HAUTE COUTURE Autumn/Winter 2015-16 the Couture Show Is a Fantasy Land, an Artist’S Playground
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HAUTE COUTURE Autumn/Winter 2015-16 The Couture show is a fantasy land, an artist’s playground. It doesn’t have to make sense, rationally or economically. It is the opportunity for a designer to show off his technical skills as well as push the limits of his imagination. Like art, it follows the highest bidder philosophy and little wonder then, that the home base for this is Paris. For a fashion expert/enthusiast, it’s an event like no other fashion week will ever be. This is where the experts come out to play, and if you are provided a peek in the haloed circle, the clothes leave you agog. They go beyond the definition of mere covering and are as magnificent on the inside as they are on the outside. A true bespoke experience, it is fussed over by the best tailors, embroiders and seamstresses over painstaking hours to provide the highest quality. New ideas are born; ironically in this archaic tradition of couture houses being restricted by the rules of Syndicale de la Haute Couture, concepts come alive that have lasting impacts over decades. Flapper Dress Baroque Floral Influence On The Fringe Muted Colour Palette Gypsy The Naked Dress Metal Pink Going Green Tulle Velvet Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | couture | FFT magazine FLAPPER DRESS BAROQUE 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 xtremely sensual, powerful and making headlines this verybody’s favourite era of excess and particularly suited year is sheer. A favourite of the A-lister at red carpets, to Couture, the Baroque period was a conspicuous Ea woman chooses this ensemble when she is looking Ecelebration of artistic sensibilities and flare. Dated to make a statement about her body and celebrate her around 1600 AD in Rome, it was well known for its gold choices. Not one for the camera shy or the subtle elegance, flourishes, its sense of drama, and grandeur in sculpture the sheer dress is a celebrity spawned trend mostly for the painting architecture. Valentino and Dolce & Gabbana have red carpet and is part of a new Americanism that celebrates resurrected this trend a couple of years ago in their fall lines bodies, after athleisure. Way ahead of the curve is Beyonce, but this year the trend has evolved even further. Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, who have been doing Alberta Ferretti is spot-on with the curvilinear gold details on this for a while and are probably inspirations for heralding it. an opulent fuchsia silk. The embroidery details resemble a lot How it works on the red carpet – strategic embroidery and of architectural tapestry found in the period. Valentino brings sequin are sewn in, made to fit the body and cover up the the gold flourish through his entire collection but in this one in naughty bits and therefore clearly a bespoke experience, particular with gold filigree. Chanel does a dramatic neckline the rest is draped in delicate see-through chiffons, leaving in silver and Ralph and Russo show off their embroidery very little for the imagination. The risqué nature of the attire skills on Satin. Schiaparelli uses fractal symmetry in gold works in an environment where everyone is looking to grab on her ornate jackets but the person who has managed to attention and push the envelope sartorially. communicate the flair and theatricality of the era without any 1 Maison Margiela Alberta Ferretti 1 gold/silver accents is Sergreenko. Simple silhouettes in partial 2 Alexandre Vauthier Schiaparelli 2 sheer, she uses the drama of bold primary colours in red and 3 Chanel blue to create a roman goddess of mystery. Ulyana Sergreenko 3 4 Giambattista Valli Chanel 4 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | couture | FFT magazine FLORAL INFLUENCE ON THE FRINGE 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 lowers have been trending since the time of all it the after-effect of Coachella or not but Fringe is Wordsworth; every history and every culture has going to be trending for a while now. revered the beauty of nature and replicated in art, F CA festival favourite, fringe is one of the few trends fashion and music. The novelty here lies in the craft. (denim being the other) that had a reverse ascension, Chanel creates a 3D crushed effect which is delicate and from street style to the runways rather than a trickledown avant-garde at the same time, and seems like reams of effect from the catwalk. Vauthier does it the original way, garlands have been sewn together, but rest assured it’s shredding up leather but using exaggerated volumes to actually fabric. Alexis Mabille uses delicate embroidery and drive the point home. Mabille sophisticates this general natural ombre and Elie Saab uses digital prints on chiffon. cowboy trend by using intricate beading to create layers. Ulyana Sergreenko is stand out, using cut-outs to create Armani goes old school by inferring from the Jazz Age, a floral motif and Giambattista Valli uses delicate thread just a bit to accentuate movement on the bust line. Chanel embroidery. Versace, delicate but still loud in true signature creates tiers with micro fringe and crumpled tulle and style juxtaposes a soft fabric to facilitate the use of a bold Versace adds their own twist but fringing edges of patches palette. to add volume and movement. 1 Valli Armani 1 2 Elie Saab Alexandre Vauthier 2 3 Versace Chanel 3 4 Fendi Versace 4 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | couture | FFT magazine MUTED COLOUR GYPSY PALETTE 2 4 4 2 3 3 1 1 arrying forward the mood from Resort Week, there urther on the bohemian agenda, from fringe to is an increase in use of a muted colour palette complete gypsy – this is not the oft repeated Cacross the board. Hues get diluted and are being Fterm to categorise any ensemble that has come used more and more in their water-colour versions. Sea to describe wanderlust but the representations of real foam green was an earlier example and Giambattista Valli tribes off the West European/Spanish coast and their uses it ingeniously here, Margiela uses a cloud grey, Jarrar sartorial ways. Mabille adds a voluminous twist to the Bouchra does a wisp of a satin dress in pearl but the pinks traditional gypsy skirt, coloured at the bottom of the are in a league of their own. Variations on the colour of the tiers with a cinched waist reminiscent of the corset used year Marsala Mabille uses rose rouge and punch to provide in Spanish costuming. Verasce creates a gypsy goddess options while experimenting in the same bracket. Dior does with same silhouette, just more streamlined in a muted a jacket with exaggerated proportions in blushing peach, purple. Valentino, in his homage to Rome, does a Valli does a tulle version in lemonade pink and Sergreenko version with feather detailing and Zuhair Murad is half does fur in subtle peach. gypsy half Greek goddess, combining the glamour of the sparkle with the nonchalance of a free spirit. It is telling that such restrained colour palette is found at Couture Week, the home of excess, alongside Schiaparelli’s shock pink and is evidence of a toned down sartorial direction where people will start wearing the clothes rather 1 Maison Margiela Zuhair Murad 1 than letting the clothes wear them. 2 Giambattista Valli Valentino 2 3 Dior Elie Saab 3 4 Bouchra Jarrar Atelier Versace 4 136 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | couture | FFT magazine 137 THE NAKED DRESS METAL 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 favourite of the A-lister at red carpets, a woman he bling has taken over the world and everyone chooses this ensemble when she is looking to make a wants to shine. Not only do we see metallic elements A statement about her body and celebrate her choices. Tpermeating everything from interiors to apparel to The sheer dress is a celebrity spawned trend mostly for the accessories even jewellery but even themes such as gold, red carpet and is part of a new Americanism that celebrates industrial and metal scraps are increasingly being used in bodies, after athleisure. Way ahead of the curve is Beyonce, installation art. In couture it leaned towards more precious Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, who have been doing this metals like gold accents and creating a fluid mercurial for a while and are probably inspirations for heralding it. movement in the fabric. How it works on the red carpet – strategic embroidery and Yiqing Yin creates a dulled-gold draped jumpsuit that sequin are sewn in, made to fit the body and cover up the resembles foil and Schiaparelli experiments with both the naughty bits and therefore clearly a bespoke experience, the gilded fitted gown as well as the translucent skirt with a rest is draped in delicate see-through chiffons, leaving very metallic gloss. Stephane Rolland creates a cape using little for the imagination. caged construction in gold, Margiela focuses on iridescence and remarkably translating that in fabric. Louis Azarrao Maison Martin Margiela follows conventional silhouette but creates a stardust finish in his midnight blue gown but the fabric surprises. Mesh construction with wide dimensions, Gaultier takes the cake with his trompe l’oeil pant suit. it is not the most couture-friendly and yet stylish. Sergreenko 1 Schiaparelli uses panels and sheer innovatively, Versace does art deco lines Jean Paul 1 2 Alexander Vauthier and Mabille does ornate lace but Valentino brings it home in Schiaparelli 2 Roman hosiery horizontal details. 3 Elie Saab Fendi 3 4 Ulyana Serjreenko Yiqing Yin 4 138 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | couture | FFT magazine 139 PINK GOING GREEN 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 eing rescued from its Barbie and girlie- rom flowers to leaves, green is going to take girl associations, wearing pink is now as over as the colour of the season in the coming Bmuch a political statement as a fashion Fyears.