Paris Fashion Week seems like Fur Fashion Week
March 9, 2010
News Worldwide  – Today celebrity latest news brings reports about Paris celebrity fashion week and lots of furs. At Vionnet, Rodolfo Paglialunga focused on draping and elegance. John Galliano took Christian Dior back in time with long coats, Regency notes and an equestrian flavor. Three days into Paris Fashion Week and already there is a key trend that will divide opinion among fashion-watchers: fur sleeves. Those of us who remember the days of Peta demonstrations and supermodels declaring their contempt for animal skin may recoil with guilt as pelt after glossy pelt shivers down the catwalks, but the number of furs merrily worn in the audience confirms that, in Paris at least, such ethics are very last decade.
Celebrity latest news reported that somehow, a number of designers have hit upon the very same wheeze of fur sleeves on an otherwise normal jacket: Nina Ricci, Lanvin, and Gaspard Yurkievich went on and on. Get beyond the half-gorilla, half-woman look, though, and the season feels fresh, while still commercial enough to be saleable. At several shows, the heavy wool tailoring, inevitably cinched at the waist, decorative pieces beneath the pieces that would still work for the UAE’s weather. Dries Van Noten’s utilitarian coats and trousers, at the start of his show, gave way to the lovely prints and softly stormy colors that we know and love from his label. Over at Nina Ricci, Peter Copping’s second prêt-à -porter collection was filled with appliquéd silk blooms, covering dresses and tops, in richly romantic colors: aubergine, blackened red, purple, all colors of the belle époque era that he seemed to be channeling.
Celebrity latest news also reported that most interesting show of the Paris fashion week though went to Vionnet, whose designer Rodolfo Paglialunga showed his second collection for the season at a small presentation in the beautifully preserved apartment of Jean Cocteau. The former Prada designer told The National that he used fur, wool and patent leather to weight the pieces, and inspiration had come from the Bolshoi ballet. “I focused a lot on volume and proportion. I wanted to work on draping and elegance,
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