Giambattista Valli Fall Winter 2010 Collection

Monday March 8, 2010 – 7 Place Vendome – Paris 1er

Giambattista Valli’s client-list looks like a Who’ Who directory of the jet-set and royalty. Remaining faithful to that lifestyle, Valli flirted with 60’s inspirations for his Fall 2011 collection. Motivated by the theme of love (as was clearly stated on the backstage inspiration board), Valli designed pieces infatuated with the feminine silhouette. Showing a variety of looks, including day wear, the Giambattista girl could be seen in Aspen peaks in a long quilted coat or be snug in a beige caped topcoat as she takes an autumn afternoon stroll though Central Park.  Some Jackie O dresses looked Oval Office ready for a certain Mrs. Michelle Obama. There were also some unexpected transparencies and details that popped up here and there, like with a couple of dresses that revealed model’s panties or cocktail dresses that bordered on being Haute Couture. In the latter, the finishes were delicate, precise, and handcrafted with sequins, pearls and embroideries. The final gowns included a complete see-through dress topped with ruffles, while a dramatic black mermaid dress closed the show.

When a journalist backstage asked Valli about the production process for certain elaborate dresses, a GV spokeswoman said some of the looks were almost couture and will be made-to-order. “There is a modern classic balance in Giambattista’s clothes, they’re timeless” pointed out Anna Della Russo to another reporter.

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Damir Doma Fall Winter 2010 Collection

Wednesday March 3, 2010 – Lycee Henri IV

After presenting his Fall 2010 men’s collection in january, Damir Doma unveiled his first women’s collection during Paris Fashion Week. We saw some folded jackets, long voluminous wool coats, cashmere in the shade of greys. The colour palette merges from dirty green, chocolate, midnight blue and black reflecting Doma’s vision. The designer offers a new perspective on womenswear with new shapes and volume with a shearling hooded coat. Not all the looks were androgyn, Damir surprised with a see through combi-short and a revealing jumpsuit. The Damir Doma woman is coming from another era with a sensitivity and strong modern character at the same time. His signature silhouettes are omnipresent while flowing jersey, washed silks and the softest cashmeres express the collection puristic approach.

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Damir Doma Fall Winter 2010 Final Fashion Show Video

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Valentino Fall Winter 2010 Collection

Tuesday March 9th, 2010- Halle Freyssinet

Digital romanticism. Noir innocence. A refined women, who is also unpredictable, elusive, evasive, overflowing with mystery. Candid and dark. Providing inspiration for Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli’s creative works for Valentino. A natural instinct of creatingm selecting, mixing and layering all different elements is emphasized and highlighted throughout the pret-a-porter Autumn Winter 2010 – 2011 collection.

Reconsideration and reinvention of elegance, altered into a contemporary mode. This newfound quality is now regained and reconquered to exist in the Valentino woman’s wardrobe.

Fovoring unexpected liaisons between natural and technological weaving, ultra light and structured material, padded, doubled and treated fabric. Ensemble of researched pieces including shirts, knits, over the knee skirts and pants are never deprived of desinged lengths, constructions and proportions that harmoniously coexist. Coats, overcoats and jackets are made with straight or slightly flared cuts. Combinations of fluid and supported structures are plastic and freestanding, made of silk crepe, goretex, organza or chiffon.

Ballerinas and stilletos are embellished and made aggressive by exasperated tips and unusual stud applications borrowed from luggage details. Structured and rigid bags persistently echo exclusive designs and finishing.

Everything perfectly joining together with imaginary scenes and the rhythmic direction of American film director Kenneth Anger, who was involved with Chiuri and Piccioli in the conception of the Fall Winter 2010 Valentino show atmosphere.

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Cerruti Fall Winter 2010 Collection

Wednesday March 10, 2010 – Halle Freyssinet

Cerruti new artistic director Richard Nicoll, presented his vision of the new Cerruti woman. The lines are simple, almost androgyne. Colorwise we see cranberry shades, petrol, an orange and blue print, a pink powder latex dress toward the end and even mohair.  The PDG of the brand Florent Perrichon, seems to be confident on where the brand is going, describing Richard Nicoll of being the men of the situation.

Cerruti Fall Winter 2010 Final Fashion Show Video

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Junko Shimada Fall Winter 2010 Collection

Tuesday March 9th, 2010 – Hotel Westin – Salon Imperial

Junko Shimada with “Une belle Fille” tells us another story, inpired by actress Virna Lisi. We’re at the Hotel Westin in the Salon Imperial, lights are on the floor, music that sounds like a 70′s french movie in the background. Lambskin Leather turban, Fuschia, indian pink and vermillon rouge give the tone with optical illusion motifs taking inspiration from 1971. Supple materials, mohair, shearling. silk crepe, chiffon and organza with plunged lambskin sharpens the silhouette. This “Belle fille” wears bat-wing sweater dresses, frilled ample blouses with a sassy allure accentueated by afro-beatnik necklaces and belts in cords and plastic. Every look featured excessive diagonally striped platforms.

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Louis Vuitton Fall Winter 2010 Collection

Wednesday March 10th, 2010 – Cour Carree du Louvre

For Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2010 collection, Marc Jacobs decided to take 2 steps back to leap 10 forward, both figuratively and literally. Starting with the tent, Louis Vuitton decided to move it over a couple of feet, just enough so that the often shunned water fountain of the Cour Carré du Louvre was now the runway centerpiece. Opening to the
bold statement “and God created a Woman”, the models walked around the fountain, counter clockwise, taking us back into time to the 60’s “Brigitte Bardot symbolizes the femininity, the sensuality… I just wanted to show beautiful women of all ages” said Jacobs backstage. Laetitia Casta, (who’s been compared to Bardot many times) opened the show, followed by Coco Rocha, Karolina Kurkova, Catherine McNeil, Israeli model Bar Rafaeli, Adriana Lima and (most unexpectedly) Elle Macpherson.  Nearly every look featured a corset either in wool, leather, shetland or pinstripe to accent the curves, sans accessories save for a few gloves, allowing for unfettered femininity to be the central focus. While we saw a tweed jacket, sequined cable-knit sweater, and a boiled wool pea jacket, the real star of the show was the iconic Louis Vuitton bag: the Speedy.

The Speedy has been reinterpreted for the Autumn-Winter 2010-2011. A new flap has been added and top handle. Reincarnated as a doctor’s bag, the monogram has been flocked and sequined, woven in metallic thread, remade in cloque, and in guipure lace over Duchess satin. The Damier patern has been recreated in fox, shaved goat and handpainted crocodile. And in its simplest form, the Speedy has been rendered in waxed calf and reconfigured as a doctor’s bag in grainy, supple calfskin.

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Louis Vuitton Fall Winter 2010 Fashion Show Final Video

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Erin Wasson x RVCA to show Spring 2010 Collection at Bryant Park

Erin Wasson x RVCA have announced that the brand will show its Spring Summer 2010 Fashion Show at Bryant Park in the tent.The show will take place Friday, September 11th2009 at 8pm, and marks the debut of Erin Wasson x RVCA on the runway.

For the last two seasons Erin Wasson x RVCA showed at Milk Studio. We attended the Fall Winter 2009 Presentation and we loved it.

While lot of designers will now show at Milk due to economical times shows that Erin Wasson x RVCA has a good future and support.
Erin Wasson feels “Humbled and honored”, about being asked to show the new Erin Wasson x RVCA collection at the legendary Bryant Park Tents.

“I’ve spent hours at those Tents as a model, working with some of the icons of American fashion,” she notes. “And meanwhile, I’ve only been doing this design thing for a few seasons, Spring ’10 is season three and it’s kind of insane to think that I’m getting to show on that same stage. I am incredibly grateful to IMG, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and Maybelline New York for giving me the opportunity.”

Erin Wasson plan to present the Spring Summer 20010 collection in a non-conventional way.  A multi-media installation is in the works and Wasson has personally engaged a special musical guest to play live on the catwalk, details are under wraps until closer to the show. We can’t wait!

“It’s really a thrill, to be able to take a venue everyone in the fashion industry knows so well, and bring in new personalities and a new vibe that spin the experience in a different direction,” says Wasson. “I mean, it’s almost too predictable to do something ‘cool’ in, like, an abandoned warehouse. Cool can happen anywhere. It’s a state of mind. That’s the essence of the Erin Wasson x RVCA brand, and there’s no reason not to follow that logic onto the runway.”

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Fashion News 03/03/09 Balmain Thrives & More

Balmain’s $1,500 jeans have sold out in London, which is pretty much the story with the brand this season…

Roksanda Ilincic is poised to launch a capsule collection with lingerie brand Damaris later this month.

Etro’s Fall 2009 collection was made up of recycled fabrics from the house’s archives.

Jourdan Dunn is London Fashion Week’s top model, having walked in a total of 14 shows.

Hervé Léger By Max Azria Fall Winter 2009 Collection

Sunday February 15, 2009 – The Promenade – Bryant Park

Bandage, this is all what Hervé Léger is about. What’s amazing about Max Azria is that every season since the fall 2008  we get to re-discover what the bandage dress is. For the Fall 2009 the Hervé Léger woman has switched out the fresh citrus Spring Summer 2009 dresses & bandage bathing suit for a Tribal, Urban & Warrior amazone look. The bandage is mixed with snakes, stones, patch working texture of velvet,boucle. Lubov Azria was saying backstage that the challenge is not to change the spirit of the Hervé Léger brand but to take it to another level respecting the foundations, which is the concept of bandage, “the goal this season was to create a modern carapace for the female form, exotic prints, metallic beading and woven techniques intensify the collection primal sensuality“.

The Hervé Léger bandage dress appear to take part of every young actresses’s DNA  as they always wear Hervé Léger on the red carpet. Hervé Léger by Max Azria is not only loved on the red carpet as Sophia Bush, Joy Bryant , Michelle Trachtenberg, Danielle Panabaker, Lucy Liu, lily collins, Jessica Stroup and January Jones were part of the front row to celebrate their beloved designer.

During Fashion Week, there is always a fashion moment beside the show: Bill Cunningham in action snapping a picture of one of the woman’s shoes next to Julia Allison.

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Hermes Spring Summer RTW 2009

October 4th 2008 – Espace Eiffel – Quai Branly

The Hermès RTW Spring Summer 2009 show took place at the Espace Eiffel tent on Le Quai Branly, at the foot of the tourist trap Eiffel Tower. Nestled right in front of the creperie in the front, the Espace Eiffel stood out like a sore thumb amongst the throngs of tourists snapping pics of both the tower and the fashion mayhem ensuing out front.

StyleRumor.com and Co. barely had any time to make it back to our hotel room before we flew out the door and into the first Mercedes Benz cab we could find. Around the rotary at Trocadéro we went, racing down to Kennedy Blvd and over the Pont Iéna to make it just in time. Outside, the crowds were in a tussle after Ms. Jane Birkin made an appearance, in relaxed Levi denim jeans and a simple cashmere sweater no less. She smiled gleefully as onlookers pelted her with the flashes of their Nikon D40′s and Canon Point-and-Shoots. Even the Parisian locals took out their cellphone’s to snap a pic of Jane, if anything to document the madness at the scene.

After a generous and slow walk into the tents, Jane ducked behind the doors and to her seat. As we flashed our Hermès red leather square swatch invitation to the guard, an Hermès PR girl with a headmic rushed over to us and pointed us to quickly take our seats. Unlike some other showings during the day, Jean Paul Gautier was going to do his best to start on time.

No sooner did we walk in did we notice how packed the tent was. Like a scene out of Marc Jacobs’ infamous 2,000+ bleacher Armory showing, the crowd inside was energized and raucous as ever. Many were drawn to walk on the catwalk, which interestingly enough was like something out of a Hollywood set: sand and cactuses lined the catwalk, transporting one to the back roads of New Mexico’s Route 66.

Soon the lights dimmed and chatter screeched to halt as the scene drew focus to top model Stephanie Seymour‘s entrance. With a blue sky backdrop and sultry western track playing, her white, V-chest, black belt accented dress danced around her curves like a soft tango. No sooner did she make her powerful entrance than did we see what can only be the true eye-catching star of the show: Miss Naomi Campbell.

It was only a matter of time before all the fringe we’ve seen this season went West. Sure enough, it was down to Jean Paul Gaultier to rustle it up in full buckskin glory, across the cactus-strewn desert sands of the Hermès runway. Naturally, this cowgirl is quite the chicest, classiest example of her kind ever to don a Stetson, and her fringe-swishing posse was led out by none other than Stephanie Seymour and Naomi Campbell.

Only a branded thoroughbred as sure-footed as an Hermès filly could possibly tread this trail with such a sense of fun.  The accessories were all-out amazing: soft suede riding boots, mirrored aviators, driving/riding gloves, slim crocodile envelope clutches, handheld canvas-and-leather suitcases, and even a fringed Kelly (JPG Kelly which will be a Hit bag for the next season).

Gorgeous deep purple or green gowns worn with a pair of Daim boots is the look for this summer. We also love the cashmere ponchos.

The audience was treated to a classic Naomi moment. As she finished her last passage down the catwalk to end the showing, Naomi, upon doing her pose at the media riser line, turns back toward the runway exit, and in one fell swoop throws her Hermès gaucho hat into the crowd. Everyone cheered like as if we were at a baseball game, happy that at least something in Fashion Week is worth writing home to.

Stephanie, Naomi and Jean Paul Gaultier closed out the show with kisses and smiles, with Gautier running up and down the catwalk like a gleeful 10 year old. The lights dim out and everyone heads backstage. As we headed toward JPG, we found ourselves next to Ms. Birkin herself. She was chatting up with the crowd, describing all of the trinkets she’s attached to her well-worn Birkin. As humble as she is, she still was even more generous enough to take a couple of photos with us below.

Jane Birkin always teaches us that kindness and generosity are never out of style.

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