Couture Spring 2023 Fashion Shows and Trends

Couture Spring 2023 fashion shows coincide with men’s fashion week. Doja Cat’s shenanigans at Viktor and Rolf and another less impactful Schiaparelli show distracts from the collection in my opinion: had she just done the Pat Macgrath body makeup stunt I think she could’ve enjoyed the press, however, feel like her subsequent costume drew the…

Fabulous Fashion: Dior’s New Look To Now Exhibit

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibit was certainly titled appropriately, abounding with fabulous fashion from post war era to modern times. Upon entering, I was greeted with Dior’s New Look, the inspiration for the exhibition, which changed the silhouette and hemline of wartime garments back to full skirts, cinched waists, and floor lengths as a…

Alaïa Couture Fall 2017

Alaïa’s Couture Fall 2017 collection was it’s first in over half a decade, and featured a Roman glamour leather look, with black dresses which melded leather and softer more feminine fabrics into gorgeous dresses with pleated skirts and unique structural bodices.  Black chiffon layered over nude skirts; a burgundy baby-doll burnout velvet dress; floral print…

2017 Cannes Red Carpet Best and Worst Dressed

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet was full of glitter, glitz, and glam and sharply contrasted by cheap costume looks complete with synthetic wigs in fashion colors.  Fabulous stylist-curated wardrobes, carefully posed clutches, poised postures…Cannes is one of the years big fashion events, Hollywood starlets drawing the attention of the world in all their…

Oscars 2016 Red Carpet Best and Worst Dressed

The Academy Awards 2016 Oscars Red Carpet draws attention from the fashion world- everyone’s looking to see who wore what.  There are always hits and misses, and this year was no exception.  Glamour, beauty, the good, the bad, the fabulous glamorous gowns, and the cheap and inappropriate. Best Dressed Worst Dressed The Good The Bad…

Chanel Couture FW1516

The Chanel Couture Fall/Winter 2015/2016 show featured a star studded cast of gamblers, including Julianne Moore, Rita Ora, Kristen Stewart, and more.  Sheer, black, quilted, black leather, luxe metallic tweeds.  It seems the future of Chanel met a spunky grandma.  The layers were beautifuul, as were the beaded appliques.  It was an overall great show…