FRANCK SORBIER Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018

FRANCK SORBIER Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018. One of the most spectacular show of this season. Franck Sorbier recreated an atmosphere of Charleston. One of the oldest and greatest, known to all jazz lovers, musicians Manu Dibango were giving his live performance in one of the oldest luxury hotels of Paris. Another dancing fiery and great success…

YUIMA NAKAZATO Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018

YUIMA NAKAZATO Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018. Spring Summer 2018 collection of Japanese designer Yuima Nakazato is a literal recreation of astronaut suits, created for absolutely comfort in new environment of today.  “Unit Constructed Textile is a unique idea and technology that we have been developing over the last few years, exploring the possibility of more…

IRIS VAN HERPEN Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018

IRIS VAN HERPEN Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018. Fashion designer Iris van Herpen is widely recognized as one of fashion’s most talented and forward-thinking creators who continuously pushes the boundaries of fashion design. Her new Spring Summer 2018 collection like always was technically impressive . It is a story of dreamless exotic plants and flowers –…

SCHIAPARELLI Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018

SCHIAPARELLI Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018. New Spring Summer 2018 collection of SCHIAPARELLI is all about flowers, sun and birds. African sun blurred this almost invisible line between reality and fantasy about colors, and exotic birds in the world of Bertrand Guyon.  

A.F. VANDEVORST Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018

A.F. VANDEVORST Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018. Spring Summer 2018 Haute Couture collection of A.F. Vandevorst finds its artistic roots in motocross. Per tradition, the brand is heavily influenced by their favorite muse – the nomadic woman ready to experience. This season their muse gracefully embraces the off-road and speed of the motocross grounds. A.F….

Grand Couturier

RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® www.fhcm.paris     Grand Couturier. A “Grand Couturier” is a “creator of original clothing models, feminine toilets, director of a haute couture house”. Creations by a “Grand Couturier” is only for a female clientele and only in Paris. Haute couture can be referenced back as early as the 17th Century. Rose Bertin, the French…

The 4 Capitals of Fashion Week

A Fashion Capital is a city that has a major influence on fashion in the world. For several decades, four cities, called “Big Four”, share this title : Paris, London, Milan and New York.

Mira Mikati Spring Summer 2018 collection

Designer from London Mira Mikati brought light, colors, love and skateboards to Paris Fashion Week. Mira Mikati known for her fun Emoji-inspired designs.  Spring Summer 2018 collection inspired by love and rainbows.      

Mugler Spring Summer 2018 collection

For Mugler Spring Summer 2018  Collection David Koma presented seductive set of the corsets, inspired by a Western with Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale.  Corsets have always been core to the Thierry Mugler aesthetic. The designer said that he was inspired by the 1971 Western “Les Pétroleuses” (“Frenchie King” in English) starring Brigitte Bardot and…

Vivienne Westwood and Moncler Spring Summer 2018

Vivienne Westwood Spring Summer 2018 Vivienne Westwood and Moncler Spring Summer 2018. Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood Spring Summer 2018 created another historical voyage : “I always wanted to be called Maximilian or Augustus. For a long time I did not like my name and where I come from. I wanted to come from somewhere…

Stella McCartney Spring Summer 2018

Stella McCartney Spring Summer 2018 collection dedicated to “effortlessly confident utilitarian styles”: oversized white tees in Japanese jersey, big comfy jumpsuits, slouchy poplin dresses, summery African prints.  Double breasted tailoring has a timeless appeal and inspires a naturally confident mood. Feminine volumes travel throughout the collection while amplified proportions inspire modern silhouettes – find in jewel…

Alexander McQueen, Maison Margiela Spring Summer 2018 collections

Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 2018 Alexander McQueen, Maison Margiela Spring Summer 2018. The quintessential English gardens of Great Dixter: uncontrived floral planting, meandering borders and tangles of vibrant, exuberantly coloured blooms. Drenched in rain, warmed by sunlight, her wardrobe consists of long-cherished, worn-and-torn couture inspired pieces and bespoke men’s tailoring, deconstructed and reconstructed: reclaimed. She may…

COMME DES GARCONS Spring Summer 2018 collection

Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garcons Spring Summer 2018 collection was inspired by fantasies such as angels, toys, medieval paintings and graffiti. The most notable looks are the Kawakubo angels and Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s dresses. Hello, Kitty and plastic kiddy novelties were piled up as neckpieces and embedded in space-princess wigs. This collection is a historical kaleidoscope…

LEONARD PARIS Spring Summer 2018 collection

Stopover in Moorea LEONARD PARIS Spring Summer 2018. Polynesia’s lush flora contrasted with mathematical rigor : harmonious oppositions lead the way in Leonard’s Spring Summer 2018 collection, which explores the tension between nature and nurture, instinct and education, control and pleasure. The show opens with masculine tailoring, streamlined pea jackets, reworked raincoats, structures outlined in…

Andrew Gn Spring Summer 2018 collection

Andrew Gn Spring Summer 2018. This season it’s about: Kabuki faces, fans carried by geishas and a sprinkling of beautiful camellias. Andrew Gn reinterpreted the late Eighties Harajuku movement into pretty mini dresses, cool shirting and a lineup of fabulous gowns, reincarnated from flowers of Kyoto. Andrew Gn Spring Summer 2018 Andrew Gn Spring Summer…

Karl is in the Details – Chanel Spring Summer 2018 collection

God is in the details, so is Karl. Chanel Spring Summer 2018 is about water, and it’s all in the details. And all details are in transparency – that’s where we can find perfection and reflection of absolute purity of new collection. New collection was taken by international press in very critical way : very…

Agnes B. Spring Summer 2018 collection

Agnes B. Spring Summer 2018 presents a collection in the purest style Agnès b. A unique style, both modern and pure, with clothes elegant but not conventional, which leave everyone the freedom to express personality, clothes to be married differently than one can wear from morning to by transforming them, perennial, out-of-fashion clothes, which give…

Lanvin by the book – Spring Summer 2018 collection

Lanvin Spring Summer 2018. For his first collection at Lanvin, presented on the 27th of September in Le Grand Palais in Paris, Olivier Lapidus made a return to the fashion house’s very essence, projecting it into the 21st century. Emerald green, cyclamen, ruby, nude, pale blue, black white and gold were Jeanne Lanvin’s favourite colours….

Celine Spring Summer 2018 collection

Celine Spring Summer 2018. Creative Director of Celine Phoebe Philo presented collection for Spring Summer 2018 season “You’re all I need to get by.” “It’s personal,” says the designer. She intuitively channels feelings into product. And this season, this is what she feels: “I wanted to be optimistic. It was just this sense of joy and…

Paco Rabanne Spring Summer 2018

Paco Rabanne Spring Summer 2018. Disco inspired new Spring Summer 2018 collection of Paco Rabanne with all it sparkles and glitters remains urban.  Working through a Seventies lens, Julien Dossena, artistic director of house, focused on fluidity — everything was made in jersey and stretch fabrics to hug the body and skim the skin. That era…

YVES SALOMON – journey of expertise

For the occasion of Fashion Week in Paris famous fur House YVES SALOMON opened for the first time the doors of it’s workshop on rue Castiglione in Paris, and Yves Salomon himself took everyone for an amazing journey around his craftsmen and showed an expertise of the house. Salomon House, created in the 1920’s in Paris….

Yohji Yamamoto Spring Summer 2018 Collection

Yohji Yamamoto Spring Summer 2018. “I am interested in releasing the body through garments”  – said Yohji Yamamoto in many of his interviews. Every season he gives something ultimately to wear. Rows of buttons and draping are THE look of this designer. This season he presented another contemporary collection for summer.    

Saint Laurent Spring Summer 2018 Collection

Saint Laurent Spring Summer 2018. Saint Laurent set the stage of the show on Trocadero with amazing view on Eiffel Tower. New creative director of house Anthony Vaccarello plunged into archives of this house and bought the best of it, he reunited history of “savoir-faire” and couture.      

Lacoste’s 85th anniversary

Lacoste’s 85th anniversary hailed by a Paris homecoming for Lacoste, after 14 years spent on the New York runways. it’s also a clear statement for this symbol of French elegance. That of its founder, René Lacoste, winner of the 1927 Davis Cup, whose charisma and creativity crystalized the sportswear DNA specific to the Lacoste house…

PIERRE CARDIN book signature evening 1 October

PIERRE CARDIN book signature. For the occasion of a book written by Jean-Pascal Hesse about Pierre Cardin – a legend and history of our time,  Museum of Pierre Cardin in Marais, 1 October 2017, opened doors for French elite to meet Pierre Cardin, and become a proud owner of life history book about him. Pierre…

DELVAUX witty bags collection – Spring Summer 2018

DELVAUX “The oldest fine leather goods house in the world since 1829”. DELVAUX Spring Summer 2018. Delvaux had its beginnings at the same time as Belgium, in fact slightly earlier, as it was founded a year before the birth of the Belgian nation. In 1830, the Belgians declared their independence from the Netherlands. Leopold of…

Emanuel Ungaro Spring Summer 2018 – PFW

Emanuel Ungaro Spring Summer 2018. The dress-centric flower-themed lineup was a busy affair in new collection of Emanuel Ungaro Spring Summber 2018. Visionary designer showed blue and “fluffy” looks. Models looked like little funny fairies floating from cloud to cloud, from flower to flower, and spreading their magic in colorful peas. And the world of…

Jil Sander at Paris Fashion Week Fall Winter 2017-2018

Jil Sander at Paris Fashion Week Fall Winter 2017-2018 by RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® A look backstage at Jil Sander Women’s FW17 Show. #JilSander #JilSanderFW17 #communication #eleonoradegray #editorinchief #paris #newyork #losangeles #runwaymagazine