With Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week in full swing, we set to highlight the fall-winter 2016-2017 collections of selected fashion houses. With Schiaparelli brings circus to town taking inspiration from its own collection of 1938, which was an infusion of rainbow colors and highly detailed embroidery work.
Giambattista Valli show was perfect with size, proportion and dimension in a typically perfected couture display with figurative versions and ’50s nightie style flares out at the hip with puffy sleeves in a series of white gowns,which were soon followed by floor-length diaphanous silken gowns with Grecian-style gathered, with detail around the bust in white, black, pale blue with flashes of bold red palette.
Iris Van Herpen choose The Church of the Oratory of the Louvre, the Protestant church of the Rue St. Honore, as the venue for his haute couture showcase inspired by ‘seijaku’, a Japanese concept that means “finding serenity in the chaos of life. Models were perched on highheels hybrid and dressed in delicate dresses as light as foam, pleated organza and tulle, or similar bubble of crystal drops.
The designer used new techniques of material-making created via Swarovski water drop crystals covered in transparent silicon or thousands of handblown glass bubbles.
