Paris Fashion Week ss2010 Impressions #19

Paris Fashion Week Impressions #18

Streetfashion Paris ss2010 Day 2

What are you wearing during Fashionweek? Your Givenchy-heels, your latest Marni-dress or that vintage Chanel? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashion-weeks we refresh our streetwear-category daily. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: Paris

Paris Fashion Week Impressions #17

Dries van Noten Catwalk Fashion Show ss2010

It’s been a long time Dries van Noten used his famous and favorite ethnic influences to create a collection. Somehow it never went away, it just waited under the surfaces of other collections to be used when required. After a sober, classic but colorful winter-collection Dries van Noten went East again. This time very restraint, elegant and somehow French. It was the arty jewelry (wit big crystal-stones), two-tone shoes, wet hair and bare faces (no make-up at all ) that gave it an intellectual touch. Van Noten mixed his all time classics in different prints – batik, ikat, stripes, Chinese embroidery – and beautiful colors from aubergine and black to white, red, blue and beige. The game was played by texture, print and proportions. Stiff 3/4 trousers, flowing silk dresses, skirts hanging on the hips with too short sweaters. It was sporty, chic and ladylike with a masculine touch. Perfect clothes for grown up women who want to dress fashionable and beautiful without screaming it out loud.

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Jean Paul Gaultier Catwalk Fashion Show ss2010

With Jean Paul Gaultier’s fashion show being called G Spot it was not hard to predict what the collection would be about. It appeared lingerie played a big part in his collection. And now that lingerie is seen in so many collections, JPG would be crazy not to use this theme. He brought back his oh so famous cone-bra, which he designed for Madonna in the late eighties. It was incorporated in a lot of designs. The streetwise gangstergirls who opened JPG’s show wore denim overalls with cone-bra details. Later on when the models turned into military types and pin-up girls it kept coming back. One model even wore a cone-bra with matching (pregnancy?) cone-belly. Although some fun spiral bracelets were shown in most outfits the bra was the highlight of the designs. Maybe JPG had overused this success-design a bit. But that certainly won’t mean celebrity guests Katy Perry, Rihanna and Dita Von Teese wouldn’t love to wear one of JPG’s cone-bra designs on stage. (Tess van Daelen)

Comme des Garcons Catwalk Fashion Show ss2010

For her SS2010 collection Rei Kawakubo designed perfect shoulders on her outfits. Except, they were all in the wrong places (around the breast or the upper arm). She also made leather shoulder braces, worn on top of some outfits. Could it be that she wanted to express some criticism towards the focus on shoulder-pads in many present-day collections? The models had colorful cotton candy hair and wore flat shoes. Their clothes had some sports references: tight cycle-pants were worn over black leggings. A lot of fabrics were interestingly mixed, from chiffon to leather to velvet. They came together in patchworked dresses. These dresses seemed somewhat Victorian influenced in the way they were shaped, fitted, draped and dragged. Throughout the whole collection Kawakubo brought back military influences and shades of nude. In this way she seemed to be reminding the public that she was one of the first designers to come up with these trends. (Tess van Daelen)

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