‘Helios’ by Leonard Paris
With a strongly marked Mediterranean accent and as an homage to the decade of the sixties and seventies.
Thus is born a collection that will leave no one indifferent.
Leonard Paris presents us with a collection where each pattern, each stitch, breathes Mediterranean airs that come to pay tribute to the glamorous and sexy elegance so characteristic of the decades of the sixties and seventies, extolling the figure of a woman who gave shape to a personality steeped in mysticism through lifestyles that were extravagant, to say the least.
A woman who, through the maison’s designs, loses herself in the Greece of yesteryear as if she were a goddess, allowing herself to be seduced by perfect pieces to become the centre of attention during extraordinary moments.
The Leonard Paris woman of the next season stands as a true goddess of Mediterranean lands, who seeks to celebrate life and fly, at least in her imagination, to spectacular settings in which to shine with her own light.
For next season, Leonard Paris is looking for, and betting on, an eccentric and inevitably mythical woman, like the protagonist of the film Boom! (1968), which the French fashion house has taken as inspiration to shape the collection with which it invites us to dress the evenings of the upcoming spring-summer 2025 season.
Leonard Paris invites us to surrender to architectural looks where glamour is written in capital letters.
Pieces with significant Hellenic references, such as draped halter dresses, mini dresses with a Nereid air, or kaftans printed in silk muslin, which remain an essential element in Leonard’s collections.
Whatever it takes to give shape to silhouettes of an elegance that is now a thing of the distant past.
The German designer Georg Lux (Berlin, 1985), creative director of Leonard Paris since 2021, has opted for materials such as cotton jacquard, denim, terry and, of course, chiffon, to bring that ethereal and volatile character to dresses that come to embrace the silhouette of a woman of overwhelming beauty.
The poppy becomes the flower of the season.
A poppy taken from the sixties, but rethought and adapted to each garment in an integral way.
Set in the embroidery, it seems to blossom in each piece, giving it that distinguished touch that is so characteristic of the house.
Alongside it, the orchid, Leonard’s star flower, is mixed with Greek motifs in a perfect combination of elegance and sophistication.
Leonard Paris presents a collection full of details.
Among them, delicate ceramic pieces that add a Hellenic accent to the dresses and belts; organza scarves or pullovers inspired by sixties looks, like those worn by Liz Taylor in Boom!
And at the epicentre of it all, the fashion house’s logo, which for this collection takes on Greek forms, imitating the friezes of temples.
All in a colour palette typical of the Mediterranean, with sky blue and white as a symbol of majesty, in which jet black also seeks to become the protagonist of the stories lived on summer nights.
That’s ‘Helios’, an eccentric collection of overwhelming beauty that shapes the personality of a slender woman, passionate about travel and, above all, a lover of life.
