For the 26th edition of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography at Hyères, the villa Noailles received more than 300 entries from young designers of over forty different nationalities. The selection was done in two stages. An initial pre-selection was held at Hyères, resulting in 53 entries being chosen. The final selection of ten designers took place…
Franck Sorbier, a frequenter of Parisian haute couture weeks, once again surprised the fashion crowd with multifaceted artistic talent and originality. In his spring collection the designer told us four seemingly unrelated stories. Bright “voodoo” style silk satin jackets (a contribution of the designer’s companion, Isabelle Tartière, which is also a president of the House)…
Valentino – it sounds so poetic. You immediately imagine rich red and exceptional white, two favorite colours of the Master. And the translucent collection, presented at the spring-summer couture fashion show in Paris by Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri also contained them – the red and white. I would call this collection “immaculate”. Ruffles,…
Christophe Josse never ceases to indulge men’s and women’s eyes with ingenuous and light beauty. His every show is not a challenge to the fashion world, but a delicate “retouch” of feminine beauty. At the spring-summer 2011 show in Paris Christophe presented a collection of dresses from “mini” to “maxi” of chiffon, guipure and finest…