Big brands dazzle at Paris Fashion Week
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| Some of everyone's favorite top designers, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, and John Galliano, style icons have in store for Spring/Summer 2013. |
Getting them into high-street shops around the world needs an understanding of what's going on there, like in Paris, where Fashion Week is almost nearing its end. Some of everyone's favorite top designers, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, and John Galliano. They look at what these style icons have in store for Spring/Summer 2013.
"Global exotic," is how English designer Vivienne Westwood described her brilliant and wacky spring-summer 2013 show. Westwood used exotic styles with billowing trousers and turbans - which was evoked in many of the baggy globe-trotting looks.
Vivienne Westwood, designer, said, "This particular world ended up looking very global, because I guess I absorb what's going on in the world. And so, for example, the print from the tea box, it looks like a print from everywhere. It could have been from China, it could have been from Russia, India."
Meanwhile, Jean Paul Gaultier took a trip back to the 1980s and the pop music of the era. A disco ball spun, dancers performed on a backdrop and models made up to look like icons such as Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox and David Bowie strutted on the catwalk to the sounds of music from the time.
Jean Paul Gaultier, designer, said, "You know, now the 80s are always it's like revival, so I was thinking yes, what is the view, everybody is like about image and lookalike, so I wanted to make like lookalike, people that I admire, sometimes that I worked with, that were wearing my clothes or that I admired their look."
The Gaultier codes were all there, too: lace, corsets, a mix of masculine and feminine, and of course the bullet bra that Madonna once wore so famously.
And then there was John Galliano, whose line was strikingly somber. The collection was clean and unfettered, models presented garments displaying various combinations of drapes and folds.
The majority of the collection was a restrained palette of stone, coral, navy, white, black and pale pink. The lines were architectural, with draped and fitted jackets worn with voluminous trousers and statement oversized shorts.
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