PARIS — Design duo Viktor & Rolf have unveiled a capsule collection with historical French lingerie house Aubade.
“In couture, you think in terms of meters. For this, we were forced to think in millimeters,” Viktor Horsting said at a press presentation on Wednesday. “The challenge was really to scale down the design gesture.”
Horsting and Rolf Snoeren merged their signature — a cartoonlike bow that even became a perfume bottle for the brand’s Bonbon fragrance — with the French lingerie house’s celebrated artisanal techniques.
The collection consists of the nine-piece Bow collection, presented in two colors, the pink Bonbon set and the sultry Soir black set.
Tiny lace bows — laser-cut for a graphic finish — are embroidered on mesh bases, culminating in an allover motif on the black T-shirt that is also part of the collection.
Bras come in three styles: Aubade’s best-selling half-cup, a plunging high apex bra and a nonwired triangle bra, with matching briefs. Sizes go up to 90G, with sets priced around 169 euros.
The designers, who show their collections in Paris during couture week, paid particular attention to the back of each bra, a part of the product that is generally overlooked. Two signature bows decorate the fastening and all
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