Diary
Blossoms came out
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“Florals? For spring? Ground breaking”- it is the sarcastic remark made by Miranda Priestly in the cult fim “The Devil Wears Prada”. However, despite the banality of the plot, flowers never fail to come out in the spring time, and women are once again ready to wear them.
Haute couture florals are a different story. Brilliant floral décor on dresses by Raf Simons demonstrated unsurpassed skills of Dior's haute couture atelier. Tender buds and inflorescences on transparent nets of dresses and gloves seemed to me pure works of art as from the first row in the mirrored hall of Tuileries Gardens (before the show guests had been looking for the “invisible” pavilion for a long time), so at the re-see appointment on Avenue Montaigne. Giambattista Valli, the specialist in relief solutions, offered tender as dessert floral appliques, Elie Saab flavored his flawless designs with floral motif laces, Karl Lagerfeld ordered to embroider specially for the Chanel Couture collection real floral paintings “painted” in sequins on the veil. Young Iris Van Herpen showed her version of women of flowers, who looked more like the underwater flora, which is about to turn into fauna. Yulia Yanina demonstrated a very classy Russian embroidery of different techniques, decorating gossamers of dresses with mysterious leaves of fern, and the Valentino fashion house put mint and ivory-сolored flowers and leaves onto gentle transparent gauze and made them run like a scarlet thread through ideal forms of a classic evening gown of the House.
Red is the second active tendency of the Week. All clients of Armani Prive, led by Uma Thurman and Hilary Swank wanted to try a wonderful top with basque decorated with red, white and black folk embroidery, and a suit consisted of a top and a maxi skirt with a horizontally planted red thread. While Ulyana Sergeenko has provided a nude satin corset with hot pants and a scarlet cloak flying three meters away behing the endless legs of the model. And only Jean-Paul Gaultier chose Paisley instead of floral motives, because his collection was dedicated to India. In his spicy collection red was replaced by orange and pink. The pink theme was actively supported by the Prince of Roger Vivier heels, Bruno Frisoni, who created classic pumps with comma-like heels made by gentle shearling mink.
Armani Privé
Atelier Versace
Chanel
Dior
Elie Saab
Jean Paul Gaultier
Giambattista Valli
Iris Van Herpen
Roger Vivier
Ulyana Sergeenko
Valentino
Yanina
