PARIS FASHION WEEK: BALENCIAGA SPRING SUMMER 2011

NICOLAS GHESQUIERE swapped the showroom for the HotelCrillon this morning to present his spring/summer 2011 collection for the houseof Balenciaga. I really loved all the fresh and unique look that Ghesquiere hasabout fashion and this collection proved that. He doesn’t follow trends or aesthetics,he created them!

The Spring Summer 2011 collection has the designer’ssignature futurism with rockabilly sartorial sensibilities, and the show hadthe fashion’s finest faces: Stella Tennant, Amber Valletta, Freja Beha Erichsenand Gisele.

Fortunately we saw none of the whimsical gypsy dresses we’vebeen seeing so far for summer (even if I love bohemian style I was afraid therewill be nothing more!!!). Ghesquière had played with the idea of shimmer,iridescence, reflection and refraction in amazing argyle-print sequin dressesbut what I loved to die were hoof-like and six-inch-high shoes that boastedbeaded fringing around the ankle and the bright fluoros combined with urbanblack leather.

More photos HERE 

PARIS FASHION WEEK: BALMAIN SPRING SUMMER 2011

For you make NO mistake: I love Balmain ( with Decarnin on charge)! I really love rocker chic! I love leather jeans and distressed t-shirts, I loooveeed biker jackets as the way Christophe Decarnin does it . But I must confessed that I had a little hope that today afternoon show at the Grand Hotel, Paris, something different could happen! But it didn't. He repeated the (good and very commercial indeed) formula once again. 

 

To the sounds of the Sex Pistols in the background, out came the supplest of leather biker jackets, jeans with washed and crushed finishes - studded with rivets and safety pins - in either classic black or the red, T-shirts worn with denim hot pants, white and blue colours of the American flag. 

 

See more pics from the show HERE

The looks were well done and the silver and sequin jeans, outsize tux jackets and pinned raw hide bustier tops to boot were really amazing, but I would like something... different! Sorry!

Tony Curtis

1950s Heartthrob Tony Curtis Dies at 85

1950s Heartthrob Tony Curtis has died.

He was 85.

He passed away at his Las Vegas area house of a cardiac arrest.

He appeared in such movies as Sweet Smell of Success and Some Like It Hot. He earned an Oscar nod for 1958's The Defiant Ones.

His 1st wife was Psycho star Janet Leigh; actress Jamie Leigh Curtis is their daughter.

After retiring from film and battling drug and alcohol abuse, he turned to painting (some of his canvasses sold for as much as $20,000) later in his life.

"I am not ready to settle down like an elderly Jewish gentleman, sitting on a bench and leaning on a cane," he said at 60. "I have got a helluva lot of living to do."

SPRING 2010 TREND REPORTS - GLOSSY COLORS

I really like color, color mixed with color, block color, monocromatic color looks... and we saw lots of color in New York, but once for all in London and Milan Spring Summer 2011 runaways. What about Paris? Paris is the city of light but also the Sartre city, nostalgic poets and existentialists writers who had a dark side and lived in dark lofts. So bright colors doesn´t seem matching to a more intellectual fashion like Dries Van Noten or Gareth Pugh. Paris was dressed in variations of white and light black so far, I really hope Balenciaga could change this singsong pallete. But do not misunderstand me I loved French fashion so much, it is in Paris that are two of my favorite Fashion Houses ever: Commes des Garçons and Lavin! And of course Chanel and Balenciaga will be so exciting as always.

Nevertheless, I must say that I really felt in love with Prada, Jil Sander, Christopher Kane, Meadham Kirchoff, Versus and Proenza Schoulder's Spring glossy colors.



SS11!! CHRIS BENZ, LIPS, PROENZA SCHOULER, JIL SANDER, JILSANDER, CHRISTOPHER KANE, MEADHAM KIRCHOFF, PRADA, VERSUS, PROENZA SHOULER. WHOA.

Picture via White Lightning blog 



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PARIS FASHION WEEK: FILIPE OLIVEIRA BAPTISTA SPRING SUMMER 2011

Today from the city of light Felipe Oliveira Baptista, a young Portuguese designer who was recently tapped by French sportswear giant Lacost, showed his own womenswear collection for Spring/Summer 2011. All eyes were open  for one of the most waiting fashion show of Paris fashion week.

I really loved Baptista's retro-futuristic silhouettes _ second-skin leotards with lozenge-shaped cutouts and sheath dresses with scythe-shaped appliques looked like cool, self-aware takes on Cardin's staples. 

Felipe Oliveira Baptista, with this Spring/Summer 2011 collection displays how convinced his work is right now and his womenswear collection, plenty of sporty-chic vibes mixed with futuristic shapes, can be a preview what would be his work under the label Lacoste. He is definitely in the mood!  

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