eventually adding that the character he had in mind was also “urban and sophisticated”. She came out on a backdrop of tapestry boards and wore cropped quilted hunting jackets and pleated boarding school print skirts. Her hair was fashioned in a purposely awkward Seventies monk style, she listened to Kim Wilde’s Cambodia on the soundtrack, and had on a dress patterned in roosters. Surely there was more to say about this peculiar woman than just so? “This is the new shape of women,” Ruffieux declared, and not much else. Perhaps he wanted to retain a certain mystique around this girl in the mad, multi-coloured leather straw shoes and feathers sporadically scattered on trousers, or maybe he thought the collection would speak for itself.
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