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26 novembro, 2012

Haute-Couture Fall'2012 | Photographed by Kevin Tachman

Chanel show
Recently I discovered Kevin Tachman, a fenomenal photographer inspired by Fashion, Music and Art...
He always approach distinctive models at the exclusive universe of 'backstage', photographing history-in-the-making, like these ones during Couture Fashion Shows, in Paris.

Usually seen at Vogue.com, "Tachman's specialty is capturing essencial moments that express excitement, beauty, and drama. Shot in a naturalistic style, his photos make you feel like you're there, whether it's a Fashion Week, during a live performance, or on the set of a photo shoot."

Here with details and backstage footage he captured speechless moments during Couture Week meanwhile in Paris, attending some of the 'Fashion houses' like Chanel, Giambattista Valli, Buchra Jarrar or Versace...
Giambattista Valli models
Giambattista Valli model /  Giambattista Valli himself with models
Giambattista Valli models
Versace show / Donatella Versace
Shoes by Christian Louboutin for Buchra Jarrar

Photos by Kevin Tachman

05 fevereiro, 2012

Paris Haute-Couture | SS2012 Collections'

Hello Everyone!

Janeiro foi mês de Menswear e Haute Couture, e aqui estou eu para mostrar o que de melhor se fez nas capitais da Europa, em relação a tudo isto!

Paris é a única capital da Alta Costura e a ela lhe pertence um numero muito restrito e limitado de designers, ou 'maisons', que podem mostrar as suas colecções de "Haute-Couture"!

Já em Fevereiro, vamos nos preparando para o 'Fashion Month' [New York, London, Milan, Paris & Lisbon] que está mesmo a começar, e o alvoroço está lançado!

Por enquanto, vamos revendo esta maravilhosa semana de Paris...

Elie Saab, para mim já e o clássico do deslumbramento da Alta Costura. Tem dos trabalhos mais lindos, das linhas mais simples e eficazes de hoje em dia. A elegância, e a credibilidade de uma mulher dentro de algo criado por Elie Saab é muito elevada. Gosto sempre dos seus vestidos, nesta colecção um dos meus preferidos é o da abertura do desfile. Gostei dos tons verde agua e laranja, dos champanhe, amarelo, rosa e azul pálidos... O trabalho bordado é minucioso e divinal. Os tecidos leves e fluidos, sem grandes complicações. Simplesmente bonitos!

Giambattista Valli, ainda recente na história da Alta Costura, mas já a consagrar o nome de uma das mais recentes e promissoras marcas de hoje me dia. Com um desfile bastante simples e eficaz, com os seus símbolos do costume que vieram para ficar, numa colecção variada, viva e inovadora. Gostei bastante na inspiração em hortênsias, nos vestidos finais, com padrões florais lindos, de cores deslumbrantes em cortes bonitos que evidenciam a mulher 'Valli'. As plumas, as rendas e os bordados já são hábitos, mas as transparências, a pele de crocodilo e os volumes, não. Posso dizer que amo o trabalho de Valli, e cada vez mais delicio-me com tudo o que faz!

Tudo começa num convite com uma janela de avião e dois C's. Depois um cenário nada convencional, digamos... o interior de um avião! Depois de termos os passageiros, o que falta? Sim, hospedeiras, 'aeromoças', ou 'stewardesses'! Tudo isto somado e em tons de azul, leva-nos a duas palavras: "Pan Am". (tudo isto segundo a minha lógica, claro!)
Karl Lagerfeld, foi muito provavelmente influenciado, por esta estética. Achei incrível a inspiração e todo o assunto a volta da colecção. Quase tudo em tons de azul e branco, trabalhos incríveis de todos os ateliers liderados pela casa Chanel em plumas, bordados, sapatos... Tudo isto é perfeito e liderado por Lagerfeld, considerado um dos génios da actualidade. O brilho dos vestidos, a extravagancia dos cabelos, a opulência das jóias... tudo isto é calculado, tudo isto é pensado. É por isso, que tudo isto é genial e que tudo isto é Chanel.

Bill Gaytten, depois da saída de Galliano e antes da entrada de outro 'alguém', voltou a ser o responsável por mais uma colecção Dior Haute-Couture. Com uma colecção bem mais adulta e seria que a anterior, voltamos aos primórdios Dior, o "New-look" voltou com transparencias, pele de crocodilo, bordados florais e 'pied-poule'. Gostei muito de vários pormenores, como as fitas no cabelo, o proprio cabelo, os sapatos, a make-up, e alguns colares. Tudo isto deu brilho a colecção, um brilho que já faltava a Dior há algum tempo... Mas voltamos a questão máxima: Quem vai tomar o rumo da 'Maison'?

Inspirador, romântico, leve, bonito e inocente. Acho que estas palavras definem na perfeição todos os looks femininos e puros que Pier Paolo Piccioli e Maria Grazia Chiuri's, trouxeram para a casa Valentino. Quase sempre em tons de branco, com pequenos apontamentos de rosa e azul agua, amei a leveza com que consideraram a Alta Costura... Ao contrario da exuberancia e grandeza que se esperava, mostraram algo leve, "simples" e muito bonito, que faz-nos reconsiderar o que realmente é a Alta Costura. Um dos pormenores que realmente gostei muito, foram os sleepers que calçavam, simples e maravilhosos, em contraste com os fantásticos modelos que vestiam... Amável.
 
Com Givenchy, muito sinceramente e infelizmente, fiquei um pouco desiludido. Talvez a expectativa demasiado elevada, vinda das surpreendentes colecção anteriores, provocá-se uma maior desilusão... O que vocês acharam?  Não achei que houve-se algo realmente novo. Sei que os motivos tribais foram uma nova abordagem, mas as estrelas, os cortes, as correntes e outros elementos eram coisas já vistas e que não me surpreenderam, nesta colecção.  Claro que há peças lindas, looks magníficos e um grande trabalho por de trás de tudo, afinal, isto é Alta Costura! Afinal, tudo isto é Givenhcy!

Amy Winehouse, deixou sem duvida um marco na história, e JPGaultier não lhe ficou indiferente. Prova disso e um desfile de Alta Costura inteiramente dedicado a cantora, juntamente com um toque de salero com noivas decadentes, simpáticas e brincalhonas. As rendas prevalecem, as saia lápis arrasadoras a contrastar com um andar fatal calçado por magnificas sandálias. Gostei da irreverência nos casacos, dos 'bustiers' e dos véus com que todas casaram no final do desfile! E claro que amei a banda sonora...

Versace, de uma maneira electrificante conseguiu surpreender e prender os olhares com sofisticados looks que conjugam tecidos bonitos, metais inovadores e mulheres lindas. Predominaram tons de festa, como o cinza/prateado e dourado, juntamente com cores vibrantes como o amarelo, verde e laranja, presentes em vestidos arrasadores. O meu preferido, simplesmente pela sua inovação e construção, foi o vestido laranja, cai-cai, que tinha um "je-ne-sais-quoi" de arquitectura na sua armação e construção... Maravilhoso.

13 fevereiro, 2011

Paris | Haute Couture SS2011 »Part II«

This is the second and the last part of the Couture Week in Paris for Spring Summer 2011!

With:
*Elie Saab, and his 'Oscar' dresses! All women love this guy, and i love him too, because of the fantastic and amazing job that he do in each collection of each season! Just loove!

*Armani Privé, became in a very futuristic way, in a dark mood but with shiny clothes for shiny people!

*Givenchy, by Ricardo Tisci comes with an absolutely brilliant collection, that is one of the best collections for this season (in Couture!). The way that the collection is structured, and the color is worked, make realistic the way that 'Tisci' is think in the fashion industry. His a genius and this collections is part of it!


Elie Saab
There was plenty of décolleté, and sinuous limbs slipping out from skirts that were, at times, almost too split, but what today's show really evoked was the up-to-the-neck missy-ness of Norma Shearer, an Oscar winner from centuries ago. One long tulle and organza gown, piled with flowers at the shoulder and tied with grosgrain at the waist, would surely have driven La Shearer into a paroxysm of desire. Coupled with the exceptionally sweet hair and makeup, this peculiar sense of propriety took Saab's collection into territory that was new for him. It was certainly a world away from the sparks struck by his last Couture show. Just look at the bride—last time, she shimmered with hints of gold. Here, her gown drooped with organza flowers and tatters of mousseline, and her veil was almost shroudlike.

Armani Privé
When Giorgio Armani presented his made-to-order Armani Privé collection near Place Vendôme Monday evening to the likes of Sophia Loren, Jodie Foster, and Olivia Wilde, he was thinking of, Lady Gaga. Clearly, Armani is gaga for Gaga. How else does one explain that shiny molded techno-fabric that looked like it was specially created for Tron (it is, in fact, a silk-nylon blend)? Or the crystal-strung dresses that looked like three-dimensionally rendered animation (and had a touch of the gown he designed for the one-woman multimedia sensation of last year’s Grammy Awards)? Or, indeed, the sleek dome of an ovoid hat, or a glistening cage mask that would be great for the likes of Gaga on the red carpet because, really, who else would be wearing it, while perhaps not so effective for the A-list types Armani has dressed for years.

Givenchy
As you’ll gather at first glance by looking at these photographs, Givenchy did not have a couture show for spring—at least not in the conventional sense. The pictures here show front and back views of each of the long, Japanese-inflected designs Riccardo Tisci made this season—ten dresses which were expressly designed never to be exposed to the roar of the runway. Instead, he hung these clothes suspended in light, in a kind of exhibition, so that both reviewers and clients could take time to view them at inches-range, and reach out and touch, if we wished.
This way of presenting gave Tisci both the opportunity to describe the derivation of his ideas—an abstract homage to the Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, who recently died at the age of 103, (with added reference to Japanese robot-toys: the horned hats)—to prove just what goes into the work of couture, and to answer the questions it raised, such as: Why no daywear?

(Photos by Style.com)

(the text's are from Vogue.com, and Style.com [Elie Saab])

07 fevereiro, 2011

Paris | Haute Couture SS2011 »Part I«

As i promise, now i'm comming with the coverage of the entire Paris | Haute Couture Week!

This is »Part I«, and in this post i'll show you:
*Christian Dior by John Galliano, doing what he nows at his best! Amazing dresses inspired at the 'New Look', with soft colors in dégrade, that puts our eyes crying like there's no tomorrow!

*Valentino, now in the hands of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. They show us magnific dresses in great soft colors, some of them in a quite transparency but all of them soo lovely.

*Jean Paul Gaultier, gave us a incredible show, as always. But this time he mixed the punk look with 'can-can' dolls!! Are you curious? Just read this post 'till the end...


Christian Dior
Shape-wise, there was no deviation from the nipped-waist bar jacket, the pencil-line skirts, the swirling fan-pleat circle skirts, and the grand ball gowns with which Christian Dior dictated postwar fashion. Camp and extravagant as it was, though, in close-up, this wasn’t quite vintage reconstruction to the letter. Galliano’s obsession with the way Gruau caught the fall of light on color was mimicked in fine graduations of tulle minutely collaged in increasing densities to shade in folds of peplum and bubble jackets, the highlights picked out in streaks of sequin, the collar lapels visually blurred with raw-edged trims.

Valentino
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli chose the house specialty, pleating, as a central motif—a good choice, since it's around this spring, and no one can achieve it (with minutely narrow ribbons of lace, or hundreds of fan-like ripples of chiffon, hand-pressed with an iron) like the Valentino seamstresses in Rome. Technique alone, however, can't lift a collection unless it has some connection or contribution to the way fashion is thinking. This one gently hit the mark with its contradictions between long lengths, high collars, and wrist-length sleeves, and the fact that so much was semitransparent (though never blatant). In this curious transitional moment when body-con feels incredibly old, yet girls are reluctant to sacrifice a show of leg, these Valentino dresses—and the quiet eroticism beneath their innocent prettiness—seem poised in exactly the right place.

Jean Paul Gaultier
British punk meets Paris cancan: Oh, it takes genius to make such an appalling-sounding fashion trope even the slightest bit forgiveable. On this occasion, though—barely credible as it may seem—Jean Paul Gaultier took mohawks, studs, and leather jackets, married them with the girls of the Moulin Rouge, and came out with a defining triumph, soaring from grimy guttersnipe-style to a French level of sophistication which makes the rest of the world spit.

Narrative fashion shows can be annoying these days, especially when one’s considering a designer like Gaultier, with a past that wends back to the eighties. But this time, his revisitings of sailor stripes—brilliant horizontal organza ruffles on Lindsey Wixson—and corsetry, now merged into both a tailcoat jacket and a cancan costume, somehow seemed simpler, more relevant, and full of energy.


Photos from Style.com

(the text's are from Vogue.com)

05 fevereiro, 2011

Chanel | Haute Couture »SS2011«


Chanel | Haute Couture
Spring Summer 2011
Tuesday, January 2011, 25th
Paris.


The Fashion Week of Haute Couture was recently in Paris, by the end of January.
My lack of time just delay this and the other posts about this Fashion Week, but I promise that they will be right here in a couple of days!

For me Chanel Haute Couture is always a pleasure to admire, and the many things, like backstage and rehearsals images, that Chanel puts into their web-site Chanel News, are just hours of my life, trying to understand this world, and the wonderfull thing that Haute Couture is nowadays...


With this post I will quote a magnific text, writen by Elisabeth Quin "Haute Couture, Haute Culture..." that are from Chanel News.

Enjoy!


The Chanel Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture collection has created a dazzling bridge between the 1920s and the 21st century.
Low waists, slender busts and delicate feet encased in ballerina shoes with transparent ribbons have been combined with the colors of clouds or pearls and waves of shimmering spangles, while embroidered shirts have been paired with Couture jeans that lengthen the legs to infinity… It is a younger look that is lighter than ever, rejecting any kind of bourgeois heaviness. The collection is characterized by total grace and luxurious materials that make their mark with skilled understatement, recapturing a style that came as second nature to Coco Chanel…
Haute Couture is a French national treasure, yet it was invented by an Englishman, Charles Worth, at the time of Napoleon III. Barely a century after it had beheaded its king, France quickly understood that luxury could act as an inimitable ambassador for French expertise.
At that moment, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, known as Coco, arrived on the scene with her hands in her pockets and a cigarette between her lips. She was surrounded by an air of nonchalance, eternal allure and insane elegance in her wonderfully fluid jersey suits and dresses, which went on to represent a real liberation for women. It seemed a natural step but someone had to invent it, someone had to have the confidence and the talent to understand what women wanted, longed for, even before they knew it themselves. Was Chanel a revolutionary, a prophet? Absolutely!



Photos by Style.com and Chanel News


(the text was writen by Elisabeth Quin at Chanel News in "Haute Couture, Haute Culture...")

23 janeiro, 2011

Paris Fashion Week | Haute Couture


Paris Spring Summer 2011 Haute Couture Fashion Week Schedule

Monday, January 24th

10:30 - Alexis Mabille
11:30 - Christophe Josse
12:30 - Bouchra Jarrar
14:30 - Christian Dior
16:30 - Alexandre Vauthier
18:00 - Giorgio Armani Privé

Tuesday, January 2011 25th

10:00 - Chanel
14:30 - Sté+hane Rolland
16:00 - Atelier Gustavolins
17:00 - Givenchy
18:00 - Adeline André
19:00 - Maurizio Galante
20:00 - Julien Fournié

Wednesday, January 26th

10:00 - On Aura Tout Vu
11:00 - Franck Sorbier
12:30 - Elie Saab
14:30 - Jean Paul Gaultier
16:00 - Maxime Simoen
17:00 - Maison RabihKayrouz
18:30 - Valentino

13 julho, 2010

Elie Saab | The Haute Couture

Elie Saab | The Haute Couture
Paris Couture Week | Fall Winter 2010

Elie Saab loves La Fenice, Venice's legendary opera house. As its name would suggest, this phoenix has burned to the ground and risen from the flames three times. For his Fall Couture collection, Saab borrowed the ruched velvet of La Fenice's curtains, the gilt and blue of its decoration, and even the fire and ash of its hellish moments for one multicolored mousseline gown. Given that backstory, the result was understandably a little overwrought.

Before the show, Saab said, "If a woman doesn't want 'rich,' she doesn't come to couture."
Saab is a proven master of red-carpet dressing, but these clothes sometimes made one wonder in exactly what decade that carpet was being unrolled.

By Tim Blanks


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