Paris Fashion Week | LANVIN SPRING 2011

Hard and soft contrasts are the main foundation for Lanvin’s spring 2011 showing with sleek silhouettes and asymmetry joining together with lightweight materials and strong silhouettes, offsetting the feminine with masculine. Some of the shapes are questionable with a few pieces looking like padding in the wrong areas; pecs and over muscled arm shapes.. Sticking with the neutral palette of greys, browns we have seen strong in the last few seasons, with blues, ochres, reds and tans featuring in the collection.

Paris Fashion Week | GIVENCHY S/S11 HAUTE COUTURE

Bejewelled dresses and bolero cuts were equally inspired by traditional Japanese Butoh dancers throughout history and futuristic sci-fi shapes.

Dazed Magazine wrote:
Yesterday, Givenchy held a private presentation at the Hotel Evreux on Place Vendôme, which felt like the best (and most traditional) way to admire the intricacy of couture pieces. There, over three rooms, bejewelled dresses by Riccardo Tisci, elevated into the air by a floating mannequin or worn by a wandering model were contemplated over a glass of peach nectar. The collection is influenced by Japanese history, and more precisely by the work of Kazuo Ohno, a traditional Butoh dancer. True to Tisci’s touch, the silhouettes interweave both male and female influences, such as large frontal knots alongside geometrical necks and sharp patterns, poking both at women’s kimonos and costumes Gundam fighters.


History and future (or rather, a child’s Sci-Fi fantasy) are also melted into one Post-Modern unity: traditional techniques such as hand sewn crane birds are place alongside geometrical 3D embroidery; organza dresses intermingle with angular sequin appliqués. A similar balance operates in the duality of the colours: eye-grabbing boleros cuts, often reduced to dominant shoulder pads, are made of luminescent orange and pink sequins, arranged to resemble fish scales – these are contrasted with limes, white-pinks and citrus tones on silk, chiffon and organza. A soft warrior, a couture fighter, all interpretations are left to one’s imaginations.

CHANEL pre-fall 2o11 Paris-Byzance

"The season's theme, Paris-Byzance, Lagerfeld explained, was inspired by the Empress Theodora and the lost culture of Byzantium. In typically rapid-fire mode, he noted: "Theodora was a circus artist who became empress, like Chanel, who was a little singer and became a fashion empress." Ba-domp-bomp! Mostly, however, the reference came via Coco's Byzantine-inspired Gripoix jewelry, which is instantly recognizable even today." Karl Lagerfeld -style.com

Anna Dello Russo

Wearing Roksanda Ilincic @ Paris Fashion Week

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