Monthly Archives: September 2010

After a summer of salads and cold soups, Parisians are hungry again for places the fashion pack won’t want to miss during the coming shows.

The high-heeled set is about to land in Paris for the spring 2011 ready-to-wear shows and the local art scene is stepping up its game accordingly.

Reuters – Fashion briefly went democratic Thursday as thousands of amateur models, some wearing their own clothes, stalked catwalks in Paris and Berlin in what organizers said was the world’s largest fashion show.

Fashion Wire Daily – It was hard to know what you were looking at in the latest runway show by Balenciaga, on Thursday, Sept. 30, so quirky was the take on fashion and so hard to take in were the … Continue reading →

AP – Wallflowers and those in the market for business casual, look elsewhere. Boldness was in the air at Paris’ spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear shows on Thursday, as designers here delivered over-the-top looks for those whose entrances are always grand and … Continue reading →

At a lavish Left Bank blowout, stars paid homage to the man who makes distressed denim and animal-print gowns.

After an exciting Milan ready-to-wear season, the Paris shows seem to be running at the speed of a 45-r.p.m. record, with punk-inspired looks at Balmain and boyishness at Balenciaga.

Fashion Wire Daily – Many designers in Europe have been showing peasant dresses on their catwalks, though nobody with such assurance and inventiveness as Marco Zanini at Rochas, whose latest collection for the Paris house was the latest reminder of … Continue reading →

Over six days of shows, designers demonstrated a remarkable stylistic cohesion in their spring collections.

Designers send out their runway models with hair that is tightly pinned to the head.