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HANG UP
Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Mick Jagger, was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday. L’Wren Scott (formerly Luann Bambrough; April 28, 1964) was an American model, fashion and costume designer.
At the suggestion of photographer Bruce Weber, who spotted her at a Calvin Klein hosiery photo shoot, Scott left Utah after graduating from high school for Paris to pursue a career as a model, changing her name from Luann to L’Wren. In Paris, Scott went on to work for Thierry Mugler and Chanel, as well as model for such renowned photographers as Guy Bourdin, David Bailey and Jean-Paul Goude. Continue reading
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. McQUEEN
When Alexander McQueen was alived, he would have been 45 years old yesterday. We gave tribute when he passed, now it’s time to celebrate the Brit designer’s life and work through the genius creations he left behind. Did you get a chance to see his pre-Fall and Fall collections?
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA’s International Designer of Continue reading
CLICK & BUY
An exclusive platform dedicated to the luxe online has just been launched by LVMH. The question is: will the online will revolution the luxe? The online shopping of luxe launches its first video “shoppable”. Share on Facebook, etc …, the principle is simple and the idea bright. It is precisely the privilege of the luxe to combine business with pleasure.
Launched in 2010, the site offers a new feature: to combine video and shopping. Luxury clothes are Continue reading
AMERICAN, PLEASE KEEP RALF
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (Cfda) announced the nominees and honorees for the 2014 Cfda fashion awards. The International award will go to Raf Simons for his creative contribution to the international fashion stage.
The nominees for Womenswear designer of the year award are Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarraand Marc Jacobs. For the Menswear designer of the year nominees are: Maxwell Osborne & Dao-Yi Chow for Public School, Marcus Wainwright & David Neville for Rag & Bone, and Thom Browne.
And for Accessories designer of the year award the nominees are Alexander Wang, Lazaro Hernandez & Jack McCullough for Proenza Schouler, and Mary-Kate Olsen & Ashley Olsen for The Row.
CORRIE NIELSEN
The official guest of the Federation of Ready-To-Wear, Corrie Nielsen, who has been presenting her shows for the last six years in London, presented a collection this year in Paris. She is one of the first to start the Paris Fashion Week with a well thought and relevant collection revealing a much more personal and innovant trend.
The collection, entitled ” Cradle of Humankind “, draws its inspiration from the great literature of the late nineteenth century with Bram Stoker’s Dracula as well as in 1992 film adaptation of the novel by the Director Francis Ford Coppola with Continue reading
CHLOE GLAMOUR ATTITUDE CHIC
The soft and relaxed attitude of the Chloe woman has a touch of untamed for the label’s Fall-Winter 2014 collection presented during Paris Fashion Week. The creative director, Clare Waight Keller, sent out the house’s signatures – a parade of easy, tomboyish separates for the Autumn season in a mix of neutrals and pastels.
However, the look is emboldened with luxe multi-colored furs and ruffle embellishments for a sense of surprise in the Chloe woman’s wardrobe.
Elsewhere, dresses and skirts are decorated with raised geometric gold emblems while funnel neckline jackets bring a sporty mood.
chloe3The story was, once again, about texture, with some intriguing double-faced wools. Although this designer, who cut her fashion teeth on knitting, might have extended Chloé’s knit repertoire. Ms. Waight Keller is getting a freer sense of the Chloé style, and that is to be applauded.
HERMES
Mini and maxi
lengths at the Hermès’ catwalk in Paris, with full, straight and tapered shapes, the protagonist of the Hitchcock film, Rebecca, with her duality, her mystery, and her past-era elegance, inspires a feminine and an extremely French women. Christophe Lemaire wants Fall to be a cozy and a luxurious xxx.
The Hermès collection offers rich and warm coats wrapping the body. Beautifully draped and cut coats were key here—done in variations of robe-like silhouettes, collar-less throw-ons, relaxed military jackets and tons of belted fur vests.
His color palette was restrained, almost to the point of austerity. Which made moments like a printed dress and shearling vest especially welcome. There was a lot to like
(and importantly, wear) in this line-up, but as a whole, it was very subdued. It was luxe, luxe, luxe. Think: an entire suit made from sheered fur. The wonder was Continue reading
SHIATZY CHEN
Shiatzy Chen is a Taiwanese fashion house, often referred to as the Chanel of Taiwan, and is the eponym of her luxury brand.
She was born in 1951 in Changhua, Taiwan and founded the company in 1978. The brand spirit for Shiatzy Chen is “neo-Chinese chic”, which transfers historical Chinese aesthetics into modern fashion design.
The brand is known for its distinctive design features drawn from Chinese culture such as qipao collars, knot buckles or patterns in a Chinese ink painting. The ink stone, along with paper, brush and ink stick, make up what is called the “Four Treasures of Scholarly Study”.
The ink stone from which the collection gets its name is a large water-holding reservoir and mortar used for the grinding and containment of ink. Flowers are imprinted on boxy jackets as well as on fluid skirts.
When they appeared in 3D Chanel of Taiwan and black ink, I try to understand if that girl could be the next Karl Lagerfeld of the Wertheimer Group?
CHANEL SUPERMARKETING
Yesterday Karl Lagerfeld took VIPs shopping at the “Chanel Supermarket show” complete with fully-stocked aisles, check-outs, trolleys, special offers and discount posters. Every product packaging were branded Gabrielle Chanel.
Karl transformed in supermarket the Grand Palais, the temple of arts, after the FIAC (Art supermarket for rich people). Chanel has recreated a supermarket for rich people in Paris downtown. He just forgot that he has never been in a supermarket and does not know what is happenning Continue reading
LEONARD TOUCHDOWN
A few weeks ago, when I have heard that the next Leonard collection will be run by the Chinese designer Yiqing Yin, I had written an article: a Chinese who will make kimonos. That should be interesting!
But, my spy from Moscow was at the show for me.
Madam, today, I beat my breast and as you are surely aware, when we do here a mistake, we know to acknowledge it. To tell you the truth, I must admit that it was a wonderful collection; the best of the Paris fashion week 2014.
For anybody, it is not very easy to arrive in a firm which has already a culture and to immerse herself of this culture without forgetting her own culture and identity.
Yiqing Yin did it in a few months and that is how you recognise great designers. I had already been impressed by the Chinese’s capacity to influence the weather during the 2008 Olympic Games, but, this time, their capacity to change the “Couture” is becoming obvious year after year.
I bet you that this Continue reading
NINA RICCI PARIS 2014
PACO RABANNE DARE UGLY
I have looked at all the photos of the Paco Rabanne’s Fashion Show to find something that would not destroy the design of the blog. I found nothing. The owner of Paco Rabanne, the Puig Group, once again, makes a copy quite below the brand it wants to give to the world of fashion industry.
Indeed, “dare ugly” – it may be a new marketing concept? There is really no reason for this collection to be sold or shown to an audience of professionals because, obviously, we can not in any case judge a collection that clearly seems to have been made by students of first year of the Chambre Syndicale.
Mrs. Julien Dossena checks out, does like other foreign designers in France and copies the Haute Couture collections.
Over the last 30 years, thanks to Mr. Karl Otto Lagerfeldt, we have already experienced a revisitied German style. Therefore, Madam, after the ugly, dare beautiful !
MANISH ARORA
WINGS FROM INDONESIA
Tex Saverio was incorporated on December 2012 to work on the Ready-to-Wear clothing and lifestyle products. It aims to bring the Tex Saverio brand to a global platform and position Indonesia on the international fashion arena.
The first exclusive ready-to-wear collection was launched at Paris Fashion Week, at Jeu de Paume, on Saturday 28th September 2013.
Indonesian born and based couturier Tex Saverio founded his eponymous luxury couture line after graduating from Bunka and Phalie Studio in Jakarta. His fashion career officially started in 2010 through the label Tex Saverio Prive, which was oriented toward haute couture designs. Dramatic, theatrical, spectacular are the adjectives often used to describe the aesthetics of Tex Saverio label. This consistent design DNA is something sacred for Tex because it defines his label’s image for the public eye. Continue reading
WE SUPPORT FRANCK & ISABELLE
Today, in solidarity with the Fashion Designer Franck Sorbier, we will publish no article to protest against the scandalous video on the last Haute Couture collection of the “Couturier” by Jean-Luc Delarue ‘s ex-wife, Mrs Elysabeth Bost. (To read the article, visit the blogdemode.com and click here)
It is the first time since the beginning of Canal-Luxe that we will not edit to support Franck and Isabelle.