A touch of winter to better celebrate summer at Galeries Lafayette with Laetitia Ivanez

Last December, Galeries Lafayette presented the new face of their own brand with the appointment of Laetitia Ivanez as artistic director. A first for the brand, which revealed the designer’s first collection, an elegant, contemporary and accessible wardrobe. While the big launch attracted the Parisian friends of the department store at the headquarters of the French Communist Party, it is quite naturally that Laetitia Ivanez chose the roof terrace of Galeries Lafayette to unveil this Tuesday her new collection for the winter 2017-18. As we know, fashion is always one season ahead, and it is with humour that the Galleries have made a nose thumb to summer temperatures by presenting the collection in a refrigerated tunnel where one could not venture without a down jacket. Watch the #chocthermique ! For the most frightened, don’t panic: everything was planned to warm us up in no time, especially with an electrifying concert by Papooz that put in leg all the audience in which we could meet Axelle Laffont, Cécile Togni or even Matthieu Chedid. Privileged moments before meeting the next day in front of the doors of the department store for the long-awaited opening of the sales…