As spring began to bloom, this week’s best dressed ladies (and one gentleman) showed a little skin while keeping things tasteful. Jennifer Lawrence showed of a new ‘do and her shoulders in David Koma; Elle Fanning went high-drama in Lanvin; and Kiernan Shipka looked adorable yet grown up in Dolce. Click through for all that and the rest of this week’s 10 best dressed!
The Schiaparelli relaunch has sort of become the Great Gatsby of the fashion industry–we’ve been hearing about it forever, but nothing’s really happened. It was said that a creative director would be named last September, and yet, nothing, until now.
Four cities, one season: Fall 2013. Nemo kicked the collections off and every city to follow added its own dose of wintry chill. Somehow all that cold weather caused a discernible note of restraint to float through the collections. Don’t worry–the passion and excitement were still there, but designers actively pursued defining new ways we can really dress next fall. These looks felt grounded in the return of the “Lady,” as fashion’s pendulum swung away from the risqué, toward the refreshingly refined (spike-studded shoulders be damned). Check out our top trends for fall in the slide show.
Read on for our round up of the top ten trends from Paris Fashion Week.
New show reviews and galleries are in from Paris! Check out Rochas, A.P.C., and Anthony Vaccarello.
PARIS–At the end of almost every one of his runway shows, Rochas designer Marco Zanini brings the audience to a rock-concert-level whoop. Fall 2013 was no different—they sure had plenty to cheer about.
In McQueen and Peter Som, respectively, Rooney and Kate Mara basically proved that great style is genetic.
Pre-Fall 2013 has wrapped!…or has it?…Nobody can quite say for sure, but with the Fall 2013 shows quickly approaching in mid-February, we figured now was as good a time as any to take inventory of our favorites from “the season between seasons.”
Click through our slideshow of the best shoes of Spring 2013 and try to pick a favorite. We dare you.
You can’t talk about handbags for Spring 2013 without mentioning Karl’s enormous hula-hoop creation that stole the show at Chanel. Clearly, that one takes the cake as the most dramatic accessories moment of the season. (And comes with an instructions on how to use it from the Kaiser himself.)
“Smarten up” seemed to be the coaches’ message Wednesday as the first big shows in Paris got underway. Enfant terrible Gareth Pugh was promoted to Varsity when he went medieval on critics–in a totally soigné contemporary way. Meanwhile, in the battle of moody romanticism between two great print houses, Dries van Noten and Rochas, Dries’s flannel à la française scored a touchdown–and that’s how the game was won.
