Haute Couture Week intends for this season as winter couture, seemed promising with the vastly notable luxury brands. Let's be spontaneous enough to bring out the highlights straight from the Day 2 calendar which exemplifies brands such as Chanel, Alexis Mabille, Stephane Rolland, Julien Fourniè, Alexandre Vaulthier, RDVK Ronald Van Der Kemp, and the maestro himself Giorgio Armani with his Privé.
Artistic director and loyal worker for three decades - Virginie Viard who worked under the legend Karl Lagerfeld in the fashion house, cultivated a story of the spirited inclination. Senior fashion expert Suzy Menkes lay the first stone of review by calling the lineup “simply dull” but the look of the collection remained solid with colours here and a droopy mid-leg hemline there. With the depth of knowledge and craft of the skilled hand workers, it can't go so drastically mistaken. It's after all the team behind the atelier forging the same magic for decades. And this time again Chanel staged its fall Haute couture show in a horse-riding centre on the outskirts of Paris same as earlier before.
Designer Alexis Mabille played with soft French Chantilly lace and beads on satin and high-end silk fabrics. While Stephane Rolland had a sensual mystery of elegance in blacks, reds and whites sparkling on the ramp with abstract ambivalence right in place.
Julien Fournie had its metallic wings in digital pink and electric blue with glitter silhouettes giving the retro vibe in formal gowns while Alexandre Vaulthier amped up and played peek-a-boo with big electrical sequences spreading his magic of cutting-edge fashion as always with gowns in an esoteric shift towards amusement fashion and funk of the contemporary era.
RDVK dropped musical performance in the background while couture pieces were substantiated with crystal tassels, high-waist skirts with ebullition and cut work on the edge finishing with delicate lace curves. The biggest highlight of Day 2 was the maestro Georgio Armani’s Privé collection, it has lawfully demonstrated that Digital pink is the new black. From Maison Valentino to privè, every brand seems to entrust pink like never been done before. Celebrities are validating the palette in various textures. This collection of Georgio Armani was an assortment of both serene and climatic, respectful in old school way and alluring for generation next to indulge in. The collection had 92 looks with affluent and gracious minimalistic glamour. It was refreshing to see the designer who has always been outstanding with his menswear, dropping this breathtaking vanity for women. GA who turns 88 next week, has proven that age has no bar for cultivating something energetic and fresh that youth can narrate to.
Day 2 Street style has raised the bar of the fashion community where real Camille got spotted in her cute black beret with a white band. Paris has Emilys in abundance this time around with bright colours and all that which could appeal to the eyes. It seems like a wonderland of fashion parades uniting the Haute Couture lineage in an extravaganza.
