Nina Ricci S/S 10 Paris

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[thejarc]

Oliver? Are you still there?

[Alejandro]

^ no, this is designed by peter copping.....marc jacobs assistant and the head designer of lv womenswear. puke!

[DD.-]

wow, that´s a huge change from last season.
I have high hopes.
Thanks for the pics

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Tonight in Paris Nina Ricci will show its spring 2010 collection in a presentation for just 75 guests. This is the first major collection under new creative director Peter Copping, who designed at Louis Vuitton under Marc Jacobs for twelve years before moving over to Ricci. After Olivier Theyskens's spectacular fall 2009 swan song for the label, Copping's position is not quite an enviable one. How does one top the collection that can't be topped? Much less the shoes alone?

“I like wearable clothes,” he tells WWD. “I’m not necessarily into being too avant-garde.” But he is into ruffled bloomers (as you see above) and assorted frilly things.

At Vuitton, “whenever we did more feminine-based collections, the sales were always incredible in the stores as opposed to the more austere or hard-edged things,” he said, while adding, “Obviously, one has to find a way to make that contemporary, modern and fashionable.”

While Ricci's fragrance division pulls in $150 million in wholesale volume a year, the fashion division is estimated to pull in just $25 million in retail sales. Sadly taking the safe route this season — or, at least, doing what everyone else is doing — equates to showing panty-diapers as bottoms instead of normal skirts, pants, or even leggings. Copping also wants to make silk crêpe and lace identifying elements of the house and perhaps one day launch a lingerie line.

So the man is in an underwear state of mind. And if too many designers to count all showed panties instead of bottoms for spring, we can probably assume other designers are in underwear states of mind. So clothes that make you go, "Wait — is that underwear? Oh, no, har har, those are the shorts-panties I'm supposed to wear in the spring. Better stock up on cellulite cream now!" could be here to stay for a while.

Copping Aims for Perfection at Nina Ricci [WWD]

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[MarionasMuse]

It`s pity!!!Olivier was the best to design for Ricci,but...

[thejarc]

The reason I hate and always hated the LV womenswear doesn't make it better.

[sungelly87]

well hopefully they will make a bigger profit with copping instead of worrying about bankruptcy with Olivier

[Elfinkova]

That dress looks horrendous!

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[Crying Diamonds]

^ That last dress looks good.
I don't know why they're raving about Olivier's "swansong" collection so much - it wasn't that good.

[Elfinkova]

^It was amazing. That last gown does look beautiful.

[zamb]

the few looks I am seeing looks good and are not too far from what theyskens was doing, but here comes the "Pan-it-because-its-not-your-favorite-designer-train.............

[Chanelcouture09]

such a change from last season
i love the gown