Atelier Versace S/S 2012 Paris

[agee]

What I like the best about this show is the set, I am a sucker for steps.

I would like this collection a lot if it were a RTW show, it just seems too gaudy for couture, even taking into account that it is Versace, it is still too gaudy. Really what makes it gaudy is the random inclusion of the colored looks (even though I think that orange gown is fan-freaking-tastic!). I am on the fence about the hot pants, I like the detailing of it, it is kinda a Versace-ified Givenchy which is kinda cool. I think if they would have taken the muted colored looks and organized them a little differently then that would have worked or stuck with a mostly gown collection (which is typical for an Atelier Versace collection in recent times) and found a way to evolve the color story, Elie Saab has done this very well in recent seasons.

I suspect that one of the motives for the randomness is that this is high season for the red carpet and Versace is marketing itself to the celebrity stylists.

 

[Sunnyinlondon]

It blows my mind how well received this is... I just don't get it. It all looks so ugly and cheap to me.

Some of those shoes are interesting with the sort of plate bit around the foot.

It is a question of taste. Some of us like it, some others do not. Life would be pretty boring if we all liked the same things. Regards.

 

[honeycombchild]

It is a question of taste. Some of us like it, some others do not. Life would be pretty boring if we all liked the same things. Regards.

I never said people couldn't or shouldn't like it, simply that when it came to this I failed to understand the other side of the argument completely.

 

[ADLET]

vogue.fr

 

[mistress_f]

i must be looking at a different collection from everyone else's... sure the details will probably be great, but i don't get the wow factor here. the gowns look pretty much like any other gown donatella's made in the last 5/10 years. it always looks the same to me

 

[chloesaab]

really disappointing, most of the pieces does not look like Couture

 

[Pradable]

twitter- Versace

 

[Prairie]

I don't get why so many people are excited about that. I mean, yes, all the dresses are beautiful, but there's nothing spectacular (of course, I'm talking only for myself).
Versace is so Versace, that's it.

 

[Pradable]

Paris Haute Couture: Versace spring/summer 2012
Eight year wait over as Versace make a triumphant return to Paris Haute Couture.​

That smash hit collaboration between Versace and H&M last winter is still having reverberations. The influx of cash must have been handy and the affirmation that Versace is still a relevant name to the public at large will have been welcome to a house that hasn't always been surefooted in its product strategy. But most of all "it made me realise i had to come back to Paris to show that Versace is a couture house" said Donatella Versace backstage this morning.

It has been almost eight years since Versace last performed on the couture high wire, although the atelier remained open to private clients throughout. Returning to the spotlight now might seem a perverse act - but only if you haven't been parsing the business pages diligently.

Those luxury brands who are sticking to their guns and doing what luxury is meant to do - coddle, mollify and reassure the insulated super-rich - are thriving . "The world needs glamour," added Versace, "and I missed couture".
And she's well placed to provide it; just 15 looks, but each a corseted, beaded, embroidered, sculpted monument to what Versace called "glamorous warriors," although with her accent, it sounded at first as though she'd done a brief for glamorous lawyers.
READ: Versace opens first kids' boutique
In many ways it was classic, well trodden Versace territory, but the limited colour palatte - steel grey, fizzing sulphurous lemon, tangerine and one solitary bustier dress in gold leather that was laser cut into delicate lace tracery and worn by a fierce looking Arizona Muse - made it look tough and modern. Perspex panniers on the orange dress brought to mind Christopher Kane - no bad thing.
But did i say modern? Only up to a point. Tightly bound and shod in the highest, spikiest, backless gaiter-boots, the models were very moment-challenged, especially when it came to marching down that photogentic flight of gold metal stairs. By the end they'd evolved a sideways crab-step of dubious elegance. But come Oscars - and that's surely where these are heading - these dresses just have to look good straight on. Job done.

telegraph

 

[christian zh]

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[valliaddict]

Well, this is obviously very Versace, but I think all the colors are somehow cheapening this collection. If she would have kept the color palette in the metallic & neutral range, I think the whole thing would look much more couture. I'm not couture can't be colorful, but with Versace, the more understated, the better.

 

[Stereo_Flo]

by Sarah Mower​

Donatella is back, you might have noticed. Riding high on the off-the-scale reaction to her H&M collaboration in November, she's now chosen the moment to return Atelier Versace to public visibility during Paris couture week. “I felt so liberated by it,” she said of the H&M collaboration, which sold out globally within two days. “It's given me confidence.” She could've added Angelina Jolie making it on almost all of the Golden Globes best-dressed lists last week in an ivory and red satin Atelier Versace dress to her list of positive auguries, too. For the fact is that Versace’s couture operation has been carrying on uninterrupted all along; it's just that Donatella has kept it off the runway (not even allowing press to report on private views) since 2004. Now she’s stepping back, consolidating the high-low arc of the Versace empire with a series of presentations at the École des Beaux-Arts on Monday morning.

Last week in Versace’s studios in Milan, the seamstresses were hard at it, pinning and embroidering fourteen looks on dress-dummies made up to the size of the models who will wear them. Exactly what looks will transpire from the combinations of lace and slivers of aluminum remains to be seen, but let it be known: the foundations, boned corselettes, and lace body-suits that were in the midst of being prepared for the show are inimitably done. By the time they're swishing lithely around tomorrow, they’ll be undectectable to the naked eye, but these elements are the eternal house secrets which make Atelier Versace work so well on the red carpet.

-vogue​

 

[chloesaab]

^this was my fav piece from the collection, amazing details

 

[hautechild]

Well, this is obviously very Versace, but I think all the colors are somehow cheapening this collection. If she would have kept the color palette in the metallic & neutral range, I think the whole thing would look much more couture. I'm not couture can't be colorful, but with Versace, the more understated, the better.

Versace? Understated?

But I agree about the colour palette. And on the whole, while some of the gowns are nice, it's hardly mindblowing. It's Versace does couture, which I suppose is the point of the collection but I don't find that very interesting.

 

[Melanie Hill]

vogue.ru

 

[valliaddict]

Versace? Understated?

But I agree about the colour palette. And on the whole, while some of the gowns are nice, it's hardly mindblowing. It's Versace does couture, which I suppose is the point of the collection but I don't find that very interesting.

As understated as Versace can be!! I don't want them to be boring, but opposed to everyone else, I think the yellow & orange is ruining this for me.

 

[jeremydante]

i actually really like this. glad versace is coming back into couture this strong.

 

[LolaSvelt]

The fifth dress really reminds me of Givenchy.

 

[mikel]

It like it. Some the outfits remind me of Barbarella.

 

[fashion_in_love]

really disappointing, most of the pieces does not look like Couture

totally agree, altough i like it, but not for HC