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Every year Stephane Rolland surprises guests and the press with a peculiar manner of presenting his collection. We attended to grand defiles, breathlessly watched the performance of violinists and dancers, admired a short film. Presentation of the new fall-winter 2015-2016 collection in typical French apartments on the avenue George V gathered a surprising number of…
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Fashion house Armani Privé presented their collection at the haute couture week in Paris and the feeling of «deja vu» was bugging me. Not once and not even twice I talked about the recurrence of fashion. Having traversed a certain temporal spiral, everything comes back. So I decided to dig in the archives of our…
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Dresses-paintings, enclosed in a foldable frame, which designers, traditionally participating in the show, remove from the models after passage to hang on the wall. The new haute couture collection of the Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf with a title speaking for itself “Wearable Art” finally brought the creativity of the designers beyond fashion. A famous…
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This year Alexis Mabille celebrates the tenth anniversary of his fashion house. Hard to believe, looking at this still very young Parisian with sparks of enthusiasm in his eyes talking in English with a fascinating French accent about his new couture collection. And Alexis was saying that haute couture in his understanding is not limited…