Referencing Brancusi, Michelangelo and Rodin, Stéphane Rolland went for gravity-defying swathes of fabric that cut through the air for his summer 2017 couture. As sculptures slicing the air, they were superb and well-matched to Xinhua gallery where they were presented. As garments, it would take a strong woman indeed to wear any of these, lest her movements are arrested by the powerful dance of cloth and abstraction.
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