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Paris goes off to the jungle
By Jenny Barchfield |
March 15, 2009, Sunday
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PEACOCKS strutted their stuff on Paris catwalks, as Italian Giambattista Valli sent out red-carpet ready looks covered with glimmering feathers, and a wildly inventive Indian designer unleashed a menagerie that included a Swarovski crystal-encrusted version of the proud bird.
The scene was tamer at Yves Saint Laurent. With its winter 2010 ready-to-wear display, the French label delivered a sober but well-tailored collection of suits and leather looks.
Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf gave stiff a good name with their tromp l'oeil collection that solidified flowing Greek drapery.
Stella McCartney played with opacity and transparency in a sexy, lingerie-inspired collection that also included cruelty-free alternatives to fur and leather.
French label Leonard delivered kicky knit silk and wool dresses in the house's hallmark hothouse flower prints. The oversized orchids in royal purple and hot pink would have been right at home in Arora's fanciful tropical kingdom.
Picture "The Jungle Book?remade by "The Fly?director David Cronenberg and you can begin to envisage the bizarre menagerie of oversized beasts in hothouse hues that Indian designer Manish Arora unleashed onto the catwalk.
Arora's winter 2010 pret-a-porter collection looked less like a product of human ingenuity than something beamed down by stylish aliens or hatched in a petri dish.
Peacocks glinting with Swarovski crystals emblazoned a tunic, a moose-head made from what appeared to be superimposed wooden planks stuck out of the belly of a dress, while a nearly life-seized bird of prey "entirely covered in crystals?perched on the shoulder of another dress.
A silvery cape imitated the shape of a crawfish and a turquoise crystal tiger peered out from a sheath dress.
The knobby fabric of another dress mimicked a lizard's spiny skin, though the eyes that gleamed out from the bust of the garment were entirely more menacing. Mammoth orchids in saturated pinks, purples and reds burst from a short sheath dress, obliging the model to hold her arms stiffly away from her body.
A headpiece concocted from metal and red bulbs mechanically flapped its wings of silk. Although it was ostensibly a winter collection, a coat in psychedelic savanna print was about the sole concession to chilly temperatures.
Natural elements, like gravity-defying vents at the hip and neckline and sculpted shoulders, lent a futuristic touch.
The scene was tamer at Yves Saint Laurent. With its winter 2010 ready-to-wear display, the French label delivered a sober but well-tailored collection of suits and leather looks.
Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf gave stiff a good name with their tromp l'oeil collection that solidified flowing Greek drapery.
Stella McCartney played with opacity and transparency in a sexy, lingerie-inspired collection that also included cruelty-free alternatives to fur and leather.
French label Leonard delivered kicky knit silk and wool dresses in the house's hallmark hothouse flower prints. The oversized orchids in royal purple and hot pink would have been right at home in Arora's fanciful tropical kingdom.
Picture "The Jungle Book?remade by "The Fly?director David Cronenberg and you can begin to envisage the bizarre menagerie of oversized beasts in hothouse hues that Indian designer Manish Arora unleashed onto the catwalk.
Arora's winter 2010 pret-a-porter collection looked less like a product of human ingenuity than something beamed down by stylish aliens or hatched in a petri dish.
Peacocks glinting with Swarovski crystals emblazoned a tunic, a moose-head made from what appeared to be superimposed wooden planks stuck out of the belly of a dress, while a nearly life-seized bird of prey "entirely covered in crystals?perched on the shoulder of another dress.
A silvery cape imitated the shape of a crawfish and a turquoise crystal tiger peered out from a sheath dress.
The knobby fabric of another dress mimicked a lizard's spiny skin, though the eyes that gleamed out from the bust of the garment were entirely more menacing. Mammoth orchids in saturated pinks, purples and reds burst from a short sheath dress, obliging the model to hold her arms stiffly away from her body.
A headpiece concocted from metal and red bulbs mechanically flapped its wings of silk. Although it was ostensibly a winter collection, a coat in psychedelic savanna print was about the sole concession to chilly temperatures.
Natural elements, like gravity-defying vents at the hip and neckline and sculpted shoulders, lent a futuristic touch.
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