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March 15, 2009, Sunday
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SOPHISTICATED Parisiennes who blend classiness and playful sensuality in just the right doses had the run of the Louis Vuitton catwalk on Thursday.
The storied French label, under the artistic direction of blockbuster US designer Marc Jacobs, sent out saucy demoiselles in abbreviated cocktail looks with pleating, draping and lots of volume.
Starched satin head wraps, like Playboy bunny ears, topped off the looks.
Jacobs said he had several French models, including former Chanel muse Ines de la Fressange, in mind while creating the fall 2009-winter 2010 ready-to-wear collection.
"All these wonderful French women have inspired great designers that I have always respected and admired, and have always just had that joie de vivre, that joie de fashion and that joie de mode,?said Jacobs, who was sporting a pair of black shorts-cum-skirt.
Flirty
Like many of his fellow Paris designers, Jacobs centered the collection around flirty cocktail dresses.
The bodices were expertly draped, with full, ravishing shoulders and bubble skirts.
Black lace gave some looks a more overtly sexual charge ?particularly those paired with thigh-high, heeled boots in zippered black or gold patent leather.
Models clutched a selection of handbags as they walked the catwalk, set up like a Parisian salon in a tent in a Louvre courtyard.
Bags are a major cash cow for the label, which began as a luggage maker.
Little black totes with gold monograms, quilted leather clutches and velvety flap closure purses with chain straps looked like surefire hits.
Antoine Arnault, the son of Vuitton parent company LVMH's chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, praised the handbags as "to lose your mind?for.
Arnault also said the house's policy of never offering discounts has paid off at a time when crisis-hit retailers have been dramatically slashing their price tags.
"Our products have a real value. You can't come and have the same product for 50 percent less,?he said.
Asked about the label's relationship with Jacobs, who has garnered praise for his work on his eponymous line and at Vuitton, Arnault said: "It's like working with Picasso.?
The storied French label, under the artistic direction of blockbuster US designer Marc Jacobs, sent out saucy demoiselles in abbreviated cocktail looks with pleating, draping and lots of volume.
Starched satin head wraps, like Playboy bunny ears, topped off the looks.
Jacobs said he had several French models, including former Chanel muse Ines de la Fressange, in mind while creating the fall 2009-winter 2010 ready-to-wear collection.
"All these wonderful French women have inspired great designers that I have always respected and admired, and have always just had that joie de vivre, that joie de fashion and that joie de mode,?said Jacobs, who was sporting a pair of black shorts-cum-skirt.
Flirty
Like many of his fellow Paris designers, Jacobs centered the collection around flirty cocktail dresses.
The bodices were expertly draped, with full, ravishing shoulders and bubble skirts.
Black lace gave some looks a more overtly sexual charge ?particularly those paired with thigh-high, heeled boots in zippered black or gold patent leather.
Models clutched a selection of handbags as they walked the catwalk, set up like a Parisian salon in a tent in a Louvre courtyard.
Bags are a major cash cow for the label, which began as a luggage maker.
Little black totes with gold monograms, quilted leather clutches and velvety flap closure purses with chain straps looked like surefire hits.
Antoine Arnault, the son of Vuitton parent company LVMH's chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, praised the handbags as "to lose your mind?for.
Arnault also said the house's policy of never offering discounts has paid off at a time when crisis-hit retailers have been dramatically slashing their price tags.
"Our products have a real value. You can't come and have the same product for 50 percent less,?he said.
Asked about the label's relationship with Jacobs, who has garnered praise for his work on his eponymous line and at Vuitton, Arnault said: "It's like working with Picasso.?
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