The Intouchables is the French film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano that has taken France by storm. Not only did the film achieve the second highest box office gross of all time in France, but it was voted as the cultural event of 2011 by 52% of the population in a poll by Fnac, Le Parisien, and…
Since Brigitte Bardot became an international six symbol in the early sixties, she has always inspired fashion designers. But it wasn't until 2012 that the French cinema icon got her very own eponymous clothing line. Last July, the 77-year-old actress signed a licensing agreement with the company Ternay, along with other investors, allowing her name…
The fashion blogs can't stop talking about the latest feud between Marc Jacobs and French graffiti artist Kidult. It all started on the night of the Met Ball when Kidult took a fire extinguisher full of hot pink paint and spray painted the word ART across the brick face of the Marc Jacobs store in SoHo. This…
Clic Bookstore & Gallery will host an in-store book signing for the launch of Antoine Verglas's new book of photography, Show Girl. Antoine Verglas is a Parisian-born, New York-based fashion photographer who got his start as a host on a popular French TV show. After moving to New York in the 90s, Verglas began shooting…
Hermès is celebrating its 175th anniversary with the opening of an exhibition entitled "Leather Forever" at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Managing director of Hermès Thierry Outin explained the fashion house's choice to put on this exhibit saying, "We are celebrating our 175th year, it's the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics and Hermès wanted…
Deux Ex Machina Julian Schnabel CFA Berlin April 28-July 28 Julian Schnabel will be presenting his first major solo exhibition, since his retrospective in 2004, entitled Deus Ex Machina in Germany at the CFA Berlin from April 28-July 28. The show consists largely of work that uses enlarged snapshots and photographs of images such…
AGANOVICH - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW A book of arctic imagery was the inspiration for designers Nana Aganovich and Brooke Taylor for the F/W 2012-13 Aganovich collection. Images of icebergs and avalanches are a fitting muse since they naturally gravitate to a color palette of black, white and blue. The long-haired models in capes,…
ALEXIS MABILLE - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW The Fall 2012 collection of Alexis Mabille was all things bow tie. The collection, appropriately titled “Let Me Be Bo-Bow,” featured bow tie prints, embroideries, earring, and shoes, all commemorating the neckwear that put Mabille on the map at fashion houses like Dior and YSL. Mabille designed…
ALLUDE - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Allude designer Andrea Karg, sought to portray intellectual, bohemian chic in her Autumn/Winter 2012/12 collection. The collection, completely in cashmere, managed to create heavily layered looks that simultaneously fell close to the body, creating a trim, polished silhouette. The colors of the collection were inspired by the “allure of…
ARZU KAPROL - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Arzu Kaprol drew from the aesthetics of modernism and Bauhaus to craft his highly architectural Fall 2012 collection. Kaprol’s fall collection was a study in structure: formfitting leather dresses, military silhouettes amplified by silk and furs, and sheer panels paired with leather harnesses. The collection was sharp, angular,…
CHANEL - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW The Chanel Fall 2012 collection was presented in a room covered in crystals growing from the floor and ceiling, mimicking the crystal adornments that dripped off of every hem, high heel, and even eyebrow, sewn with crystals by famed couture embroidery house Lesage, that came down the runway. …
Born in Guadeloupe and taught in Paris, Clarisse Hieraix has a sophisticated understanding of haute couture that she is able to translate into her gowns and cocktail dresses season after season. Loose, flowing evening gowns in graphic prints that looked resort ready were mixed in with exceptionally tailored, monochromatic pantsuits, that were kept fresh by…
CORRADO DE BIASE - PARIS F/W 2012 BACKSTAGE Corrado de Biase’s third Ready-to-Wear collection mixed 20s modernism with 70s London style embodying Biase’s philosophy that, “fashion is an imaginary place for impossible meetings of people, styles and eras across time and space.” The collection consisted of classic British looks, given an update in fabric and proportion.…
CUNNINGTON & SANDERSON - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW After winning the On|Off Visionary Award, British design duo behind Cunnington & Sanderson, Matthew Cunnington and John Sanderson, presented their Fall 2012 collection for the first time in Paris. Cunnington & Sanderson use experimental folding, cutting, and draping as a means to sculpt dresses for a…
DÉVASTÉE - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Dévastée, the fashion label formed by Orphelie Klere and Francois Alary, created a dark, haunting, and humorous Fall 2012 collection. The duo describe their style as “mignon-macabre,” or cute-, and this collection was precisely that. Models with super pale faces had black lipstick smeared up the sides of their…
ELIE SAAB - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW The Fall 2012 “Urban Elegance” collection from Elie Saab attempts to encapsulate the modern incarnation of the Elie Saab city girl. The collection felt precise and tailored, with clean lines and nipped waists. Daywear included meticulously crafted peplum skirts and dresses, designed in both crêpe georgette shifts…
FATIMA LOPES - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Fatima Lopes, the first Portuguese fashion designer to show at Paris Fashion in 1999, kicked off the Ready-to-Wear collection for F/W 2012-13 with her sexy collection that accentuates the internal and external structure of the body. The small waists and narrow shoulders of the garments almost resembled a…
GUY LAROCHE - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Marcel Marongiu’s Fall 2012 collection for Guy Laroche was full of high shine, noir inspired looks that conveyed a minimalist luxury. Marongiu was inspired by picture of the construction of the Milanese Palazzo del Ghiaccio from 1923 as well as the barren architectural portraits of Aitor Ortiz. …
HEXA BY KUHO - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW The Fall 2012 collection of Hexa by Kuho, designed by Kuho Jung, is all about love in its duality; love has the power to cause both extreme happiness and disastrous sorrow. Jung was inspired by the embodiment of both these extremes in those famous star-crossed lovers,…
The Fall 2012 collection, “I See ‘Em,” came about after a journey through the Scottish Highlands. The region, but particularly its sense of mysticism from Scotland’s legendary warriors to their mythological creatures, inspired Lespagnard’s designs. The looks use a number of tartan patterns, representing various clans, and Lespagnard even went so far as to create his…
