Made popular by Gossip Girl’s stylist director Eric Daman, Maxime Simoens is France's new rising designer. He is truly a talented young man with an impeccable sense of details and colors and his label epitomizes the modern French take on couture and elegance. A graduate from the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la couture parisienne where Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Largefeld also attended, Maxime Simoens represents the next generation of French couture designers.
At 26, not only has he interned for the world-renowed French designers including Jean Paul Gaulteir, Christian Dior and Balenciaga, he is the first designer to join the tightly regulated 2011 haute couture fashion show in Paris without ever having staged a runway show. Inspired by Sophia Coppola and Marie Antionnete, his first couture show was met with mixed reviews. Some described his collection as “missing the point,” noting that “he had a long way to go,” while others applauded his vision by describing his collection as “exquisite” and “magnificent.” Despite these mixed reviews, one thing is clear; Maxime Simeoens has a bright fresh future in the world of haute couture.
He sent models down the runways in delicately sculpted dresses with slender silhouettes. His most outstanding pieces: A white gabardines dress which bloomed with embroidered leather flowers both at the sleeves and at the waistline and a long flapper dress made entirely from colored chains.
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-Jules Lunmore
