For the Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2013 Couture collection, the designer showed us how he still knows how to have fun, how to follow a woman’s curves & what it is to be a true couturier. With the collection being called ’ Indian Gypsies’, the collection had obvious elements found in Indian wear including plenty […]
For Spring 2013 Couture, Valentino Takes Us For A Stroll In Their Garden Stroll In Their
Apparently the obvious elements of Spring managed to afflict a few designers including Valentino. For their Spring 2013 Couture collection, Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were literal in their interpretation yet not so much. Hedge labyrinths were implicated by the arrangement of lace strips on a Fifties skirt while others tried […]
Pamela Love’s Heart Is Set To Go Wild When She Hooks Up With Zadig et Voltaire
(photo: Courtesy Photo) There’s never been such a perfect match like the one between cool French contemporary label Zadig et Voltaire + American jewelry designer Pamela Love. The jewelry collaboration collection called ‘Wild Heart’ will consist of 6 pieces in various metals including antique silver, antique brass or gold plate and range in price from $210 to […]
Chanel Spring 2013 Couture Featured Victorian Fetish In Plumes
When I first saw the different looks in the Chanel Spring 2013 Couture collection, the theme of ‘Victorian Fetish In Plumes’ came to mind inside a woodland fantasy complete with beautiful swans dressed in couture. You had models covered from head-to-toe, in daytime tweeds paired with leather that looked more like latex or lace, not […]
Clearly A MUST Shoe To Wear This Summer
If Not Drool Over Part of Givenchy‘s Women’s Summer 2013 collection, this shoe epitomizes everything that’s modern + sexy. With it’s steep dip, sure to perk up your butt just right, it’s all about the heel. With a clear vinyl front and nude ankle strap, attached to a sculptural cone metal heel topped off with […]
For Christian Dior Spring 2013 Couture Collection, Dior’s Gardens Were The Inspiration
For Raf Simons Christian Dior Spring 2013 Couture collection, he definitely stole the show with many references of Dior’s past deconstructed to accommodate modern appeal. With Dior’s gardens as his focal point (whom Dior treasured so dearly), for Simons, the garden was taken literally by bringing blooms so early to season in many forms, with […]
Leather, Diamonds & Emeralds Were Amongst The Treasures In Wilfredo Rosado’s New Fine Jewelry Collection
Leave it up to New York’s own fine jewelry designer Wilfredo Rosado to unveil his newest + third collection yesterday, the first day of Paris Couture 2013. With 23years under his belt working for Giorgio Armani, first with his design team in Italy and then as his fashion director in NYC, the only way to […]
Iris Van Hepern’s Spring 2013 Couture Show Was In Full Voltage
(photo: Giovanni Giannino) Especially With Such Intricacy At Work Aptly entitled ‘Voltage’, Iris Van Hepern’s Spring 2013 Couture show was “Inspired by a childhood dream, a desire to understand control and re-create lightning.” And that she did by featuring a living standing sculpture in the center of the room with ‘purple lightning’ passing through her body. […]