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The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris has named the five fashion houses invited to display their work as guests at the Autumn / Winter fashion week in July 2016.
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French Haute Couture association names Fashion Week’s guest labels
The Lebanese fashion designer, who is famous for his red carpet-worthy haute couture and ready-to-wear creations, has revealed a line-up of 25 daring and feminine gowns and trouser suits for brides to be. Bridal gowns are not the only new project underway at the house at the moment – an eyewear collection is also set to launch in January 2017.
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Elie Saab Bridal Is Unveiled (And, Duh, It’s Beautiful)
The exhibition, which opens on May 5, explores the link between the handmade and the machine-made in the worlds of haute couture and ready-to-wear. “Traditionally, the distinction between the haute couture and prêt-à-porter was based on the handmade and the machine-made, but recently this distinction has become increasingly blurred as both disciplines have embraced the practices and techniques of the other,” said Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. Recently released photos reveal that the show will include a “wedding ensemble” by Karl Lagerfeld for the Chanel Autumn/Winter 2014-15 haute couture collection, and an evening dress by Yves Saint Laurent for the Autumn/Winter 1969-70 haute couture show.
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A sneak peek at the MET Costume Institute’s fashion exhibition ‘Manus x Machina’
After a round of menswear shows then Haute Couture Week in Paris, fashion is heading off on its annual tour of the four catwalk capitals. The first of the autumn/winter 2016-2017 previews will be held in New York, with around 60 catwalk shows scheduled for this year's fashion week, which opens February 11.
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New York Fashion Week: 2016 show schedule
Men's fashion week kicked off in New York on Monday for a second season, playing catch up after chic shows in London, Milan and Paris. It will also whet appetites for the style explosion and buyers' bonanza that is New York fashion week for women — the main event — due to begin February 11. “The success of the inaugural 'New York Fashion Week: Men's' surpassed our expectations,” Steven Kolb head of the Council of Fashion Designers of America told AFP in an email interview.
Architectural fashion was the name of the game at the Spring 2016 Haute Couture shows in Paris this week, where bold structures and exaggerated silhouettes dominated the runways. Stephane Rolland mastered the look with a show-stopping postbox red layered dress that fanned outwards in a choppy, sculpted fashion. Elsewhere on the catwalks, Giambattista Valli sent out tiered gowns featuring triangular layer upon layer of stiff, frothy organza, and Alexis Mabille played with loose, voluminous structures that riffed on breezy nightwear but were in fact fitted to protrude outwards from the body.
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Fashion meets architecture: the biggest looks from Paris haute couture
Fashion designer Zuhair Murad put on a romantic show in Paris on Wednesday as he debuted his Spring 2016 Haute Couture collection. The Lebanese creative put the focus on female sensuality with a collection of structured dresses that protruded bell-like at the hips, sculpting exaggeratedly womanly curves.
The house of Valentino provided a fashionable history of art lesson in Paris on Wednesday night, as it showcased its Spring 2016 haute couture collection. Under the creative direction of designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the Italian label whipped up a classical collection of show-stopping gowns that felt both timeless and modern.
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From Classical to Cubist, haute couture gets an artistic makeover from Valentino and Viktor & Rolf
If there's one thing Maison Margiela specializes in, it's putting on a show, and the couture house didn't disappoint in Paris Wednesday. Under the guidance of star designer John Galliano, the Spring 2016 collection was a riot of influences, each bolder and brighter than the last. The makeup, which included lipstick prints all over the face and neck and zig-zagged eye patches, seemed to be an homage to the late David Bowie, who would almost certainly have approved of the glittering gold boots and metallic trousers on show, and indeed the entire collection channeled the zany creativity that both the musician and Galliano have in common.
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From Bowie-mania to enchanted fairytales: Maison Margiela, Franck Sorbier and Elie Saab shine on the couture runways
Japanese brand Uniqlo will release its new spring/summer collection created in collaboration with French designer Christophe Lemaire on March 4. This will be their final collaborative project. Following a successful fall collection last year, Lemaire and Uniqlo teamed up again for a 2016 spring/summer collection.
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Uniqlo and Lemaire final collaborative collection goes on sale March 4
