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Chanel Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016 Collection – Karl Lagerfeld – The Genius!

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Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 Collection was shown today morning, in Grand Palais.
Karl Lagerfeld transformed the Grand Palais inside in the Chanel Haute Couture Casino.
Karl Lagerfeld has previously transformed the Grand Palais in Paris into an ice palace, a couture supermarket and an underwater wonderland for his Couture shows – so what the Genius Karl Lagerfeld had for today morning?
Here we are:
Karl Lagerfeld installed an entire working casino in Paris’s Grand Palais for the Chanel haute couture show this morning. It felt as if it had been there forever, testimony, surely, to this house’s power. Guests filed in and were met by fully operational one-armed bandits. Coins were provided. 555? Jackpot!
As if that weren’t enough, the lights went up and out came Geraldine Chaplin – styled as Coco Chanel – Julianne Moore in emerald velvet, Rita Ora in liquid silver, Kristen Stewart in a little black dress, Vanessa Paradis in shimmering gold, Stella Tennant, Lara Stone… The list went on. All took their seats at roulette tables centrally placed and overhung by chandeliers and began their games.
In fact, they were wearing a collection specifically aimed at celebrities. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this, the mother of all productions, then, was that when the first looks from the couture collection itself emerged the focus moved away from even this superstar line up and was directed entirely on these, the world’s most magical clothes.
The quilting on the opening sequence of Chanel suits was achieved blending the time-honoured craftsmanship of the couture ateliers with Selective Laser Sintering, a relatively new technique that gave garments a moulded and very slightly futuristic quality all while preserving the great Chanel codes. They were beautiful and in no way gimmicky.
These were followed by softer pieces in ivory, blush and eau de nil with crystal and feathered embroideries applied in the traditional manner that – equally – took the breath away.
As the aforementioned A-listers, gambling away happily throughout, went to prove, this is a house that caters to the needs of  the discerning customer of all tastes and ages: the more traditional among them may prefer a boxy jacket and straight, knee-length skirt, for example. She will be spoilt for choice. Her daughter, meanwhile, might go for bouncing, bell-shaped confections. Again, she won’t be disappointed. Moreover, that same lucky girl could – and some might argue should – decide to be married in a trouser suit as opposed to the traditional haute couture meringue. Kendall Jenner, the bride on this occasion, certainly showed how that might best be done.
Marvellous.
And the Casino night has never looked so chic.
We can safely hedge our bets that this was THE SHOW of Couture Week.

Runway – Paris Fashion Week – Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2015/2016

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Giambattista Valli Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016 Collection – *Flower Obsession Ball*

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Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 Collection – *Flower Obsession Ball* at the Opéra Garnier.
Celebrating ten years in the business, Giambattista Valli ended the night with an extravagant „Flower Obsession Ball“ at the Opéra Garnier, complete with a floral dress code, colorful blooms projected onto every surface, and a brand new set of M.A.C. lipsticks in hues inspired by the pinks of his haute couture. But before that, the designer’s 9th haute couture was par for the course. Flowers and colors are what women want from Valli, and that’s what they got, to a point.
Clinical neons above the runway gave the black-and-white triangles of striped carpeting a very dizzying Op Art glare. The opening looks were like ruffled spores, sculpted hemispheres clinging to hems or to the backs of models. Soon enough, they blossomed out into the breadth of his glamorous silhouettes. Lean pairings of long tunics over slightly flared pants kept things more Slim Aarons than Flower Power, proposing a more grown-up notion. Short shifts had a bit of kick to them, showing enough leg to satisfy the younger Valli girls. Not that it would matter, but there were even embellished „t-shirts“ hiding under honeycomb embroideries and other ruffles.
The pure lines of his designs, with a vaguely Sixties flavor to them, gave plenty of space – and fabric – to elaborate surface adornments. Although the flower motif, that habitual Valli signature, was everywhere, his blooms this season were not always of the natural variety. Glass flowers and raised embroideries of vines crawled up available surfaces. Crisp looking petals stuck out. Even the printed lilies-of-the-valley were artistically digitized. Likewise the color palette – you could see where the lilac and orange had come from. Black and white threw yellow and green in stark contrast. It was the future of flora, seen through the crystal-adorned round lenses of retro-modernity. For all the twinkling, sparkling, shimmering (all those giant silver rhodoids, beads and crystals, marabout trims), it was as slick as a glossy picture, more ritzy than romantic.
By the time the show came to its ball gowns, the closing group, their lengthy flurries of tulle ruffles trailing behind them, looked almost blowsy from their effort of being in full bloom, an effort as intensive as the energy required to drag that much tulle down the carpeted runway. Perhaps the length of the runway diluted their effervescence somewhat, but from the applause, there was still plenty of fizz to go around.

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Christian Dior Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016 Collection- Designer Raf Simons

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Christian Dior Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016 Collection- Designer Raf Simons – one of the Highlights of Monday Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 Haute Couture Shows.

On Monday, Christian Dior models strutted in flowing white dresses, tight-waisted coats with ankle-length puffy skirts and oversized capes in „The Garden of Earthly Delights“  which was specially built  at the Musee Rodin.
Taking inspiration from Flemish painters, Dior designer Raf Simons paired colourful coats with wide trousers and topped short and long dresses with tank tops. He contrasted white, pale blues and pinks with patterned designs as well as sharp reds, blues and Greens.
Anna Wintour said: „It’s so incredible. I think I need to take a moment!“

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Atelier Versace Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2015 Collection – When the Art meet Fashion

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Atelier Versace  Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2015 Collection
Donatella Versace shown her new Haute Couture collection yesterday evening, in Paris Haute Couture Week.
 
It was a story of opposites on the Versace haute couture Fall/Winter 2015 catwalk, which opened the season on Sunday night. Designer Donatella Versace played with contrasting ideas – structure and flou, raw delicacy and powerful sex appeal, as well as asymmetric juxtapositions – for a rock and roll fashion fairy tale.
On a Plexiglas catwalk that encased over 25,000 orchids in shades of purple and yellow, the sprite-like Versace maidens, with their loose locks woven through with a crown of shimmering fabric flowers, took to the runway like a lineup of hippy deluxe devotees of Stevie Nicks. The music of The Doors ringing out on the sound track only accentuated the retro 70s vibe.
As backwards looking as the collection was – on the likes of Lara Stone, Joan Smalls, Karlie Kloss, and  Kendall Jenner – the shredded bell sleeve tops, transparent flower embellished inserts on second skin pants, and flowing chiffon dresses had a more youthful sensuality to them then has been seen on the Versace catwalk in some time. A sensation that the designer counterbalanced with some serious “These Boots Were Made for Walking” patent leather footwear.

Round-Up – From Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015 Shows. Waiting of tomorrow, Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2015-2016

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HAUTE COUTURE, Round-Up Spring 2015 collections. WAITING of New Appointment-
HAUTE COUTURE Fall/Winter 2015-2016 Collections will be shown from 5 July 2015 till 9 July 2015 in Paris.
The most important appoinment in the Fashion World will start tomorrow!
Costume and Fashion history would not be the same without Haute Couture.
Haute Couture is a French phrase for high fashion.  Couture means dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and haute means elegant or high, so the two combined imply excellent artistry with the fashioning of garments.  The purchase of a haute couture model garment is at the top level of hand customised fashion design and clothing construction made by a couture design house.  A model haute couture garment is made specifically for the wearer’s measurements and body stance.  The made to measure exclusive clothes are virtually made by hand, carefully interlined, stay taped and fitted to perfection for each client.
Waiting of tomorrow i want to take a look  of  some Haute Couture gows from different Designers.
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