Category: Haute Couture Fashion Week


  • In one of her interviews, the priestess of fashion journalism and a true lady Suzy Menkes to answer a question, what is able to draw her attention in a new collection of a designer which she comes to review for a thirty-third season, said something like this: “All the designers sooner or later begin to…

  • Julien Fournié belongs to a constellation of young and talented – the new generation of French (haute) couture. He has his own style, in which the couturier’s talent is interwoven with the past experience of Julien when following the parents’ advice the young man had studied to become a doctor for six years. From this…

  • “Only those women who do not know how to dress are afraid of a colour. A dress may be brilliant without vulgarity, and delicate but not faded”- this citation from the “In Search of Lost Time” novel of Marcel Proust best describes “Colour Therapy”- the summer couture collection of the fashion house Alexis Mabille. Designer,…

  • “Woven out of fire” – comes to mind when you would want to name the latest Couture Spring-Summer 2012 collection of On Aura Tout Vu (a French expression roughly equivalent to “That takes the cake!”). I must confess that every time with a bated breath I’m waiting for their show and is tortured by the…