Roger Vivier: Limited Edition Rendez-Vous Collection

May 13, 2013 by The CoF

Roger Vivier’s Rendez-Vous collection honors the history of couture with a collection of limited edition, handcrafted accessories. From sequined minaudiéres to ruffled clutches, these exquisite creations are as much masterpieces as they are black-tie pieces. Prices : 2,675 $ – 52,850 $ images via modaoperandi.com  

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Clutch, Handbags and Purses, Haute couture, limited edition, luxury, Rendez-Vous Collection, Roger Vivier, Shopping

Spring 2013 Couture Shows Illustrations By Caroline Andrieu

April 29, 2013 by The CoF

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Art, Caroline Andrieu, Chanel Couture, giambattista valli, Haute couture, Lindsey Wixson, spring/summer 2013

French Style by Bérénice Vila Baudry

April 10, 2013 by The CoF

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only,” Coco Chanel once said. “Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” And here it is another book to celebrate the country’s best—innovations from universal human rights to the bikini, philosophical and literary luminaries from the Enlightenment to Existentialism, gastronomic delights and Nouvelle Vague cinema. With dynamic photographs juxtaposing concepts from haute couture and scientific advancements to pop stars […]

Categories: Fashion, People • Tags: Bérénice Vila Baudry, books, Coco Chanel, culture, France, French Style, Haute couture

W Magazine : The New Guard

March 27, 2013 by The CoF

W Magazine April 2013 issue : Model: Cara Delevingne, Lucy Birley, Sylvester Ulv Henriksen , Charlie Casely-Hayford, Adwoa Aboah, Jermaine Gallacher, Izzy Good, Suren Seneviratne, Claudia Sinclair, Cosmo Macdonald, Ashley Williams, Otis Azagury-Partridge  And Jessie Good Photographer: Tim Walker Stylist: Edward Enninful Hair: Malcolm Edwards Make-Up: Val Garland Manicure: Trish Lomax  

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Cara Delevingne, Charlie Casely-Hayford, Editorials, Edward Enninful, Haute couture, Models, Photography, Tim Walker, W (magazine)

Elle Russia : Haute Couture

March 26, 2013 by The CoF

Elle Russia April 2013 issue : Iza Olak – model Asa Tallgard – photographer Daria Anichkina – styling    

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Åsa Tällgård, Daria Anichkina, editorial, Elle Russia, Haute couture, Iza Olak, Models, Photography

Rihanna’s Diamonds World Tour Costumes By Givenchy

March 21, 2013 by The CoF

  Riccardo Tisci designed a masculine over-sized black printed and hand embroidered parka. The costume’s bold print and masculine angular lines are symbols of female empowerment and urban Haute Couture elegance. Rihanna wore a black and white nappa leather bra with gold stars embroideries and gold buckles, mixing Haute Couture techniques and Riccardo Tisci’s obsession for heavy sportswear elements.   Rihanna wore a black floor-length ruffled silk crepe cape with 3D collar embroideries. Inspired by the house’s timeless organza cape, […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity, Givenchy, Haute couture, Music, RiccardoTisci, Rihanna

Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda By Vogue Italia

March 15, 2013 by The CoF

Vogue Italia  march 2013 issue: Bianca Balti – model Peter Lindbergh – photographer Sara Maino – styling Letizia Carnevale – makeup

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Alta Moda, bianca balti, Dolce & Gabbana, editorial, Haute couture, Peter Lindbergh, Vogue Italia

Basil Soda Couture Spring/Summer 2013 Lookbook

March 15, 2013 by The CoF

Credits for this picture: Lara Mullen (Model) Daniel Sannwald (Photographer) Monica Pillosio (Art Director)

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Basil Soda, Daniel Sannwald, Haute couture, Lookbook, spring/summer

Valentino Haute Couture By Vogue Italia

March 14, 2013 by The CoF

Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2013 collection in an editorial for Vogue Italia april 2013: Sasha Luss – model Gian Paolo Barbieri – photographers  

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Art, gian paolo barbieri, Haute couture, Sasha Luss, Valentino, Vogue Italia

The Swarovski Paris Haute Couture Exhibition

February 28, 2013 by The CoF

Christian Dior 1952 Christian Dior 1952, Balmain 1955, Balenciaga 1960 Lanvin 1928 Photograph from the Balenciaga archives Christian Dior heritage sketch Lanvin 1928 sketch Vionnet 1931 Yves Saint Laurent 1968, Christian Dior 1957, Lanvin 1928 Yves Saint Laurent 1967 Christian Dior 1952 “We are honoured to support the city of Paris in staging this historic exhibition, the first of its kind in the home of haute couture,” said Nadja Swarovski, member of the Swarovski Crystal Business executive board. “Ever since […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Art, culture, Haute couture, Paris, Swarovski

Chanel Haute Couture Spring 2013 Lookbook

February 22, 2013 by The CoF

Marte Mei Van Haaster – model Karl Lagerfeld – photographer

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Chanel, Haute couture, Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, Shopping

Vionnet Demi-Couture

February 14, 2013 by The CoF

VIONNET creative directorGoga Ashkenazi believes in making couture more “accessible” for her customers – who, she says, often find the concept of haute couture “excessive and unnecessary” in today’s economic climate. “Being a woman myself and having been a client of couture, I realise that the more special a couture dress is, the less usage it will get,” Ashkenazi explained. “The prices for couture dresses in the main fashion houses range from the tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands [of pounds], and […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: collection, Dress, Goga Ashkenazi, Haute couture, Paris, vionnet

Cage My Body!

February 1, 2013 by The CoF

What’s up with our fascination for putting things in a cage? Cages are oppressive,still we’re fascinated by them. It is just how our complicated minds work! Body cages are a bridge between armor/self-protection and underwear/exhibitionism. This strange interplay is an important theme for our times, and was reflected previously by the ever-popular S&M trends of recent seasons (latex, tough shoes, body-con, corsets etc.) Now all those trends have started to seem tired, but the ideas behind them remain relevant. A […]

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: body, cage, Elie Saab, Gaultier, Haute couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris, Shopping, Yohji Yamamoto

Behind the Scenes At Spring 2013 Couture

January 25, 2013 by The CoF

The couture shows are the red carpet leading up to the red carpet, the season that finds a dreamy, romantic forest sprouting under the domed ceiling of the Grand Palais, the week when one minute you might see Shakespearean fairy queens floating down the runway, and space goddesses the next. And yet, in the midst of a world obsessed with creating grand statements, the most thrilling sights are often found in the smaller moments. From Versace to Armani Privé, from backstage to […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Armani, Grand Palais, Haute couture, Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, Red carpet, Versace

Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Spring 2013 Collection

January 24, 2013 by The CoF

Lebanese fashion designer Zuhair Murad presented a red carpet-worthy catalogue of white and gold embellished gowns for haute couture spring/summer 2013. source fashion.telegraph.co.uk

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: collection, Fashion, Haute couture, Paris, spring summer, Zuhair Murad

Street Style At Paris Couture Shows By Tommy Ton

January 24, 2013 by The CoF

  source style.com

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Haute couture, Paris, shows, street style, tommy ton

Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal Spring Couture 2013 Collection

January 24, 2013 by The CoF

    The Maison Martin Margiela team employs an up-cycling concept for its Artisanal collection, now in its second season on the Couture runway. If we’re to believe the notes from tonight’s show, the last three looks were made from thousands of metallic wrappers embroidered onto pongee silk. The candy “fur” took 70 hours to make. That’s a far cry from the labors of a house like Valentino, say, whose own press materials announced that some pieces required upward of 500 hours […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: BRIC, Deco, Haute couture, Kanye West, Maison Martin Margiela, Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal

Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2013 Collection

January 24, 2013 by The CoF

  Parks are officially the hottest things in high fashion. After Chanel’s forest set and Dior’s undulating boxwoods, Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli also took their couture collection down the garden path.   This is neither a judgment nor a slight. Gardens are glorious, and the Roman duo nourished their theme with a distinctive Italian touch, from the spaghetti-like embroideries coiled on coats and dresses — echoing the curlicues on fancy metal gates and grills — […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: collection, Fashion design, Grazia, Haute couture, Paris, Valentino, Valentino Garavani

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring Couture 2013 Collection

January 23, 2013 by The CoF

COUTURE season seems to be the perfect time to find inspiration when it comes to planning this summer’s holidays – Giorgio Armani took us to Turkey yesterday and this afternoon Jean Paul Gaultier went to Morocco. It was a rich and varied collection with each and every exit completely different to the one before it – so bulbous stripes led the way on dresses of asymmetric or off-the-shoulder style, followed by super-cinched tulle gowns heavily held at the waist by big gold belts, […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: collection, Fashion, Gaultier, Haute couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris, Wedding dress

Elie Saab Spring Couture 2013 Collection

January 23, 2013 by The CoF

   

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: collection, Elie Saab, Fashion week, Haute couture, Paris

Alexandre Vauthier Spring Couture 2013 Collection

January 23, 2013 by The CoF

The show opened with an elegant and tasteful lineup of clean-cut tuxedos and lightly draped satin catsuits, which had sleek glamour written all over them. After a short interlude of skimpy yet intriguing mink tops with bare backs on straight-cut trousers, Alexandre Vauthier lost restraint. The languid evening gowns and cut-out minidresses — exposing what not even robust stadium and biker leather jackets could conceal — were neither functional nor worthy of a lady, and caused some queasiness among the […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: alexandre vauthier, clothing, collection, Haute couture, Leather jacket, Shopping, Women

Front Row at Armani Privé Spring Couture 2013

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

Uma Thurman, Hilary Swank and Amber Le Bon sat front row at the couture show in Paris. Photo by Stéphane Feugère source WWD.com

Categories: People • Tags: amber le bon, armani prive, Fashion, front row, Haute couture, Hilary Swank, style, uma thurman

Armani Privé Spring Couture 2013 Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

 source style.com  

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: armani prive, collection, Fashion, Haute couture, Paris, spring, style

Front Row at Stéphane Rolland Spring Couture 2013

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

Kim Kardashian — sans baby daddy Kanye West — triggered a paparazzi frenzy at the Stéphane Rolland show in Paris on Tuesday. Hovering on the edge of the pack was photographer Martin Parr, who is training his acerbic eye on couture week for L’Officiel Art magazine. Down the row, Paz Vega chatted happily about her part in the upcoming biopic “Grace of Monaco,” in which she plays opera diva Maria Callas alongside Nicole Kidman. “It’s just a little role, but […]

Categories: People • Tags: front row, Haute couture, Kim Kardashian, L'Officiel, Paris, Paz Vega, Stéphane Rolland, Yasmin Le Bon

Stéphane Rolland Spring/Summer Couture 2013 Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

Stéphane Rolland has often said he approaches a dress like a sculpture. For this collection, shown at the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art museum, he sent out monochrome creations with volumes so demonstrative, they appeared to have jumped from sketchbook to runway with scarcely any alterations. Is that a good thing? It depends on the occasion. Front-row guests like Paz Vega, who has worn Rolland to the Cannes Film Festival, could easily go for one of the siren gowns featuring […]

Categories: Contact • Tags: Arts, collection, Haute couture, Palais de Tokyo, Stéphane Rolland

Serkan Cura Spring Haute Couture 2013 Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

This “Birds of Eden” collection was another love letter from Turkish-born Serkan Cura to the noble craft of feather-making. There were a variety of flamboyant shoulder pieces on top of skimpy corset dresses in see-through fabrics. An XXL flower hairpiece descending all the way down to the sleeves was even more sculptural, while delicately woven feather blazers had a contemporary feel. Among the finale numbers was a creamy feather tutu worthy of a 21st-century production of “Swan Lake.” Photo by […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: collection, Fashion, Haute couture, Paris, serkan cura, Swan Lake

Ulyana Sergeenko Spring Couture 2013 Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

A giant book of fairy tales was propped open at the end of Ulyana Sergeenko’s Yellow Brick Road-like runway, and the well-worn original tome, featuring illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, circulated the front row. Inside its weathered pages, alligators opened their jaws to spilling breadbaskets and mice crawled gleefully over a caged cat. The Russian designer’s second couture show recounted equally strange stories while brimming with charm and, occasionally, a sense of wonderment. A soundtrack of spaghetti Westerns, snippets of “Rocky” […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: clothing, collection, Haute couture, Paris, Ulyana Sergeenko, Women

Christophe Josse Spring Couture 2013

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

Photo by Dominique Maître

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: christophe josse, collection, Haute couture, Paris, spring

Street Style At Paris Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2013 Shows

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

    source vogue.it; wwd.com

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Haute couture, Paris, shows, street style, susie bubble, Ulyana Sergeenko

Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2013 Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

GIAMBATTISTA VALLI has been officially part of the couture line-up now for three seasons, having made a guest appearance for autumn/winter 2011-12. Designers typically receive appellation only after they’ve showed couture for five years, but the Paris Fédération Française de la Couture decided that the standard of Valli’s work was so high that he was eligible for the honour – and so he’s part of the gang now. And it’s easy to see why. He tackled tricksome shapes that wouldn’t so […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: Fédération française de la couture, giambattista valli, Haute couture, Paris, style, Vogue

Chanel Spring/Summer 2013 Couture Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

A GOTHIC take on A Midsummer Night’s Dreamwas what Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for his spring/summer 2013 couture show for Chanel this morning. And a dream it certainly was. We stepped into an enchanted forest beneath the dome of the Grand Palais and into a world seemingly straight from the pages of Shakespeare, a wooden auditorium surrounding us, and edgy fairies about to come to life before us. Stella Tennant opened the show in a white tweed cape and jacket hybrid, black […]

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cara Delevingne, Chanel, collection, Haute couture, Karl Lagerfeld, Stella Tennant, Wallis Simpson

Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2013 Collection

January 22, 2013 by The CoF

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: Alta Moda, collection, Haute couture, iris van Herpen, Paris, style

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2013 Collection

January 21, 2013 by The CoF

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: Christian Dior, collection, Haute couture, Paris, Raf Simons

Creative “Thorn” Heels By Iris van Herpen And United Nude

January 21, 2013 by The CoF

Creative Thorn heels created by Iris van Herpen and United Nude is their 6th shoe collaboration for her “Hybrid-Holism” haute couture collection. The founder and creative director spoke out about the collaboration saying “Creating new shoes with Iris is a greater challenge each time. The new shoes have to be better than the previous and the techniques used for making them advance. We race against the clock and fly people all over the world to get the shoes to Paris. The excitement to see […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Fashion, Footwear, Haute couture, iris van Herpen, Paris, style, Thorn, United Nude

Atelier Versace Spring Couture 2013

January 21, 2013 by The CoF

Photos by Giovanni Giannoni source wwd.com    

Categories: Fashion Week • Tags: atelier versace, collection, Fashion week, Haute couture, ww

Couture Fashion Week Highlights

January 21, 2013 by The CoF

Donatella Versace last night/ via style.com Couture Fashion Week kicked off last night – a four-day-long schedule featuring the fashion world’s key names and the most beautiful and expensive creations of the season. While the opulent gowns designed by heavyweights such as Chanel and Dior might be out of most of our budgets, the event does give us the opportunity to see designers at their most creative, extravagant and dramatic. It was Atelier Versace who begun the proceedings last night […]

Categories: Fashion, Fashion Week • Tags: Alexis Mabille, atelier versace, giambattista valli, Haute couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Paris, Raf Simons, Stéphane Rolland

Maison Lejaby Couture Teams With Lido Dancers

January 17, 2013 by The CoF

Maison Lejaby Couture will be teaming with the world famous Lido dancers to headline the luxury lingerie label’s first of several fashion shows in Paris, beginning on Saturday. The opening catwalk show will be staged at the Maison Lejaby Couture salon and showrooms at 5 Rue Royale at 12:30 p.m., followed by several presentations throughout the afternoon and evening, as well as several presentations on Sunday. The shows will be staged for retailers, private clients and the media. Each presentation […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Alain Prost, Bologna, clothing, Haute couture, Lejaby couture, Lido, Lingerie, Paris, Shopping

Alberta Ferretti Limited Edition 2013

January 12, 2013 by The CoF

The Italian designer’s demi-couture collection was presented in Los Angeles.   source vogue.it  

Categories: Fashion, Fashion Week • Tags: alberta ferretti, Fashion, Haute couture, limited edition, Los Angeles

Dior Pre-Fall 2013 Collection

January 11, 2013 by The CoF

 For his first pre-fall collection for Dior, Raf Simons wrote another chapter in his modernist makeover of the storied French house, employing the same vocabulary as his couture and ready-to-wear debuts last year. “New classics” is the term the Belgian designer applied to his latest takes on tuxedo suits, “bar” jackets and such iconic prints and fabrics as florals and Prince de Galle checks. “I wanted to continue exploring the Dior codes we started establishing,” Simons told WWD. But this […]

Categories: Fashion, Fashion Week • Tags: Christian Dior S.A., Dior, Galle, Haute couture, Prince, Raf Simons, Ready-to-wear, Simons

D.P. True Couture

December 18, 2012 by The CoF

n.1 From pomp to modernity French Haute Couturehas always been the expression of the taste of the times (and of society) with a constant topicality. Today’s? …Voilà: voilette!Giorgio Armani Privé. n.2 Art et Couture! In the foreground, glorious yellow taffetas. In the background, a shadow print dress that reproduces the work “SP28” by the artist Sterling Ruby. Dior Haute Couture. n.3 “A la Française”. Cape noire en organdi et velours de soie rebrodée et frangée de perles rouges et noires. Combinaison- sarouel […]

Categories: Beauty, Design, Fashion • Tags: Anna Piaggi, Chanel, clothing, Fashion, Haute couture, Karl Lagerfeld, Riccardo Tisci, Sterling Ruby

WWD Highlights The Most Dynamic Fashion Moments Of 2012.

December 10, 2012 by The CoF

Christian Louboutin with “Crazy Horse” performers Photo By Courtesy of Christian Louboutin   Chanel Spring Couture 2012 Photo By Giovanni Giannoni   Madonna in Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci at the Super Bowl 2012. Photo By Courtesy   Alber Elbaz at the mic, with Kim Hastreiter. Photo By Stéphane Feugère JANUARY Jan. 10: No good deed goes unpunished. Diego Della Valle’s plan to donate 25 million euros to the restoration of the Colosseum hits a wall when Codacons, Italy’s antitrust […]

Categories: Fashion, News • Tags: Diego Della Valle, Haute couture, IPad, Juicy Couture, Karl Lagerfeld, New York Fashion Week, Paris, Riccardo Tisci

Harper’s Bazaar Brazil:In My Castel

December 9, 2012 by The CoF

“In My Castle” Model Maud Welzen in Haute Couture for the November 2012 Issue of Harper’s BAZAAR by Benjamin Kanarek

Categories: Fashion • Tags: benjamin kanarek, Fashion, harper s bazaar, Haute couture, Magazines, style

Fashion Magazine Canada: Haute Couture

December 9, 2012 by The CoF

“A Canadian in Paris” Featuring Amanda Nimmo in Haute Couture Photographed by Benjamin Kanarek for the 35th Anniversary of Fashion Magazine Canada

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Fashion, Haute couture, Magazines

City of a Fashion Event: Abu Dhabi-World Luxury Fashion Week

November 21, 2012 by The CoF

WORLD LUXURY FASHION WEEK will make a much anticipated debut appearance in Abu Dhabi this year and is set to become an annual fixture for the UAE capital city. WORLD LUXURY FASHION WEEK will bring together some of the world’s leading high-end fashion brands over a four day invitation-only fashion week hosted at the spectacular Jumeirah at Etihad Towers from 25-28 November 2012. The four-day show schedule opens with two evenings of BMW Haute Couture shows, followed by two evenings […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Abu Dhabi, BMW, Design, Fashion, Haute couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jumeirah, London Fashion Week, Retail, United Arab Emirates

The Anxious Hunt For Identity

November 7, 2012 by The CoF

Many psychological factors help to explain why people are motivated to be in fashion.These include conformity,variety-seeking,personal creativity and sexual attraction.Many of us seem to have a “need for uniqueness”:we want to be different,but not to different.For this reason people often conform to the basic outlines of a fashion,but try to improvise and make a personal statement within these guidelines. Fashion tend to sweep through countries ;it seems that all of sudden everyone is doing the same thing or wearing the […]

Categories: Contact • Tags: Arts, Contact, Design, Fashion, Haute couture, Social identity theory, Statement of purpose