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Showing posts with label Michelle Westgeest. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Alexander McQueen Spring 2010 RTW.

Magdalena Frackowiak (ELITE)

It could be that Alexander McQueen—oh, and Lady Gaga, remotely—crashed through a whole new frontier in the projection of fashion shows as worldwide live entertainment Tuesday night.

Yulia Kharlaponova (WOMEN)

McQueen's collection, Plato's Atlantis, was live-streamed on Nick Knight's SHOWstudio.com, intercut with the photographer's premade video footage.

Karmen Pedaru (NEXT)

That was the plan anyway, until 30 minutes before the show, Gaga Twittered that McQueen was about to premiere her new single.

Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

She has a million followers. Inevitably, before the crashing of the frontier could quite come about, SHOWstudio itself crashed.

Alla Kostromicheva (WOMEN)

Which may have replicated, in a whole new audience, the sensation of a young hopeful stuck outside a McQueen presentation, waving a standing ticket and being unable to get in.

Eugenia Mandzhieva (CITY)

Seen from on the spot, it was a big-budget production, for sure. There was a sparkling, illuminated runway in which two sinister, robotic movie cameras on gigantic black booms ran back and forth, while a screen played Knight's video of Raquel Zimmermann, lying on sand, naked, with snakes writhing across her body.

Irina Kulikova (IMG)

Then the models came out, dressed in short, reptile-patterned, digitally printed dresses, their gangly legs sunk in grotesque shoes that looked like the armored heads of a fantastical breed of antediluvian sea monster.

Yulia Leontieva (SILENT)

McQueen, according to an internal logic detailed in a press release, was casting an apocalyptic forecast of the future ecological meltdown of the world: Humankind is made up of creatures that evolved from the sea, and we may be heading back to an underwater future as the ice cap dissolves.


Amanda Laine (ELITE)

The consequences, in fashion terms? Well, it was a one-note, unmissable formula of the kind several other designers have decided is the way to communicate this season.

Alana Zimmer (WOMEN)

McQueen's message throughout was essentially sunk into the short dress—a steady development of his engineered sea-reptile prints, worked into a nipped-waist, belled-skirt silhouette.

Liu Wen (MARILYN)

The colors—first green and brown, moving to aqua and blue—were exceptionally executed and swagged, and molded across panniered structures. Each dress was a work of computer-generated art crossbred with McQueen's couture-based signature cut.

Valerija Kelava (NEXT)

In a section in which it looked as if McQueen was envisaging a biological hybridization of women with sea mammals, there were trousers whose bulbous flanks mimicked the skin of sharks or dolphins.

Shu Pei Qin (NEXT)

A reminder of his taste in Savile Row tailoring came via a few looks in which formfitting gray men's fabric was cut away to reveal "portholes" filled with turquoise (an effect akin to the view from a glass-bottomed boat).

Jacquelyn Jablonski (ELITE)

Finally, then? Although there was nothing to show McQueen breaking out from his set design mold, the way he's embracing new computer technologies and the drama of the moving image puts him at the leading edge of change.

Sophie Srej (IMG)

Imogen Morris Clarke (NEXT)

Marina Peres (IMG)

Egle Tvirbutaite (NEXT)

Alice Gibb (WOMEN)

Heidi Mount (IMG)

Kim Noorda (VIVA)

Anya Kazakova (MARILYN)

Constance Jablonski (ELITE)

Kate Somers (ELITE)

Diana Farkhullina (IMG)

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

Frida Gustavsson (IMG)

Tanya Dziahileva (MARILYN)

Hanne Gaby Odiele (WOMEN)

Nicola Haffmans (NEXT)

Charlotte di Calypso (ELITE)

Kristy Kaurova (MAJOR)

Kamila Filipcikova (IMG)

Elsa Sylvan (VIVA)

Marike Le Roux (MARILYN)

Drielly Oliveira (IMG)

Tara Gill (VIVA)

Svieta Nemkova (WOMEN)

Elena Melnik (SILENT)

Uliana Tikhova (ELITE)

Edythe Hughes (FORD)

Michelle Westgeest (CITY)

Yulia Lobova (MAJOR)

Anastasija Kondratjeva (ELITE)

Polina Kasina

Alexander McQueen

Monday, October 5, 2009

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2010 RTW.

Sessilee Lopez (NATHALIE)

Underwear has become a dominant theme this season, and you couldn't expect Jean Paul Gaultier to just ignore it. Not when he practically invented the concept with his partner in crime, Madonna.

Lakshmi Menon (NATHALIE)

Gaultier fully embraced this latest lingerie moment, naming his Spring collection "The G Spot." (Nothing like putting it all out there.)


R'el Dade (MARILYN)

Madge's notorious cone-bra corset appeared in many guises: as the bodice of satin engineer-striped overalls during the opening gang-girl sequence, later on in the military section underneath a green-drab skirtsuit, and again with a pair of shorts during the finale's panty parade.


Magdalena Frackowiak (ELITE)

One of the models, who wore padding at hip and derriere to make her appear more voluptuous, looked visibly embarrassed when she took her tour in her scanties.

Rianne Ten Haken (WOMEN)

Among the audience, the burlesque queen Dita Von Teese, Katy Perry, and Rihanna (who, as we all know by now, is in town shopping for clothes for her next tour) probably ate it up.

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

But to the initiated who've been following Gaultier since his Madonna days in the late eighties, it felt like territory he's explored many times before, and a heck of a lot more subtly.


Kim Noorda (VIVA)

Alana Zimmer (WOMEN)

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

Eugenia Mandzhieva (CITY)

Yulia Kharlaponova (WOMEN)

Michelle Buswell (MARILYN)

Morgane Dubled (VIVA)

Anja Rubik (NEXT)

Thana Kuhnen (NATHALIE)

Natasha Poly (WOMEN)

Ali Stephens (MARILYN)

Arlenis Sosa (MARILYN)

Jourdan Dunn (NATHALIE)

Tara Gill (VIVA)

Hollis Wakeema (CITY)

Michelle Westgeest (CITY)

Coco Rocha (MARILYN)

Amélie Lens (CITY)

Elsa Sylvan (VIVA)

Lakshmi Menon (NATHALIE)

Sasha Pivovarova (IMG)

Sessilee Lopez (NATHALIE)

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

R'el Dade (MARILYN)

Magdalena Frackowiak (ELITE)

Rianne Ten Haken (WOMEN)

Kim Noorda (VIVA)

Alana Zimmer (WOMEN)

Morgane Dubled (VIVA)

Eugenia Mandzhieva (CITY)

Yulia Kharlaponova (WOMEN)

Anja Rubik (NEXT)

Natasha Poly (WOMEN)

Michelle Buswell (MARILYN)

Thana Kuhnen (NATHALIE)

Tara Gill (VIVA)

Hollis Wakeema (CITY)

Elsa Sylvan (VIVA)

Ali Stephens (MARILYN)

Coco Rocha (MARILYN)

Arlenis Sosa (MARILYN)

Sasha Pivovarova (IMG)

Amélie Lens (CITY)

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

Michelle Westgeest (CITY)

Rianne Ten Haken (WOMEN)

Jean Paul Gaultier
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