Chanel Returns To The Grand Palais For Couture, At Sunset
June 5, 2009
Karl Lagerfeld insisted to start the beautiful Chanel Cruise 2010 Paris Venice Collection at sunset. It appears that he may have enjoyed it since the Chanel Fall Winter 09 Haute Couture Collection will also start at sunset but this time at the Grand Palais. The designer said couture “has to be like a celebration”. The Chanel Spring Summer 08 Haute Couture Collection was held at the Pavillon Cambon-Capucines in the rue Cambon. The Chanel show is scheduled for July 7 at 9 p.m.
Lanvin Brings Paris To NYC Albert Elbaz Included
April 6, 2009
Thursday April 2nd – 60th Street and Fifth Avenue
On Thursday night, Bergdorf & Goodman hosted a special event with Lanvin’s Albert Elbaz.
“I have many loyal customer in the US, some couldn’t come to the show in Paris, I brought them the show!” said Elbaz about the event.
The show was held on 60th Street and Fifth Avenue held in a majestic room with soaring frescoed ceilings and ballroom chairs, just like if it was in a parisian salon.
“The idea was to have all of you in this beautiful room that is a little bit of Paris. But you open the window and the door and it’s New York. And it’s the best location because Bergdorf Goodman is just behind us” With the intention of re-creating “the magic of a fashion show but in a more intimate way” Elbaz plucked 38 runway looks, some styled with commercial pieces, as well as the rose-covered door frame from his Paris show.
Smart move from Lanvin, bring the show to the costumer isn’t it the best way to promote the new collection. Albert Elbaz travelled especially for the event.
“It’s great that the press is here but the event is for my clients, I want them to see, to feel, to touch the clothes.” said Elbaz.
One client confessed: “I wasn’t impressed with the collection from the images I saw, now that I see it in real it’s a whole different thing, I loved it and want everything”.
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Barbara Bui Fall Winter 2009 Collection
March 10, 2009
March 10, 2009
Barbara Bui worked a hardcore rock ’n’ roll vibe for fall — a little Jim Morrison, a lot of Los Angeles new age glam — with everything from metallic python pants and leather jackets that had zippered breakaway hems to studded cowboy boots and bags galore. With an underground biker vibe, sans the pretentiousness associated with the genre, the overall effect was thrilling and palatable.
Jeremy Scott Fall Winter 2009 Collection
March 10, 2009
March 10, 2009
Always a Paris favourite for its light-hearted approach to fashion, Jeremy Scott’s irreverent collection was inspired by a famous Disney rodent. A white coat crafted from Mickey Mouse gloves and a poufy printed bustier dress were stand-out highlights. When the attention wasn’t solely on the collection’s pieces, they were on the front row, which saw the likes of Peaches Geldof and Cory Kennedy eyeing pieces they would love to take home that day.
Louis Vuitton RTW Spring Summer 2009
October 5, 2008
October 5th 2008 – Cour Carree du Louvre
For its show, Louis Vuitton transforms the tranquil open court space into a two-three floor paneled structure stretching out nearly 400 yards in every direction. Rushing through cobblestone steps filled with photogs and onlookers, we quickly flashed our invitations to the PR folks at the door. Up through the dark steps and around the bleechers we went, looking for our row seating.
As opposed to the year before’s show, there were fewer celebs sitting front row. Aside from a the famous series of journalists magazine editors, we could neigh find a Lenny Kravitz or a Dita Von Teese sitting adjacent to Julia Restoin Roitfeld. Alas, we tucked our invite away and chatted up with the ladies from Vogue everywhere – Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Latin America, etc. It was like a U.N. Council meeting except with a lot more sass.
The décor was strewn with bamboo and grain, the runway being lifted to shoulder level for the front-rowers (a classic Parisian setup as opposed to the on-the-floor American runway). Overhead, we could hear Edith Piaf‘s classic melodies sweetening the air, bringing a smile to everyone’s faces. This was going to be about Paris, but the African backdrop clued us that this would not be any standard fare.
The lights dimmed and in flash the girls came out, in gorgeous silhouettes that looked as if Marc had taken every spice of texture and fabric and married it to couture for the street. Paris meets Africa meets Street Chic meets Marc Jacobs’s personal S/S ’09 collection. And while we could see pieces of MJ’s NY showing, the harmonizing of big hair, leopard print bags, tassled hobos, jungle-inspired pumps with brilliant short skirts caught the audience off guard – but in a good way.
No sooner had the show started than we started to get up to head backstage. Many folks forked either into the backstage area or ran to Lanvin’s showing. We had had enough for this Paris Fashion Week and trotted past the well-placed bamboo sticks to follow Marc into the Q&A photogs area. With a glass of champagne in one hand and a truffle-paté bouché in another, we listened carefully as a cool, collected, slick back hair-in-suit MJ describe in a clear, but detracted manner the inspiration for this collection, à la Yves St. Laurent’s Opium pieces. With interviewers declaring that this was his best collection ever, all you could see is MJ’s adorable grin, as if he heard a joke that only he knew. Every collection is the “best” he must think. But you could see that it’s not being the best that interests him – it’s the challenge of the “next” that gets him up in the morning.
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DVF RTW Fall 2008: From Berlin, to Shanghai, to New York, with Love
February 3, 2008
Diane von Furstenberg may be famous for her effortless dresses, but there’s more to her repertoire than fab frocks. And she proved it with the stylish fall collection she showed on Sunday, which centered on a vagabond heroine in polished, Marlene Dietrich-influenced looks. Here, a combination of the sporty and the feminine: a twinset belted over soft layers of chiffon.
Feminine with a hint of retro — that’s what triumphed on the fall runways, with smart blazers, full skirts and some drop-dead dresses.
Diane von Furstenberg: “She always knew she would find her way through the raindrops.” So Diane von Furstenberg mused in her program notes of this season’s heroine, a mysterious sort whose travels take her from Berlin to New York by way of Shanghai with a Forties attitude and plenty of style.
Of course, the real heroine of any von Furstenberg saga is DVF herself, whose innate survival instinct has always informed her when it’s time to adjust course. Having carved out a well-known place for herself as the go-to goddess of modern, sexy dresses, von Furstenberg typically celebrates that angle on her runway, as was the case with last season’s oh-so-tropical romp. Yet life, as they say, is not always a beach, and so, for fall, she made it very clear that she’s got those more serious moments covered, too.
Courtesy: WWD
Alexander Wang Ready-to-Wear Fall 2008
February 2, 2008
Alexander Wang’s got the hype, the retail presence and even his own celebrity stylist, model Erin Wasson. But the young designer has to show he’s more than just a flash in the pan. Enter a high-energy fall collection that was certainly a step in the right direction. Wang has a consistent vision and a strong sense of his customer, who’s a little bit gritty and molto street chic. She can pull off his trompe l’oeil silk cargo pants — made to look like trousers worn low over boxers à la K-Fed — and wear his roomy blazers, ripped denim and off-kilter tanks with a just-got-out-of-bed confidence. And she’ll toss the pretty “It” tote aside for his leather clutch, inspired by a men’s toiletry bag. But Wang has to fine-tune that message, because his dressed-down vibe hewed too closely to those of others, like Marc Jacobs’ neo-grunge affair of ’06.
