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])

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)

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...")

LINDOO*

Prada | SS2011 Video Campaign

Featuring Arizona Muse, Kinga Rajzak, Zuzanna Bijoch, Mariacarla Boscono and Tati Cotliar



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Chanel | SS2011 AdCampaign

Chanel | SS2011 AdCampaign

The first look at Chanel’s spring 2011 campaign showcases the spring collection’s rock and roll edge and who better to showcase Karl Lagerfeld’s new vision than Freja Beha Erichsen and Stella Tennant?
Lensed by Lagerfeld himself, Freja Beha and Stella go outdoors for a day of fun in the sun alongside Baptiste Giabiconi.



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Giuseppe Zanotti | SS2011 AdCampaign

Giuseppe Zanotti | SS2011 AdCampaign

A vacation getaway in St. Barts serves as inspiration for Giuseppe Zanott’s spring 2011 campaign starring Anja Rubik.
Photographed by Inez & Vinoodh.



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Tom Ford | SS2011 Men's Collection

Tom Ford | SS2011 Men's Collection

Tom Ford kicks off the new year in style.
Revealing his spring collection with Luis Borges and Max Motta in leading roles, an abundance of silk and wool reaffirm Ford’s stance on luxury. From bold colors and ornate patterns to dapper cuts, the designer’s latest outing exudes elegance with a certain nostalgia.
Primed and ready to go, Ford’s leading man easily transitions from the luxe trappings of eveningwear to refined casual ensembles and the perfect pieces for a laid-back tryst on the beach.



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Jil Sander | SS2011 Womans Accessories

Jil Sander | SS2011 Womans Accessories

Colour is a key theme for Jil Sander's Spring Summer 2011.
Flower prints have recurred for both the mens and women's collections, so it is no surprise we see these gorgeous prints incorporated into the women's bags.
Unique shape, contemporary and classy, it's definitely an arm candy to get that attention and envy you seek.
Hobos, shopping totes, clutches and duffels, an extensive selection of styles to suit any modern women's needs.
Those with hues of fluorescent green, blue, pinks and yellows standout the most and make this new collection a visual treat for the eyes.



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