”With every new collection I conceive the striking image of my mother in a flared tulip print silk dress reappears endlessly in my mind” confesses Elie Saab in the press release of the Spring-Summer haute couture presentation. The Lebanese designer takes us to a hot and spicy city of his birth, sunlit casually-festive Beirut of…
Why should we stick to certain standards? Of course not! Jean Paul declares to the entire fashion world that he will act in his own way, and starts the show with the robe of the bride! And so she comes: radiant, weightless and solemn. Very solemn was also her hairstyle – a pyramid of white…
At the spring-summer 2015 haute couture week Raf Simons showed, perhaps, the most “anti-Dior” collection since his arrival in the fashion house as a creative director in April 2012. If at the beginning, according to the designer himself, he “tried the pen”, focusing attention on the study of archives and developing a recognizable lexicon of…