Ludovic de Saint Sernin
DE SAINT SERNIN HAS GAINED VISIBILITY OWING IN PART TO HIS FLUID PROPOSITION OF MENSWEAR THAT CAN BE WORN BY WOMEN. A GIRL AMID TODAY’S BOYS MADE THAT MESSAGE MORE EXPLICIT, ESPECIALLY SINCE HER LOOK CONSISTED OF HIS PROVOCATIVE AND INSTANTLY POPULAR EYELET BRIEF FROM LAST SEASON REPURPOSED AS A BARELY THERE BRALET. YET WHAT STOOD OUT MOST FROM THE PRESENTATION WAS A BEAUTIFUL COMPOSITE OF STRONG SENSUALITY AND SUBTLE KINK. LUDOVIC DE SAINT SERNIN’S SPRING COLLECTION, THE THIRD FOR HIS LABEL, CALLED “SUMMERTIME SADNESS,” MEANT TO EVOKE A TEEN’S MELANCHOLY UPON LEAVING A BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY WITH AN UNREQUITED CRUSH. “IT’S A SPECIAL FEELING THAT I’VE HAD SINCE I WAS A TEENAGER,” SAID LUDOVIC DE SAINT SERNIN OF WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS A “VERY PERSONAL” THIRD COLLECTION. THE PRESENTATION BEGAN WITH A WISTFUL POP SONG THAT SHAZAM REVEALED AS “IT’S OKAY TO CRY” BY SOPHIE, AN L.A.-BASED ARTIST WHO IDENTIFIES AS TRANSGENDER. THE 27-YEAR-OLD DESIGNER, AN LVMH PRIZE FINALIST, WANTED TO CONJURE UP THE LONGING THAT LINGERS FROM AN UNREQUITED LOVE AT THE END OF A SUMMER BREAK.
