See more daily bags in T Magazine. It had been pouring rain most of the night and morning here in Paris. But around , five minutes before the scheduled start of the Chanel show, the sun suddenly came out from behind the clouds, bathing the Grand Palais in a golden light.
It was perhaps a fitting tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, the master showman of Paris Fashion Week, who had transformed the main gallery of the Grand Palais into an airport waiting lounge serving "Chanel Airlines" for the presentation of his spring collection. He did so for a crowd that included dozens of Chanel ladies in their Chanel finery; a Chinese actress who strolled around the set pushing an empty luggage trolley trailed the entire time by a posse of Chinese paparazzi ; and the tennis star Maria Sharapova, recovering from a recent spate of injuries and sitting in the front row next to Anna Wintour.
How was she feeling? The show opened with this global traveler, rolling suitcase at the ready, in a multicolored pantsuit. The rest of the show featured poppy colors, mixes of prints and textures, and just the right amount of bling to keep those Chanel ladies happy. At the finale, Mr. Lagerfeld took a slow, triumphant walk through the audience, stopping to pick up a scarf that had been dropped on the runway by one of the models and had sat there forlornly for most of the show.
He did so with a sly smile and a slight shrug, as if to say, "Well, someone had to do it. When the show ended, the crowd streamed out of the Grand Palais to find that the sun had disappeared once again, slipping behind a dark gray cloud.
Each season, Chanel invites its most valued clients to Paris Fashion Week to view its latest ready-to-wear collection. They come in the hundreds and from all over the world for the biannual spectacles, wearing their latest purchases — and ready to look at some new ones.
We spoke to three women before they took their seats in the Chanel Airlines terminal on Tuesday:. I am a TV presenter and have no time to shop on the road when I'm working.
But a Chanel outfit takes me anywhere I need to go. An outfit like this is everything a woman needs. It's timeless but sexy, not at all vulgar and very, very chic.
I am a devoted fan. He is such a genius! Look at this place. Although I love everything he does, I tend to buy mainly black pieces. It works in all seasons and all climates and makes me look elegant wherever I go. That's incredibly important to me. But being cool matters, too. That's why I bought the backpack. Kristina Magakelyan "I've come in from Moscow with my mother for the show because Chanel is my favorite brand. I've been four or five times before and am obsessed with Paris Fashion Week.
I love the fact I can sit with celebrities and have discussions with some of the most important people in this industry. I bought this outfit a few weeks ago in Cannes; pearls are so pretty. But my favorite part is probably the sunglasses.
I have so many pairs back at home. Boarding for the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week began bright and early on Tuesday at the Grand Palais, which had been transformed into a life-size Chanel Airlines terminal.
Guests handed over retro-style plane tickets before passing through security and into a dazzling all-white departure lounge, complete with roaming pilots, branded luggage trolleys and check-in desks. Of course there were celebrities galore, with Cara Delevingne at the eye of the paparazzi storm.
And at Chanel, the fashion show is as much on the front row as it is on the catwalk. Hundreds of the world's wealthiest women, dressed head to toe in Chanel, chattered excitedly and tottered around, taking pictures with their iPhones. Chanel-clad women on their phones and running to find their gate. The architect Peter Marino, wearing his usual uniform of leather and bare flesh, found the fact that art was imitating life a little too close for comfort.
But for Anna Dello Russo, the Japan Vogue editor-at-large, who was swamped by women of all ages asking for a selfie, she said it was just like real air travel: One had to go with the flow. Look how much fun everyone is having. This is, for me, what fashion is all about. As one does. Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane of Saint Laurent are both masters of the highly commercial mega-collection disguised as some sort of fashion performance art.
With just 36 hours to go until the end of the spring season, Tuesday may be the penultimate stretch, but it holds some big-name shows. Check-in starts at a. The retro airline ticket invitations suggest a Chanel Airlines-themed event, a favorite of Karl Lagerfeld, who has turned to it several times before. Two hours later, Vanessa Seward, a staple for chic Parisian women, shows off her latest collection, before an en masse turnout for Valentino in the Jardin des Tuileries.
Iris van Herpen rounds off the official schedule at , but there will be parties after hours: Opening Ceremony, Roger Vivier and Valentino are having them, as is Elle magazine, which is hosting one at the United States Embassy.
At the Saint Laurent show on Monday night, there was a rare sight: a celebrity who was not just on time, but 15 minutes early. The evening skies were overcast in Paris on Monday, but inside at the Saint Laurent show, there were lots of opportunities for stargazing.
There was the twinkling digital-art-enhanced set, designed by Hedi Slimane. And the front row was lit up by photographers' flashes for Catherine Deneuve, Terry Richardson and Lily Donaldson, not to mention a small army of Mr.
And then there were the clothes. First came a midnight-black metallic gown, all acres of bare flesh and a center split. Next, dazzling little metallic shifts and sheer barely-there gowns, most of them worn with Wellington boots, plastic tiaras and biker jackets or furs, and the occasional touch of razor-sharp suiting upon which this designer made his name.
Slimane is yet another designer inspired by nostalgia for the grungy glamour of British festival style. But what was she doing in Paris in the first place? That's also why I am here: to talk to locals, learn about their lives and what is inspiring them over here. Not that I speak much French. This fur, these thigh-high suede boots. I'm such a fan, hence I'm wearing it from head to toe. The midnight blue color palette was carried out with the next few dresses, before switching to variations of black and white, royal blue and, later in the show, bright orange accented with matching sneakers.
In the front row was Kris Jenner, with boyfriend Corey Gamble. She was, in case you had to ask, perfectly dry. Shown in this high-gloss nude, these slender-toed heels will instantly make any leg look longer. See more daily shoes in T Magazine. Hermes rides the accessories wave with giant slices of stones at neck and waist PFW vvfriedman.
Gigi Hadid closes Giambattista Valli show. Not for nothing does this girl have 6. See more daily jewels in T Magazine. Only 11 of the 39 fresh-faced girls on Giambattista Valli's runway today got the glitter treatment. Get the look in T Magazine. Read the interview, here. Inside the Grand Palais on Monday, a rain-soaked crowd at the Giambattista Valli show was cheered by the sight of Salma Hayek attempting to take a selfie with a bemused Lee Radziwill. Hayek exclaimed to the Paris-dwelling American socialite and onetime European princess after examining the fruits of their efforts.
After seven decades in the public eye, it can be little surprise that the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has mastered the art of stylish dress. In between interruptions from adoring fans of all ages, Ms. Radziwill took Styles through her wardrobe choice for the sixth day of Paris Fashion Week. HAIR Have a style and own it. Who has time to think about these things endlessly? I've been wearing my hair in a chignon like this for years. I bought it in their Paris store just last week. I'm totally devoted to that brand and find things there constantly.
Like this cardigan -- it looks so simple, but all the quilting makes it so warm. The pattern is complex but monochrome, which means it goes with anything. I'm a firm believer in not always being a slave to trends and wearing what makes one happy. And on a day like today, it's a pair of simple black slacks by Armani. I have hundreds of pairs. They are ancient. I've had them for so long I can't remember where they come from. But they are silver and simple, so easy to wear all day every day.
It's the practical option on a day like today! There has been a lot of talk recently about the underrepresentation of women in positions of power when it comes to industries such as film and technology.
Less discussed, but equally startling when you look at the numbers, is how few women are designers at the head of major fashion brands or even minor ones. Of the 91 shows on the official Paris schedule, fewer than 20 percent are brands with female creative directors or their titular ilk. Where are the women? The first look of the Sacai spring collection from Chitose Abe was a printed halter shift of filmy kaleidoscopic ribbons, latticed together into a voluminous silhouette. Prints then continued to come in every which way: roomy bandanna-inspired two pieces in navy and white, all gauzy sleeves and asymmetric points; gilded floral car coats and starched skirts and dresses; and filmy rainbow stripes, with black brocade finish.
The Mexican actress, who took selfies galore with the two men before the chandeliers dimmed at the Palais Garnier in Paris, was full of praise at the finale. I just love her — and my god, did I love those shoes!
Hayek said, coughing occasionally behind dark glasses and a mass of raven hair. She explained that she was fending off a cold. She manages to get all the prettiest girls of the season in one room to walk at her show. After stopping to kiss Carine Roitfeld — and to tell the French fashion editor that she followed her on Instagram — Ms.
Hayek explained the secret of an enduring friendship with Ms. McCartney: "You know, I think we get on incredibly well because we are both Virgos. We are perfectionists. I think you should always have friends who inspire you. And to me, she is one of a kind. So one might have expected that Paul McCartney would have made it a trifecta on Monday morning. But to the disappointment of the paparazzi, Sir Paul was nowhere to be seen in the front row at the ornate Palais Garnier as his daughter, the designer Stella McCartney, showed her spring collection, starting off with this form-fitting dress in a tartan-like red-and-white plaid, followed by several variations in different colors.
All the models wore these vaguely Japanese-influenced platform shoes, which, during the finale, resounded through the halls of the ornate opera house like horses' hooves heading down the stretch. For the style set, after three and a half weeks on the road, Monday of Paris Fashion Week is often the moment when they realize that the end of the season is drawing near. But before the last blast, several big brands will roll out onto the catwalks. Stella McCartney, who sent out enormous gold knuckle-dusters spelling out her name as invitations for her spring collection, begins the day at 10 a.
After Leonard Paris at midday comes Giambattista Valli, before an afternoon at leisure, often leading to a frenzied dash by frazzled editors around the boutiques and art galleries of the Left Bank. All of a sudden, it's early evening.
Sonia Rykiel will hold an intimate show in St. But at 8, anyone who could get their hands on a ticket heads to see the latest offerings from Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent. Front-row whispers about an announcement of an appointment at Balenciaga, the Saint Laurent stablemate, will no doubt be reaching a crescendo. The barren heaths are a landscape where Sarah Burton seems to thrive.
Her collections for Alexander McQueen often seem pulled from the wild, a prairie chic that ultimately explodes into full-on glamour. So it went with tonight's McQueen collection. It began simply, almost humbly, with plain, linen-colored dresses, crinkled and creased as if by hard use. By the end, there were gowns sparkling and sweeping over the stage, feathered and fringed. Barren landscape no more.
McQueen finale gowns: fashion that also dusts matthewschneier. Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton wove a delicate web of body jewelry around her models, using layers of antiqued silver chains and charms that gave her sheer gowns a moody, romantic quality.
See more jewels from the runways in T Magazine. The rapper and designer, who attended several Paris shows last week, had completely ignored the black-tie dress code and arrived with his mother-in-law, Kris Jenner. Read more and see more photos here. Albert Kriemler's mostly white but also black and navy and red Akris show. Swiss cheese holes on cotton shirting segued into checkerboard squares and corkboard prints, and gold and silver trouser suits created a new equation for nature's geometry, solved in sartorial form.
An earlier version of this post misspelled the Akris designer's surname. He is Albert Kriemler, not Kreimler. At Akris, clothes and accessories were made from a natural-hued, strawlike material.
These tropical platform oxfords are perfect for spring days in the city. Galaxy turns 10, Roland Mouret announced Sunday with great fanfare before his spring collection was unveiled in Paris. And the show was, for the most part, a celebration of that dress, beloved by celebrities for red-carpet appearances, and the one that made a name for the designer.
The finale was a full lineup of the Galaxy in every possible shade, amid whoops and cheers from the audience. Discordant juxtapositions are part of the human condition. They just get a little more exaggerated when Fashion Week comes into play. Largely because fashion tends to play with them. It works, at least part of the time.
There were black and white lingerie slips and camisoles balanced by tailored pants and jackets, corset-waisted tweed coats and pleated Martha Graham dance dresses with mid-calf skirts, their open backs closed by ribbon ties streaming from the neck. Philo said backstage after the show, and the tension between the two worlds, familiar to most women, was made manifest in her clothes.
Read more. People were still settling in their seats, swapping anecdotes about the Paris Vogue party the night before Kanye! She was wearing a sheer, deep-cut lacy dress in black and white, a color theme carried out through most of the first half of the show, before switching to some form-fitting coats in moss green and several plaid-on-plaid numbers. See more bags from the runways in T Magazine. Multi-colored nylon environment at Celine, by the Danish artist Fos.
Come sail away PFW pic. Fausto Puglisi brought some full-on flower power to his spring collection for Emanuel Ungaro, blooming from a bright saccharine palette of turquoise, licorice and coconut ice pink. The first look was a lattice jumpsuit with fringed petals that gave the pants a multi-dimensional finish.
Think capes, baby doll shifts and bra, mini and thigh-high boot combos, adorned with hundreds of hand-sewn daisies. After coffee and eclairs — Kenzo provided breakfast for the masses that trekked out to the far reaches of Paris for its show — the crowd headed inside the Paris Event Center.
A series of arches had been constructed and motorized platforms bearing models, a full flotilla's worth, moved through the set. Their sandals may have been lined with rubber-beaded massaging footbeds of the sort you'd find in Adidas slides, but that was no reason to walk more than one had to. When the moving platforms came to a stop, the models descended to the runway. The forecast is bright and cool; a major race, the annual 10K Paris Center, has tied up the city center, but the fashion industry has bigger fish to fry.
It's Sunday morning and the shows are in full swing. The action starts — at the very edge of town, naturally — with Kenzo at a. Akris, the quiet Swiss label, takes the Grand Palais at 6 p. Take that time to meditate and recoup. Slim, refined necklaces added a subtle sparkle to the collars of shift dresses and diaphanous tops at Nina Ricci.
Guillaume Henry kicked off his sophomore effort for Nina Ricci with this rubberized-looking, off-the-shoulder number in dark green, reprising it at the end of the show in burnt orange. Bags that can be worn on the arm rather than simply carried is a recurring theme for spring.
At Acne Studios, a model slipped her hand elegantly through the front strap of this lime-green clutch. The invitation was to Le Centorial, the stone and glass tower near the Paris Opera, where fashion shows are often staged for giant crowds. But ushers directed guests down, down past the glass-floored lobby, past another level and down to a basement room with a stucco ceiling, exposed heating pipes and a temperature hovering at the tropical end of the double digits.
Where else? For any other designer, the small crowd would have revolted and left. But such is the power of Rei: They squeezed and schvitzed and sat. The show rewarded their forbearance. It was Ms. Kawakubo at her poetic, expansive best often literally, as models had to do-si-do to fit around one another going and coming on the narrow runway.
What began as black and red erupted, eventually, into a feathered, fuzzy, velvety riot of blue. As is her wont, Ms. Kawakubo never came out. See more shoes from the runways in T Magazine. The first look from Haider Ackermann, from a tough spring collection, was packed with punk rock spirit and tribal motifs, but with notes of whimsical romanticism.
The show began with a model wearing a multicolor feathered Mohawk headdress, a cropped and sleeveless biker jacket, low-slung silk pants and heavy ankle boots.
Amid puffs of smoke and operatic arias, an army emerged in similar attire — all edgy leathers and deconstructed jackets, with flashes of color and hints of skin. Ackermann said after the show. Judging by a front row dressed from head to toe in his designs, he found kindred spirits in his audience, too.
See more backstage beauty reports in T Magazine. As a designer, Junya Watanabe is at least half sculptor. His honeycomb-like pieces are installed like artwork in a window of Colette this week, and at his show this morning several attendees were wearing them or poking out of them, it might be fairer to say. This season, he kept up his experiments in the form.
His blousy shirts and billowing twisted one-piece rompers were kitted out with aluminum rings or spiraling helices of faux patent leather. They were crowned by undulating headpieces, inspired by ripples in water, in towering paper and vinyl by Mr.
Watanabe's hair artist, Tomihiro Kono — apparently without any direction from Mr. Rise and shine, fashion week: The day begins with Junya Watanabe, who shows mercifully, with coffee at The upside: It's Saturday morning.
Traffic won't be bad. From there, the day trundles on, to Haider Ackermann at back in central Paris for waifs in silks, then on to Mugler in the early afternoon. There may even be time for a quick lunch before Acne Studios picks up the thread at 2.
Then it's onward to Nina Ricci, where the recently appointed designer Guillaume Henry is continuing to reshape the label. You may have seen his Ricci if you happened to walk by the front windows of the concept shop Colette this week. Conserve your energy throughout the day: tonight Vogue Paris celebrates its 95th anniversary, and the invitation makes its intentions clear.
It reads, in embossed gold, "Let's Dance. Prepared for Hurricane Yohji. Wang's final show. At Balenciaga, models walked the runway in slide-on spa slippers fashioned from lacy fabric. At a surprisingly low-key farewell to his three years at Balenciaga -- almost no celebrities, save Salma Hayek Pinault -- and in the hushed, almost funereal setting of a Paris chapel, Alexander Wang opened his show with this short, slinky number in virginal white.
The crowd at Balenciaga takes in Alex Wang's show, a theme in white stuartemmrichny. The prospect of an Undercover show at the Cirque d'Hiver the winter circus was promising.
You couldn't have imagined it if you had tried. Jun Takahashi has a bright future as a ringmaster if he wants one. His girls were painted as clowns and wore clown-costume ruffs, but the clothes were artful, not funny. His opening check suits were Mod skinny and entirely backless, lacing with long pretty ribbons to great effect. This circus also had a better soundtrack than most: all Stones. And there were great pieces printed with the young, never-better-looking faces of Mick, Keef and Co.
Models generally carry a lot of things in a typical fashion show — purses, clutches, briefcases, totes, suitcases; at Loewe, there was a bag for every look. But on Thursday, within the bowels of the Palais de Tokyo, in a cavernous concrete bunker for the Rick Owens show, they carried something more unexpected: people. Women, in Mr.
Women and this is important who were the size of regular women, carried by other women the same size, because they were strong enough to support their weight.
Read more here. A shift from courting dragons to the crowds at Dior was a welcome one for the "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke.
Filming for the next season is in full swing at the moment. Given the endless fantastical costume changes required for Ms. Clarke's character, it was suggested to her that getting dressed up to watch a catwalk show must feel almost low-key. But in the real world, nothing feels better than wearing Dior. Before Paris Fashion Week even began, a team totaling got to work on a man-made mountain blanketed in royal blue and purple flowers. Many will remember that Raf Simons presented his debut Dior haute couture collection against a backdrop of five salons walled with flowers — among them, 48, delphinium.
Today's set featured some , delphinium, planted on rolling garden turf, which works out to about flowers per invitee. And it all came very naturally.
Read more about the set design in T Magazine. The sun was blazing down upon the courtyards of the Louvre in Paris on Friday. The Dior crowd was visibly wilting as they entered the vast show space, which had been covered in fresh purple delphiniums. Stores' phone numbers and opening hours - On Carolina Herrera locations map in London. Carry on browsing if you're happy with this, or find out how to manage Cookies usage policy. Carolina Herrera on Facebook. Carolina Herrera in London. Carolina Herrera.
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