Givenchy

Inspiration
For Givenchy’s Fall/Winter 2008 women’s ready-to-wear collection, Riccardo Tisci has taken his inspiration from Latin America, Peru.

He has combined Latin joie de vivre with his gothic aesthetic.

When he traveled Peru, he found the vivid pinks, the tobacco browns of gauchos, the alpaca blanket stripes and, and the patterned and colorful knits of Inca culture.

Fall/ Winter 2008 Ready-to-wear

Fall/Winter 2008 Couture

Here we can see the Latin savoir faire redefines French elegance in sharply tailored silhouettes in this new collection. The key look is skinny long legs with a surfeit of volume on top.

Such as the"Latin love" ruffles, frills and pleats.

*Fall/Winte 2008 ready-to-wear and couture *

Models worn with lace and pantsuits provides a feminine contrast to the collection’s masculine tailoring. Softer feminine shapes include a tone-on-tone pale aqua dress, tight at the waist with a fluted skirt finished with ribbon embroidery, glass beads and hand-embroidered eyelets, inspired by a turn-of-the-century corset.

Executed in a mostly monochrome color palette, the collection’s black and white symbolises the duality of hard and soft, history and modernity, which has come to represent the brand.