Balmain S/S 2013 Paris

[JuiceMajor]

Why is it that someone as young as him can design something as old as this? There is nothing appealing about the clothes. Just an appreciation for the construction. This can goes straight to the museum display! Silver lining.

 

[Alexei]

80s through and through. I quite like the shoulders and crazy patterning. It's always a distinctive feature of Balmain anyway. Not as good as his last effort, but then topping that is a very tough ask.

 

[barbiestolemyDVN]

I think I finally figured out what's been bugging me about his collections for the house... In his prime, even when everything was OTT sequins and shoulders, there was just something quite effortless about Decarnin's work (obviously that went down hill). To try to even emulate that is just too ambitious. Everything here just seems so *forced*. There are some beautiful pieces of course, but the collection itself just feels tired.

 

[Razzer]

I like around 8 looks, which is unfortunately as last season was extremely beautiful. Normally i can deal with shoulder pad galore and tacky power suits, but this just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. The shoes are killer though.

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

those details

 

[Street_a_Licious]

i'm pretty sure that power shoulder should stay dead...

 

[KemAlnagdy]

i think i like it,,, i think i do

 

[Gooner 4 Lyfe]

Honestly, this is my favorite collection so far in Paris. Yes, power to the shoulder pads! Excellent collection!!

 

[GERGIN]

those details

ditto

 

[Salvatore]

A M A Z I N G !!!
It's unapologetic, intentionally 90s, yet modern. I love the little dresses that are like walking pieces of art. Just love it !!! A+

We all know the shoulders will be watered down for the ones not bold enough to wear the shoulders.

 

[ParisFashionMuse]

WHAT THE ----! Shoulder pads I am having awful flashbacks the of the 80's & 90's. What a mess

 

[Label Basher]

Sorry but I'm over it. I was hoping that the new designer (who by the way is so fricken hot) would move forward with Balmain but this is just a rehash. This look is stale. Sorry.

 

[Pradable]

OMG those shoulders

This is so disappointing.

 

[TianSoFine]

The shoes look good. The clothes seem to be missing the usual excitement.

 

[Tentacl Ventricl]

Of the details shots @ post #39, of the final image - the rear view of a jacket:-

My grandmother had a chair in her conservatory just like that. That which looks ugly as old ladies garden furniture is best not resusitated as clothing which, presumably, is intended to be modern. Astounding workmanship but attrocious eye. Way too fussy, chintzy, like an old ladies interior.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Sorry but I'm over it. I was hoping that the new designer (who by the way is so fricken hot) would move forward with Balmain but this is just a rehash. This look is stale. Sorry.

Yes - to both your parenthetical comment brows and those outside parentheses. I can't get behind these shoulders. Although the details of the fabric do look pretty awesome in terms of workmanship.

 

[Selfportraitgrl]

This is quite honestly the most hideous thing I've seen in quite some time. Those shoulders make the girls look like linebackers. Tsk, tsk.

 

[MON]

I like how he retained the essence of Balmain but took it into his own perspective! I love this a lot!

 

[Phuel]

So horribly contrived and costumey. Late-80s Versace is best left as a distant memory. I hated it then and the hate remains strong now. The huge unstructured shoulders are so lazy and unimaginative but really done to death now when 18-year-old hipsters are pilfering thrift stores for them. What's uglier than those tired shoulders are the pegged-leg pleated pants. This is all so campy it's like he's designing for a Dynasty movie. DSquare's campy and customey ode to Peter Lindberg's shoot for Harper's Bazaar's revamped September 1992 issue was frivolous fashion-fun. This is not. Yuck.

Christophe Decarnin's trashy-but-never-retro-decadence is sorely missed.

 

[Excentrique]

Recently, I'm in love with shoulder pads, so this is really nice to me, ahhhhh and those shoes! great!