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By Elisabeth on October 7th, 2011
John Galliano Spring-Summer 2012
A model displays a creation by British designer Bill Gaytten for John Galliano Spring-Summer 2012 Ready-To-Wear collection show in Paris, France, on October 2, 2011.
What’s in a name… John Galliano may have fallen from grace in the fashion industry – first he was fired by Dior then his own-name house– so it goes without saying that we were curious about the John Galliano SS12 catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week.
At the reins of Dior and John Galliano is now the British designer Bill Gaytten, Galliano’s right hand man for 23 years, who sent models down the runway in Mary Poppins hats, flimsy see-though dresses (knickers on display anyone?), floppy corsages and mermaid plaits. Nothing much new there then, but a beautiful collection nonetheless.
Photos: Press Association
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Gallery, Models, Paris Fashion Week
By Andrea Petrou on October 5th, 2011
Modelling for Dior
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Tags: chanel, Dior, Lanvin, Miranda Kerr, Orlando Bloom, Paris Fashion Week, Stella McCartney, Viktor and Rolf
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Designers, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week
By Andrea Petrou on October 5th, 2011
model wears a creation designed by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel's spring-summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection
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Tags: chanel, Chanel handbags, FLorence and the Machines, Paris Fashion Week, Summer 2012 trends, underwater theme
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Celebrity Style, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week
By Andrea Petrou on October 4th, 2011
Alexa Chung attends the Stella McCartney Ready-to-Wear Spring/Summer 2012 show
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Tags: "Lou Doillon", Alexa Chung, celebrities, Celine, Emily Blunt, Kylie Minogue, Paris Fashion Week, spring/summer 2012, Stella McCartney, YSL
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Designer Fashions, Designers, dresses, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week
By Andrea Petrou on October 3rd, 2011
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele dances the night away in black trews and a white tee
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Tags: Gisele Bundchen, Givenchy, Jennifer Hudson, Paris Fashion Week, Ricardo Tisci, Spring 2012 fashion, X Factor
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Designer Fashions, dresses, Fashion News, Paris Fashion Week
By Andrea Petrou on October 3rd, 2011
Hermes Spring/Summer 2012
A model displays a creation by designer Christophe Lemaire for Hermes Spring-Summer 2012 Ready-To-Wear collection show held at Jeu de Paume in Paris, France, on October 2, 2011.
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Fashion News, Features, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week
By Elisabeth on September 29th, 2011
Thierry Mugler spring-summer 2012
A model wears a creation for Thierry Mugler fashion house's spring-summer 2012 ready to wear collection presented Wednesday Sept.28, 2011, in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Thierry Mugler’s spring/summer 2012 collection is a display of sleek modernism and inspired creativity that Lady Gaga would be proud of. Perhaps it then doesn’t come as a surprise that creative director of Thierry Mugler, Nicola Formichetti is the co-mastermind behind Lady Gaga’s wardrobe…
The collection showed angular designs, creative layering – deconstructed springs to mind – and sexy cut-outs what walked down the runway at Gymnase Japy is a modern day Femme Fatale. If its wearable is questionable, but it is certainly watchable.
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Features, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week
By Elisabeth on September 29th, 2011
Gareth Pugh Spring-Summer 2012
A model displays a creation by British designer Gareth Pugh for his Spring-Summer 2012 Ready-To-Wear collection show held at Garage Turenne in Paris, France.
Not sure if British designer Gareth Pugh is showing us his innermost secrets or is hoping to design the clothes for the new Blade Runner film, but his Spring/Summer Ready-To-Wear 2012 collection shows us he certainly has a strange idea of how women – and some men – should dress next year.
At Paris Fashion Week, Pugh showed the audience and fashionistas worldwide that he definitely has the shock factor. Pugh’s latest collection includes black and white leather cage dresses with knee-high boots – kinky some would say, plastic ‘teardrop’ masks encasing the models’ heads, and muzzles… Yes, muzzles.
I’m not absolutely convinced that the everyday woman will opt for these futuristic/bondage outfits, but I can certainly see Lady Gaga going crazy over the collection. Come to think of it, perhaps Gaga is the inspiration behind the designs?
All photos: Press Association
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Fashion News, Paris Fashion Week
By Elisabeth on September 28th, 2011
Paris Fashion Week - Guy Laroche
A model displays a creation by designer Marcel Marongiu for Guy Laroche Spring-Summer 2012 Ready-To-Wear collection show held at L'espace Ephemere des Tuileries in Paris, France, on September 28, 2011.
The Guy Laroche catwalk show offered designs and colours that you wouldn’t necessarily link to spring or summer. Franco-Swedish designer Marcel Marongiu’s spring/summer 2012 collection was overflowing with dark colours injected with a few bright sparks, with the models walking the runway fitted yet floaty dresses in black, grey and green, military coats and a couple of sun yellow items. A very different mood to some of the shows seen in London.
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Fashion News, Gallery, Paris Fashion Week
By shinychris on September 28th, 2011
Paris Fashion Week
A model displays a creation by designers Francois Alary et Ophelie Kiere for their Spring-Summer 2012 Ready-To-Wear collection Devastee show held at Showcasein Paris, France, on September 28, 2011.
A model displays a creation by designers Francois Alary et Ophelie Kiere for their Spring-Summer 2012 Ready-To-Wear collection Devastee show held at Showcasein Paris, France, on September 28, 2011.
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Designers, Fashion News, Gossip, New York Fashion Week - Gossip, New York Fashion Week - Runway, Paris Fashion Week
By emilyborrett on August 30th, 2011
Zac Posen has revealed that he is planning to return to New York Fashion Week after previously showing in Paris.
Zac, who is loved by all women for his sultry, opulent designs, is moving back to New York Fashion Week because he feels “just like it’s the right time”. The designer said: “Paris is wonderful but it just feels like the right time to show in New York.”
His previous collection for Autumn/Winter 2011, which was showed in Paris, was his trademark array of sculptural-looking evening gowns, this time in leather and metallic fabrics for a harder take on the seventies trend – I absolutely cannot wait to see what he comes up with next, whichever city he’s in.
He went on to explain the city change: “For the Zac Posen Collection, I wanted to give a different voice and focus in the international fashion arena. Obviously, New York has been extremely supportive of me and the stars were aligned to base Z Spoke in my hometown. I have learned over the past 10 years to trust my instinct, to have fun with experimentation and to innovate. I do not see this choice as a focus on Europe, rather, it’s about taking a risk, which is something that is important to do as a creator in order to evolve.”
Tags: collection, couture, evening gown, Fashion News, Gossip, New York Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, spring/summer 2012, Zac Posen
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Celebrity gossip, Designers, Fashion News, London fashion week, Paris Fashion Week
By emilyborrett on August 25th, 2011
The British designer Gareth Pugh has revealed that he doesn’t intend to return to showing his collections at London Fashion Week for the forseeable future, as he prefers the respect that he gets in Paris.
Gareth has been showing his collections at Paris Fashion Weeks since 2008 and has absolutely no intention to return to showing at the UK – well, we can’t say we blame his defection to one of the haute couture capitals of the world.
Gareth said his move to gay Paris: “London’s changed a lot since I moved to Paris – Giles, Burberry and Matthew Williamson have all started showing here again – but when I left, people weren’t taking me seriously. The last show I did in London featured lots of safety pins and one journalist made a comment ‘I feel sorry for the intern who had to put that together.’ I think Galliano did that in one of his shows, and no one in Paris would ever have made the same comment about his work.”
The designer continued: “The work that goes into these pieces is secondary, people shouldn’t be so raw about it. In Paris it’s like a badge of honour to put that sort of work into it, but no one talks about it – it would take out the magic. In Paris, you talk about the beauty of a look, not the hours that went into it – that’s not something to flaunt. It’s about something being an object of beauty.”
That’s totally fair enough and all that. But Gareth, if you ever get a pining feeling for LFW, just come back. We miss you!
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Designers, dresses, Gallery, Haute Couture, Paris Fashion Week
By emilyborrett on July 7th, 2011
Elie Saab Haute Couture 2011
Lebanese-originated fashion house Elie Saab has been a red-carpet hit with the likes of young lovelies such as Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart for a while now, so we were looking forward to see what they were going to show us at Couture Week yesterday in Paris. Were we surprised when we weren’t let down? No, not at all – this was always going to be a good show.
It wasn’t a drastic departure from the label’s past collections, which have always been well-known for their fluttery, girlie designs in icy pastel shades. But while in the past some collections have been very “sugar, spice and everything nice”, we found yesterday’s offering a little more simple and sophisticated than past efforts. The whole affair was extremely pretty, with crystal and flower details trailing over sheer sleeves, hemlines and necklines in nude and white sheer fabrics.
The textiles used in the designs worked beautifully within the collection. Rich-looking cream lace and sheer wisps of chiffon were delicately embroidered with tiny flowers and leaves and encrusted with sparkles, with a resulting effect that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a fairytale.
It’s a big round of applause for Elie Saab from us at ShinyStyle. We guarantee this collection is going to be loved by red carpet attendees everywhere.
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By emilyborrett on July 7th, 2011
Givenchy Haute Couture 2011
It’s indisputable that one of the best moments of Paris Haute Couture Week has to be yesterday’s transcendent Givenchy show. Creative direction Riccardo Tisci had certainly pulled a white rabbit out of his hat for this truly magical, delicate show which was glorious against the backdrop of the River Seine in Paris. Tisci has a great history of powerful and impressive designs but nothing prepared me for yesterday’s collection, which, without sounding too gushing, took my breath away.
It was a smaller display of work than some of the other shows this week, with only ten dresses making up the collection. Normally we’d feel a little short-changed, but in Givenchy’s case yesterday less was definitely more. In each dress you could see the care and love of design that had gone into its’ creation.
The collection, in all its’ virginal beauty, was an interesting combination of simplicity and intricacy. The garments, which were a mix of trailing fringe, wisps of sheer white chiffon and heavy embellishment and embroidery, still seemed light and delicate despite the intricate detailing. To sum it up, completely exquisite. Yesterday the models selected to walk for the show could have been angels. Particularly spectacular was the show’s finale dress: gold fringing falling in columns to the floor from metallic winged detail around the hips, below nude fabric showing the model’s body. Like we said, angelic and fit for a goddess.
To us, yesterday’s show seemed to be a true celebration of the art of couture. Tisci seems to only go from strength to strength as a designer. We absolutely can’t wait to see what he’s got in store for us the next time Fashion Week rolls around.
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Designer Fashions, Designers, Features, Gallery, Haute Couture, Paris Fashion Week
By emilyborrett on July 7th, 2011
Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture 2011
Paris Couture Week is one of my absolute favourite fashion events out of the entire calendar, so I was excited this morning to pore over Jean Paul Gaultier’s latest sumptuous couture offering. There are certain boxes at a Gaultier show that are always going to be ticked – nipped waists, leather, black PVC, feathers and embellishment – but still the iconic house managed to surprise us anyway.
There was an obvious dance inspiration to this summer’s couture collection, as Gaultier combined full-skirted suits and pert tutu-esque garments with softly elegant ballet slippers. We duly noted that even the models’ sky-high wedges were worn with criss-crossed ribbon details around the ankles for a balletic feel. Perhaps the designer has been watching Black Swan a lot lately? Anyway, we loved the dance influences and were particularly charmed by a bell-sleeved black velvet biker-feel jacket with a light-as-air chiffon and feather tutu, which was modelled by the kittenish supermodel Sasha Pivovarova.
Another vibe that we picked up on in this show was that of the wicked stepmother. Scarlet-belted leather coats with fur collars, fiercely angular feather fascinators and vintage-style costume jewellery were all part of a vibe that we reckon Cruella DeVille would have been majorly into if she had been in Paris yesterday. Our number-one total favourite moment from the entire show was a particularly cruel-looking coat/dress made out of shredded strips of plastic and leather, that on closer inspection had a black plastic fox peeping out from the strips. Just like the fox-fur scarves your mad granny wore thirty years ago, except it’s MADE OF PVC. I always knew that “mentally ill heiress” had scope to make a comeback, and I was right. HA.
All of our favourite Gaultier touches had been added to each piece. Some leather detailing here, a plumage of tropical feathers there, shredding and draping and corsetry, oh my! The result was very dark with a slightly cruel edge and we really hope no plastic foxes or birds were harmed in the making of this collection, but basically the whole thing was very fabulous and very Paris Couture Week.
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