March 15, 2012 |
Our favourite moment of fashion week, even though it’s always post fashion week has arrived. The Azzedine Alaia show is here. Really we think he should have a TV show rather than a small presentation. Not that we don’t love sitting with him in an intimate setting watching his fabulous fashions glide past, but there’s this video on YouTube, of him dressing Tina Turner, them strutting through Paris hand in hand, and you know what, he’s good, really good on TV. In the meantime, here is what we’ve heard/read/saw via the medium of Style.com. It’s almost like actually being there without being there.
There were sixty exits.
They were set to Prince.
Coats and capes were made of felted wool in dove grey and cappuccino. They swang.
There was midnight blue crocodile. In bolero and and floor length coat form. It wasn’t really croc though. More embossed patent leather.
There were trousers. Gasp! Worn with white shirts. Like an early nineties Peter Lindbergh photograph.
There were knitted catsuits. They looked as though they were made from stretch suede. Ultra suede. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman would look good in these.
Dresses erupted in layers of knitted petal shaped flounce. they were both long and short. Skater dress. Would look good on an ice rink.
Everything looked molten. As though molten fabric had been poured over their heads and left to set.
Mr Alaia has been tinkering with with thread thickness and weave. For him, “it’s about continuity, but also constant evolution.”
http://www.style.com/stylefile/2012/03/azzedine-alaa-has-something-to-say/
by Natalie Dembinska
