This week was Couture Week in Paris. Couture is a dying art. In order to be considered couture everything must be hand made. I watched a TV mini-series about the making of Chanel's couture line and Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer, commissioned an elderly lady to hand-make lace for each of his dresses. The lace was beautiful and intricate and she was the last in a long line of lace makers. For this reason haute couture is beyond expensive. Almost $100,000 per dress is a good estimate. Not everyone can afford this obviously, but I hope someone is always able to so I can see the over the top designs Karl and other couture designers like John Galliano cook up. It's wearable art.
For this post I chose what I think are the highlights of the Chanel Haute Couture show:
The theme of the show was iridescent colors. Pastels mostly. It produced a lovely effect. The pink long dress would be a refreshing change to the normal mermaid dresses that you see on the red carpet these days. Lets hope some ingenue like Cate Blanchett picks it up and wears it to a premiere. 
Oooh see? this is the kind of stuff I want to see in blogss about fashion. People explaining fashion to me, someone that knows nothing about it. Now I know what couture is! yay, lol
ReplyDeleteI loooove that pink one. The others are quite extravagant and classy for me, but that pink one is abs gorgeous and it's red carpet wearable. :)
Awesome post D!