Interview

Alexis Mabille's Homme Fatales
 
Full-tilt Parisian dandies are a bit high wattage for breakfast, but Alexis Mabille has never been the low key type. His gilded lilies, fresh after a night at le Montana, strutted their stuff at Angelina's tea room on the first full day of the Paris collections nearly all of them in the house's customized sequin embroidered Converse sneakers which look like next spring's It shoe for fancy feet of all genders. Mabille is a proponent of unisex dressing and this was his first all-boy show.  The result was a kind of Jean Cocteau/Tom of Finland hybrid, the kind of  man who steps out for his morning Croissants in gilt kimono brocade jeans and a Chanel-esque cardigan with the house's bow tie worn dangling on the side of an unbuttoned shirt collar.