Chanel Fall/Winter 2016 -Paris Haute Couture Week

06/07/2016 | Syuzena Pitz

In the old days, Coco Chanel invited her audience to shows in her house, but this time the house came to the audience. Karl Lagerfeld know for putting on elaborated shows for the world’s most famous brands, transformed yesterday Paris’s Grand Palace into Chanel Atelier, Modezar shipped the entire staff of the ateliers, which are housed on Rue Cambon—along with their dummies, sewing machines, cutting tables, fabrics, embroidery materials, canvas toiles, every specialist tool of the trade— and asked them to carry on working as usual in their transplanted environment. In the Chanel haute Couture f/w 2016 collection were cropped tweed wide-leg pantsuits, and extraordinarily wide, flatly squared-off shoulders .Intricate floral emboidery decorated some Looks which were worn with the kitten-heeled, ankle-hugging black suede boots.

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Elsa Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2016 by Bertrand Guyon. #PCHW

06/07/2016 | Syuzena Pitz

In his third couture collection- Schiaparelli Haute Couture F/W 2016– Guyon explored Schiaparelli’s summer 1938 circus show, a collection so iconic he expressed anxiety at the thought of reprising it. The risk paid off. It was his best judged effort so far, faithful in spirit and silhouette to Schiaparelli’s work, but not slavish about it.The collection was rather subdued, with elegant, even streamlined black and midnight blue tailoring and dresses. Guyon said he found many pieces in the archive in that deep shade of navy. The two nods in Schiaparelli’s eccentric direction were the extreme, built-up shoulder constructions and the lighthearted, somewhat surrealistic jewelry.

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Atelier Versace Fall/Winter 2016 -Paris Haute Couture Week

06/07/2016 | Syuzena Pitz

Donatella Versace presented her Fall 2016 Atelier Versace collection in Paris on Sunday, bringing with her a cast of supermodels and front row celebrities. Everything about Sunday’s show was social media friendly, from the venue to the front row – some names only!-Naomi Campbell,Bradley Cooperand Jennifer Garner- to the casting-models like Mariacarla Boscono, Sasha Pivovarova, Iselin Steiro, Joan Smalls, Irina Shayk, Carolyn Murphy. Bella Hadid and Taylor Hill represented the new guard of modeling It girls on the Versace catwalk.Karen Elson opened the show-wrapped in cashmere and duchess satin coat, casually belted at the waist, revealing only her right shoulder. It was followed by more outerwear, in burgundy and baby blue, another risky colour combination that actually worked. The intricacies of draping, wrapping, and folding were explored in the collection, with pieces curving around the body to crate intricate shapes and silhouettes.There was great tailoring in the shape of two-piece suits with draped portrait collars and duchess satin skin tight overalls and asymmetrical dresses .

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Vogue China celebrated Haute Couture in „In Wonderland“ editorial.

23/03/2016 | Syuzena Pitz

„Alice in Wonderland“ inspired this enchanting editorial published in April issue of Vogue China. Starring model is Lauren de Graaf . Lauren de Graaf wears haute couture gowns from Chanel, Givenchy, Atelier Versace , Valentino , Viktor&Rolf , Schiaparelli Giambattista Valli , Elie Saab and Christian Dior.

Model: Lauren de Graaf
Photographer: Alexandra Sophie
Fashion Editor: Martine de Menthon
Hair: Cyril Laloue

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Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2016-17 or

08/03/201602/04/2016 | Syuzena Pitz

Was it the beginning of La Maison Yves Saint Laurent– a new, or reconstituted, haute couture house? Or Was it Hedi Slimane’s farewell at Saint Laurent? ( Today we know that it was last Show Slimane did for Saint Laurent) Hedi Slimane’s show was a full-on shock: a collection which pushed the ’80s shoulder to a pinnacle of upstanding exaggeration, drove glittery hemlines up, plunged necklines, belted waists with flourishing side-bows, poufed skirts, clad legs in sheer black tights, and put feet into stiletto pumps. There was an homage toYves Saint Laurent in every look, yet the collection was just as uncompromisingly faithful to the ultra-ultra-skinny youth aesthetic which Hedi Slimane has pushed in fashion for his whole career.This show was held in a beautiful 18th-century house on the Rue de l’Université, and conducted in bright lighting as models filed out—precisely in the style which was standard in old haute couture houses until the 1980s. The numbers of the outfits were even called out as each girl appeared, yet there was nothing satirical or ironic in the presentation. At that proximity, the quality of the clothes can’t be faked—and it was impeccable. From the smoothly fine fit of the leather dresses to the raven-wing sequins, the black ostrich coat with the pink- and turquoise-painted tips, and the extraordinary black columns and flounced tiers of the evening dresses, this collection proved that Slimane can cut it and fit it with the best.