Nicolas Andreas Taralis F/W 06.07 Paris

[Baizilla]

oh.. very moody collection.. very sinister...

love it

 

[purechris]

I was looking at this on style.com and thought OMG!!! This is how I want to dres....then he sends out the guy and I don't like his outfit

 

[battles]

^ . would love to see more of the menswear pieces though.
the cape coat is definitely the highlight.

 

[fouroclock]

I like the hair

 

[new_dawn_fades]

... i like it... more menswear please!
coming to think of it..it reminds me a bit of cloak f/w o4.. i finds the styling kinda similar..
does anyone else feel the same here? still love it!

 

[Ella]

Loads of beautiful pieces, but I still liked last season's collection more. The capes are fab and I actually like those bombers too. It's also interesting that most of this season's dark and sinister collections have also been presented in an eerie sort of setting, but this one hasn't.

 

[tricotineacetat]

I was so pleased by this collection, it´s been much more solid than last summer (which most of you guys already knew I liked a lot, too), adding a grown-up, polished version of his signature tailoring to the already existing tough rocker-gear.

The pants, especially those lean 16cm cigarette tux pants, are devinely cut and work well in both a dressy or casual context, tucked into boots, with heels, with sneakers - which makes them as much wearable for boys and girls. I definitely sense a cult following there, as an alternative to skinny jeans (from which I guess everybody is already having a good amount in their closets - waving to the DH crowd B)). As for the one men´s outfit on Jamie, the jeans and leather jacket were basically from the women´s, just some sizes bigger than what the girls were wearing - so yes, why shouldn´t a man wear some of the pieces if he can fit the clothes?

The thing I liked best about this season was that it all looked very simple and focussed - I personally didn´t miss the absence of skirts and dresses thanks to the great tailoring, which I think, was among Paris' best this season - who else cuts such a great pantsuit these days? The fabrics reminded me nicely about the good old days of Helmut Lang - the stiff moleskin, the German loden coating, the crisp menswear shirting and chintzed Japanese fabrics (it might be good to note though, that they were indeed not poly but 100% organic to my big surprise: 68% wool and 32% viscose! ). Well done Nicolas, I´m looking forward to your next steps...

 

[softgrey]

tric...viscose is synthetic i believe...
glad you enjoyed this so much...

good to see you posting...

 

[tricotineacetat]

Viscose is actually a cellophane fibre, if I remember correctly - might be interesting to discuss separately since a number of new fibres and yarns are entering the clothing industry - Soja, Bamboo, Tencel, Lycocell - I´ve seen a lot of this lately and the touch - and quality - had been amazing.

 

[softgrey]

i agree...
there are a lot of new fibres and techniques since i studied textiles in school...
i'd love to explore that area in more depth myself...


*maybe you are right that is is some celluloid based fibre....
(cellophane would be synthetic)
so what is that ...wood pulp?....

you should start a new thread!!......

 

[Fox in the Snow]

This is sex on legs, for both boys and girls

 

[TommyC]

Yes the collection wasn't bad at all, the show was ok, the music was terrible, awful.He's doing much better than last years but sh*t, this guy has such a bad reputation here, i don't know how far he'll be able to go like this!

 

[tricotineacetat]

This is the jacket from look 1, but in black moleskin, not the glitter-y cotton...

 

[tricotineacetat]

Me in his black cigarette pants, the fabric is a mix of viscose and wool which has a really nice touch and drape, as far as I've been told it's a Japanse mill that did this fabric exclusively for him.

 

[tricotineacetat]

edit: picture credit, all pictures from my own archive.

 

[Lena]

great looks , thanks for bringing them in trico

btw, viscose is natural fabric (made out of vegetable plants)

 

[AlexN]

Very nice. I really like the jacket, though it looks like it fits you everywhere but the shoulders. Way narrow! How much will it be? And what size are you wearing in the picture?

 

[ethan.k]

Very wearable. I do not know anything about this designer.
But I will check him out.

 

[Arturo21]

i agree...
there are a lot of new fibres and techniques since i studied textiles in school...
i'd love to explore that area in more depth myself...


*maybe you are right that is is some celluloid based fibre....
(cellophane would be synthetic)
so what is that ...wood pulp?....

you should start a new thread!!......

Wonderful idea - and hey, that's the field my dad works in, surface chemistry and wood pulp (the different uses), etc among other things. Right now it's mainly wood and paper science. I saw a piece of glass fiber he had in his car the other day, it was sooooo silky soft and lustrous - too bad it can't be used for clothing because apparently it's easy to inhale the fibers... (guess that doesn't fit into wood and paper science, though )

As for the collection - beautiful, androgynous (and it's rare for me to look an androgynous collection because I believe men should look like men and women should look like women, but this is androgynous without losing it's femininity - sexy! ).

I like how by going a few sizes up, men could wear this, and not look like they were wearing womens (mainly on tops, I think).

Thx everyone who posted.

 

[tricotineacetat]

The sizing runs from 38-44 Italian (somewhat shocked as it is only coming in such small sizes right now), the samples are made up in 40, but some of the jackets came out a bit smaller than expected - so yeah, the shoulders appear to be sort of snug here, but otherwise I felt very comfortable wearing the clothes, I didn't feel like the jackets were any less restricting than what I know from Dior, I also kinda liked the idea of breaking in the rigid moleskin as you would with a pair of jeans, the fabric is getting much softer from wear and it adapts a little bit to the body, which to me gives a little bit of a personal aspect to the clothing (reminds me of the good old days when Helmut Lang used to do these simple black three button coats in Moleskin, if you wore them for years, the fabric would get much softer and dustier... very much in the same spirit of what Haltbar Murkudis is doing these days).

The pricing of Nicolas is very close to what Dior is asking for these days, and the moleskin jacket costs around 1330 €... the pants are 445 €.