Fashion By The Rules Paris Spring 2010
October 12, 2009 by jeffybruce
SPECTACULAR LANVIN
LANVIN EMBELLISHED
PRINTED ARTISTRY @ McQUEEN
MASTERFUL DRESSMAKING @ McQUEEN
THE SPECTACULAR CHANEL
EFFORTLESS CHIC AT HERMES
THE NEW CELINE CUSTOMER
SALABLE EASY @ STELLA McCARTNEY
INCREDIBLE BALENCIAGA
ANDREW GN SIMPLIFIED
Fashion By The Rules
Paris Spring 2010
It has been one long month of looking at collections for next Spring but it was true that the best was saved for last. Paris delivered a wide ranging season that brought designers either back to their roots( DIOR, LANVIN, HERMES, GAULTIER, LOEWE) or designers who forged new ground (GIVENCHY,McQUEEN,CELINE,BALENCIAGA & CHANEL).
There are trends but I want to call them soft trends as they are not always apparent in every collection but definitely an underlying theme for so many designers. Look for the prints, draping, drama, clean cut linear clothes, color, the absence of color with naturals and black, waists, trench coat looks, transparency, lace embellishments of every kind and I believe these all lead to an excitement during a very stressful season .
Never let it be said there was no spectacle during these hard times…we received “SHOWS” in their most spectacular sense at Chanel, McQueen, Louis Vinton and Victor Rolfe.
There was the comeback show of the season at Celine with a superbly rendered new vision for an old house ….a disastrous new vision for the old house of Ungaro which certainly made tongues wag and then those who soldiered on in the greatest of their own particular tradition (JPG, Andrew Gn, Loewe, Junya Watanabe, and Akris).
This is the season when retailers and eventually consumer will speak very loudly as to where and what is in demand. Spring is always a challenging season and this season will be no different with the exception that the French did it best and without retreating under their shells.
I encourage you to really examine the collections at www.style.com whom I also thank for their wonderful coverage and please keep up with my in depth reviews at http://jeffybruce.blogspot.com/
