Chanel Fall Winter 2008 Collection
February 29, 2008
February 29th 2008 – Grand Palais – The message was clear, Chanel sells also clothes not only accessories and wants the clothes to be seen. Let’s leave the Chanel Symbols accessories to the Carousel while we appreciate the clothes. The carousel fitted out with giant quilted bags, camellias, pearls, boaters, and bows in the center of the runway. The attention was also on Kanye West and girlfriend Alexis, Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, Rihanna and Claudia Schiffer.
The collection was a succession of very wearable looks, tweed suit, mousseline dresses, high-necked blouses to spidery knits, peplum jackets, finally we’re going to spend on something we are going to wear.
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Karl Lagerfeld Fall Winter 2008 Collection
February 27, 2008
Espace Ephemere Eiffel February 27th 2008 - Karl Lagerfeld for its Fall Winter 2008/09 collection presents a girl that could have been Miss Lagerfeld. A dark collection from navy blue to dark grey with a zest of tom-boy mascunality but with a sexy feminity “you don’t see it but it’s there” according to hair dresser Odile Gilbert. The collection was a succession of suit with bow tie, dark wearable pieces like a belted vest dress that hit mid-calf; a narrow, fitted sheath with raised leather ribbing; and a jacket with a rounded eighties-ish shoulder and a built-in corset. We loved the ur boleros embroidered with sequins worn by Raquel Zimmerman.The front row was filled up with Leigh Lezark with Geordon Nicol, Carine Roitfeld with Patrick Demarchelier, Purple’s Olivier Zahm.
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Christian Lacroix Fall Winter 2008/09 Backstage
February 27, 2008
February 27th 2008 – Espace Ephemere des Tuileries – Backstage at Christian Lacroix Fall 2008/09
Dior RTW Fall Winter 2008 Jackie O Is Back
February 25, 2008
February 25th 2008 – Espace Effemere des Tuileries. The tent is crowded, inside the set is beautiful, a blue cascade kidnap the atention with the Dior logo on the background. The show started with Mrs Robinson as a soundtrack. The models looked like dolls coming from another era. Big hair, big eyes. The cltohes were very Jackie O, John Galliano called the “optimism and opulence” of the sixties, amped up with bright color, lashings of paillette embroidery, and Western hats.
This collection was a very wearable collection, we can suppose that the Dior clientele has probably requested some more wearable outfit and with this very first lady collection this goal is achieve with boxy jacket and Jackie O dresses.
Backstage the makeup took a long time to create since the girl had a real work done on their eyes, the hair also involved a lot of work.
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Marc Jacobs Fall Winter 2008 Show Started On Time With Popcorn!
February 8, 2008
We’ve been warned not to come late since Jacobs planed to start on time! We arrived around 6:45 pm and were quite surprised to be welcomed with Popcorn! The show was a bit austere, we loved the feather hat and the ostrich bags were beautiful. when asked about his inspirations, Jacobs replied, “I really wasn’t very inspired this season. I just live my life.” OK. When pressed, he offered a few more words: “Calm. Glamour. Casual. Beautiful women.” A very 80’s collection with Sonic Youth live in the background.
Vera Wang Fall Winter 2008 Collection
February 7, 2008
The show took place at Bryant Park in the Tent, two giant mirrors surrended the room. The collection was a succession of very elegant looks inspired by the modernist painter Kees van Dongen. The Vera Wang Fall Winter 2008 Collection represents a measured study in color, texture, silhouette and proportions. From the artist color palette, which ranges from all manner charcoal-blacks, to melanges of shades that frequently border on “neon”, his paintings celebrate his love of fashion, his love for women, and his passion for “la vie mondaine”. We particularly loved the Antique crystal jewelry mixed with the first look that Freja is wearing: a Mink faille raccoon collar crop bed jacket over a double face silk pant. The yellow japanese techno tapestry jacket was amazing, the hunter green washed silk chiffon t-shirt gown with its smoky antique crystal bracelet was also one of our favorite. Vera Wang went to a very smart direction in mixing jewelry to her ready to wear collection, which better way to present her new jewelry line?
Michael Kors Fall Winter 2008 Retro Chic
February 6, 2008
The models were the stars, Amy Winehouse the inspiration. We would like to see Amy Winehouse in these clothes! The collection was beautiful with trully luxurious cashmere sweater, sheaths in a lilac and olive floral, balmacaans, and camel suits with a new longer, narrow skirt. The male models looked like Clark Kent and the female had a Jackie O Grace Kelly’s elegance touch.
Anna Sui brings back the late 70’s for Fall Winter 2008
February 6, 2008
We arrived pretty late for the Anna Sui Fall Winter 2008. The front row was filled up with Russell Simmons, Ally Hilfiger, Riley Keough (Elvis Presley granddaugther), Vincent Gallo. The show started with Agyness Deyn wearing an ultramarine mixed print layered blouse showing an allure clearly late seventies. The show go on with a multi colorblock crochet long cardigan, black washed velvet with with braid trim jacket. Coco Rocha comes up with a heliotrope ombre peacock feather with tie dyed vines burnout dress. According to Anna Sui her show has plenty of inspirations, native americans, the aesthetic movement, the pre-Raphaelites, medievalism. We gonna love these blouse for Fall Winter 2008! Don’t forget the feather in your hair!
Narciso Rodriguez Fall Winter 2008
February 5, 2008
How can a ample dress or a ample jacket can make you sexy? Ask Narciso Rodriguez as his collection was a succession of very sexy minimailste pure looks. There was a softness to the collection, too. Witness a tweed day dress that was actually thick yarn woven through a base of chiffon, and for after dark, a peekaboo dress with a skirt of singed peacock feathers, or a safety-orange number with an elaborately pintucked bodice. Shots of paprika, celadon, and citrine also helped heat things up. Decoration, as always at this house, was minimal. Just elegant.
Fashionistas Super Bowled Over
February 5, 2008
Alexander Wang After Party in the Annex
Anyone in fashion who cares at all about football knows there’s only one after party where you can both hobnob and watch the Super Bowl: Diane von Furstenberg’s. This February, the designer brought a massive television screen to her downtown studio so her 200 or so guests could get a piece of the action. Of course, not everyone was a die-hard football fan.
“I only care about the Super Bowl because New York is in it,” said Ellen Barkin, who huddled in the corner with Susan Sarandon for a chitchat and a couple of smokes. Plus, Barkin added, football guys are not really her type. “I prefer a swimmer’s body.”
“Yeah,” laughed Sarandon. “I think if they look better wearing a helmet than not, then they’re made to play football.”
As David Tyree made the acrobatic catch that led to the Giants’ last minute touchdown, the crowd at salon DvF — including Amy Smart, Anh Duong and Peggy Siegal — roared.
“We’re gonna win,” shouted the hostess. Then when the Patriots missed the final pass with just one second remaining in the game, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” came booming from the speakers.
Meanwhile, Miss Sixty hosted a comparatively mellow post-show dinner at Socialista. There, two members of the brand’s front-row lineup — Anne Hathaway (with boyfriend Rafaello Follieri) and Milla Jovovich — stopped by to congratulate designer Wichy Hassan. (Fellow front rowers Chloë Sevigny and Ashley Olsen presumably partied elsewhere.) “I want to be one of the models in the show,” Hathaway told Hassan, before adding, “I’d have to do some exercises first.”
The night before, models Noot Sear, Julia Stegner and Shannan Click, Genevieve Jones, Alexandra Richards and Jennifer Missoni danced up a storm at the designer Alexander Wang’s after party at The Annex. “I come here all of the time. I wanted to do it somewhere where everyone could just have a good time,” explained Wang of his LES party location.
Host Erin Wasson (who styled Wang’s looks for the second season in a row) certainly took the notion to heart, pairing baggy sweatpants with a vintage corset, all the better to get down in. Why wasn’t she sporting Wang? “We proved our point already,” she remarked.
