“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love.
Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
–
Coco Chanel
As a stylist in a top Architeqt Salon & Gallery, I find fashion shows to be a great source of knowledge
for improving one's fashion sense and style. Which lipstick to wear?
What’s the hottest hair color? Each runway show brings us ideas of new haircut,
makeup and clothing trends. Today, I mostly concentrated on the most dramatic catwalks
that not only taught us fashion tips, but shocked us by being fearlessly
unique.
Fendi 2008 <br>
Karl Lagerfeld, one of fashion's greatest masterminds, staged
the most spectacular, most memorable, and most expensive fashion show the world
has ever seen.
After more than 12 months of careful planning
and preparation, Fendi's creative director made fashion history by
hosting the world's longest running runway show on the ancient 1,500 mile long
Great Wall of China.
A list of 500 VIP guests from around the globe
were invited to attend the show-stopping event, which reportedly cost the luxury
fashion house a cool $US 10 million. Clutching their complimentary Fendi hand
warmers and sitting comfortably on heated seats, the A-list front row crowd –
including Kate Bosworth, Thandie Newton and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld – watched in
awe as 88 models sauntered down the raised platform runway in precariously high
platform heels. <br>
Chanel Fall 2010
For the six days leading up to the Chanel Fall 2010 show, Karl Lagerfeld had the thirty-five person team who sculpted The Ice Hotel in Sweden brought in to carve a 265-ton iceberg, also imported from Sweden, in the middle of the Grand Palais. The room was chilled to 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and the iceberg was hidden from the audience under a large wooden box that mechanically rose when the show started.
For the six days leading up to the Chanel Fall 2010 show, Karl Lagerfeld had the thirty-five person team who sculpted The Ice Hotel in Sweden brought in to carve a 265-ton iceberg, also imported from Sweden, in the middle of the Grand Palais. The room was chilled to 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and the iceberg was hidden from the audience under a large wooden box that mechanically rose when the show started.
Four models — Brad Kroenig, Baptiste Giabiconi,
Abbey Lee Kershaw, and Freja Beha Erichsen (the latter two who are
reportedly set to appear in the Chanel Fall 2010 campaign) —
in furry yeti suits opened the display, "milling about in a
daze" before dispersing, and giving way to a train of models sloshing
through water from the melting iceberg; some even left shoes which came loose behind in
their wake.
“Global warming is the issue of our times.
Fashion has to address it,” Lagerfeld said
afterward. And fur was everywhere — boots, skirts,
pants, bags — but all faux. Karl said he went with faux fur for two reasons: first, Fendi does the best real furs and he doesn't want to
compete, and second: “Technical advances are so perfect you
can hardly tell fake fur from the real thing. Fake is not chic — we have got a
new Chanel tweed to stop copies — but fake fur is.”
Pierre Cardin Spring 2008
Not to be outdone by Kaiser Karl, Pierre Cardin
and his chief designer Sergio Altieri decided to take their presentation to the
desert of Mingsha Mountain, in northwest China’s Gansu Province. The
juxtaposition of the sand with the white of the collection is striking.
Chanel Fall 2008
Oversized purses, bows and double-C baubles
made up just part of this kiddie-fashionista dream. The main attraction was the
Chanel carousel, where the waifs were rotated round and round, joined by the
equally svelte Karl Lagerfeld.
Henrik Vibskov Fall 2009
Henrik
Vibskov is one of the greatest, most loopy and
fantastic designers around, and we’ve always wondered what a stroll around the
inner workings of his mind might be like. Man-sized rotating hamster wheels and odd-looking
bowler hat/mouthpieces made this playful Scandinavian designer’s show
the talk of Copenhagen Fashion Week. As we can see Vibskov is never shy of color and
prints — video game-inspired prints, gigantic polka dotted Aztec patterns or
straight up jailbird stripes are all in there, and that’s why we will always
love him.
Maison Martin Margiela Fall 2009
Inspired by The Usual Suspects, Maison Martin Margiela decided to do his
menswear show criminal line-up style — in front of a two-way mirror.
Moncler Grenoble Fall 2010
A three-story scaffold was built especially for
the Moncler Grenoble show at the Chelsea Piers Waterfront Golf Club. Judging by
the scary ski-masks and the fact that Bach and Puccini provided the soundtrack,
we can’t imagine a fashion show getting much more dramatic than this.
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fashion week and how it is influencing hair trends.
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