Valentino Fall 08 Couture

Yet another favourite fashion house of mine(yes, I'm having alot of love for too much designers), Alessandra Facchinetti, the new designer for Valentino after the retirement of Valentino Garavani last Spring Couture, had her hands on her couture for the house for the very first time. And after the study of paper, she brought in a whole new level of romance from Valentino's previous shows.

Yes, off the tight waists, deliberate curves and glitzy girly romanticism. Alessandra Facchinetti covered the runway in sophistication yet not losing a single bit of femininity.

Back to the paper quality, its obvious shown eh? With them not being as HARD as architectural.

Elie Saab Fall 08 Couture

From one of the most popular Red Carpet gown designer, thanks to Halle Berry, its yet another stunning show from Elie Saab.

What I truely like about Elie Saab is that there'll always be slight hint of flowing hardness in some of his choice of fabrics and their silhouettes.

But though, it can be hard to TOTALLY pull off those gowns, as it's naturally a little ragged looking or some might call it "cheap-material-looking". Beyonce wore some of his designs at many events and has been on both the hit-and-miss list.

Givenchy Fall 08 Couture

Moving off the ever-so-chic, it's kinda all rural and Icelandic this Fall 08 Couture for Givenchy.

• Bringing back the leg warmers, only this time in a tough leather form, it certainly breaks off the skimpiness of the whole idea in the first place.
• As you can see, there're LOADS of fur/hair used. I'm actually embracing it really. As soft as they can be, the swingy movements of them do brings in a different aspect of beauty. And with the inconsistancy of the cropping adds in textures which I'm also loving.
• Emboridered sweaters couldn't be anymore Icelandic if you ask me. The structure and the asymmetry of it are interestingly tailored, which is remarkable.

For saving the best to the last,

my favourite designs outta the whole collection:

Those lines!

Anna Wintour in Carolina Herrera

When you're Anna Wintour, you know you're able to have a dress as fresh as from the recent Resort 09 with just a flick of a finger. After appearing wearing a dress from the recent Oscar De La Renta Resort 09 few weeks back, she's now in... From Carolina Herrera
A collection I'd posted:

http://trait-trajection.blogspot.com/2008/06/carolina-herrera-resort-09.html

But in the world of fashion, it's a well mix of business too. She was spotted in the dress THREE times in a week. Thinking of publication?

Mens S/S 09 (Yohji Yamamoto)

Having a strong support for asian designers, Yohji Yamamoto definitely would be one of the designers that I'm looking out for.



Like what I said a few post back, older matured models are used quite intensively for some of the designers like Etro and Ann Demeulemeester. But how does that big black man abruptly appeared? Who knows. Maybe it's just another attributed Randomness the whole show is about.

Let's see, asymmetric blazers, randomly coloured collar, a pair of scissors arcoss the buttoned part, hmmm...

Chanel Fall 08 Couture

It's undoubtable that both fashion legends Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour are very good friends(or it seems to be) with multiple pictures with them taken together.

Like what VOGUEITE pointed out, there's a strong Anna Wintour aura steaming out from the show.

The show started with some quintessential Chanel Tweed designs of coats, dresses and skirts.

Than, Shapes becomes more defined.

It's always another experience viewing Chanel Couture/Prêt-à-porter shows cause it's more of a "cleaner" art to me as compared to Christian Dior(John Galliano) which is can bring both Couture/Prêt-à-porter shows kinda hard to digest.

So even with John Galliano's breath-taking Couture this season, Karl Lagerfeld brought out his usual fetish for the 50s tweeds, blunt shades and enormous amout of flowy fabrics.

Though some of the pieces do architecturally resembles what Alexander Mcqueen would come up with.

A dress covered with bells Bjork wore for her "Who Is It?" video.