The bride in a cream, almost flesh-colored dress with a flared hem, tight sleeves going down to the middle phalanges and a deep V-shaped neckline, pointed like a sharp arrow the stomach, stopped several meters before reaching the podium, spun around and staggered, as if frightened by something, and disappeared at the backstage. We looked…
Couture can be different. It could be glaring, deliberately luxurious like at Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad, or futurist, as if inspired by creatures from parallel worlds like that of Bowie Wong or Jean Paul Gaultier. And there is one at Chanel, which, perhaps, cannot be group with anything else, so unique and original it…
While the entire fashion world froze in an anticipation of another sensational change in the chair of creative director of the most couture house of Paris, a Swiss pair of Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux, summoned to the rescue the “orphaned” Christian Dior after the “sudden” departure of Raf Simons, sharpens skills in their third…
The one before last show from the official Fall-Winter 2016/2017 Haute Couture calendar was presented by Zuhair Murad (the week was closed by Valentino). Held in the right wing of the Grand Palais, it set before the admired audience a legitimate question from the accompanying the show “Bohemian Rhapsody” soundtrack: Is this the real life?…