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Kenzo says layering is in at Paris Fashion Week

Kenzo says layering is in at Paris Fashion Week
A model wears a creation for Kenzo's ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2015/2016 fashion collection presented at the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, Sunday, March 8, 2015. AP Photo/Zacharie Scheurer

PARIS – This season’s mantra is: pile it all on. We’ve seen it notably at Lanvin, Dries Van Noten — and now, here, at Kenzo’s draped, voluminous and colorful fashion spectacle.

It takes a lot to drag fashionistas out early on a Sunday morning to a venue on the outskirts of the city.

But Kenzo rewarded those who did — feeding them tasty cookies and coffee — and treating them to an incredibly energetic presentation, in which gargantuan rectangular mirrored walls moved behind models in the warehouse venue.

A model walks the runway during the Kenzo show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016 at Paris Event Center on March 8, 2015 in Paris, France. Richard Bord/Getty Images

The collection too continued this energy in its vivid splashes of kinetic graphic lines and flashes of contrasting, colored prints.

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But fall-winter was all about the layering.

A model walks the runway during the Kenzo show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016 at Paris Event Center on March 8, 2015 in Paris, France. Richard Bord/Getty Images

Geometric lines featured on bulging and layered A-line column dresses, topped off with funky asymmetrical poncho-hoods.

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One billowing printed look, an oversize shirt with a top and layered skirt, featured a play on jarring prints — the skirt looking Eastern, the leopard print top, Western.

A model walks the runway at the Kenzo Autumn Winter 2015 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on March 8, 2015 in Paris, France. Catwalking/Getty Images

Kenzo is all about the cultural fusion.

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The dark looks featured a nice play of camouflage print on a poncho and assorted jungle pants: if you looked closely you realized the pattern was of flowers.

It was tongue in cheek, and is bound to be a hit.

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