Paris Fashion Week Day 2: Rick Owens by Better yet, scouts at Vuitton and drummer Dries

     Isaac Hindin-Miller covers Europe shows the Spring / Summer 2014 women. This is the latest in a series of dispatches being.

If Milan is the capital of the Man-wear, Paris is the home of men's fashion. So it would understand that after a remarkably progressive Raf Simons show one night, we woke up the next morning and head to the presentation of the creative avant-garde as well. Hello, Rick Owens. (By the way, it was in the public area of ??Raf.) As usual, was kept open sports grass until the early 80s, Rick show in Bercy, a large covered center / concert, and as the Normally we went near pitch blackness, sweeping blunt to help with a spotlight around the perimeter of the investigation and other seat. Then the light is off, and something happens on the podium.

When the projector comes back, could a lone figure bears a striking resemblance to Gandalf the Grey seen hanging a microphone stand to be in the middle of the bridge. He started to do ... Noise. Moments later, it was a bass player and started a beat. Another man came with a huge mandolin device types. Then the lights, revealing two drummers are sitting in front of the other at the other end of the bridge, mounted on a wall of the Spider page. They played the drum while turning like a strange rock 'n' roll theme park ride. Did I mention they all wore fancy hair masks on their faces? There was. Note that not talking about clothes - it was a bit difficult with all to focus visual perception. But yes, the show began. And I must say it was my favorite Rick Owens collection to date.

This is the man, the goat wedge boots shoe inspiration for shaving is known for implementing boys to head models - such as Victorian survivors frontal lobotomy look - but it's also the man who constantly name-dropped a $ AP Rocky to his current position in the world is a rare blend of avant-garde and the Beast of hype. Perhaps in an effort to appeal to a mass audience was the spring of 2014 was much easier to carry around than usual, with two colors - black and white - and many of the oversized T-shirts layers and asymmetrical zipper leather jackets Owens is known.

The other development in the region was a first look at his new collaboration with Adidas: Running shoes designed by an avowed enemy of heart. They were black, white and gray, well padded and patchy (unless of course, you count their voluminous silhouette). But the show was not over yet. Everything culminated with guitar upside down on ropes from the ceiling are hung, still beating and played their instruments while floating in the air. And remained there until it was over.

Michael Stipe of REM row sitting next to David Beckham at Louis Vuitton in the afternoon, but only one of them has provided the music for the soundtrack for the show. It was in a glass case in the Parc André Citro?n, and "The One I Love" blown up, while models went through a series of Boy Scout-inspired looks, the subtle (a plaid suit with a knotted scarf around the neck) to the literal ( a covered khaki parka Award Badge). All spheres of life boys were covered, walking in the nature of Prom Night - Jackets even presented buttonholes on the lapels - and closed things with a monogram LV tux, which shone like a shell when they PAUA hit by light. (It is a native of New Zealand shellfish, if you have not already earned your badge geography.)

The day ended as it began, with a live musician soundtracking the show at Dries Van Noten. The virtuoso drummer Cindy Blackman Santana went to a facility in the middle of the room and began to beat at a rate of gold kit. It was more complex as the models emerged in flower pattern-on-pattern and soft coats decorated, the slowly moving as she walked. The Belgian cartoonist had two men in mind this season: Jean Cocteau and Jimi Hendrix, the eccentric certainly marches to the beat of their own drum. He calls it "formality rebel" - dressed in suit models of free-thinkers were once championed.

Christian Lacroix, Miuccia Prada and Marc Jacobs are obsessed with Elsa Schiaparelli. Here is why you should, Too

   The fashion obsession with Elsa Schiaparelli continues with the announcement that Christian Lacroix, he has a collection of tribute, designed to pay homage to the Italian designer. The exhibition Lacroix (clothes are not sold in stores) following the gala last year's session that: celebrated "Schiaparelli and Prada Impossible Conversations".

Marc Jacobs says it inspires her work and here at Glamour, we are naturally big fans of Schiaparelli and his love for all things pink, but it meant a lot more fashionable look forward pretty in pink.

She explores a different kind of femininity and the results were not always so traditional attractive. She urged women to patterns and colors in a different way mix, for example. She was famous for its association with the surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Together they created this compact as a rotary dial telephone. She was also one of the biggest rivals Coco Chanel!

Since I probably will not go to Paris to see the exhibition of Lacroix, we will be back for a moment and review some of the reasons why it is always a source of inspiration!

This iconic lobster dress was part of the collaboration between the designer and Dali. It was worn by the Duchess of Windsor. It was copied by other designers that I can count.

Schiaparelli pink! This dress, circa 1937 published in Vogue last year, on the eve of the Met Gala. If you love this shade of pink, Schiaparelli Thank you.

Who does not love a winner Schiaparelli! No returns on its heritage of fashion would not be complete without some of their fun hats completed.

Nothing less I am a Parisian More Than a Hermes silk scarf caught on the sale

       There are no travel accessory as a nice scarf, and if you already covet traditional methods of Hermes, head to Paris now for the semi-annual "private sale", which runs until Monday in Neuilly hall inside the huge convention center. Decorated with pieces of bridle and saddle clamp the famous Hermes scarves or latest goings classic designs in 70, 90 and 140 cm ² can be reduced as much as 50 to 70 percent, and are replenished daily. You will also see with everything packed in a travel bag fabulous.

No invitation is really necessary, but ready to arrive early and are consistent with foaming at the mouth to all women and menswear lines and leather will compete Search fashionistas.

Hermes outbreak coincides with the start date for the state regulated Paris Summer Sale or selling season, the 26th of June - 30th July is running. Luxury brands, department stores such as Printemps, concept stores like Colette, and even small corner shops and vintage stores are all involved. Discounts start at 30 percent and the increase during the sales period.

Uganda: Fashion Re-Union Returns

       Last Thursday saw yet another parade held at Club silk fashion, despite the criticism that they are not good enough to do things, and that fashion has no reason to take in a night club.

But when fashion shows are in this city, it is held at Club Silk on life, then maybe they deserve a pat on the back for them.

But the criticism is justified, the show began after 23:00 clock, and it was performances by musicians that have attracted the greatest applause.

Fashion Re-Union was created to inspire designers to come up with original mode, to many shows where the clothing stores in the spotlight.

This is the second time it is, and have converged more than ten designers Silk Club to celebrate the second coming. Design houses contain Madele, Shuba, Uzuri, six star trends Mutanda XP clothing and Africa. Others were Rweazy Rwezler Heather Nanteza and Salim Fashions Ark, Pamela, macho, and Prosper Byamungu.

Mainly from African fabrics consist of dinner and evening outfits, casuals men sweater drawings, dresses with floral shoulder and a half, blouses, shorts, casual women's dresses, pearls and wedding 'to name a few veil for n.

The show was supposed to come up with a winner was to be crowned, but was ignored for no reason.

The show was a thunderous performance of Sheeba graced before they crowned cutting a cake.

Delphine Arnault to leave Louis Vuitton for Dior | Power Moves

 PARIS, France - According to market sources, Delphine Arnault, the eldest daughter of LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, so his position as deputy general manager of Dior, which she has held since 2008, to a position greater group luxury brand Louis Vuitton, effective in September.

It is generally believed that Arnault take responsibility for tasks previously abandoned by Pietro Beccari, Vuitton to take over as director of Fendi in February, handled along with other activities.

You will to Louis Vuitton CEO Michael Burke, who with Mr. Arnault, led an initiative to report to strengthen the position of the central leather on the upper end of the luxury market.

Delphine Arnault is not the only offspring of his father, appointed to positions of executives at LVMH. His younger brother, Antoine Arnault, the former head of communications of Louis Vuitton, was chosen to become the CEO of the Berluti men's luxury brand in 2011.

Since 2003, Delphine Arnault has been on the Board of Directors of LVMH. When his tenure at Dior, where she started as a sales manager in 2001, she has held senior positions with a number of other LVMH brands, including Loewe and Celine. She began her career at McKinsey & Company and is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the EDHEC Business School in Paris.

Disclosure: LVMH is part of a consortium of investors, which has a minority stake in the fashion industry.

male Milan Spring 2014 - Tirelessly banal

The only thing that haute couture can offer on the mass market, the importance of hand. Its something that will never really replicated - man-hours in the menswear treatment and unique results that allowed it. This is the basis not only of haute couture, louis vuitton women handbagsthe French art of clothing crafts heartstoppingly gobsmackingly beautiful and expensive, but tailoring. While we may be on display ready-to-wear in Milan here, it seems a tacit admission that the consumer of luxury goods today offers not only a striking surface, but a little less feasible. A plant may be on a straw or glue sew perfectly on rhinestones, but it is the imperfection of the hand-drawn appearance suits Tomas Maier at Bottega Veneta, the fact that there are no two in the world will be exactly the same, which gives them their stamp of luxury . Perhaps this is why the show Massimiliano Giornetti for Salvatore Ferragamo rang hollow. The crystal cuts, the whole space-time super sharp, color block and covered with plastic, felt machine made, cookie-cutter perfect. Numbers, barely legible or expanded to the point of abstraction, "were all about the clothing styles, such as tabards competition plastered in a marathon. And as a runner after the race, I felt the whole thing completely exhausted. We saw similar garments in numerous occasions, and it is difficult to imagine that they appeal. Certainly not the Ferragamo client that comes into the house, especially for their brands of leather accessories beautifully designed. Maybe if Giornetti concentrated his talents on this subject, it would be a To be the winner. The idea of ​​perfection in imperfection is ideal for Vivienne Westwood. His menswear, as always, was a strange case - not deliberately, but with some notable items such as beautiful shade shirts, belts in teal through the bronze, the other rose in blue color with a sunset Indian sun. Raj was a bit of an issue with a lighter, that we expect (no turbans, only a handful of maharajah Gobstopper jewelry) directed hand. Again, you expect a little more humor and pizazz of Westwood. A sports sweater with an intarsia tiger blinded snout was ridiculous. But not in a good way. The saddest part of the Westwood show was how it seemed banal - a harmless tablecloths easily forgotten. He is not alone: ​​Trussardi, now under the leadership of the great-granddaughter of the founder of the Gaia Dante Trussardi, especially colored sand and unrelenting was insignificant, banal. Missoni does not break any new ground, plowing the road hippies, they decided somehow, this is their most important market. They had some pretty knit deteriorating effects (fade between colors when Milan trend sizing, if you pay attention to such things) and created in dapper suits, wool vulcanized Hancock of Scotland. That does not seem very good summer. Maybe he is not have to - it is perhaps modernity. Tomas Maier said that "There are so many markets, summer and winter means nothing ... I live in different climates me between 10 and 30 degrees displacement." Between London and Milan, Paris, before (which promises to be wet), , the manner understood that pack.louis vuitton women bags And maybe I'll take something after all healed of this wool.

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