Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 Pt 2: Anne Valerie Hash & retrospective (2002 - present)

Anne Valerie Hash

For SS'11, Anne Valerie Hash experimented with structure and flow, with a subtle yet powerful sense of color. The beautiful palette consisted of pale makeup hues worn with silvery grays, with a dash of spicy saffron. drapey fabrics like georgette, mousseline, washed leather, and cotton jersey : fresh, feminine, and eminently wearable look.

For all the softness and light, though, the focus was on tailoring, with beautifully cut jackets blazers as well as and pants, t-shirts and skirts with a mille-feuille of ruffles, and beautiful soft draping:












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I have been a long-standing fan of Anne Valerie Hash's since around 2003. Her first runway show was in 2002, when she had already garnered a hip following for her signature way of reworking classic men’s tailoring to fit a woman’s body. Her collections were mostly Couture until 2008, when she started designing ready-to-wear. I find it amusing that often she would show mostly black pieces for Spring/Summer collections and soft colours for Fall/Winter. I have tried to pick two of my favourite pieces of each of her collections, as a retrospective...except for Fall 2005, which was my favourite collection of hers, with loose and drifty pieces in fragile tulles, floppy silks, washed leathers, and frayed-edge damasks in a palette of putty, face-powder pink, and watery green.

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