Tranoi Women Spring 2010
Dates: October 2 – 5, 2009 Time: 1000 to 1900 PARIS, Oct 1, 2009 / FW/ — A meeting place of the designers, international buyers and journalists, Tranoi is happening in three locations – Palais Brongniart, the Carrousel du Louvre and the Hotel Dassault, offering an avant-garde selection, a vision and a personal style focused on fashion. For Spring 2010, following...
Gareth Pugh Spring 2010: A Design Master at Work
PARIS, Oct 1, 2009 / FW/ — It was like seeing a master at his work. Gareth Pugh might be young in man years but his vision of fashion has a timelessness that transcends both past and future. Two weeks prior, in New York’s Milk Studios, Pugh mesmerized the Big Apple’s fashionistas with a short film about his thoughts on designing clothes. And yesterday, at the...
Anne Valerie Hash Spring 2010: Worth Waiting For
PARIS, Oct 1, 2009 / FW/ — As promised, Anne Valerie Hash is back after one season’s absence on the haute couture calendar. Her hiatus, though short-lived paid off as she sent romantic yet modernistic silhouettes that are wearable but kept its artistic declinations. Opting for neutral colors, Hash sent out different washes of beige and several shades of black...
Chamber Syndicale Releases Definitive Paris Fashion Week Schedule
Eiffel Tower WEDNESDAY, Sep 3, 2009 1000 IMPASSE DE LA DEFENSE Gare de Lyon – Train Bleu – Salle Dorée – Place Louis Armand – Paris 12e 1100 MOON YOUNG HEE Garage Turenne – 66 rue de Turenne – Paris 3e 1200 TIM Van Steenbergen Area Commines – 17 rue Commines – Paris 3e 1300 ANNE VALERIE HASH 36 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle –...
Chambre Syndicale Releases Tentative Paris Spring 2010 Catwalk Schedule
Eiffel Tower PARIS, Aug 31, 2009 / FW/ — Last Friday, the Chambre Syndicale du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode, France’s fashion governing body released the tentative catwalk schedule for the Spring / Summer 2010 Paris Fashion Week. And though the dates and names are not all confirmed yet, there are already 86 names on the official calendar,...
Paris Fashion Week Spring 2010
Paris Prêt-a-porter Spring 2010 Dates: Wednesday, September the 30th to Thursday, October the 8th, 2009 Fashion & the Comic Con Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6) DALLAS, Aug 10, 2009 / FW/ — For all intent and purposes, there is no connection between high street fashion and the recently concluded Comic Con that was held at the San Diego Convention...
Barbara Bui Spring 2009: Galactic Gypsy
Barbara Bui Spring - Summer 2009 PARIS, Jun 4, 2009 / FW/ — With sci-fi flicks that includes Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as this summer’s blockbuster movies, Barbara Bui’s optimistic and futuristic silhouettes are the “in” and “on-trend” without being cliché . When dealing with futurism, one of the biggest downfalls of designers...
Lie Sang Bong Fall 2009: The Ancient Art of Senshi
Lie Sang Bong Fall 2009 PARIS, Mar 5, 2009 / FW/ — Proposing his unique vision of futuristic Goth, Korean designer Lie Sang Bong sent out a sexually charged collection that featured an old Chinese art called ‘senshi’, an intricate process where patterns or pictures are made by cutting figures out of paper with a sharp blade. Using leather as his medium, Lie Sang...
Estrella Archs Fall 2009: Sabrina Lives
Estrella Archs Fall 2009 PARIS, Mar 5, 2009 / FW/ — Buckling the gothic and futuristic trend that hit the first day of Paris Fashion Week, Estrella Archs found Audrey Hepburn’s ‘Sabrina’ the New Yorker who was born to an American mother and British father and studied in Paris. Released in 1954 with Audrey Hepburn in the starring role, which by the way also...
Peachoo+Krejberg Fall 2009: Futuristic 3-D
Peachoo + Krejberg Fall 2009 PARIS, Mar 5, 2009 / FW/ — It was ‘Clan of the Cave Bears’ meets ‘Time Machine’ moment at Peachoo+Krejberg as the design duo sent out a futuristic collection that featured fur, raw yarn and deconstructed silhouettes which are high concept but also high street. It was fashion in 3-D as the black & red pieces were adorned with...
Corinne Cobson Fall 2009: A New Direction
Corrine Cobson Fall 2009 PARIS, Mar 5, 2009 / FW/ — Using a small venue in the 10th arrondisement, Corinne Cobson demonstrated a new direction for a familiar style. This season Corinne successfully balanced a juxtaposition between high fashion and alternative street style with the use of Dock Martins in her collection. The color palette remained dark yet sophisticated...
