His day and night spring and summer school

An imaginary mixed school like the one which the designer would have dreamed of, with only art, music, couture and needlework courses, and endless parties without waiting for graduation day. It is this fun loving, unconventional gang of students, teachers and parents, that Alexis Mabille chooses to dress this season. His two main sources of inspiration, that he began to explore last season, are:
- college or military uniforms and sports attire, like braids trimmed cardigan jackets and skirts, trench coats and large metallic buttons and belts, pleated tennis dresses, hoddies and polo shirts…
- formal evening wear, tuxedos and tuxedos stripe details, long and short party dresses, and their relevant accessories. Alexis’ true obsession with bowties and every possible form of bow is found on knotted dress straps, pocket flaps, cuffs and collars. It reaches its apex on a long dress featuring a back seam with a spine like row of multiple bowties. The seasons bag is the bowtie clutch, and a new peacock feathers bowtie pin is introduced. In this smart alternative school, the designer shakes the established dress codes, with lightness and humour. Day wear mixes with evening wear, sports with formals, and the sexes are transgressed. Alexis satisfies our desire to invert roles. The women seize tuxedos, suits and tailored fabrics, Prince of Wales plaids, pinstripes, ties and bowties. While men dare wearing flowered pajamas, lemon yellow, aqua and baby pink fabrics. This collection is designed either to seduce or to empower, depending on timing and occasions. To seduce at a party or to succeed in business.

The collection’s two main and contrasted themes answer to this human desire. First of all, the graphic line, impartially black and white, and a few midnight blues, is strongly tuxedo style with vertical satin tuxedo stripes everywhere. The cuts are very sharp for the long mermaid line dresses with vertical side wide bands, stretched line suits, starched cotton piqué impeccable shirts, glazed summer wools, shiny duchess silk satin and crisp straw fabric. This geometrical spirit is also found in the uniform inspired styles when colors shaded or metallic silver braids structured jackets, coats, skirts, and pants cuts. Tailored collars can just be braids outlined in trompe l’oeil.This sophisticated fashion allows good students to assert themselves. But in the collection, it mixes in contrast with seductive dreamers who affectionate a naïve and radiant style. All in innocent touches, fine wools and crepes, Swiss dots and chiffon, clouds of silk veiling, hand-painted nets, shades of petal pink, lemon yellow, celestial or aqua blue. Alexis Mabille keeps on with his insolent spirit with shaded lamé handkerchief mini-dresses, baby pink cotton piqué pajamas with mini-skirt for women, and for men, with transparent flowers embroidered. The collection’s masculine-feminine silhouette is narrow, tight and elongated. Jackets, coats, and sleeves are too short and too high-fitting. Straight skirts are too high slit. Dresses are too short. Pant legs are too wide or too tight like insect limbs; buttons and bowties come in rows. But always light touches interfered, shear fabrics and soft flounces, naïve flowery patterns. Alexis Mabille’s style is refined and sophisticated. For example, the new smart women shoes. A trompe l’oeil high heel Spectators pumps in cream, chocolate, mouse grey suede or black flat snake skin straps, cut out the naked skin. An evening sandal pastel pink, yellow, almond with a spine of bowties along the high heel. If impertinent, Alexis Mabille’s fashion proposes a response to a contemporary unisex wardrobe. The snappy designer bypasses a certain bourgeois fashion elements with a humoristic spirit. Alexis Mabille fashion school is definitively playful!