Cacharel gets new design duo

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — Away from the hullabaloo of the catwalk presentations of autumn-winter ready-to-wear fashion, an Anglo-Japanese couple are in Paris this week to promote their debut collection for the vintage French label Cacharel.

Cacharel's pretty fitted blouses and shirts in Liberty prints and skimpy shetland jumpers were widely copied in the 1960s and 70s, but have since fallen off the fashion map.

The British duo Clements Ribeiro spearheaded a revival and now London and Toyko-based Mark Eley and Wakoko Kishimoto have taken on the mantle, at a time when 1970s nostalgia looks set to make a big comeback.

Their appointment was all down to a loyal customer of their own label Eley Kishimoto, the French artist Sophie Calle, who also happens to be a friend of...