A model shows a creation by Serbian-born fashion designer Nana Aganovich as part of the Fall-Winter, ready-to-wear 2013 fashion collection, during Paris Fashion week, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
PARIS (AP) — Paris appearance anniversary is not often accepted for understatement, as accepted by Portuguese artist Fatima Lopes who opened the fall-winter 2012 division with a accepted blast at the iconic war building Invalides that houses canons and artillery.
When the fashionistas assuredly managed to alleviate themselves from abnormality tourists, the bulletin of the Lopes appearance rang out loud and clear: changeable beef is the absolute antecedent of fire-power, with the alms of sensual, if hardly busy, sheath ensembles.
Models show creations by Serbian-born fashion designer Nana Aganovich as part of the Fall-Winter, ready-to-wear 2013 fashion collection, during Paris Fashion week, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
The abbreviate aboriginal day of the nine-day Paris appearance chase is aloof for advancing talent. Because of its accidental reputation, Tuesday is abhorred by abounding appearance editors.
However ascent brilliant Julien David, who delved playfully into men's clothing, proves that the day does deserve the limelight. His adolescent knitwear looks and aphotic rusings about the Yeti monster provided one of the day's best shows, and with a blow of irony: all too attenuate in Paris.
Italian artist Corrado de Biase additionally produced a able appearance bond up feminine silhouettes with men's abrasion — bound acceptable a able trend this fall. Brownish touches, too, ticked the in-vogue box, accepting featured acutely on catwalks in Milan and New York. A man of contradictions, Biase said his appearance alloyed references to Coco Chanel with touches of the 1970's.
Wednesday — the aboriginal abounding day on the agenda — will see the anniversary move into top accessory with shows including Dries Van Noten, Mugler and London's enfant abhorrent Gareth Pugh.
CORRADO DE BIASE
"The babe is back," apprehend the affairs addendum at Corrado de Biase's Paris fall-winter appearance that served up chiffon silhouettes with a aberration of men's wear.
It was an able activity because it's alone the third ready-to-wear alms from the designer, with Barbour raincoats auspiciously alloyed on top of arduous 1920's underskirts.
Petrol blooming added affected blinking to checky capes and jackets, bridge eras in appearance and time, while 3-D floral brocades on several abbreviate coats and pencil skirts were accustomed an advancing bend in brownish silver.
A lot this abatement has been about men's abrasion on women, and actuality this was on abounding display. Classical dressmaking appeared in adolescent collars and lapels on nylon shirtdresses in arduous black, but the apparent breasts punched assemblage with the bright androgyny.
For the designer's inspiration, attending no added than the better babe of her day: Mademoiselle Chanel.
"I adulation the garcon attending of the twenties," said Biase backstage, "how Coco gave common women a men's attending while blockage ablaze in spirit."
For the appearance army it was a acceptable affair the alcohol were light: the awkward area and lighting glitches ability accept abject the affection had the accumulating not been so strong.
FATIMA LOPES
Fatima Lopes' fall-winter appearance Tuesday put claret reds, annoying leathers and fox fur on the balustrade at the Hotel des Invalides war museum.
The Portuguese artist channeled animal analysis with blood-soaked dress inserts, disconnected covering sleeves and prints of the venous arrangement in the iconic cairn that was congenital for generals blood-soaked in French administrative wars.
Bucking the accepted trend for padding, the Lopes woman in geometric sheaths had attenuated shouldersa attending that would accept accentuated the blemish of the tiny-boned models had it not been for the annoying leathers in apparent atramentous and nude.
Sexy was the cardinal mood, with bias-cut sheaths breach revealingly up the leg and advertisement the shoulders. In addition animal but hardly active look, a coast decollete and abundant amber fox fur sleeves assorted with bound apparent covering lapels and a second-skin micro skirt.
When the appearance ended, the army ancient sheepishly through the courtyard, with 40 huge canons pointing beeline at them.
JULIEN DAVID
Designer Julien David presented a camp and adolescent Paris fall-winter accumulating advancing by the Yeti monster, which should advice consolidate his advancing brilliant status.
There was a contemporary aloofness to abounding of the looks (you can see he's lived in Tokyo): a bifold face knitted brim clothing in ablaze gray absolute was complemented with a adventurous sweatband and snowboots. This was one of abounding looks that ability accept appear with a warning: "It's aloof fashion. Don't dress like this if it snows!"
Flashes of chainmail and brownish cottony adornment on pouffy dresses added a cooler, advancing bend to the aboriginal beachcomber of ever warm-looking clothes.
The men's abrasion looks, like a tailored houndstooth suit, additionally gave the accumulating variety.
But anon abundant David was aback to the appearance affair in the mountains, this time adverse a adolescence fear: the Abominable Snowman. Suffocating Yeti absolute blouses, skirts, abbreviate pants and snowboots filed out as if the artist was advancing for a austere winter.
The allotment de attrition drew gasps: a advancing Yeti absolute mid-length dress and huge acquiescent affectation with two awful eye-holes and boilerplate to breathe.
When the revellers audibly acclaimed for the artist to booty his bow, there was no acknowledgment and he was boilerplate to be seen.
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