Climbing over the grass lawn and making our way to the grass covered benchers to get to our seats, we sure were glad that it was heavier wedges adorning our feet and not delicate (hole-leaving, grass destroying) Choos stilettos for this final day of fashion week.
Once seated, if was hard to decide where to look first; whether to focus on the tennis match being played out in one corner (and where the occasional ball flew into the audience) or on the catwalk, where long and lean models began to appear in luxuriously draped, robed, kilted, pleated and halter necked versions of tennis dresses, all finished off with matching sweatbands – just in case.
Leathers, knits and cottons in elegant cream, navy, black and rust took the form of playsuits, mini and maxi dresses, silk neck-tied shirts that became shorts, wide-legged, tailored trousers, denim blazers, and pleated skirts, which were the perfect ensembles to wear right off of the tennis court and straight to a ladies lunch or evening charity cocktail reception.
If she does not already play tennis, then this collection may just inspire the glamorous first lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, to take lessons at the Élysée Palace. No prizes for guessing what she will be wearing as she effortlessly hits the ball to her husband.
What really had us foaming at the mouth though, was not supermodel Eva Herzigova’s never-ending bronzed legs, but rather the oversized weekender versions of the iconic Hermes Birkin bag, delivered here in the softest white, caramel and nude leather and skin. Forget the old woman who lived in a shoe, we would happily agree to be a bag lady – that is if the bag was any of these Birkins…
