The collection ably touched on all the house’s codes of sexy, cowled, and ruched jersey dresses, and soft tapered silk pants and jumpsuits in splashy prints, these inspired by NASA aerial images that looked like abstract florals. There were ruffles on peplumed jackets and tiered skirts.
Stuned by the colours, just loved the whole collection! Voila!
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~ Amazing lace! ~
Totally loved and got inspired by this collection. Standard values we’re talking about!
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~ Life Aquatic ~
Beneath the soaring glass domes of the Grand Palais, the Chanel set transported us to the undersea world of Karl Lagerfeld; an aquatic wonderland of gleaming white stingrays and sea horses adrift amongst coral branches and shells on a sandy sea bed. Lagerfeld had promised “the ground of the sea, but in a very poetic way,” and his models, meandering through this dramatic set to a techno soundtrack abstracted from Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” looked like magical deep-sea sirens, from the pearls scattered in their hair to the sea- urchin shells that propped up the heels of their sandals.
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“It’s all about Gaia, the wonder of nature, the sea”, Sarah Burton. Behind her, dresses constructed of encrustations of beading and mother-of-pearl, rivulets of microscopic pleats, filigrees of leather, cascades of ruffles, and miles of lace were painstakingly peeled off models by a phalanx of dressers.
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How extraordinary it was to see the unpredictable alternative thinker Rei Kawakubo converting her own runway into an aisle. From beginning to end, it was a beautiful bridal show, and one with many subversive twists. Her treatment of the materials and craft of the haute couture wedding genre—fragile white lace and daisy-form crochet, ruffles, tulle, rich 3-D flowered embellishment and veils—was adoring on the one hand, and on the other, deeply driven by complexity and feminist ambivalence. Hooped crinoline petticoats often took on the alarming eternal structure of cages, while, by the end, heavy veils of guipure lace blotted out any sight of the individual beneath.
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