Givenchy haute-couture collection for spring-summer 2008, Paris.

The Givenchy haute-couture fashion show for spring and summer 2008 began with Mariacarla Boscono, good friend of the designer and mascot of the Givenchy House of Fashion. She wears a black outfit with just a small line of white at the seam of her skirt that gives the impression of floating.

Ricardo Tisci is more and more confident and his designs are explorations of forms and attitudes, like a game of volumes and shapes. A lot of black, white and a powerful shade of bright red. His models seem to impersonate gothic ballerinas.

Slim pants, jackets, leather, strong colors and just a few transparences, this is the new strange and fascinating world of Givenchy in the vision of Ricardo Tisci.