Paris Fashion Week Highlights
July 16, 2009
Paris Fashion Week - Christophe Josse
Screen-siren glamour, sexy, lacy bodices and a frothy collection of endless would-be bridal gowns brought Paris’ winter 2010 haute couture displays to an uneven conclusion last week, capping three emotional days that saw what’s likely to be the last show by Christian Lacroix.
The gifted French designer fielded a superb collection of chic skirt suits and cocoon coats that culminated in tears and group hugs. Made possible by the largess of his longtime collaborators — Lacroix’s 22-year-old label is deeply in debt and likely to close at the end of the month — the show marked a singularly stirring moment for the fashion world.
The displays that followed felt ho-hum by comparison.
That was the overriding sentiment at Elie Saab. The Lebanese designer — a red-carpet favorite — sent out a never-ending parade of fluffy white dresses drenched in sequins, feathers and tulle.
Jean Paul Gaultier looked to vintage Hollywood for a solid collection that was equal parts Ava Gardner and Gaultier — the one-time enfant terrible of French fashion — himself.
Things were looking up at Valentino. Its new design duo finally found its way out of the archive and forged a sexy new look for the mythic Italian label. Out went the ladylike day coats and tasteful A-line cocktail dresses in jewel-toned duchess silk; in came the second-skin bodice dresses in flesh-colored tulle and black lace; and up, way up, went the hemlines.
Other highlights included Givenchy, where designer Riccardo Tisci melded the menacing and the sublime, and French designer Stephane Rolland, whose graphic mosaic embroidery was inspired by a wall covering at a New York apartment.
Source: Chron
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