Germanier: Desperate Housewives Swiss fantasy

Last, but very much not least, Kevin Germanier from Switzerland, whose beaded fantasies and recycled magic made for a brilliant show to bring down the curtains on Paris haute couture season.

Inspired by the character Bree Van de Kamp of “Desperate Housewives”, and the idea how she might go slightly crazy if she popped a powerful pill, this was the most far-out collection seen in the four-day Paris season that ended Thursday night. 
 
Presented in a salon overlooking the Seine, just 25 models in a surreally beaded wardrobe many based on second-hand French luxury jackets, blazers and dresses that Kevin revealed he had acquired in vintage stores in LA.  Before sending his embroiderers into overdrive – showering every inch of each outfit in dazzling and glistening beading. Opening with a Swiss flag red-and-white suit, completed with scalloped hem of glistening plastic spikes. Then mashing-up tribal colors, Rio carnival and flamenco crochets into the ultimate in sustainable chic.

“I am Swiss. And I was raised to be perfect. Just like Bree Van de Kamp in ‘Desperate Housewives’. I am the busy Bree of fashion, or maybe I should say ‘bead’, as there is so much beading in my collections!” joked Kevin post-show.

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“Anyway, I imagined if Bree had taken a pill and suddenly went a little crazy and colorful. That’s what I wanted on the runway,” chuckled Germanier, who was so emotional after taking his bow he needed three minutes to gather his breathe to talk.
 
In a co-ed show, the guys wore beaded and encrusted tunics where roses, urchins and peonies bloomed. Anything and everything thrown together in this very cool moment. Faber & Castell cool – as pencils sprouting from one futurist goddess body stocking.
 
What looked like thigh boots were, in fact, beaded socks that ran a meter up the leg. Though most of the cast wore spike heels encrusted with so much beading they looked like red sea whip or deep-water anemone.
 
Before Kevin took his ovation to a huge cheer, every whoop and clap and whistle deserved.