After seeing Matthieu Blazy’s clever reboot of Chanel Monday night, one might have sat front row at the Pierre Cardin show wondering, what could be done to make this brand feel current?

The entire collection, designed by Cardin’s nephew and chosen heir Rodrigo Basilicati, was built on the foundations of black or white back-zipped catsuits for both men and women, garments that felt lifted straight from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Modular pieces unfolded from various wearable compartments attached to the suits, such as an orange bib cascading down the front, green fans velcroed to the shoulders and extending out like a flying gurnard fish, or undulating yellow waves protruding from the hips.

Watching the series of somewhat baffling looks come down the runway in the brand’s flagship

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