Belgian designer Raf Simons cries at the end of the Jil Sander Fall-winter 2012-2013 collection on February 25. Paris Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday with the in-crowd abuzz at the prospect of style icon Hedi Slimane designing for Yves Saint Laurent, and rumours putting a newly-free Simons in the wings at Dior. (AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace)
Paris Appearance Anniversary kicked off on Tuesday with the aristocracy abuzz at the anticipation of appearance amount Hedi Slimane designing for Yves Saint Laurent, and rumours putting a newly-free Raf Simons in the wings at Dior.
Opening with a day adherent to adolescent designers, the Paris autumn-winter collections annular off a ages of womenswear shows that accept beatific fashionistas, models and media trooping on a appearance aisle from New York to London and Milan.
Models present creations by Portuguese designer Fatima Lopes during the Fall/Winter 2012-2013 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris. (AFP Photo/Pierre Verdy)
A cellist assuming George Frideric Handel's bizarre masterpiece "Sarabande" set the accent as Portugal's Fatima Lopes beatific out sleek, second-skin silhouettes, in solid tones of nude, claret red, bittersweet and black.
Long-sleeved, high-necked dresses hugged the amount to the knee, in aphotic covering with lighter strips at the ancillary and bittersweet fur draped cape-like from the shoulders, or in anemic prints that appropriate a arrangement of aerial veins.
Blood-red lipstick, red stiletto heels and tiny hats counterbalanced on the forehead, shaped like disks or acicular leaves, added a geisha feel to the look, apparent beneath the vaults of the celebrated Invalides circuitous by the River Seine.
But the artist additionally hinted at a rock-and-roll edge, as the cellist active off with a few confined of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Wednesday brings the aboriginal big names assimilate the Paris catwalks, with Belgium's Dries Van Noten, Rochas and Mugler, followed Thursday by Carven, Balmain and India's Manish Arora.
Adding aroma to this week's proceedings, a appearance apple ball kicked off in Milan aftermost anniversary as Germany's Jil Sander appear its Belgian artist Simons was abrogation to accomplish way for a acknowledgment of the house's founder.
The discreet, avant-gardist Simons had been broadly angled a few months aback as a almsman to John Galliano, sacked from Dior a year ago over a drunken, racist access in a Paris bar.
Showing his swansong accumulating for Jil Sander Saturday, Simons becoming a continuing acclaim for the pure, animal curve of a attending congenital about coats and dresses, all in bendable anemic blues, blush blushes, and creams.
His abrupt availability has set Twitter abuzz with speculation, although a backer for Dior insisted no advertisement was planned for Appearance Week.
Change is accepted at the Parisian affluence abode Yves Saint-Laurent, however, afterwards it accepted that its Italian artist Stefano Pilati would appearance his aftermost accumulating abutting Monday, afterwards allotment a successor.
Industry sources told AFP at the weekend that he would be replaced by Slimane, a artist admired by bedrock stars and appearance barter aeon akin and who is abiding afterwards several years abroad from fashion.
Slimane, whose ancestor is Tunisian and mother Italian, formed at YSL in the backward 1990s but fabricated his mark at Dior from 2000 to 2007, revolutionising menswear with his androgynous angular apparel and bound low-cut trousers.
Dior will be avaricious the spotlight at the Paris shows on Friday, calm with Lanvin.
Haider Ackermann and Jean Paul Gaultier chase on Saturday, and Hermes, Kenzo and Givenchy blanket up the weekend on Sunday.
Fashion Anniversary continues Monday with Pilati's aftermost appearance for Saint Laurent, Britain's Stella McCartney, and the adolescent Maxime Simoens' aboriginal band for Leonard.
On Tuesday Chanel takes over the ornate, domed Grand Palais anteroom -- as has become its Appearance Anniversary custom -- afore shows by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Valentino and Alexander McQueen.
Marc Jacobs' most recent attending for Louis Vuitton account the final day of the shows, which blanket up with Lebanese designers Elie Saab and Rabih Kayrouz.
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