In the fall-winter couture collection Alexis Mabille focused his work on the colors. Under the general theme – “Pastel Vibrations” – the designer presented to the public twenty-three evening gowns made in soft, slightly chilly shades ranging from aquamarine to pearl. Alexis left experiments for another time: most of the looks are variations of what…
“It’s hard to be a God, but even more difficult to imitate one” – such an idea certainly at least once occurred to every modern couturier, leading a once legendary, enlisted in the history of fashion, brand. Bertrand Guyon, creating a third couture collection for the revived 4 years ago Schiaparelli house was not looking…
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…