Givenchy Haute Couture S/S 06 Paris

[Ceptuouse]

^ me too, ive never really been into givenchy but its a new favourite..

 

[JuiceMajor]

This has to be my fav couture collection this season. Luv the presentation too. It is raw but yet delicate because of the construction of the clothes...got an underground appeal to it!

 

[Mr-Dale]

Goergeous! Fantastic! I am totally loving the librarian chic thing going on here... absolutely spectacular dresses and detailing. Sharp suits, sharp styling... love it!

 

[Cosette]

^Yes! I was just thinking 'librarian chic' also. I like it.

 

[jennifer~]

I it, and I didn't last season's R-T-W, so this time I'm more than glad. I do like his method of stage presentation... these clothes seem born to an eerie calm. The combination of haunting and controlled gives me the odd feeling undoing a seam would be akin to opening pandora's box

 

[pandinha]

I love it. It's so haute couture for me... really beautiful

 

[Ceptuouse]

...librarian chic

 

[annknee]

my favorite HC collection so far

 

[mdankwah]

This is theatre

 

[Deleted member 7575]

The presentations don't quite work for me either. I think Cathy Horyne wasn't fan as well. It just doesn't work, I feel like he can incorporate the same sense of pacing and display without it be so obvious. The colors are what would be expected given the S/S06 show and Tisci's demonstrated tastes. I feel as though this should be considered mediocre in a world where couture week was filled with amazing houses competing with years of quality and experience. But instead, because Dior has become trashed and Chanel jaded, it takes the beginners work of a recently fledgling designer to keep people on track of what couture standards should be. But I suppose that is what Galliano and Lagerfeld orginally came on to their respective houses to do.

This is a noble effort from Tisci who I feel still hasn't gotten used to working in an Atelier. His ideas as nice as they are, seem a bit to obvious in the regards to Tisci's aesthetic and blatant connections to Givenchy's ready to wear. The soft pink gowns with their flowing floor length hems and feather appliques, as beautiful and red carpet worthy they were, were not quite as believable as couture. The black sihlouettes and matching painted model's faces were again wonderful but wouldn't be out of place next month at the Paris ready to wear shows. The poppy red ensembles or the white skirts and matching blouses were well executed and naturally well made but did not convince me it was indeed Couture.

The one look that stood above the others was the white bunched gown worn by Maria Carla. The intricate and gracefull loops and bunching was reminiscent of Vivinne Westwood's similar experiments but with perhaps a bit more refinement and "french" essence. To me this was the most confident as couture, not because of it's excessive use of fabric (galliano's favorite trick), but because it actually takes an atelier to discover and create. The range and resources enjoyed with an haute couture atelier peak at the limits of what a little old woman can do with her fingers...and that's quite a bit actually. Ricardo needs to take more confidence in what his vision can do with the proper tools. Not that I can blame his hesitance, Givenchy is notoriously hard to design for without falling into traps (Mcdonald) or forgetting what the house really is (mcdonald and mcqueen). When Tisci can firmly establish who the Givenchy woman is conceptually, he will then be able to explore what she looks like in the atelier fully.

I was really stoned when I wrote this and I find myself in sobrierty disagreeing with about half of it. I still think that Tisci needs more time in the atelier but clearly he was able to do wonders. I think it will be exciting to see him grow as he gains more confidence and comfort.

 

[pandinha]

Wow, you are a great writer even when you're high then!

 

[Ceptuouse]

Goergeous! Fantastic! I am totally loving the librarian chic thing going on here... absolutely spectacular dresses and detailing. Sharp suits, sharp styling... love it!

cant get "librarian chic" out of my mind...i love that... karma for coming up with such a phrase

*EDIT, ill have to give it later since I cant give it now...

 

[clavdiachauchat]

"Librarian chic"

NOW I know why I love this so much.

And now I'm convinced that I need a pair of these glasses.

 

[aistobasbistoc]

I'm starting to like this a lot more. But some of it is rather turgid, no doubt it took an impressive amount of skill, but I can't escape the feeling that all I'm looking at is an inanimate object being decorated.

 

[Spike413]

I agree with those who have complained about the presentation. I'm personaly not a huge fan of installations to begin with, but his come off as rather silly imo. He could certainly do something very creative without a traditional runway without having the models mope around in whatever strange tableux he's imagined.

The clothes however, are beautiful. The whole mood feels so much less tortured than last season, perhaps it's the colors, those few blush/red pieces really liven it up.

 

[ultramarine]

Hum ... OK ... I'll spill the beans ... firstable .. after the trainwreck that Givenchy has been ... I was expecting something utterly horrible ... how mistaken I was ...
Another thing is that I had no idea who was doing Givenchy .. I have heard in the past about Monsieur Tisci ... but never ever seen a piece of him ... OMG!
He knows what he does! I think he still has to work thigs out a bit in order to merge his vision with Givenchy's ... but this is outstanding ... bravo!

 

[Estella*]

^you should have a look at his previous work , ultramarine....
we have several threads, i think, here's one
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forum...506-paris-28635.html?highlight=givenchy+tisci

 

[ADFoF]

Suzy Menkes

International Herald Tribune

A petal-trimmed jacket caged in the frozen rose garden of a sculpture museum greeted guests. Tischi had taken Hubert de Givenchy's 1952 "La Rose" collection as inspiration, and he created clever cuts and appealing clothes around the house's famous blouse. Yet he still gives the impression of a young prince of darkness, making long black silhouettes broken with a silvered belt or with white set against black. Displayed on models among the ancient statues, clear day shapes emerged from the tiny jackets (perhaps worked in lacy crocheted textures) and in the ultrawide cuffed pants. It would have been good to have paired a white rose petal blouse instead with narrow, modern pants. But in this romantic, nostalgic Givenchy homage, severe "secretary" eyeglasses were a witty take on a pre-feminist past. A classic update was a trench coat inset with chiffon on the torso.

There is something about designers trained at London's Central Saint Martin's school that leaves an indelible mark, and not just the patches of lace on the face of Tischi's newly bleached-blonde muse Maria Carla, who posed in a glacial pool of a white wedding dress. The urge for theatrics, such as a lineup of red sequined dresses, was in the long shadow of Alexander McQueen, a previous Givenchy designer. Delicate, pale chiffon dresses, scissored into fronds or with a rose at the neck, were sweet and gentle, even if this seemed more Tischi than Givenchy. Or as the designer put it: "I made my own garden."

 

[fleur137]

hey who:
in #52 (http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/1379113-post52.html)
1) is the girl next to ai?
2) are the girls in the pic across from ai's?
3) is the girl in the pic next to querelle's?
4) are the girls in the pic under querelle's?

in #54 (http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/1379116-post54.html)
5) who is the girl in the pic next to natasha p? is it irina L?
6) who is the girl in red?

in #55 (http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/1379123-post55.html)
7) who is the girl next to hana?
8) who are the girls with red hair?
9) who is the girl in black?

lol i'm sorry for asking that many questions but thanks and karma will be given when possible!

 

[Salvatore]

I think the girl next to Hana is Romina Lanaro. I can't figure out the other ones.