PARIS — Adam Andrascik, who is slated to stage his first runway show for Guy Laroche on Wednesday, said his main goal as the house’s new creative director will be to bridge the gap between two worlds, which at least at first glance have little in common: Laroche’s color- and body-conscious aesthetic with plunging necks and open backs on one side, and Andrascik’s darker, more masculine and overtly modern approach on the other. But having turned the archives upside down and spent hours in the library looking for some intelligence on Laroche, a very low-key figure as he discovered, the designer said the two actually have more in common than people originally suspected. “Something I found interesting is that he was one of the first Parisian designers to embrace the idea of separates. The American audience loved him for that. And I feel very comfortable in that kind of zone. He was so smart and good at understanding what his clients wanted and giving it to them,” Andrascik noted, adding that although his own approach is more conceptual, he would continue where Laroche left off in 1989, the year when he won the Golden Thimble with a collection he described as having
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