlessly, with hand-crafted materials and technical fabrics, envelopments, protection and buttoning. A white catwalk meanders through the showroom at Place des Vosges in the third arrondissement of Paris, and silhouettes emerge: both supple and structured, masculine and feminine, shaped by the fluidity of these garments that fit into the space without constraining it. The eloquence of calm, the intense monochromes, the feeling that the day can stretch into the night. Vast bathrobe-like coats, parkas, duffle coats, the soft and the crisp jostle over a palette of shadows, greys and taupes, in a skillful interplay between workwear and clothing that frees itself from it. Are the cork-heeled shoes going overboard? Nothing could be more difficult to achieve than this ease, magnifying 15 years of complicity between Christophe Lemaire and Sarah Linh Tran, like a praise to endurance in a world ruled by haste.