As expected design duo Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Picciolo kept the overall vibe romantic and put the custom hand-detailing emphasis into Haute Couture week, with a collection that spoke to the design house’s revered heritage. Opening with looks that mixed folklore and fine art, alpine florals met baroque collars and cuffs and embroidery was everywhere.  With hair crowned in loose braids tucked with wildflowers, skin left dewey and eyes wide, models channeled natural beauty of Botticelli’s Primavera, letting the intricacy of the ensembles resonate.

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       Atelier  VERSACE

                   Award Season has begun, and so have the Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015 collections, which means only one thing: glamour, glamour and more glamour! Naturally. I’m here to bring you all of the hottest front row and backstage action !

Opening the Spring/Summer 2015 Haute Couture collections like only Donatella Versace knows how, Paris sizzled on Sunday night with the arrival of Atelier Versace’s scandalously sexy collection. Continue Reading…

See the Best Appearances

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See the Best Looks by Prada Pre-Fall 2015 Runway

Introducing the Class of Pre-Fall 2015: A bunch of quasi-high-school-girl students wearing more-or-less school uniform marched determinedly around Prada headquarters with their male classmates. Frankly, with their ugly-cool hair, scraped up and over into side-pinned ponytails, and their freakishly morphed array of tread-soled duck-shoes\trainers\brogues, this does not present as a coquettish-kind-of-a-year group. Frippery and flattery? Not here. Except for the odd, flattened grosgrain bow and a slyly sexy bared back, these clothes are old-school regulation Prada: Sober pleated pinafore dresses and utilitarian-classic coats. In other words: The brainchildren of Prof. Miuccia Prada’s philosophical studies into the similarities and differences between men’s and women’s clothes. Continue Reading…

While Burton spins out the McQueen signatures which must always be in the collection—the biker jacket, this time with a giant fold-over shearling collar, falling almost like a cape, the chunky Aran knit, the exquisite evening dress, this one with William Morris–like flocking on black lace—it’s tempting to try to guess what she might be taking from this line to develop for fall proper. No designer is actually going to tell you that in advance, but as a guess—or rather, an outright wish—could a softer romanticism, rather than gothic drama, be on the verge of breaking through?

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                        Emilio Pucci takes us back to the Seventies

for pre-autumn/winter 15

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