PARISIAN ELEGANCE OF SAINT LAURENT

PARISIAN ELEGANCE OF SAINT LAURENT

The Saint Laurent FALL 2023 READY-TO-WEAR show was held in a contemporary giant black YSL-logo box at the foot of the Eiffel Tower with floating big golden chandeliers lighting up the gold runway tapestry, the luxurious setting the scene for an enviable selection to follow. With functionality a reoccurring theme this season in design, and Anthony Vaccarello, the brand’s creative director, interpreted it through stylish elegant workwear essentials. Models appeared in an office-inspired uniform of…

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Chanel Haute Couture Fall Winter 2021-2022

Chanel Haute Couture Fall Winter 2021-2022

Painting is at the heart of the Chanel Fall Winter 2021-2022 Haute Couture collection: “It was when I rediscovered these portraits of Gabrielle Chanel dressed up in black or white 1880s-style dresses, that I immediately thought about tableaux,” explains Virginie Viard. “Works by Berthe Morisot, Marie Laurencin and Édouard Manet. There are impressionist-inspired dresses, skirts that look like paintings and a long white satin dress punctuated with black bows like Morisot’s…” It made perfect sense…

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Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2021-2022

Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2021-2022

Another fabulous fairy-tale of Pierpaolo Piccioli, artistic director of Maison Valentino, unfolded today, as a final firework of Haute Couture fashion week in Paris. Indeed Valentino house presented in Paris, but this time the show took place in Venice. Driven by the need to create a community of artists around Maison Valentino, convinced that painting is to contemporary art what Haute Couture is to fashion, the Artistic Director Pierpaolo Piccioli brings a group to the…

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