Mosaert to Launch Repetto Collaboration

PARIS — Paul Van Haver – aka Stromae – the Belgian singer-songwriter who rose to fame with his 2009 single “Alors On Danse” (or “So We Dance”), is extending his playful, gender-fluid fashion sense to a collaboration with Repetto under his Mosaert clothing brand. Built on print-heavy, made-in-Europe unisex capsules hooked on polo shirts and socks, the clothing label – cofounded with his stylist wife Coralie Barbier – launched around the time of the artist’s “Racine Carreé” (or “Square Root”) album in 2013, and for the first two seasons was built on Van Haver’s own pop-dandy spirit tumbling together African and English country-gentleman influences. Its moniker is an anagram remix of the word maestro, on which the singer’s stage name was also based. But at a preview of the unisex Repetto shoes (two styles in total: a printed lambskin slipper and a printed goatskin slipper embroidered with flowers), the slender framed, soft-spoken Van Haver, who was born to a Dutch mother and Rwandan father, and raised in Brussels, said they are keen for the brand to have its own identity away from his stage persona. The latest dance-inspired capsule comes splashed with exotic vegetation and ballet-shoed flamingos. Retailing at around $365 and $420, respectively, the

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