Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2005, Paris

[brian]

 

[brian]

 

[brian]

 

[brian]

 

[brian]

 

[brian]

the shoes are amazing...

 

[breathe0xygen]

Thanks for the pics Brian, I agree... I really like this collection. the peices are very wearable

 

[PinkSunrise]

II love it!!!!

 

[travolta]

actually, now that i see all the pics i don't think it is so bad...i don't like stellas stuff either...i like the black boots.

 

[Belowen]

I love it. I can definately see some peices there that I would wear.

 

[urd]

I love the pants

 

[Deleted member 7575]

It's definitely one of her stronger shows. She is moving away from that sportsy/graphic/structural thing she had been doing for awhile. This collection looks far less dated and fashion schooly than past seasons. For once I would say she a good solid collection. but not great.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

wow very interesting collection!!!looks like a very modern version of the femme fatale

 

[luxmode]

Yay Stella!!

I like most of it...but the handbags in the beginning are really scary.

 

[rainey]

I thought some of the outfits were really nice.

 

[kimair]

it's not bad, but it isn't great either...considering the other winners during paris fashion week, i was expecting more...

here's the review from wwd:

Talk about a moment of change. Stella McCartney, fashion’s newest multitasker, is a brand-new mom spending Paris Fashion Week at home in London with week-old baby Miller. On the work front, like all of her designing Gucci Group colleagues, McCartney finds herself within a dramatically altered corporate landscape. Once both shielded and shadowed by an invincible flagship, her company and the group’s other fledgling brands now must feel pressure to develop not only on the runway but also at retail, and fast. Yet in challenge lies opportunity.

Though she staged her show from a distance, McCartney still seized the moment to send a distinct message — this is a more grown-up, grounded Stella McCartney. It was a savvy shift and made for one of her best collections. Certainly it was her most refined, as McCartney seemed to close the door definitively on the rock-chick shtick from which she’s been distancing herself in recent seasons.

In its place: clothes with a broader reach and greater chic. Always a fan of tailored cool, for fall she expanded its appeal beyond the London “It” girl set. Blouson jackets wrapped at the waist read racy Eighties, while beautiful coats, some cut with long torsos and belled skirts, looked positively lady-fied. Well, almost, since McCartney slipped in just a touch of the bad girl in over-the-knee laced boots that lost not a bit of edge in faux leather. Sweaters made for another motif. Though they came cozy, overgrown and in chunky tweeds — a long, cutaway cardigan over pants-in-boots; a big-sleeved turtleneck stretched into a dress — they escaped dishevelment. McCartney went gentler with silk dresses, such as a blue computer-dot print cinched at the waist and a blush pink dress worn with a sorority-girl pullover. Evening was all about the little cocktail dress, and sometimes Stella tried to work too much detail into too little space. But the real strength of this collection was its wealth of inviting clothes for the bright light of day.

 

[Fashion Puss]

I just loved that bright blue frock. It seems that that colour is creeping in - thank god, we could do with new use of colour!
I also loved the jackets, although I wasn't so taken with the jumper-dress things - a bit "done" I thought.
I had heard that people such as the Big Macs (Stella and Alexander) had been given a five year turnaround deadline.
I hope it works out, I would be really sorry to see the demise of such great british designers.

 

[Misako]

I really like this collection. I think that although she really ought to be more personally creative in terms of imprinting her own style, she'll always have fans this way, because of the "borrowing" from other people. It sort of...popularizes her clothes.

But I think she's hit a chord with this collection. hopefully she'll develop more...

 

[valerie]

i simply adore all of this !

 

[birdofparadise]

See what happens when your bosses threaten to put you on the chopping block? She got her act together, Balenciaga got its act together...I wonder if McQueen will follow suit.