fashion week

Paris fashion week

PFW

With each instance of Paris fashion week (PFW) that rolls around, the Parisian streets become a runway of their own as the most stylish of the industry attend the top fashion shows. From the luxury fashion houses to edgy French labels, Paris fashion week sees the spring / summer and autumn (fall) / winter collections taking to the runway at both men’s and women’s dedicated fashion weeks. Below you’ll find coverage of Paris fashion week 2012 and past years such as PFW 2011 and PFW 2010.

Share:  
Twitter Tumblr
 Newsletter:

Paris fashion week coverage 2012

Issey Miyake Autumn (Fall) / Winter 2012 men’s

Written by Magdalena Kapuscinska on 6 Feb 2012

KASANE – a Japanese word that means “to layer” is both an allegory and the essence of the concept lying behind the Issey Miyake menswear collection for the autumn / winter 2012 season. Inspired by the quintessence of Kasane – a practical function and artistic impression on the designs – the collection under the reign of four designers successfully supervises reinterpretations of layering techniques through the textile development and tailoring process.

Read the article to see the full gallery.

Read 'Issey Miyake Autumn (Fall) / Winter 2012 men’s' »

Iris Van Herpen’s peculiar visions of couture

Written by Magdalena Kapuscinska on 3 Feb 2012

Iris van Herpen is a young and very creative fashion designer presenting her own peculiar visions of the universe through her innovative, unique work on the fashion stage. Merging high technology, traditional craftsmanship, intricacy of form and unusual fabrication for her presentations, she perceives fashion as a form of self-expression. The latest fashion show, titled “Micro”, is a nod to the complexity and incredibility of microscopic organisms that have a substantial impact into our world. The captured beauty of bacilli and vermin, while very uncanny for many, can be a breathtaking source of fashion expression as Iris proves.

Read the article to see the full gallery.

Read 'Iris Van Herpen’s peculiar visions of couture' »

Heavenly: Valentino Haute Couture

Written by Tania Braukämper on 26 Jan 2012

Is there a word for something that looks so delicate you’d be afraid to touch it, lest it disintegrate like the shimmering surface of a soap bubble at your touch? In describing Valentino’s haute couture spring 2012 collection, such a word would come in handy.

Models’ arms were sheathed in sheer fabric, their hands gently wrapped in lace gloves, both so fine as to be barely visible. Some gowns were intricately hand-embelished clocking up timesheets of hundreds of hours apiece.

Read 'Heavenly: Valentino Haute Couture' »

Elie Saab: candy couture

Written by Tania Braukämper on 26 Jan 2012

The particular breed of elegance that graced the Elie Saab haute couture spring 2012 runway show was the kind that was born of the 1950s and ’60s. The kind you’d associate with icons like Grace Kelly, the kind that’s both delicate yet coolly powerful.

Saab, as he is usually wont to do, sectioned his parade of floating gowns into blocks of colour. This time it was a delicious palette fitting to the vintage theme; a palette of cupcake frostings and candies, from lemon yellow to peppermint to a fairy floss pink.

Read 'Elie Saab: candy couture' »

The Dior Haute Couture bob

Written by Tania Braukämper on 26 Jan 2012

As model after model graced Dior’s Haute Couture runway, you could almost believe that they’d all had their hair transformed into a waved-under bob with the help of some freshly sharpened scissors. But looking closer it was evident that no scissors were needed: like a number of the bobbed hairstyles for 2012 this latest incarnation is carefully-crafted illusion.

Much like the ice-cool sculptured style we saw at Jil Sander for spring 2012, Dior’s faux bob can be achieved with the help of some bobby pins and hairspray.

Read 'The Dior Haute Couture bob' »