Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016

Armani Privé Haute Couture A/W 2015 -2016 Collection – Giorgio Armani expressed his creativity through his gorgeous design!

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Armani Privé Haute Couture A/W 2015 -2016 Collection – Giorgio Armani  expressed his creativity through his gorgeous design!
Paris Haute Couture Week, 7 July 2015.
Giorgio Armani decided to view his Fall/Winter 2015 haute couture Armani Privé through rose colored glasses. Actually, let’s make that shocking pink glasses, as the Italian designer proposed a collection that was all about neon tinged afterhours colors and textural transformations.
All of the sartorial hallmarks the world has come to know and respect from Armani were apparent on his catwalk. The perfectionist tailoring, the bold jewelry, the shimmering eveningwear, a healthy dose of velvet, a fair share of feathers, and some serious statement hairdos.
But as Naomi Watts, Clive Owens, and Emmanuelle Béart looked on, it was the impressive play of vibrant colors deftly muted or exploited by the designer that was the novelty of the night. Many of the looks, from a sharp shouldered blazer in a degrade of silk Lurex and a full speckled jacquard skirt to a shaded silk buster dress or one in tiers of gauze, shot through with an assortment of colorful shimmering wool, explored a sophisticated color play.
Watching the collection unfold, it was almost as if Armani had captured the undulating beauty of neon lights from a dance club reflected in the inky black puddles on a rain slicked asphalt. Their harsh reality softened by the designer into something elegant and just a tad louche.
The other major story of the collection was the textural nature of almost every outfit. Shaded feather, fringing, or three-dimensional beading made the ensemble more tangible and tactile.
Combined with the rich color palette, the clothing in this couture collection was, to say the least, impressive.

  “I wanted to express my creativity!”said Giorgio Armani  during a preview of his Armani Privé collection. 

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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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Schiaparelli Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016 Collection- Bertrand Guyon’s Debut at Maison Schiaparelli

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Schiaparelli Haute Couture A/W 2015-2016 Collection-  Bertrand Guyon’s Debut at Maison Schiaparelli

Paris Fashion Week, Haute Couture Week, the most important Show for every Maison.

Bertrand Guyon’s debut collection for the recently re-established Italian house Schiaparelli was a strong one, in all senses of the word. Colors were bold and spirited, ranging from ruby reds and hot pinks to mermaid tones and zesty citrus hues. Clashing was also one of the collection’s main features, with loud beige plaids offset by pink furs and embellished blouses teamed with light, shimmery skirts.
There was also an emphasis on the mixing and matching of fabrics to create texture and depth. Brocade coats, sequin tops, jacquard suits, cashmere trousers, minks and tweeds all held their own alongside one another, blending together to achieve an overall effect of unconventional elegance. Meanwhile quirky accessories such as whimsical and imaginative sculpted tiaras kept things light and playful.
The collection is plenty  of the couture not so much of the Leigh Bowery.
Polite elegance , with vintage Flair!

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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.