The Louis Vuitton fashion show was much anticipated, with the live streaming on their Facebook page and all. But, the comments on the status feed were mostly not very flattering to the spring/summer 2010 fashion collection by Marc Jacobs. It looks like this is a second strike out for Jacobs whose own fashion collection under his name was also received with raised eyebrows. He had done a nice job with Louis Vuitton in the past, managing to be classic and innovative. Alas with this collection we weren’t sure what was more distracting the huge afro hair wigs on the models, the swinging fox ? tails or just bag lady type clothing.
Louis Vuitton style trends:
Silhouette: short skirts ( are we seeing a pattern here yet?), layers, fitted to body, tunics over short pants, sheer tops over plaid shirts, tassled skirts over lace leggings..
Colors: mostly mixed prints , pinks, grays, taupes with embelishments.
Fabrics :sequins, tassels, lots of textures to the fabrics, tweed, lots of textures mixed together
Shoes: kitten heels, fur embellished short boots
CHANEL:
Whereas, Marc Jacobs went for drama in the way his models looked, the fashion designer for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld just went for theatre. His fashion show was set in a ‘barn’, complete with haystacks and with Lily Allen performing, and ( ahem) an interesting menage frolicking in the haystack at the end of “the story” fashion show.
Theatrics aside, thankfully the Chanel fashion show and Karl Lagerfeld delivered a sophisticated collection. Chanel as Dior and perhaps Yves St.Laurent brands are classics and sometimes the classics are just best left in as close to the origional designer’s vision as possible. And that’s what the collection delivers, some straight up classics and some variations on the Chanel suit with a-line skirts ( didn’t love those), cropped to the body jackets and light dresses.
Chanel style trends:
Sihouette : short, cropped, fitted jackets, a line or fitted mini skirts, flouncy skirted dresses, wide leg loose pants, skinny jeans, fitted jacket pants suits
Fabrics: traditional chanel- tweeds, wools, silks, chiffon
Colors: mostly a light colored collection – pinks, light gray, white , black
Shoes: Clogs ( and you thought you would never have to try walking in those again, didn’t you?)
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Love the Chanel looks. Espiecially the clogs. I think I had those in high school.
But the afros in the Vuitton show were too much. I couldn’t stop laughing.
here are some more pics from the Chanel show:
http://www.purseblog.com/chanel-bags/fashion-week-spring-2010-chanel.html
everyone is saying Marc Jacobs is trying to sell bike messenger clothes ( bike shorts and tunics), but except the $50.00 one would spend for that street gear he is gonna charge $500.00 Probably some moron somewhere will pay it also!