Dior Couture Spring 2013 runway, shown today during Paris Fashion Week, was fluid, fresh and yet still appropriately beholden to the archives; add in the popularity of newly installed designer Raf Simons plus a community anxious to see the storied Dior house return to respectability and it’s no suprise the critics are cooing, (not too mention stylists to the stars drooling). Which, good for Dior’s handbag and perfume sales going forward. They will probably improve compared to last year.
See three more of our favorite looks on the next page.
Rap artist A$AP Rocky sits front row at the runway for Dior Couture Spring 2013, as photographed by Tommy Ton. The Harlem rap artist was there in support of Dior designer Raf Simons who joined the label as creative director in April 2012, in replacement of John Galliano. Thus far, early read on the collection, shown today during Paris Fashion Week, has been largely positive.
While Balenciaga is still on the lookout for a new creative director, we invite you to take another look at what we can now say was Nicholas Guesquiere’s last runway show with the fashion house. Ladylike sensibilities with a modern twist and the popular mix of black and white we’ve seen on many runways for Spring 2013. Enjoy!
Y-3 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the mission to “Define the future of sport and style.” To celebrate they have launched a collection filled with covetable looks featuring refined tennis dresses with pleated skirts, jersey shirts with tiered ruffles, and mesh swing dresses with asymmetric draw-cord details. Prints motifs called ‘Feather’, ‘Water’, and ‘Thorn’ designed by Mr. Hayashi in loud colors orange, blue, pink and green complete the futuristic looks.
“My desire was and still is to make sportswear elegant and chic. With Y-3, we created something that did not exist before. After 10 years, we are falling in love with the three stripes once more.”
During Paris Fashion Week, Miuccia Prada presented a rather wicked line for Miu Miu’s Spring 2013 collection. Coats made of latex, leather and denim over straight-line yet-lose-fitting skirts were heightened with paint-splash flower prints. Over-sized furs in various colors were more discreet, with colors made to blend with the clothing they covered. Once again a very female collection for the sophisticated women.
Take a glimpse at our favorite looks on the next page.
Set in the Louvre, Louis Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs collaborated with artist Daniel Buren to create a luxury-mall-inspired backdrop to a collection of mod-mod looks. The two setting meshed will with the fashion, both fondly looking back at brighter days for brick-and-mortar shopping and design. Special slickness points extended to Jacobs who references LV’s bread-and-butter, bags, by using the label’s trademark checkerboards as an apparel design theme.
In a nutshell: NY Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn didn’t get invited to the Saint Laurent show held this week during Paris Fashion Week, subsequently she blew up the situation in her column, and then proceeded to blast the collection down to the ground. Apparently there is old beef between Horyn and newly-installed Saint Laurent designer, Hedi Sliman, so the lack of invite was not accidental. Slimane today responded with a Twitter letter (shown above) addressing Horyn. It reads:
Miss Horyn is a schoolyard bully and also a little bit of a stand-up comedian.
Insiders argue she is an average writer, and a bit provincial, but I disagree, she did some great things. Her biggest achievement so far is a book about Bill Blass, that I haven’t read. It might be terrific, and I’ll be happy to recommend it, if it helps the sales.
I also often hear that her sense of style is seriously challenged, providing that she is meant to be an authority in the village. This is totally irrelevant, no one has ever asked for her to be an inspiration to others after all, and likely it would never happen anyway.
Besides, and amusingly, her agenda is seriously thick and perfectly predictable. She is a woman on a mission, and this season she is on fire.
Miss Horyn also works for the New York Times, as everyone knows, where conflicts of interest might seem a little out of place and where being partial, or too friendly with the locals might not be an option.
In conclusion, and as far as I’m concerned, she will never get a seat at Saint Laurent, but might get 2 for 1 at Dior. She should rejoice. I don’t mind critics, but they have to come from a fashion critic, not a publicist in disguise. I am quite mesmerized she did get away with it for so many years.
And by the way come to visit our new website at ysl.com.
Sincerely yours.
And now Horyn has volleyed back, saying, “It’s just silly nonsense.” Well now that’s what you say! On the one hand I’m clapping my hands with glee as I plow through the popcorn, but on the other I’m thinking despite the old adage about any publicity, this is not a good look for either party.
Could it be that Phoebe Philo’s Spring 2013 for Céline mark a trend towards a more comfortable side of fashion? While we highly doubt that women will give up their heels in lieu of mink slides, the nonchalance of the looks is kind of ballsy and refreshing. While the runway show will highlights the very desirable apparel hop over on the next page for some furry shoe and my favorite so far, the red painted toes pumps! via Style.
Always a wry one that Karl…in Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week runway show today, the designer showed a “Hula-Hoop” bag, one of such epic proportions, one can’t help but conclude it’s a statement that comments on the massive importance these day of bags as it relates to every accessory brands’ sales (category growth of bags is outpacing even shoes), while at the same time poking fun at the concept, which every designer is now chasing like five-year olds after a soccer ball.
