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Fashion Show
This week marked Alessandra Facchinetti's couture debut for the house of Valentino. Don't know what the fashion wags will say, but in my humble opinion, the collection was pretty rad; it evoked the Jackie O class that V is famous for but felt more vital, even though something unspecific about the makeup really bothered me. I didn't know much about the new designer, save that she'd been at Gucci and was kind of a dark-horse choice to fill Valentino's Italian loafers. But check out how awesome this trivia is: "Father is Roby Facchinetti, singer and keyboard player for Italian rock band Pooh. Brother is rapper DJ Francesco." Groovy! (Selected images begin below.)
Fashion Show
Ah, Jean-Paul Gaultier: the audacious enfant terrible of the fashion world. If Dior was one archetype of couture week, here's the other: unrelated to humanity and very possibly tinged with madness. This year's couture show took its inspiration from "construction and foundation" and cited the Eiffel Tower as a source. It's always a losing game to try to untangle the, ahem, complex tapestry of a designer's vision, but going on these clues I attempted to slip into JPG's mind and guess which of the three influences was at work in the selected images, below.
Fashion Show
It's a known fact that Christian Lacroix is so joyfully theatrical and fantastical, his references so wide-ranging, his designs so loopily impractical, that he's almost impossible to parody. In this show, he appeared to refrerence everything from 80's Dior to Pucci to Goya and back. It's fashion as art, yes indeedy, but I did wonder what from the runway you could get away with wearing...and not look like Edina Monsoon. My numerical judgments of collection highlights, beginning below.
Fashion Show
As I watched the parade of Russian-spies-from-the-future-walk down the runway for Chanel couture — "watched", of course, meaning, looked at photos — it occurred to me that only one writer's granite-hewed, pro-Capitalist prose would do. And so, I give you Herr Karl Lagerfeld's vision for the future...in the words of Ayn Rand. (Gallery begins below.)
Fashion Show
Remember how Armani made his name by defining 'power dressing' and essentially creating the 80s? Yeah, so does he. So in response to the recession, he seems to have retreated to a happier time of power suits and pesto and aerobics and trickle-down economics. To look at this runway show from his latest couture show, you'd believe you were...in pre-school. (Gallery begins below.)









