“Sparkling organza gives birth to crystal buds, captured by silk muslin…” – from the first lines the press release, forestalling the fall-winter haute couture show of Georges Hobeika, tunes the audience to poesy and sets up a romantic mood. Drawing a portrait of a graceful and fantastic ingénue, the designer takes his heroine to the…
Another designer duo in their fall-winter haute couture collection turned to the theme of interior decor. While Karl Lagerfeld under glass arches of Grand Palais recreated Versailles, imagining how the residence of the Sun King may have looked after its modernization by the famous architect-urbanist Le Corbusier, and Elie Saab invited the audience to the…
It is no secret that the home country of Ulyana Sergeenko, Russia, is going through not so simple from political and humanitarian view times. Laces and ruffles, broad floor-sweeping skirts and flirty glances from under half-closed eyelashes are in the past. On the catwalk reigns post-revolutionary mood of the first quarter of the twentieth century,…
At the haute couture fashion week in Paris Jean Paul Gaultier introduced his cute “vampires.” At dusk they appear dressed in a black dress with a hood, pallor of slim legs flashes in the moonlight, gold chains gleam with luxury, hands are hidden in soft leather gloves, and scarlet lips freeze in a cunning grin.…