Hints and tips:
...In my opinion, the master of Paris this season was Rick Owens, and I suspect most other designers would agree wholeheartedly....
...Blackstone sells a haute couture building Big real estate deals are a rare bird these days....
...I feel like we exhaled here because the couture was so corseted and so sculptural.”...
...At his Maison Margiela haute couture show in January, John Galliano proposed a third option, his men tightly cinched in stomach-crunching corsets with padded behinds, their silhouettes resembling belle époque...
...In between we had some of the best menswear shows of the season — Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe, where models were dressed as angels or clad in full-metal jackets, painstakingly crafted; Rick Owens’ swirling...
...It’s there in his daily wardrobe — usually baggy black shorts and vest, California stoner wear meets haute couture....
...I thought of Louella when I went to Kim Jones’s Fendi haute couture show last season. It brought me to tears. That’s the true haute couture I remember hearing about from grandma Louella....
...In January 2000, John Galliano presented an haute couture collection for the house of Christian Dior that incited protests....
...The label itself, however, has bowed to demands — Kronthaler’s line is what the brand dubs “demi-couture,” highly priced and often made to order....
...Or maybe the big takeaway will be Owens’ take on comfort-dressing as the new decade uncomfortably dawns....
...Maria Grazia Chiuri creative director of Dior women’s haute couture, ready-to-wear and accessories collections It’s very rare to see me without my jewellery....
...“Not quite the centre of hell but on the way there,” Owens said. (Another of his signatures is dark humour.)...
...Capitol is a 6,000sq ft emporium full of fashion brands, haute joaillerie, cult accessories and even couture....
...Rick Owens, whose styles are usually executed in a Henry Fordian all-black palette and to whom the epithet “gothic” is frequently applied, created dresses for s/s 2020 with beetle-wing iridescence in frosted...
...Her clothes and hats looked as if they were timeless classics from French couture houses. Many were. Others were Mellon’s own creations....
...Deacon also dresses his partner, the actress Gwendoline Christie, in custom couture....
...He seems particularly proud of the ongoing union with Owens; “Rick Owens didn’t just design shoes — he created looks, he designed a whole architecture around it and was deeply involved as he is with anything...
...Rick Owens and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons delivered clothes that distilled angst and uncertainty into cloth. Both made compelling fashion....
...And for his SS14 show, Rick Owens dressed a 40-strong troupe of female stepdancers rather than models – they stampeded down the catwalk during an electrifying 11-minute routine....
...Is it time for men’s couture? Raf Simons used couture fabrics for his show inspired by post-punk new wave (above)....
...From 1960s couture to the supermodels at Versace in the 1990s, Alexander Fury writes that “Moore has seen more fashion, perhaps, than anyone else on earth”....
...For SS18, the designer had used Marimekko furnishing fabrics and stripy T-shirting to create a series of dresses, parkas and skirts in stunning couture shapes....
...The sneaker was everywhere for SS18: it starred as part of a New Balance collaboration at Junya Watanabe; a heeled Nike boot at Comme des Garçons; it was a slouch style at Rick Owens, a bejewelled sock shoe...
...The coat has its foundations in couture as much as in the Arctic....
...The clingy T-shirt he is wearing was a gift from Rick Owens....
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