Tsumori Chisato Spring 2010: What A Girl Wants
PARIS, Oct 4, 2009 / FW/ — The birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees, Tsumori Chisato is truly welcoming spring as she welcomes Persephone’s return with a colorful collection that mixed stripes and foliage prints with ruffles and high buttoned collars. Boy shorts and harem pants, sarouels and high-waist trousers, scalloped mini dresses and floor length frocks,...
Haider Ackermann Spring 2010: Romantic Monochrome
PARIS, Oct 4, 2009 / FW/ — There was a time when doing something monochromatic was considered sophomoric; but that has changed. Under the skillful hands of Haider Ackermann, monochrome has become cool, even aspirational. Sorbet shades of blue, beige and gray were complemented by electric blue and daffodil yellow, thus the tentative sexuality became romantic sensuality...
Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2010: Absolutely Brilliant
PARIS, Oct 4, 2009 / FW/ — With Jean Paul Gaultier, it is so easy to get lost in his creativity and forget about wearability. He is after all, one of the most prolific design talents in his generation. Still, in his Spring 2010 collection there are actually clothes that can go straight from the runway to the sales floor, and that is what critics usually miss. Let...
Sophia Kokosalaki Spring 2010: White on White
PARIS, Oct 4, 2009 / FW/ — White for spring! What a novel concept, especially that since the mid 1990s, we had almost banished it from spring and summer in favor of black. Finally, there are a growing number of designers who are bringing it back and Sophia Kokosalaki is one of them. Kokosalaki began with communion white clothes then immediately interspersed them...
Cacharel Spring 2010: Shades of White
PARIS, Oct 4, 2009 / FW/ — Debuting at Cacharel, new Artistic Director Cédric Charlier used white as a springboard opening with a simple white tunic / shirtdress. What followed was a series of delightful summer dresses and a pair of Capri pants thrown in done in different shades of white. It was not until the middle of the show that Charlier started to put in color...
Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2010: Seaside Warrior
PARIS, Oct 4, 2009 / FW/ — Perhaps, it’s the all the talk about war in Afghanistan and Iran that the first thing that came to mind at Ann Demeulemeester’s Spring 2010 show were women warriors relaxing at the seaside. In a black and white story wherein the prints are CGI enhanced images of seagulls, Richard Bach’s short story ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’...
Chapurin Spring 2010
PARIS, Oct 3, 2009 / FW/ — With Naomi Campbell as the star of the show, Russian designer Chapurin unveiled his Spring 2010 collection. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption...
Vivienne Westwood Spring 2010: Getting Punk’ed
PARIS, Oct 3, 2009 / FW/ — Wearing a shirt that says “Get a Life,” when she took her bow, Dame Vivienne Westwood wants everyone punk’ed for Spring 2010 with an eye on the environment. Serious about this political stance, this is the second time that Dame Westwood has used global warming as her theme, the first time being last season when Pamela Anderson...
Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2010: Missing Martin Margiela
PARIS, Oct 3, 2009 / FW/ — That the official confirmation by Renzo Rosso that Martin Margiela has left his eponymous fashion house made the fashion headlines instead of the maison’s Spring 2010 collection is an indication of how much the fashion set is missing the Belgian designer. The collection that was presented did not have that usual piazzas that we expect...
Lanvin Spring 2010: The Label of the Moment
PARIS, Oct 3, 2009 / FW/ — While we were searching for the silhouettes that will define the 2010s, it was staring at us all along; Alber Elbaz at Lanvin has been giving it to us season after season and though we were listening even looking, we did not realize until now how forward looking are his creations. True, we always praise his collections; it’s like preaching...
Isabel Marant Spring 2010: Eclectic Mix
PARIS, Oct 3, 2009 / FW/ — The current darling of fashion insiders, with editors making a beeline to her atelier the moment they arrive in Paris, Isabel Marant proposed an eclectic mix of boho, prairie and gypsy chic for Spring 2010. Micro miniskirts, shorts rolled at the hem, and leggings turned trousers, the nonchalance attitude is what makes the look so sexy....
