Dior
So for my final piece on the third and fourth full days of Paris Fashion Week for men, I figured I’d take a stab at stronger collections. Overall, it was a great season, with a lot of hits, a few poorly-aimed misses, and a need for even more outerwear (not at these shows, but in [...]
Just call her Miss Dior. At the premiere of her new film, “Young Adult,” in New York City last week, Charlize Theron stayed dedicated to her tried and true label. If you were the couture fashion house, wouldn’t you want to dress her for every occasion, too? This just goes to show there is nothing [...]
Sending in the clowns at Dior?! Who is next? We knew the party was over for John Galliano, and now it looks like the festivities might be dying down at the legendary house – at least for the moment. Though I didn’t have very high expectations for the Dior Couture show without Galliano at the [...]
John Galliano is in fine form for fall/winter, expounding on his January couture show to deliver a collection that harked on ever-so familiar territory for the showman. Sending out a historically inspired collection best described as “equestrian-meets-Marie Antoinette-in-the-boudoir romp” and inspired by 18th-century libertine poet John Wilmot and second Earl of Rochester, it was the [...]
Chanel Haute Couture on display at Flagship boutique in Ginza WWD reported this morning that an influx of younger clients from fast-developing Asian markets is helping to lift Europe’s few remaining couture houses. I was not surprised to read that Haute Couture houses are looking at Asia, specifically young Asian women in their 30s-40s, to [...]
I am insanely fetishing over these Dior shoes! Yeah yeah, the dresses are the usual fabulosity frocks that socials will clamor over for events but the shoes are all I care about! Just look at them, totally and sickeningly gorgeous! It will be hard to limit myself but I am only going to order one [...]
