Tailor's Daughter: Jean Paul Gaultier

06 July 2013

HAUTE COUTURE AUTUMN/WINTER 2013: JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

YES! This is the moment that I've been waiting for. Haute Couture Autumn/Winter is back! This is the time where the world renown designers will present their most expensive and exclusive collection of the year in Paris. Unlike Ready-To-Wear (RTW) collection, it is sewn with extreme attention to detail and high quality materials by the most experienced seamstress. Most of the time, it is very time consuming. No doubt that its customers are high ranking positions ladies and celebrities who ordered the collection to strut to parties, weddings and red carpet.

**Fashion Term Dictionary Corner**
Haute means "High" or "Elegant"
"Couture" means "dressmaking" in French.
Pronounciation:

Here, I would like to share with you what French Jean Paul Gaultier's Swiss Guard and Safari inspired pieces completed with cone hats look like. As most designers would normally do in an haute couture fashion show, Gaultier presented a wedding dress at the end of show. Check out the "Gasing" or spinning-top inspired hairstyle too!! Haha.

Here's the "Gasing" Hair!

And here comes the bride... Liu Wen in the final number, the wedding gown.

****STAY TUNE! MORE HAUTE COUTURE UPDATES TO COME!****

Sources:

http://www.vogue.com/fashion-week/fall-2013-couture/jean-paul-gaultier/review/#/collection/runway/fall-2013-couture/jean-paul-gaultier/12

01 August 2012

PARIS FASHION WEEK HAUTE COUTURE A/W - July 2012

Getting bored these days? No idea what to wear? Wondering what's the latest trend on the runway?

Let's get your fashion inspiration here!

ALEXANDRE VAULTHIER

~White & Gold~

ALEXIS MABILLE

~Metalic & Bow~

BASIL SODA

~Feathers~

CHANEL

~Metallic Pink~

CHRISTIAN DIOR

~2-Tones & A-Line Dresses~

CHRISTOPHER JOSSE

Yup! Batman inspired. Don't they look similar???

ELLIE SAAB

~Lace~

FRANCK SORBIERS

~Neons & Giganto prints~

Now, this is one of a kind. According to http://patternbank.com/ , the designer used stunning visual effects to narrate a medieval French fairytale on the runway at Paris last month. The Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2012/2013 collection retold the 17th century story, Donkeyskin, a widowed king set on marrying his own daughter, who escapes his clutches by demanding a series of impossible gowns, the colour of the sky, moon or sun. “The collection is a bridge between the past, the present and what the future could be,” explained Franck, who had teamed up with software giant intel for the high-tech side of the project.

GEORGES CHAKRA

~Zorro & Elena~

GEORGES HOBEIKA

~Long sleeves button up~

GIAMBATTISTA VALLI

~Roses & Poison Ivy~

This one (above) is similar with one of Georges Hobeika's design!

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GIORGIO ARMANI PRIVE

~Dusk & Midnight Stars

GIVENCHY

~Medieval~

IRIS VAN HERPEN

~Futuristic~

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

~Think "Johnny Depp"~

JULIEN FOURNIE

~L.E.D. Bulbs~

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA

~Gemstones~

These designs are somehow quite impractical to be wore. I can't imagine how these models watch their way with the headpiece covered with gemstones on?!