World Soccer Shop - official soccer jerseys, shirts, cleats, shoes, balls, gear Balmain Fall 2013 RTW - Review - Fashion Week - Runway, Fashion Shows and Collections The maximalists are massing somewhere out there on the borders of fashion’s vast tundra of fall black and gray. It’s a smallish mass, admittedly, but it contains some major names: Tom Ford, Donatella Versace, Peter Dundas of Pucci, Roberto Cavalli. And then there’s Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing, the only twentysomething amongst them, who is a committed new-generation member of the fashion party, which canvases on the firm belief that dressing up is a defense against gloomy times. That’s why Rousteing says he loves the idea of the escapist end of the seventies. “I understand it was a time of dreaming and going against a bad economy,” he said backstage at the ornate Hôtel de Ville. It would take a mean spirit to disparage Rousteing’s youthful drive to honor, emulate, and explore the essence of French savoir faire in making clothes. For a full profile and more information on Balmain, visit Voguepedia.com.
Choose Your Country Christian Dior Spring 2013 Couture - Review - Fashion Week - Runway, Fashion Shows and Collections The spirit of spring, of budding flowers and of hopeful rebirth, filled the Christian Dior show space with ineffable prettiness and joyful optimism. That optimism was rewarded with a sophisticated, poetic show that defined Raf Simons’s romantic-modernist vision for the house, even if it lacked emotional fireworks. True to the spirit of the house’s founder—who named his first collection “La Ligne Corolle” after a flower’s inner petals (the press later dubbed it the New Look)—Simons transformed his cabine into a flight of enchanting flower fairies. The girls (in Guido Palau’s gamine Jean Seberg wigs, and scarlet sparkle lips courtesy of Pat McGrath) literally seemed to grow from the soil as they emerged from their subterranean dressing rooms into a garden created by Martin Wirtz, son of the distinguished Belgian landscape architect Jacques Wirtz, where trees atremble with catkins rose from clouds of clipped boxwood to form a sylvan landscape.
Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall 2013 RTW - Review - Fashion Week - Runway, Fashion Shows and Collections Let’s address the elephant in this room first, shall we? The Marc by Marc Jacobs show was moved up from 4:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Lexington Armory (its usual spot) to 8:00 p.m. They were very late-seventies-looking, with swing coats, high-waisted cropped pants, and little knit dresses for the women, and slouchy, loungy suits over mock-turtleneck sweaters for the guys. For a full profile and more information on Marc by Marc Jacobs, visit Voguepedia.com.