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On the southern coast of France, the utopian resort town of La Grande Motte rises in white concrete pyramids, its modernist facades swirling with archways and scalloped balconies designed to excite the eyes and temper the wind. Conceived by French-Turkish architect Jean Balladur, the city’s curved forms and sun-faded awnings still radiate the optimism of the 1960s vacation boom, when leisure turned visionary.
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Bringing lyricism to geometric order framed our approach. Gestures of charm in scalloped-edged shirts, pintucked dresses, pocketed cardigans — those tender emblems of naïveté — are executed with control more than flourish, sharpened by slim belts to cinch, jackets to square the shoulders, sandals to ground the line. Cropped and shrunken tops, sweaters, and jackets stacked neatly above A-line skirts and capacious trousers are pyramids translated into proportion. Neutrals find their depth not in color, but in surface: suede pressed against bonded leather, crochet tracing apertures in cotton, gingham teased into sheers, drapes, and flares. In the sensuality of cashmeres, satins, leathers, and suedes, structure becomes freedom.
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Color, no less than line, submits to this framework. The saturated greens, reds, and oranges of coastal poppies are disciplined against a palette of deep umber browns, chamomile and ecru, foggy grays, and pale tide blues. Sun-washed and enduring, the shades drift like sea and sky across a long afternoon, forming a geometry of release, a utopia one can walk into.
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Photography: Melanie Lyon + Ramon Escobosa
Model: Franziska Jetzek