Browsing Category Haute Couture 2015-16

GUY LAROCHE AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK The name Guy Laroche lingers as one of those slightly indefinable French couture houses that is most likely powered by its much more familiar fragrances, Fidji and Drakkar Noir. Which is not to say that Laroche didn't have a distinct signature in the heyday of the label's namesake. ...

YANG LI AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK "Tension," said (apparently utterly un-tense) Yang Li after his Fall show: "It was absolutely about tension." Tension is a positive force? "You have to destroy to create." Ah, that old chestnut. Then what was he destroying today? "Well, with my hands, in the lineup, I was destroying the ...

SONIA BY SONIA RYKIEL AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK Since its debut a year ago, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel has been a perfectly likable line that succeeded in capturing a contemporary ingenue sensibility. Today's collection felt different in that it finally aligned with the Sonia Rykiel sensibility. The reason seems obvious: The impact of Julie ...

DRIES VAN NOTEN AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR PARIS FASHION WEEK IF you're going to a ball, then make Dries Van Noten your date. The designer this afternoon put his casual-cool spin on fairy-tale dressing of the Cinderella kind - making tie-on splaying train skirts a must for next season. And if it's not one of those (and ...

ZIMMERMANN AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 READY-TO-WEAR NEW YORK Backstage before her Fall show, Nicky Zimmermann referred to the parties she remembered her parents giving during her childhood. That nostalgia yielded a focus on occasion dressing—no great shock coming from Zimmermann, whose label has plenty of flair when it comes to the festive and more-is-more. Here were a heavy ...