If you were to judge a label purely by its front row than Giambattista Valli was already looking good before the show started. Farida Khelfa, the new face of the still-to-be-launched Schiaparelli label, and embodiment-of-chic Inès de La Fressange were sitting next to each other, role models for aging gracefully.
“I love to get obsessed with things and afterwards change extremely while keeping my identity,” said Pedro Lourenco of fall 2013′s move away from pink, the dominate color in his spring collection.
For fall, Lourenco‘s inspirations were certainly more ambitious.
Sarah Burton sent only 10 looks down the runway today–but she packed a LOT into those 10 looks. It’s hard to say anything was lacking with such a stunning collection (and we weren’t even there).
Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli might have cited paintings by the Flemish masters and “Calvinist simplicity” as inspirations for their fall 2013 collection–but we couldn’t help thinking of the Brothers Grimm.
The buzz factor Monday? Collections that start with “S.” So whether critics were loving the party-in-the-back looks at Sacai or the subversive haberdashery at Stella McCartney, or just trying to make sense of what it is that went down the runway at Saint Laurent, they were talking.
A Chanel runway show is a feast for the eyes. Luckily, in this world of immediate online imagery, we can pull details out that we otherwise would have missed–possibly because we were too busy staring at that huge globe the whole time.
While Karl Lagerfeld didn’t send anything quite as dramatic as that hula hoop bag from spring 2013 down this morning’s runway, there were still plenty of items worth discussion–and worth a million street style snaps, we’re sure.
It’s difficult to build a luxury brand from scratch. Especially in this decade, when conglomerates rely on century-old names to plump their bottom lines, and out-of-the-box talents like Nicolas Ghesquiere and Christian Lacroix are seen as challenge to retailers rather than a blessing.
But after two years and six seasons, socially conscious luxury label Maiyet is carving out a commendable niche for itself in the crazy world of fashion and retail.
Who run the world? Karl. And Chanel, of course.
For Chanel’s fall 2013 collection, designer Karl Lagerfeld had a massive rotating globe installed in the center of the Grand Palais. Tiny double ‘C’ flags dotted the globe indicating Chanel stores all over the world. There are a lot of ‘em.
That was the message today: Chanel is a worldwide brand for a globetrotting gal.
One thing needs to be said, it’s not easy to be Bill Gaytten right now. After Galliano’s “Hasidic” incident in the tabloids, Gaytten is somewhat treated like the son of a dictator.
Gaytten is, in many ways, the polar opposite of Galliano.
After all the backlash leading up to and following Hedi Slimane’s debut show for Saint Laurent–the rebranding of the name and ensuing confusion, the exclusion of various top editors from the show, the Twitter tirade directed at Cathy Horyn–what to expect from his second collection?
Grunge apparently. And barely a trace of the old Yves Saint Laurent.
Transgendered British singer Antony Hegarty’s deep voice helped lift Givenchy’s fall 2013 show to new emotional heights.
Bugs have infested the runway.
