Showing posts with label balenciaga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balenciaga. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lanvin's Going Bag Lady Chic for Pre-Fall 2010

I feel like such a ninny opinionizing Pre-Fall this late in the game, but I’m just going to come out there with one point before I get on with it. Can we for just a sec all agree that the in between collections are like 4000 times better than the big kahunas of Fall and Spring? Balenciaga! Givenchy! Each collection was more perfect than the next! Agreed?

Anyways though, what I really wanted to talk about is how awesome Lanvin’s bag-lady extravaganza was. While some still cleave to minimalist simplicity, I always prefer a collection that embraces an ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ type of haphazard layering (lets not forget my undying love for Edie Beale either...) I can certainly see myself in Elbaz’s animal print-tastic overdone outfits and the fact that he is said to have been inspired by the ‘leopard lady’, a Parisian woman who is never seen without her leopard coat, even during 90 degree temps, tickles my particular fancy!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Paris Nous Aimons!

After a wham-bam week of such visual stimulation, it's been beyond difficult to process all the shows, let alone pick favorites. So what conclusion we've come to is somewhere in the middle: instead of trying to decipher exactly why we love the shows that we do, we've handed out some much coveted Katie Girl Superlatives. Drum roll, please....
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(clockwise from top left)

the comeback kid (aka third time's the charm)
Ungaro

most likely to don on a winter getaway weekend in another lifetime
Miu Miu

best drape of silk charmeuse
Balenciaga

best use of color
Dries Van Noten

TIE:
closest we've come to wanting to buy something with a logo
and
best use of 80's trends without looking like everything else this season
Louis Vuitton

best interpretation of the trend he started
Balmain

collection we want to wear right now. no, really. right now.
Chloé

TIE:
best farewell (?) we weren't expecting
&
most amazing shoes that we'll never be able to walk in
Nina Ricci

ps. we borrowed these pictures from style.com