Flourishes & Finery

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BALENCIAGA PATCHWORK SPRING/SUMMER 2002.

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TESS GIBERSON S/S 05

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[ChrissyM]

i love that balenciaga patchwork collection

thanks mullet as always!

 

[MissMagAddict]

Beautiful as always MulletProof
That Lanvin skirt w/the back bow is just

Thank you for posting the Dior Masquerade
I can appreciate the work in the details but as a whole I didn't care for this collection at all. To me it's just too heavy & there are no new ideas here...nothing modern about it. I think I'm liking Dior less and less as the seasons go on. But on a happy note...I do like the blue/green bracelet w/the dangle in #278

 

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Givenchy FW07 HC

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Christian Lacroix FW07 HC

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On The Runway
Cathy Horyn's NY Times Blog
July 3, 2007
Photographs by Ed Alcock
Source: nytimes.com

The Best Hands in the World
One of the pleasures and privileges of covering the haute couture collections is visiting the ateliers of the houses. If the heavy lifting is done in the unconscious—Lagerfeld always says his ideas come to him in dreams—then couture’s lightness is finessed in the workrooms. Couture models are made in pieces, to accommodate the flow of deliveries from embroiderers and other specialists, and then everything is assembled. At Dior, the workers were awash in the bright tulle and silk that would become John Galliano’s show for the 60th anniversary of the house. Pride? Yes. The people in the ateliers love a visitor to (slightly) gawp at the quality of their handwork. And they like a good joke. Tucked into a frame of Coco Chanel’s picture in Madame Jacqueline’s atelier was a snap of Lagerfeld. Who rules in Paris? The hands.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, San Serif]Inside the workshop of Christian Lacroix at 73 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, in central Paris, a few days
before the autumn/winter 2007 haute couture shows.

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Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix

 

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, San Serif]The Chanel workshop on the rue Cambon in central Paris


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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, San Serif]Some Chanel sketches


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Chanel

Chanel

Chanel

 

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, San Serif]The Dior workroom located at 11 rue Francois Premier, in central Paris


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Dior

Dior

Dior

Dior

Dior

 

[gius]

^ i've heard Lacroix say he has some of the embroidery done in India..among other countries.. so i'm a bit surprised seeing this
This is one of the reasons I am here at TFS Thanks MMA

Mulletproof I love that you 'themed' the posts Tess Giberson.. No wonder Scott likes her work

 

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Chanel FW07 HC

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[MulletProof]

MMA, wonderful wonderful.. brilliant posts! , I've always loved seeing pictures of the ateliers and everything involved behind the couture shows, these people are truly masters in their own field, when I think about everything that they do with each piece and how the details are often so intricate and flawlessly done, the price for each garment is automatically justified in my head haha.. you're truly buying pure art.
thank you so much for posting that....

 

[gius]

i'm reposting it to Process of Haute couture if that's ok

don't know the designers behind the pieces... some nice details

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[gius]

Christopher Nemeth

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[MulletProof]

that's awesome, gius, I love the key-holders.. whatever they are, in your first post, they look so antique and.. badass at the same time haha.. it's so nice to see people dressed so creatively on the street

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

Excellent thread, Mulletproof. The details are often what I look forward to the most.

 

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Yves Saint Laurent F/W 06 {style.com}

 

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Givenchy HC is stunning up close (and far away)

JPG HC f/w 07-08

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