Givenchy Haute Couture F/W 10.11 Paris

[MulletProof]

Please refrain from posting pictures from style.com and vogue.co.uk in this thread. Thank you.

 

[Harumi]

From Lou Doillon's twiter:

 

[Harumi]

More to be found at purple-diary.com

 

[Rene2509]

Where are the Couture Clothes now? Is it a exhibition or what?
Is there a chance to have a look about it?

 

[xixixixi]

Im sorry, but where is the HQ post.... i dont see it.

 

[mistress_f]

Where are the Couture Clothes now? Is it a exhibition or what?
Is there a chance to have a look about it?

i think they were put in a showroom for the buyers/fashion editors/press to see...

Im sorry, but where is the HQ post.... i dont see it.

deleted cause apparently we're not allowed to post from vogue or style.com in this thread

 

[eternitygoddess]

How did Lou Dillon get a hold of the dress already?

 

[Ives927]

How does one get the HQ off those sites though? I don't get it.

 

[kahlen1234]

That dress Lou Dillon is wearing is stunning! The whole collection is WOW! It's amazing how Tisci can pack so many embellishments into his designs without it looking tacky. I'm absolutely in love with this collection. Great model casting as well.

 

[birdyandme]

The entire collection is absolute PERFECTION.
I can't WAIT to see these photographed.
What I want to know is who will be the first to beat all of the other's to Iris' dress on the red carpet!
Although looks like a mag has already snatched it up for Lou's shoot.

 

[KKnardi]

How did Lou Dillon get a hold of the dress already?

yes, my thoughts exactly.

 

[Harumi]

Where are the Couture Clothes now?

On Lou's back, apparently.

Typically, the life of a Haute Couture garment goes like this:
the clothes stay in the show room for a couple of days for client appointments then are lent to magazines for shoots and/or travel oversea if the house puts on shows for international clients who cannot/will not come to Paris (but I think only Chanel and Armani do that). Some of the original desings get sold at a lesser price to clients who can fit in them and don't mind that it's not made specifically for them. The remaining ones go in the archives and are sometimes lent to celebrities for a red-carpet event.

Is it a exhibition or what?
Is there a chance to have a look about it?

No way unless they decide to expose some of the dresses in the store front of their Champs-Elisées shop, like they did a couple years back.

 

[nirvanana]

I love this collection! Riccardo is simply, amazing.

 

[LolaSvelt]

How did Lou Dillon get a hold of the dress already?

She's good friends with Tisci.

 

[mistress_f]

I think it's safe to assume lou dillon got the dress cause she was on a photoshoot set or something similiar.....

 

[Harumi]

^yes, obviously.

 

[agee]

On Lou's back, apparently.

Typically, the life of a Haute Couture garment goes like this:
the clothes stay in the show room for a couple of days for client appointments then are lent to magazines for shoots and/or travel oversea if the house puts on shows for international clients who cannot/will not come to Paris (but I think only Chanel and Armani do that). Some of the original desings get sold at a lesser price to clients who can fit in them and don't mind that it's not made specifically for them. The remaining ones go in the archives and are sometimes lent to celebrities for a red-carpet event.No way unless they decide to expose some of the dresses in the store front of their Champs-Elisées shop, like they did a couple years back.

Thanks for the explanation Harumi. I am somewhat familiar with the process, but I have often wondered (hoped) that the designers made duplicates / decoys of the dresses, because some of them have really made the rounds like this Valentino dress. I know that duplicates / decoys may not be practical for some of the embellished or highly-crafted dresses and that they are dry cleaned and whatnot, but couture or not, there is still a factor for me. Also I wonder what the rules are about how the dress can be used, like did the designers know how their garments were going to be used when they lent them to Vogue Nippon? I mean just look at the Lou Doillon pictures, out the gate that fab dress is on the beach and by a horse, that's fine when you are the first person to wear it all - actually she is probably the third or fourth, but since you probably can't subject the garment to an industrial strength cleaning, I keep thinking that everyone else who wears it down the line is going to get a faint whiff of seaweed and horse.

I apologize for going off topic, but that is something that I have been wondering about for a while.

 

[Harumi]

^Hi! None of the dresses in the Vogue Nippon shoot are HC, so I don't think the rules are as strict because the clothes are replaceable and clean more easily.
I however cannot imagine that a stylist would ever use the clothes, even RTW clothes, in such manner without explicit authorisation from the house.

As for 'decoys' I think the production cost of making a single HC dress is so high that no houses would make more than one unless it was a client order. However, who knows about that Valentino dress, it looks like it has an extremely low production cost to me. I've seen better craftsmanship at Topshop.

 

[LolaSvelt]

I think it's safe to assume lou dillon got the dress cause she was on a photoshoot set or something similiar.....

It was definitely for a photoshoot, but I think Tisci probably lended it to which publication she was shooting with because Doillon was involved.

 

[mikeijames]

perfection from the opening look to the last. seriously, that photo of lou dillon should get framed it's so evocative and beautiful.