Gareth Pugh SS09 Paris Show at the Palias de Tokyo

Gareth Pugh’s S/S 09 collection, his first since winning the ANDAM prize, gave the first great jolt to Paris Fashion Week with a show that retained his precise point of view but stunned naysayers with the slickness of its presentation. An industrial space at the Palais De Tokyo with light filtering through the glass ceiling and emanating from fluoresecent… tubes on the ground, was an unusually bright venue for a Gareth Pugh show but as the music cranked up, and the first model stomped out in the first of a series of perfectly articulated armour, rendered in a strictly monochrome palette, the same old energy and excitement of his London shows came roaring back. Pugh explained this choice of venue backstage after the show, “I was happy to show it in a house! But Rick (Owens, mentor) suggested the Palais De Tokyo. We knew that coming to Paris that we had to step it up.”

It was a fascinating, ambitious show that explored his ongoing fascination with architecture and dramatic silhouettes, in a way that recalled Margiela’s attempts to provide a superhuman dimension to the human body…. Read full article by Kin Woo on Dazed Digital