Paris Fashion Week: Haute Couture
Jean-Paul Gaultier’s ornate bodice “cages” and skirts were literally sculpted from thick sausages of silk satin, looped and twirled like cornelli lace.
Not impressed at all. It kinds of gets too old and ugly: does anyone want to look like a cake these days? Moreover, PETA hates you for using too much fur.
Jean Paul Gaultier 2008
One of the few things I liked was the new idea for fringe. The bright underline is very playful. It looks like it was sprayed right on the forehead.
Overall, call me a bitch, but I find Gaultier’s collection this year extremely ugly and I would never wear it for this ammount of money, well, even if I was payed by the house to wear it. Don’t want to look like the Cruella de Vil. Really.
Givenchy, Givenchy Fall 2008 haute couture show by designer Riccardo Tisci
Givenchy Fall 2008-2009 haute couture show by designer Riccardo Tisci
Givenchy couture took a tour of the Andes this week in Paris, as the house’s creative director Riccardo Tisci sent out a phalanx of models in alpaca en route on a motorbike tour of Peru.
Calvin Klein Jeans advertising campaign. Fall winter 2008-2009
Nice black and white photo style. Photos show us new collection of Calvin Klein Jeans. La Moss created that origin black-and-white look for CK. The advertising campaign was photographed by Steven Meisel, models Abbey Lee, Agnete and Gordo.
Nice jeans!
Calvin Klein jeans fall winter 2008 2009
Calvin Klein jeans fall winter 2008 2009
Designer Menswear Winter 08-09: The Classic Codes of the Tuxedo
Men’s designers from Paris and Milan have taken their inspiration from the classic codes of the tuxedo whilst details such as shawl collars and satin or velvet trims are used to create new products.
Dries VAN NOTEN shows a flannel jacket with a satin shawl collar. In his own collection, Kris VAN ASSCHE presents a tuxedo-inspired jacket worn over a boilersuit, while FERRAGAMO mixes sports style with the tuxedo. Ann DEMEULEMEESTER adds a ruched shirtfront to a shawl-collared jacket.
In menswear, the tuxedo is a source of inspiration and reinvention.
In its Men’s Summer 09 Trendbook, Promostyl features it twice: firstly in the ACADEMIC theme in it’s approach to t-shirts and secondly in the SPECTACLE theme where classic codes go between rock and romanticism.
http://www.promostyl.com/us/news/smoking08/smoking.php
