Paris Couture Catch-Up

By TESS GOLDEN

The Chanel couture show at the Grand Palais in Paris. (Getty Images)

The ancient ritual of Paris’s couture shows began yesterday. (Note to the uninitiated: it’s much more haute not to use the h-word in connection with couture.) And while the one-of-a-kind superfrocks on the runway will never find their way into a boutique, die-hard fashion followers won’t want to miss a single bow. To keep you apprised, we’ve pulled together a digest of what’s being reported on the fashion wires. Here goes.

Chanel (above)

Organ-inspired tubes “dangled from a dress like gothic car-wash strips.” (International Herald Tribune)
“The kind of canny mix that has made the ponytailed Lagerfeld designer a pop culture icon.” (Associated Press)
“With clothes like these, who needs accoutrements?” (Fashion Week Daily)

Christian Lacroix. (Reuters/EPA)

Christian Lacroix

“Only a dull mind could ask for any literal explanation.” (Style.com)
“Minimalists be warned! This is not for you.” (Telegraph)
“Fit for a latter-day Marie-Antoinette.” (Associated Press)
“Even the most jaded observer forgets that these are clothes. They just have too much heart to be, technically, inanimate.” (Fashion Week Daily)

Christian Dior. (Reuters/EPA)

Christian Dior

“Irrepressible touches of perversity.” (Style.com)
“If couture offers fairy-tale gowns, however, there was something here for both its good and deliciously wicked characters.” (The Independent)
“Underlying the attention-seeking transparency, however, was a meticulous attention to sculptural cut and architectural shape.” (Telegraph)

Armani Privé. (Getty/Reuters)

Armani Privé

“The Power Woman, he seemed to say, is still around, but her hard-won confidence allows her to work a softer, more glamorous, look.” (Women’s Wear Daily)
“Softening the androgyny of the pantsuit and bringing peace to fashion’s gender warfare.” (International Herald Tribune)
“He neatly consigned the dour look of corporate uniform to the past.” (Style.com)
“Everything the well-dressed and well-heeled wealthy woman of today could conceivably want in her wardrobe” (Telegraph)

Givenchy. (EPA)

Givenchy

“The designer took his collection into the high heartland of Peru, where he created a landscape of Machu Picchu colors like tobacco brown and stony beige.” (International Herald Tribune)
“‘Young, modern, and urban take on chic dressing, punctuated with incisive tailoring and a flair for intense shots of decoration.” (Style.com)

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