A few days ago I saw this french movie - Jeune et Jolie - so beautiful indeed. It is very sexual, yet it has a moral issue as always between what is wrong what is right... the main character is a teenager (played by this gorgeous french model Marine Vach) discovering her sexuality, and in the meanwhile her obsession.
I came across this brand at the London Fashion Week site (here), this capsule collection entitled Catherine | Quin is based on a 'minimal aesthetic of studied simplicity, elegance and a purist palette of black' . What can I do, I have a crush for it! So elegant and chic, and simple...I like simple, and I like black! She designs for a 'strong, sophisticated women who want to be judged on more then their appearance yet retain their feminine sensibility'...now this is pure (fashion) poetry. Love.
Guess it's cool again!! I remember wearing something like this when I was a teen...and I'll probably try this again, it's messy, young and kind of rebel (also keeps your hair from falling on your face!).
To me couture is about the extraordinary, about inspiring dreams and clothes that take our breath away, therefore the materials, the cut, the construction and embroidery make these wearable pieces of art. Maybe Couture codes are modernizing, and it's now ok to do a collection very similar to a ready to wear, as house Dior did this year.
I liked much better the way that the designer Stephane Rolland modernized his own collection of beautiful gowns, he decided to make a short fashion movie - as he wanted to try the field of movie making - about this woman, a 'free woman' as he said. For sure very inspirational and a magnificent idea to modernize the way to present Couture collections.
The sixties are coming back for the next fall/winter season [this is one of my favorite decades!!], we've seen a this inspiration in several collections on the runway like Gucci, Louis Vuitton or Saint Laurent. Looking on this decade I found some of the most influential style icons as Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve among others...the thing was easy looks and natural beauty of the woman.
Saint Laurent exalted the sixties cool pop girl with the short dresses and the glitter mary janes shoes or the hight knee boots with the black tights made the looks so beautiful. Loved the dresses and especially the coats on this collection. Louis Vuitton had some beautiful A-line coats and dresses using leather with wool, again the boots are similar to the sixties style. Gucci [love love this one!!] showed amazing clean lines on suits and dresses, in a beautiful palette of pastel tones and sometimes animal print combined with gorgeous colored fur coats.
«Art within art, pictures within pictures, stories within stories…»
via fashionising.com
Photography by Jean Francois Gschwindt assisted by Chistophe Molinari Make-up: Odile Subra Hair: Carole Douard Model: Alice @ Agency New Madison Digital: Check the Gate Special Thanks: Miche Alzac Stylist: Fleur Huynh Evans
