Code-X (78)

By: Joshua Glenn
October 30, 2015

chanel

Call this French Beauty code: Louche Life.

Definition: A invitation to rebel.

givenchy

Notes on this code: A la debandade (e.g., black clothes, motorcycles, tattoos, messy hair); urban edge (depiction of the model as an outcast drifting around the fringes of society — e.g., alleys, rooftops).

saint laurent

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