FALL COUTURE 2013: GIAMBATTISTA VALLI & VALENTINO

"Flowers and colors are what women want from me", Valli said before his show.

This time, his inspiration came from porcelain.

You can easily conclude that chinese motives are also there.

Valli delighted us with a very romantic collection that will suit every female in the world.

Oh Valentino! 

If you are expecting the little red dresses that are so common to see in Valentino's collection, you can drop that idea cause there are none of those.

Actually, Pierpaolo said that they have "tried to make something that is not only special, but also surprising, unexpected".

The pieces were very unique; 

some were more simple than others but overall the collection was really cohesive.

Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli did an amazing job!

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FALL COUTURE 2013: ELIE SAAB & ALEXIS MABILLE

Ellie Saab is that kind of designer who we know what to expect.

He has a particular style.

His collections are always really classy and elegant.

Still, Ellie manages to wow us every single time.

There is no way we can get bored to his collections.

Even though they all look very similar, there is always something new that makes Ellie Saab be one of the best couture designers out there.

For this collection, Alexis Mabille got inspired by nineteenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, who was known as the "Master of Swish".

The collection was full of movement and ombré effects and it was really feminin and artistic.

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FALL COUTURE 2013: CHRISTIAN DIOR & ALEXANDRE VAUTHIER

Excuse me the expression but the Christian Dior fashion show was a "heck" of a thing!

Don't really know if that gives me reason to like it or to dislike it.

In one hand, Simons tried to adapt his collection to the actual women; but, in the other hand, the collection was not that cohesive, in fact, it looked a bit messy.

On the report Tim Blanks made, he said: "It should be said that there were some today who saw chaos in need of an edit. They missed the point: The mix was everything".

So, I guess the idea was to make a cahotic show but with a porpose: fit all the women.

Raf Simons said himself: "If we don't adapt to what women in society are now about, couture might disappear".

I guess it is a bit hard for me and for some you to look at this new version of Dior, though I guess these changes are only trying to improve what started so many years ago.

At the end of the day, the majority of the pieces individually were really pretty and the impact Simons wanted to provoke was there.

Alexandre Vauthier, more than anything, designs sexy clothes. That is his signature.

This actually made him have some really big followers such as Rihanna or Beyoncé.

The main colors of the show were black, white, beige and a little bit of blue.

The sexiness Vauthier is looking for is beyond tackiness it is actually really elegant and chic.

Short or assymetric pieces gave the collection an edginess every women will love.

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FALL COUTURE 2013: CHANEL & ULYANA SERGEENKO

Karl Lagerfeld described his collection as a view of "tradition with future".

In fact, that is exactly what the fashion show transmited to us.

The tweed was there, the skirt and jacket combos were there as well, but something more modern gave  a different taste to all of it: the high knee boots or the fabrics, for example.

Also, remembering the 60s, Lagerfeld added to most of his creations a large belt on the models' hips.

According to Nicole Phelps, "after collections devoted to Russian fairy tales and American literature, Ulyana Sargeenko turned to orthodox architecture and priests' vestments as inspiration for her third couture show".

We could see bell silhouettes, ruffled collars, covered arms, lots of black, a bit of cardinal-red and velvet.

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FROM THE STREET TO YOUR OWN CLOSET

Today's picture is from the Street Peeper blog.

The model's name is Irina Kulikova and she is a beautiful 21 years old russian model who was discovered in a restaurant by the IMG Models agency.

This first option costs 1839.65€:

BOYFRIEND CROPPED JEANS | Current/Elliott

SHIRT | T by Alexander Wang

ANKLE BOOTS | Gianvito Rossi

BOMBER JACKET | Acne

TOTE | MICHAEL Michael Kors

The second and last option costs 291.95€; 

1547.70€ less than the first one.

BOYFRIEND CROPPED JEANS | Topshop

SHIRT | H&M

ANKLE BOOTS | Topshop

BOMBER JACKET | Topshop 

TOTE | Topshop

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NEW HERMÈS JEWELRY LINE

Pierre Hardy has recently created a new jewelry line inspired by the crocodiles' skin.

It is full of glam and super classy and its pieces have a movement that no other pieces usually have because these necklaces undulate according to the movements of your body.

If you are looking for a statement piece for next season, this is the perfect one!

Picture from here

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FALL COUTURE 2013: BOUCHRA JARRAR & MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA

Bouchra Jarrar's fahion show was more than chic and fashionable; 

it had a touch of edginess that shall not be ignored. 

Almost every looks were combos of pants and tops or vests. 

In this case, it is not a a trace of the male style fashion trend, it is actually a designer's preference: 

"I just think a woman looks most elegant in trousers".

The collection was very black & white but, in terms of design, it was really modern. 

Jarrar definitely has a wide vision.

There are two ways of looking to the Margiela's collection.

The first one is the one ignorant people may use: they look at the collection and because it is so odd, they just decide to hate it; or because it is so odd, they just decide to love it.

Now, Martin is asking for more than love and hate; he is stating something.

This leads us to the second way of looking to this collection: first we look, then we find odd, we look better and finally we try to understand what is going on.

This collection may look at first like an explosion of untidiness and disorder, but it is actually really organized.

Margiela built this collection with materials that have already been used. For example, for one of the looks, it was used "a tulle and cotton coat cut from a 1950s prom dress sourced in New York which was hemmed with vintage fabric flowers sourced in LA, London, Paris and Brussels and worn over a sequined dress, also form the fifties, that was found in Phoenix" [Tim Blanks]

As Tim Blanks said for Style.com, "If fashion is alchemy of a kind, Maison Martin Margiela's Artisanal initiative is one of its most explicit expressions".

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FAVOURITES OF THE WEEK

CROPPED TOP | Esteban Cortazar

CUFFED SUEDE PUMPS | Fendi

COTTON SWEATER | Tibi

CAMISOLE | Tibi

BOOTS | Church's

SHOULDER BAG | Jérôme Dreyfuss

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LOOK

Here is a super classy suggestion of a summer outfit a fashionable executive woman can wear.

SKIRT | Miu Miu

SHIRT | Marni

NECKLACE | Valentino

PUMPS | Gianvito Rossi

HANDBAG | Reed Krakoff

RING | Maiyet

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FALL COUTURE 2013: ATELIER VERSACE & ZUHAIR MURAD

The Atelier Versace's show was full of glitter and glam.

Fierceness and sexiness were slipping through the models' bodies, a fact that all the Versace lovers should be used to, since it is such a trade mark of Donatella.

Contributing to the "sassiness", Naomi Campbell opened the show, slinking "down the runway like only Naomi can", said Nicole Phelps.

 "Ideally, a Murad girl wears her sensuality darkly, à la Kristen Stewart", said Maya Singer. 

Actually, Kristen was seated right in the front row (where else could she be?), staring at all the red carpet beauties that Zuhair nows so well how to make. 

Lots of sparkles, a great amount of class, sexiness and cuteness at their best, marked this amazing fashion show.

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