Lemaire Menswear Autumn 2011

Christophe Lemaire straddles a strange divide. His inclinations are insistently global, borrowing from African and Far and Middle Eastern traditions, removed in space and, often, in time, from his own sphere. But then, too, there's his funny predilection for some of the coolest personalities of our own when-and-where. For his Fall menswear, the right side of Lemaire's brain went far afield again—now to the films of the sixties Georgian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, whose set gorgeously dusty scenes. The left side was feeling New Wave: David Byrne, John Lurie, Ian Curtis. Never the twain shall meet?