by Olivia Moreau

Clare Waight Keller’s Givenchy is turning out to be a force of nature when it comes to combining legacy cool with functional couture. CWK considers her collections to be fully wearable everyday clothes and adds layers of custom goodness to be ready for airports to runways to red carpets. The beauty of her work is that foundationally the skeleton of her designs are deeply rooted in the understanding of how a modern human lives. In many ways, it is an exploration of everyday lives and she takes that anthropological knowledge to push her clothing research into commercial output. Her work is academic in precision but functional, It does not truly come with any singular narrative, as she is not trying to tell us a story but she is adding layers of silk, satin, cotton into our own stories. It is a wonderful way to augment the reality we live in and she does this with utter ease.