Well if you missed your flight to Paris at the beginning of
the week, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. Paris Fashion Week did not start
off with a bang. If you arrived to Paris, went out all night, and missed Wednesday’s
Fashion Week morning schedule, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much either. Hopefully
though, you pulled yourself together by the afternoon to make the 3 PM Dries van Noten show. Day three (Thursday) was rocking with Balmain and Lanvin.
Let’s check out these three shows, shall we?
Dries van Noten is a Belgian designer whom I love two-fold
because I adore his designs and I adore his Parisian shop because it is filled
with his collection and antiques. To describe yesterday’s show at the Hotel de Ville
I would have to say… “If you were invited to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’
Left Bank Parisian apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus for an early evening aperitif,
you could choose any one of van Noten’s pieces and look smashing.” Navy blues,
burgundy with fabulous floral neck pieces. The shoes were brilliant booties
with a great heel. But what I also loved about the show is how van Noten chose
strong independent women singing their hits a cappella… Rihanna, Beyoncé, Kate
Bush, Missy Elliott and Debbie Harry. The only background music was the click
of the models heels. Loved it! To check out the whole show click HERE. Let’s take
a look at some of my favorite looks from the show…
Wunderkid Oliver Rousteing for Balmain did not disappoint at
Thursday’s show. This show is strictly for the cool kids. My favorite
Kardashians were all over the it. (Yes, don’t be so surprised, I love the
Kardashians. All of them). Kim showed off her new blond locks and Kendall
walked the show with her BFF, our chic and sweet Gigi. Emerald green, purple,
orange, sapphire and marigold were the predominant colors. And believe it or
not, Miss Non-Flashy Ellie, absolutely adored the fringe looks! You can watch
the whole fabulous show HERE… But first, check out my favorite looks…
Lastly, today, we have my beloved Lanvin. I absolutely adore
everything about Lanvin… The designer, Alber Elbaz, the collections, the shop windows, the logo, the
perfect French blue boxes… Everything! One of the oldest fashion houses of
Paris, Lanvin seems to always have one foot in the classical past and one foot
in the stylish future. For this collection, Elbaz interpreted his Moroccan
roots with a rather eclectic boho brush. You know this girl loves a good
tassel! Jessica Michault of Now Fashion
describes the collection… “The colorful three-dimensional passementerie of a
caftan was transferred onto pants or fitted coats. The tassels of a Fez hat
became the diagonal fringing on dresses, or ornamented the end of rope belts.
While peasant blouses grew into fluid voluminous dresses, which the designer
grounded with interesting leather harnesses that embraced just one side of the
body. “ All I can say was that it was absolutely lovely lovely lovely. You
should definitely check out the whole collection HERE. My favorite looks? Here they
are…
Paris Fashion week has never been on my radar, I'm just an ordinary CT country girl, but I just watched the first video (mostly for the music you mentioned) and was surprisingly moved by the beauty of the experience. Thanks so much for sharing the loveliness!
ReplyDeleteWhoa, fabulous, thanks for sending the show videos, watched all of them...love the fabrics and on and on and on.......loved your shared post about "The Girls" staying at your home, adorable....no food, what a diet...a stick I could never be @ 5'5"....I'm curvy, not over weight,
ReplyDeletejust, it is what it is....I dream to come to Paris...Provence to live......ha ha ha.....xo...
DVN..............I could wear it ALL!Those long coats and flowers about the neckline.........all stunning!MY poor neighbors........I'm already a bit ECCENTRIC................could you imagine if I walked out the front door like this...............MIGHT HAVE TO TRY!
ReplyDeleteXO
I have always want the Lanvin boxes lined up in my closet.
ReplyDeleteYou lost me at Kardashian.
ReplyDeleteDear Angus, how can you not love the Kardashians? They are a close knit family, they are funny, they are real and thank God for Kanye because now they dress better. How could you not love someone for making zillions of dollars for doing absolutely nothing? To me, that's brilliant. XOXO
DeleteLanvin and Balmain I could wear anything in these fabulous collections!!
ReplyDeleteEllie thanks for sharing all of this wonder!
xoxo
Karena
The Arts by Karena
Love it all - fabulous wearable picks!!
ReplyDeleteOh now that was VERY fun. Thank you, Christina Binkley, I mean Ellie. ;) While the Dries and Lanvin shows were exceptionally beautiful (as always but even more so) I was surprised by absolutely loving the Balmain show. I think that is the first show from that house that is both pertinent and yet totally true to its roots that I have seen in a really long time. Left me dreaming about what it must be like to be the woman that wears those clothes in real life!
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