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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 Pt 2 - Three Degrees of Separation: Celine, Chloe and Stella McCartney

Celine

This was my favourite collection of the three featured in this post. The green leather 'tee' made me gasp, it looks absolutely delicious! The peplum tops looked fresh and modern, and I just love that first green shirt dress:

Chloe

I have been eagerly waiting to see what Claire Wright Keller had in store for us for her first collection for Chloe, especially since I have been hoping Chloe would go back to the 'Phoebe Philo' worthiness. I have liked her work for Pringle these past few years, and quite liked this collection, especially the ethereal and flowy nude pieces, and the panelled orange with stripes in soft earthy tones. Even though this collection was not quite on par in my mind with the Phoebe Philo days, I think it is a step in the right direction:

Stella McCartney

As you may or may not know, I am a big Stella fan, but I must admit I was disappointed with this collection:

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012: Pt 1 - Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten

I first drafted this post with smaller pictures, but really, I had to change to larger pictures, because the beauty is in the details with Dries Van Noten. At first glance I thought I was looking at 3-4 different collections in the one, simple minimalist pieces with clean lines, followed by beautiful Chinese monochromatic prints (the kind I grew up seeing hanging in my parent's house), followed by more tropical and bold prints, prints were collaged from seventeenth-century botanical etchings, jungle scenes, and seascapes, and night-scape prints by English photographer James Reeves, Reeve's almost-abstractions looked like scatterings of colored crystals, which Van Noten literalized, decorating one skirt with actual stones to replicate the lights in Reeve's photo of a building in Marseille. I preferred the clean-lines of the clothes, not really a fan of the fancy bolero and peplum/ruffled pants, and the occasional odd-shaped shoulders on the shirts, but there was so much to love:

I absolutely love the two looks above!

I love how Dries used the ribbon for his shirt/vests/coats again.

This is one of my favourite pieces of this collection, the palest of blues embellishments on the relaxed white 'safari' jacket...just gorgeous

Love this outfit too, even though these pants wouldn't look 1/100th as good on my short stature, but I love that gorgeous colour on the jacket, and simple lines all over.