Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture 2022: Best runway looks, celebrity outfits
Couture Fashion Week has returned to Paris. Here are some flagrantly underqualified thoughts.
Couture Fashion Week has returned to Paris. Here are some flagrantly underqualified thoughts on the shows we’ve seen so far.
A few things.
As far as we're concerned, the unanimous street style winner of this year's haute couture fashion week is North West, who didn't once miss a beat.
Also, Emma Watson is alive and well. Here she is on the front row at Schiaparelli with pop girlie Rina Sawayama and Euphoria actress Hunter Schafer — looking like one of those intimidating, mysterious and strikingly beautiful Instragam girls that are too poised to take selfies and instead curate enviable feeds with WIP shots of ceramics.
Schiaparelli
Speaking of Schiaparelli. Creative director Daniel Roseberry brought surrealism and fantasy to his reverential haute couture collection. The show's concept hinged on “being in conversation by people that had been so inspired by her [Elsa Schiaparelli].” With loving nods to former creative director, Christian Lacroix.
“It would be great to have a flowered face like a magnificent garden!” In her 1954 autobiography, Shocking Life, Elsa recounts a childhood episode where, convinced of her ugliness, she planted seeds in her ears, mouth, and nose in an attempt to grow flowers.
Only slightly more whimsical than my childhood preening where I mistook Veet hair removal cream with moisturiser.
That balance bird you bought from the National Geographic store? Couture.
Balenciaga
The first section of Balenciaga's show was quintessentially sexy, alien, Demna. With the first seven models dressed in neoprene —scuba bodysuits, dresses, flared gowns, cuissarde boots, and suits.
The tone shifted when the A-list celebrities entered, Dua Lipa, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Campbell, and the collection paid dues to Cristóbel Balenciaga's evolution, dressing the princesses of the Spanish Royal Family.
Nicole Kidman has finished the London Marathon and paramedics have flocked to the scene, wrapping the Oscar-winning actress in a hyperthermia blanket.
It's Ibiza 1985 and Dua Lipa has been invited to a Toga Party, only to find the Balearic island is suffering a white wool drought.
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Olivier Rousteing must've skim-read the JPG Wikipedia page in an Adderal-fuelled delirium and said, "I got this." He seems terrified that the audience will miss a motif from the French designer's legacy — the conical bra shape, the sailor stripes, tattoo designs, skin-tight sheer tops, iconic Le Male fragrance tin can — were all walloped over our noodles ad nauseam.
Olivier obviously put a lot of love into this show, and you can feel it. I feel sick to my stomach being such a hater — he looked so happy. And from all reports, Gaultier was ecstatic. “Zat was fantastic!” he said, “He took my things and then did it his way—and the technique—fab, fab, fab."
Heinously hungover and hankering for Gozleme at Glebe Markets.
On my way to get declined access to Berghain.
A genuinely thrilling recreation of the Le Male perfume bottle for women.
Christian Dior
Maria Grazia Chiuri worked alongside Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko on a collection that strived to “contemplate fashion through the filter of art.”
My knee-jerk reaction to this show was 'boring, snoring.' Upon reflection: I am a taste neanderthal whose brain has been rotted by the ostentatious fashion that dominates the zeitgeist, and am incapable of comprehending nuance and appreciating 'fine craftmanship.'
The collection was beautiful.
A frock for women with unnatural hair colour that probably says things like “buying a pug is unethical.”
'About to go missing with several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at in Victoria, 1900, on Valentine's Day' vibes.
Trofymenko’s work deals predominately with the ‘tree of life’. Not the mythological and philosophical archetype — but the cloyingly-incensed boho chain store you bought culturally-appropriative bindis from in 2012.
Maison Margiela
Margiela's show was everything. Gorgeous and peculiar. Presented as a play, cowboys and outlaws swaggered through the Théâtre National de Chaillot whilst road movie film clips played in the background. Lashing of organza, billowing underskirts, sparkling trench coats.
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