Beginning of fashion week still full of surprises. Barbara Bui fashion show – the new collection one of my favorite designers. The collection for radiant woman full of energy and light: jumpsuits, khaki shirts, silky cargo pants, and silk dresses, blouses, and natural linen shifts and tiny shorts. Collection was very strong elegant and well casting to the world of reporter simple working woman. Half-covered half-uncovered by python skin on glam-rock young lady.
Invasion of sex appeal and a brooding aesthetic that Bui offers to the adventurous women. From beige, knee-high gladiators to black booties, it is truly a shoe lover's dream. Following in the vein of her coats from Fall—and the current trends—Bui also showed leather outerwear pieced with panels of snake skin and perforated suede. With shades of both biker and aviator, these also dovetailed with the chic and nomadic foreign correspondent she imagined.
Barbara Bui described her new collection in very simple way to me “JUST LUXE”. She said everything should be very simple and warm, like secure place for adventures woman. That's why she mixed crocodile skin and gold with dusty canvas. This is the paradox of being adventures and having safe place “easy like Sunday morning”. Creating pieces for the sophisticated and confident woman Barbara goes not to the image of the modern woman but to her real nature, like herself.
After having nice talk with Barbara at backstage I popped to the presentation of new and absolutely unknown in Paris Japanese fashion designer and artist Hiroko Koshino in Cite de l'architecture. She created even a space for her guests. I understood why she didn't want to make fashion show – she decided to bring her guests trough labyrinths of colors , spaces, fabrics at first before to show what the fashion creation could be like. Well, it's Japanese creations – very colorful and statistic. Koshino's clothes explore the tension between Western influences and Japanese values.
“I love Japan and have been attracted to traditional Japanese culture. I'm trying to express oriental sensitivities in a modern, Western framework. What I think, what I feel, my lifestyle - these are the starting points for my designs. They give me confidence in and a sense of identity with my creations.” Indeed Hiroko met her honorable guests in traditional blue kimono painted herself .
Well there were Japanese ambassador and of course Kenzo Tokada – the great Japanese designer who now devoted himself to the paintings and personages. I've been at his exhibition this summer in gallery of another great fashion designer Pierre Cardin – he told me that he feels like every emotion eventually turns into color.
Indeed like in creations of Hiroko Koshino.
The evening was splendid. All guests were surrounded of great and sophisticated care of Japanese team who were supporting the presentation. Well, wonderful end of the fashion day...
1 October. Lie Sang Bong fashion show.
Having a little rest during the fashion week I decided eventually to see the Lie Sang Bong fashion show in Hotel Westin on rue Castiglione. And it was surprisingly good. Inspired by the movie “Santa Sangre” and images of the wings symbolize the idea of freedom and dove pure love.
He focused his attention to the strong geometric forms. And More and more his pieces became like a paintings which at the end was like typical book illustrations on the girls-pages.
Personally me I was completely in love with little white dress made by “wings” of dragonfly. So amazing and beautiful fabric – what brings you into imaginative world of fairy or angels being where everything is so pure in any breath...
2 October. Presentation of “The Original Douwdouw” in “Old Paris”.
One of my winner in Paris fashion Academy 2009 Dutch fashion designer Therese Schreinemachers-Wieske originally presented her brand “The Original Douwdouw” and new collection luxury shower caps at little restaurant “Old Paris” on Cite. After successful presentation in Cannes “No Drama in the Shower” she decided to make another presentation – Little Jazz concert and show in atmosphere of American Thirties. So lovely and so sweet evening with best Dutch “Sinatra” singer, dancing elegant models brought all guests back to the sources of fashion – time when all big names were created like Chanel, Dior, Cerutti etc – what we call “capital” of fashion today.
I was no able to attend all the events and shows like missed and very exclusive carnival organized by Vogue magazine, some presentation and the best has to come – Pret-a-porter collection of Chanel, Leonard, Zucca, Ellie Saab. Stay fashionably tuned for more :-))))).
