Like all good nights spent sweat-drenched by strobe light, there was so much going on at this Kenzo show that recalling all of it afterwards, even as you stumbled euphoric out the door into the glare of morning sunshine, represented a challenge.
The aftermath of the Paris attacks has been an undercurrent of the Paris men’s shows this season, and it was felt again on Saturday morning at Humberto Leon and Carol Lim’s uplifting display for Kenzo.
A haunting and cinematic editorial by Christian Oita, The Exiled Prince follows Moroccan model and LGBTQ advocate Ossam Arad through a fictional yet deeply personal journey of exile, identity, and defiance in the Arab world.