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March 12, 2012
sky blue mustard
by Antonia Leslie

Opulence seems to be the background theme to this Paris season. Shows and presentations often take place in ormalue ballrooms, with a further crowd of golden cherubs watching from the baroque painted ceilings. In contrast Baptista's clothes were stark and almost metallic. A very personal palette of colours paraded down the catwalk. Mustard grey and sky blue grey. The 80's blue reared it's head again with lots of winter cream. Lots of leather too, Emma Peal meets 50's Cadillac car seats. A mixture of sharp and sharper with zebra stripes moving to cubist stripes and at the bottom cubist block shoes with chiselled facades. Do not mess with these girls for a moment.

Felipe Oliveira Baptista