Maison Martin Margiela Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011
Maison Martin Margiela is always very high-touch and artistic. This collection: fur, . braided leather, suede, strappy leather. The hole-y knits were very Rodarte-esque and some of the leather was clearly inspired by Western leather tooling.
The Western pieces were not my favorites, but the body skimming leggings and tunics are very wearable.
Maison Martin Margiela Presentation F/W 2011
Fashion jackassery @ Jantaminiaushow
This is the new this. When you end up with $10 worth of weave and a lazy Susan on your head, it’s time to start re-evaluating your career choices.
Fashion Jackassery @ Jantaminiaushow Haute Couture
Christian Dior Haute Couture Paris Fall/Winter 2011
Spring? No, ma cherie. It’s Christian Dior Fall/Winter 2011. With all the floral influences, it seems that John Galliano is in a spring-y kind of mood.
He turned models into living floral arrangements with cellophane-covered faces and sky-scraping hair that blossomed all the way up to the rafters. With punchy bits of aquamarine, purple, and marigold, this was a colorful way to kick off Paris Haute Couture.
Dresses and skirts were in full bloom with bursts of sculptural flowers and bud-like draping. Even the shoes took on the garden theme with strappy heels that twisted like creeping vines.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen florals for fall, but this is quite the explosion.
Christian Dior Flower Bombs Paris Fashion Week F/W 2011
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It will be a very nude season in Valentino-land. This is the second ready-to-wear collection designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli for Valentino since taking the reigns from Alessandra Facchinetti and the duo seems to be finding their legs and asserting their own vision on the house.
What does that mean? No red dresses.
The designers took the sheer trend and ran with it with a muted color palette of grey, cream, khaki and ecru. Flirtatious cocktail dresses swirled above the knee and revealed glimpses of skin underneath floating organza. Even seemingly demure floor-length gowns got a little scandalous with sheer lace to show off bits that normally go covered.
But the absolute best part of this show were the shoes created by Philip Treacy which were like sculptures for your feet. Lace at the toe revealed just a hint of sexy toe cleavage and lace dripped around the ankles or winged out from the back, creating a delicious confection of a shoe.
It was all very soft and pretty, but a little too oatmeal-y for my tastes.
The couture shows are over, but ’tis the season for getting hitched, so I decided to give you a second look at the haute couture brides.
The Chanel bride was probably my favorite. The look was marked by layers of tulle cascading from the veil and down the arms, but the gown itself was very sleek. The banded waist continued Lagerfeld’s tubular theme from the rest of the show and a cascade of beading led down the skirt and pooled into the train. Beautiful!
Gaultier’s bride was the most modern of the bunch with a body-con lace dress and his futuristic caging carrying over into a helmeted, cage-like veil.
Reem Acra is the master at evening and bridal gowns and his couture creation was very fanciful and fairytale-like.
Haute Couture Brides 
