Eastern
Eden
After 10 years
of Armani Privé,
Mr. Armani is
feeling a little
Zen. Misty
mountain-vista
colours, robe
jackets, obi belts
and bamboo
everywhere; the
geometry and
slender leaves
are motifs to
meditate on.
Fantasy leag ue
COUTURIERS entered a world of the beautiful
and the rare for haute couture spring/summer ’15.
THE CONSTANT
GARDENER
Welcome to the Chanel greenhouse
- or Lagerfeld’s greenhouse – where
sci-fi super blooms made of cardboard
cut-outs f lourish. The true life was in
the clothes, like a meander through
jardin Chanel. Intense cornf lower and
blood-red rose mellowed to soft moss
and peony, then crescendoed in
technicoloured f lower explosions on
hems, gloves and sleeves. Ka-bloom.
THE NEW ROMANTICS
A clean slate in couture, an art as storied as they
come, is a rare thing, though that is what John
Galliano had at Maison Margiela in his return
to fashion. He made good. An off-kilter mix of
the delicate with exposed construction was signed
off with that Galliano jolt of the unsettling:
a skull head wrap dripping in an assortment of
jewellery-box treasures ended the show.
WORDS: ALICE BIRRELL
64 – MAY 2015
INDIGITAL
Maison Margiela
haute couture
spring/summer ’15.
Chanel haute
couture spring/
summer ’15.
ARMANI PRIVÉ HAUTE COUTURE S/S ’15
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