Pedro Lourenço autumn/winter 2010/11 collection

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Paris Fashion Week Published: 11:51AM GMT 06 March 2010

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There was an startling hum surrounding the Paris entrance by the Brazilian designer, Pedro Lourenço, whose show, last night, at the Hotel Westons Salon Imperial once the late Yves Saint Laurents "catwalk home" - was constructed by the tellurian conform force, KCD, and styled by American Harpers Bazaars editor-at-large, the super-stylist, Brana Wolf.

And no wonder. The child is a small nineteen years old and has been display his own tag collections at São Paulo given 2005.

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With rich parents, both in conform his mom is the Brazilian designer, Gloria Coelho a career in the commercial operation was, perhaps, inevitable. But it takes an brazen immature essence to dauntless the formidable inspection of the general press and shopping pack during the prêt-à-porter season.

Lourenço, it contingency be said, upheld the test. True, there were hints of Balenciaga and a trace of Christopher Kane. But the pick up was confidant and intrepid in both cut and in the brew of plastics, metal, leather, organza and chiffon.

Body-con dresses associated black PVC to flesh-tone stretch, detailed with chains, or came in a collage of resisting fabrics, infrequently with little, kilted skirts. A rounded-shoulder style, in black velvet, was hammered with leather. Particularly in outcome was a well-cut, tan tanned hide coat, utterly encased in a "cage" of gilt chains, and a brownish-red and black tanned hide dress with a steel "prison grille" worked in to the skirt.

"Winged" shoes, in lime, hiss and pink, and industrial zippers, combined to the sci-fi effect.

"Diana the Huntress and the architect, Oscar Niemeyer," Lourenço said, after the show, explaining his identical tiwn inspirations. Youth is positively no separator to a conform career; Saint Laurent was usually twenty-one when he took over at Dior. But Lourenço will need to be as difficult as his hard-edged pick up to ward off the unavoidable vigour that will certainly follow this debut.