P R E S S   R E L E A S E

SPRING- SUMMER COLLECTION 2006

“HAMMAM”

A “world” depicted on the wandering painters’ canvas.

Evocations, emotions, sublimation.

The eighteenth century Orientalist painting is a travel through the soul, the spirit and culture; a place impregnated with passion and with perfumes of incense and spices.

Dream – world images, lived in the fantasy of story-tellers and listeners.

A travel across the Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan and Sicilian – Arab hammam with an ethnic French accented language.

Pink as Ingres’ nudes; citron, pistachio, plum, wistaria and violet colours as in an end of century palette.

Ribbon skirts woven as carpets, multi-spiced coloured silks and chromatic vibrations created by the transparency and texture of veils, petit pois, “webs” and tulle.

The silhouette enjoys combining a retrò fashion with ethnic elements in a new romantic vision: coral, quartz and mother-of-pearl embroidered vintage guepière.

Trousseau laces and embroidery.