Blue is color of the season at VIP-studded Paris shows
PARIS (AP) — It’s no secret that politics infuses fashion — and some critics are interpreting the mania for blue at Paris Fashion Week as a statement of “the blues” about the perceived rise of nationalism across Europe and America.
Here are some highlights from Sunday’s starfilled Paris shows — including how a 9-year-old fashionista turned heads at Valentino. in Milan that created furniture, fabrics and objects in the 1980s. Silhouettes were softly geometric and hung loosely from the shoulder.
Colors were also gentle — raspberry, sage green, turquoise, sheeny black with white. A stylish flash of Cadmium yellow blossomed on a standout silken dress.
An ethnic, multicolored patchwork coat was handled with subtlety — while long, soft pleats gently lined some of the most beautiful gowns seen this season.
“Well, the sun came out specifically for Valentino! This (conservatory) is incredible as they built this part just for the show,” Mara said. “I always feel really fantastic in this clothing. I love Pierpaolo — I’ve never seen a Valentino dress that I don’t love. Everything he makes is unique.”
Valentino’s illustrious guest list normally causes a stir for its famous attendees.
But Sunday’s collection had heads turning for a different reason: Ivan, 9, whose feet didn’t touch the floor as he sat front row in the gilded salon.
Ivan wore a mint green fur coat, Gucci slippers and shades as he admired Pierpaolo Piccioli’s soft geometric designs. He didn’t let his age or the famous attendees intimidate him, and snapped pictures studiously as the collection went by.
“I’m Ivan. I’m nine. I designed the capsule collection for my mom who’s a designer, Natasha Zinko,” he told the AP, defending his decision to wear shades on a drizzly day. “It was sunny when I came here.” what I’m going to spend it on yet,” said Edith.
Senior Adrian Jimenez, 18, decided to raise a pig because they’re easier to sell. He knew from the beginning that he’s going to end up selling his pig, so he
He added he’s been following fashion “nearly a year maybe,” and has enjoyed attending collections by Dior and Haider Ackermann.
His mother said she brought him because she couldn’t find a nanny.
“He was (at shows) last year a few times, but this time there was no one to stay at home with him, so I brought him with me,” Zinko said. “He’s enjoying the weekend in Paris. And, now he’s going back to London to school.”
Designer Phoebe Philo seemed to shrink the models in her inventive, proportion-play of a Celine show.
A gargantuan, white knee-length necklace accompanied a one-meter (three-foot) canary yellow handbag.
While, a cape made of oversize sleeves followed a two-meter (six-foot) emerald green fringed blanket, alongside huge blown-up prints.
But the collection, despite its dramatic — and intellectual — musing, remained highly wearable.
It’s a rare feat. Oversize tailored menswear jackets made an appearance, fusing into beautifully gathered gowns with Empire-line busts.
One of the best looks in navy, with this Napoleon-era silhouette, was given a sublime contemporary twist with exaggeratedly wide, long flappy shirt-cuffs.
It was the Wild West — but not as we know it.
Guillaume Henry saddled up his fashion horse and headed to America for knew not to get attached to him.
“It’s the circle of life. We have to eat somehow,” said Jimenez.
Being in FFA can be emotional and tiring but all the hard work pays off Nina Ricci’s collection late Saturday.
The lauded designer tamed the styles of the American cowgirl for the chic Parisian audience with a beautifully soft color palette, with lashings of pink and peach. Skirts and coats with hip cutouts evoked cowboy chaps.
Prints with cowboy and rodeo motifs speckled with stars followed buttoned-up shirts, belts with exaggerated silver buckles, checks and hanging pendants with cowboy- style silver clasps.
A standout long coatpant look toyed cleverly with the rodeo style. Feminine soft turquoise replaced blue denim, and the big Western leather collar was given a feminine twist, flopping softly and delicately.
The golden age of couture — with a quirky twist.
That was on the menu for Bill Gaytten, who designs for the house of John Galliano, and took guests down the annals of fashion history. It made for a richly reverential show Sunday night that celebrated post-War styles and played with off-kilter proportion.
Black ostrich feather hats, popular in that era — were reimagined in exaggerated width.
Coats that resembled the influential 1947 Bar Jacket, invented by Christian Dior where John Galliano worked for 15 years, were given a tweak with bulbous lower part and military buttons.
And a dull purple gown that had the satine sheen of a classic Thirties Hollywood glamour puss — was twinned with baggy pants. in the end when students sell theirs animal or place high in a division. said, “Here grading papers, being more involved in school activities and academic activities so that students know who I am.”
Overall, Mrs. Ariana Gonzalez just hopes to have a good first year in this school and hopes to have many more.