What Courrèges is known for
The space-age house of 1961 reignited — vinyl minis, the AC bag and Nicolas Di Felice’s club-ready precision.
André Courrèges came from engineering and Balenciaga's atelier, and in 1961 opened the house that dressed the space age before the space age happened. The 1964 "Moon Girl" collection is a hinge in fashion history: white and silver vinyl, flat go-go boots, goggles, and a credible claim — contested only by Mary Quant — to the miniskirt itself. Couture's old guard was scandalized; the future simply agreed with him.
The codes were geometric and total: A-line minis, cut-out dresses, the AC logo, trousers for evening when evening didn't allow them. After decades of quiet, the house found its second life under Nicolas Di Felice, who took the studio in 2020 — a Belgian trained at Vuitton and Dior who reads the archive through nightlife: vinyl re-cut for the club, hoods and spirals, the re-issued AC bag suddenly on every Paris shoulder.
Sixty years on, the proposition is unchanged and newly current: minimal futurism, cut hard, worn young.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Vinyl minis and the AC bag.
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