Zadig & Voltaire Fall Winter 2015: MIDNIGHT VAGABOND

She is young, free, rock ‘n’ roll and ... Parisian. Madly so. With an air of Bob Dylan’s je ne sais quoi, she leaves an underground concert somewhere along rue Saint Benoît.

Wrapped up in an oversized cashmere cardigan, her "new coat" hiding a studded leather miniskirt paired with a finely knit sweater and metallic python leather Mod boots, the evening ends.

Just as she arrives home, she decides to go on a new nocturnal adventure. Ever the night owl, she doesn’t fail to honour her counterculture soul, it’s there - under cropped leather pants, beneath a double-sided knit top and warmed by a fur jacket, multi-coloured as if stained with paint. Along with a quilted felt hat, adorned with feathers and chic frayed edges, she grabs her "Genesis" bag, reminiscent of a guitar’s shoulder strap, and melts into the city night.

This style, both neglected and sought after, this effortless stride, this combination of armour and mesh, it's her, only her. The Zadig & Voltaire woman, the Parisian beloved by Cecilia Bönström, with a rock star attitude and sprinkled with a touch of elegance, who likes nothing better than to break the basic laws of chic.

In the Autumn-Winter 15/16 collection, we discover cropped overalls and leather dresses, Zadig & Voltaire’s best and most distinct suits, fitted tops with ultra-long sleeves, curved hemlines, short sweaters that show off the shirt underneath, warm hoodies and boyfriend jackets paired with wool jersey baby doll dresses. A silhouette which mixes the short and long without constraint, a strong and sexy look only made possible with the best materials (cashmere, leather, knits of rabbit, raccoon, fox, flecked alpaca, python skin...) all combined in a most exciting manner. The bestselling "Skinny Love" bag is reintroduced in a new version of coloured python leather with a studded shoulder strap.

A rebel in both heart and soul, full of the energy coming out of a concert’s riffs and amps, she runs along the Zadig streets by day, and, especially, by night. She is the smartest, the most rock ‘n’ roll, the most Parisian of the Midnight Vagabonds, without a doubt.