Thoughts from the Dirty City

I’m not generally a huge fan of Spring lines. Too many frills and lace for my taste. This year I’m a bit buzzed about it though. I think maybe it has something to do with the extreme gray of the weather lately. Ohio feels like a science fiction movie with the total lack of sun these days. Right, fashion.

Last week in Paris designers took to the catwalk with their couture lines. Regardless of season, I am in general a fan of couture. Not so much for the pomp that surrounds it. More over, I love the artistic flair these lines tend to have. The designers aren’t super hung up on making the lines mass producible, and highly marketable. These tend to be the lines that really show off what the labels are about.  This means they can also tend to be the absolute ugliest.

This time around, I decided to do something a bit different. I’m not going through each designers line and picking through them piece by piece. Instead, I’m just making one post about the entire season summing up each label in one or two sentences.

Adeline Andre

Look guys! A couture snuggie!!!!

Anne Valerie Hash

…and all that jazz. Suddenly I miss the glory days of Liza Minnelli.

Armani Preve Couture

It is what it always is, amazing and perfectly assymilated with the label. This time with a pinch of sci-fi and a dash of just not my thing.

Boudicca

Looks like Little Bo Peep lost a little more than her sheep this round.

Chado Ralph Rucci

A really pretty line. Nothing super extraordinary, but pretty! Personally, I think it would have made a really marketable RTW line. Maybe the designer just really needed to feel fancy for a bit. We’ve all been there.

Chanel*

I am so over Chanel. Yes the clothes are amazing, but Karl Lagerfeld is such a douche that it kinda ruins it for me.

Christian Dior

It’s like Marry Poppins fell down the rabit hole and landed on Dita Von Tease. Amazing!

Elie Saab

While this isn’t really my style, I totally get it. And I don’t imagine there is a woman on earth that wouldn’t feel down right pretty in his dresses.

Givenchy Couture

The line started out so great! Dark and moody and totally glam couture. But then it just sort of fell apart for me. I dig this look though. The rest, I’m just going to pretend I walked away and didn’t see the end.

Jean Paul Gaultier Couture

Stole the mutha-flippin show. Seriously. The entire Spring 2010 Couture season now belongs to JPG. Totally haute.

Maison Martin Margeila

I don’t get it. I think maybe this is a punchline to a joke I missed or something.
*shrug*

Valentino Couture

Totally different for this label. It looks like the new designer for Valentino is finally coming into their own. I like it. Fresh and bright and… wait…hold on. I just read that it was inspired by the movie Avatar.

That is it.

I give up.

All photos courtesy of New York Mag.

*If I am going to be totally honest. Chanel was truly amazing. Breathtaking really. Especially the accesories. I just wish they would put Lagerfeld in a burka or something. Just the sight of him makes me all fighty.

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