Eco-friendly sneakers, Gérard Darel sheets… what’s good this week?

Freezing temperatures and general strike, the week does not start under the best auspices. But it’s not because the fashionistas who had invaded Paris for Fashion Week are going to give way to demonstrations to defend, among other things, their future retirements, that we shouldn’t relax a bit. We therefore focused this week on new French designers who brilliantly handle upcycling. We also suggest going for a little walk around the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, biodegradable sneakers on your feet. And for cocooning, we have a choice of weapons: a tailor-made skincare routine signed Les Filles en Rouje, or the softness of the new Gérard Darel washed linen sheets…

Luxury upcycling by Kamad Paris

Could upcycling be the future of luxury? The question is not in doubt for Kamad Paris, a young French collective led by Selima, Mathilde, Mariano and Deni. Their first ready-to-wear collection, Le Château, presented to the press during Paris fashion week in January, creatively combines the notion of eco-responsibility and upcycling. For the fall-winter 2023 season, the quartet has imagined a confrontation between the world of street culture and the baroque world where the toile de Jouy goes well with bombers or boxer shorts, which nonchalantly protrude from a quilted shorts… “This collection also marks the transition from adolescence to middle age.