Eiffel couture. Karl Lagerfeld, after Chanel Haute Couture A/W 2017-18, July 4, 2017.
(Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/French Select/Getty Images)
Eiffel couture. Karl Lagerfeld, after Chanel Haute Couture A/W 2017-18, July 4, 2017.
(Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/French Select/Getty Images)
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Haute Couture Week, Americans in Paris, Iris van Herpen, Lucinda Chambers, Honoring Jenny Meirens...
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I see couture as the laboratory of the bigger picture of fashion (the ready-to-wear), and my aim is to show that couture is not about yesterday. [That] it can be the place of innovation and collaboration to help push production, materiality, and sustainability forward.
Iris van Herpen, 2017
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Haute couture has been showing over the weekend in PARIS. Here are some highlights: CHANELDIOR, GIAMBATTISTA VALLI. More for you tomorrow... Media was buzzing about this interview with former BRITISH VOGUE fashion director LUCINDA CHAMBERS. Here's some context surrounding the piece. Whether or not you agree with Chambers' views on the industry, it's worth reading as a bold critique of the status quo. Cheers to VESTOJ for running the story... PROENZA SCHOULER and RODARTE showed ready-to-wear in Paris... For those of you still catching up on PARIS FASHION WEEK MEN'S: we've gathered essential coverage from the Paris menswear shows. Designers went elemental, reinventing notions of "everyday" dressing. Some went back to design fundamentals with nuanced shifts in color and silhouette, while others took the concept of "normal" dressing and turned it inside-out. FashionSET, Paris Men's Fashion Week: S/S 2018... LAGERFELD gets a medal... In remembrance of JENNY MEIRENS, here's a wonderful story on her work as co-founder of MARTIN MARGIELA.

HK Mindy Meissen, curator

July 5, 2017