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All that jazz

inimalists, it’s time to rip up your reductionist rule book. Cease your streamlining, restrict your restraint and press pause on and . For his final collection for the house, Paul Andrew drew on the ‘Rainbow’ wedge shoe that the Florentine brand’s founder designed for Judy Garland in 1938, presenting its spectrum of colours as a symbol of hope. The collection abounded in ebullient hues, with whole ensembles imagined in monochromatic shades, including cerulean, space-age silver and lilac. Saint Laurent, likewise, offered a nod to the past as the brand’s artistic director Anthony Vaccarello fused 1960s silhouettes, including furtrimmed tweed miniskirts, with bright 1980s tones, like fuschia and gold. Looks were layered up with lashings of mismatched costume jewellery, like rows of rhinestones cascading from ears and chokers blooming with twinkling flowers.

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