Flooded with gold, embroidery, and precious stones. Electrical, vibrant, and profound colors. Silky, lamé, and topstitched fabrics. Kaleidoscopic, Balmain’s jewelry dress can be looked at stitch-by-stitch as having as many facets as a diamond. A jewel out of its shell, it shines and dazzles. Visual shock is at work in the global ensemble, while marvel...
A “mouth gem” that possesses a crystalline power, a springtime spirit of provocation and greediness. Mouths studded with a downpour of rhinestones and Swarovski crystals left us spellbound after the Spring/Summer 2013 runways. Now Dior is confirming its taste for color and glitter. “Every woman is a princess” said Christian Dior. A female sultan, a...
Employing every bit of her savvy rigor, Phoebe Philo uses looped fabrics to concoct coats that seem to be made like cocoons. This texture produces a soft and ideal geometric volume; the coat, what with its loose hems, rounded lines, and knee-length, sums up all of Philo’s signatures: comfort and structure. Moreover, the coat disposes of...
Jeweler Milanais Pomellato has decided to induct, at the dawn of the 2000s, a “ready-to-wear jewelry”. Founded in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, the jewelry company has distinguished itself in its field and seen its renown built from the ground up by distinguished work on colorful stones. These factors all come together in the Nudoring, that...
A few months ago, Marc Jacobs predicted the return of Grunge. A trend which has been confirmed during the Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 shows. Since the legendary collection of Marc Jacobs in 1992, grunge, originally unfashion and nonconformist, found its expression in the fashion world. Much more than a style, it is a clothing attitude: clothes are...
Three years after the release of their explosive Moët Ice, the brand from Eperany, France is gratifying us again with a sumptuous box of tastings entirely dedicated to this champagne conceived to be enjoyed with ice cubes. Moët & Chandon is known to be the brand that made the world discover champagne, bringing the most...
From May 13 to July 22, the A. Galerie, in Paris’ 16th arrondissement, will house the exhibit “Desire” from photographer Patrick Demarchelier. This retrospective will illustrate his numerous mythical prints, created throughout these past thirty years. Capturer of fashion and advertising snapshots, the self-taught Demarchelier first devoted himself to his passion at the age...
From the runway to the big screen, The Great Gatsby is making a comeback, this time reinterpreted by the delicious Leonardo DiCaprio. Gucci and Ralph Lauren started the movement in 2012 by presenting silhouettes close to that of the heroines in Fitzgerald’s novel in their Spring/Summer runways. Just the occasion to come back to the emblematic pieces of...
For Miuccia Prada, it’s all about women. Through her work, she exhibits female strength and power and plays with the stereotypes of the “lesser sex”, which she clearly doesn’t consider to be so. This year, she’s taken things to the next level with her Spring/Summer 2012 collection. This season’s biggest triumphs – lace, silk, and...
Is Carven’s zig zag shirt too well-behaved? That’s not what Guillaume Henry, creative director for the brand, thinks: “You have to play with the rules of harshness and consistency by preserving its fragility and revealing the body’s more delicate attachments, ankles, wrists… The unspoken is the most infernal.” he asserts. Even buttoned up to the collar, the...
