Spanish fashion house Loewe with creativ director Jonathan Anderson at the helm opens the fourth day of #PFW unveiling their spring/summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection.
Creativ designer of Lanvin ,Alber Elbaz unveiled us his spring/summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection in Paris Fashion Week .How nice it was to see – i’m speaking about live streaming here,-Alber Elbaz putting Lanvin out there on the front line yesterday evening. He staged his spring-summer collection as theater, placing the Lanvin name up in glittering lights at one end of the runway and sending out a show he said was a “manifesto.”
Ruth Bell opend the show,wearing a men’s inspired white dress shirt paired with black slim-fit pants. The first look gave a hint of what was to come—a collection which was heavily influenced by menswear as shown by the subsequent looks including tuxedo inspired jackets and high necklines. The show moved swiftly through “acts.” First, black and white daywear—pants and blouses with balloon sleeves or rippling flounces were followed by chic-simple silk dresses.
And The Balmain Army was out in force this afternoon at Le Grand Hotel in Paris, where Olivier Rousteing informed in the show notes that this season would feature different elements from previous collections. The cast included models -IT Girls- of the moment like Kendall Jenner, Jourdan Dunn and Gigi Hadid.
His upcoming collaboration with H&M made him comb his own Balmain archives, reminding him of the wealth of material that was “the result of four years of hard work,” he said. Four years is a long time in his industry and as a result he deemed it time to introduce new ideas for spring and to broaden the Balmain DNA. that most prominently manifested in tiered ruffles (flounce is shaping up to be a big story next season): they cascaded on trousers, along sleeves, and bib-fronts adding a romantic femininity to the fierce sex appeal of the whip-stitching, fishnets and strong shoulders also out in force. This new found softness also rippled through via a pretty pastel palette – the nude tones, like the new silhouettes, all served to temper Balmain’s customary opulence.
Rousteing credited the power of the house’s social media presence as a vital ingredient to its success in moving forward, confident that all the dresses we saw this afternoon would be shared and shared again on various platforms very soon. .
Chloé threw something of a curveball today,01. October 2015. Instead of the wistful silhouettes came tracksuits, sporting stripes and carnival colours referencing a different dimension of the 70ies, the decade the house continues to reinvent so well. It’s not what you would immediately associate with the romantic Chloé girl, but as Clare Waight Keller explained after the show, this was about finding a new optimism.The usual lace slips were grounded with jogging bottoms; the signature cheesecloth maxi-dresses came not in cornflower blue and toffee hues but in sherbet shades; and bootcuts were replaced by easy, low-slung harem pants. It was relaxed and easy, as though Chloé’s girl was a girl on her gap year . Chloé unveiled us very youthful,really sophisticated high summer collection
“This season it was really about the flamboyant woman – she’s not just eccentric, because that can be old with 25 cats,” said Van Noten backstage. “She wants to live, she wants to show herself, she wants to enjoy life. She knows how to mix things and she dares to.”
A master of mixing things up himself, today’s show saw one of Noten’s personal passions realised: to have a live orchestra play the score to his show – a familiar yet distorted melody with a punchy baseline.
Clashing teal with mustard, purple with hot pink, orange with gold, and ,and and…, it was a positive riot of juxtapositions ,and that’s before the fabrics even come into it. Raised jacquards, satin ruffles, embellished tweed checks and lashings of pleated, tiered and frilled tulle – it was the grown-up equivalent of raiding the dressing-up box, although under Noten’s watchful eye, the result looks really good.