It’s a biannual tradition, swooning over Elie Saab‘s latest haute couture collection. If there’s one thing fashion girls everywhere love, it’s an Elie Saab gown. And the collection did not disappoint!
RUNWAY REPORT: Yiqing Yin Spring 2016 Couture
Meet Yiqing Yin, who became a permanent fixture on the haute couture schedule this week in Paris. Yin’s strong Spring 2016 couture collection walked the French runways while celebrating the strength of the female form. Let’s review, shall we!
Runway: Fendi Shows Fur Couture in Paris
Paris Couture Week featured a special guest this time around, meet Fendi and their fur brigade.
Runway: Versace Fairy Tale for Fall 2015 Couture
I feel like it’s been a hot minute since we discussed Versace and Donatella’s reign on sex appeal.
Runway Report: Spring 2015 Haute Couture Recap
Last week , the fashion elite took over the runways in Paris to present the latest and greatest in haute couture! The Spring 2015 couture runways showed an eclectic mix of bold and traditional looks, to satisfy the hunger of fashion lovers everywhere, self included.
These hand crafted, one-of-a-kind pieces are the premium in design, coming at quite the price. But, they’re also the precursor to the ready-to-wear collections due out next month, and will spill into designs of your local clothing store in no time. From Karl Lagerfeld’s crop tops and blinged-out beanies at Chanel, to Armani Prive‘s sweltering looks of regal elegance – the landscape of haute couture has never been more grand!
To catch you up on everything you missed, or maybe to help you relive the magic, I’ve put together an assortment of the signature looks from the runways that will make their way into the editorial pages of Vogue and the red carpets of the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival in no time. Half the fun of couture, for those of us who will never be able to afford it, is watching where the gorgeous atelier fashion ends up after its debut!
Let’s review!
Runway Report: Valentino Spring 2015 Haute Couture
Guys, screw Cinderella! Valentino put on their own live-action fairy tale this with week a Spring 2015 Haute Couture collection that felt like the fairy tale romance of my dreams. Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri brought their own Jane Austen meets Grimm Brothers saga to life through corsets, rich textures, stunning embroidery and of course that whole whimsical sense of magic we’ve come to expect from a Valentino collection.
MUCH to my relief, the peasant dresses that plagued Valentino collections for the past several seasons were replaced with that traditional silhouette you’d expect to find on Sleeping Beauty, or, you know, the heroine of an Austen novel.