Fashion Week Paris 16 - part 1

During the Fashion Week in Paris Chanel has started the haute couture spring/summer 16 show on a huge green space by showing fairy dresses of tulle with pompons, pailettes or flower plugs, puffed sleeve, fine mesh inserts and embroidered applications.

The artsy haute couture collection of Giambattista Valli - SS 16 - has presented bodice dresses of tulle and crepe by taking the visitors into a world of fairy tales and fantasy.

The Balmain homme collection - Fall/Winter 16 - has shown marine styled jackets with golden buttons or check pattern with golden inserts in combination with black leather gloves.
The women show has presented victorian dresses with embroidered pearl, pompons or shiny applications.

Versace has played the main part of the Fashion Week by showing a white colored and stitched sundress with insights permissive and linked by cords in order to emphasize the erotic part of a woman.
Model Gigi Hadid has confirmed this by wearing a darc tailored suit with silk inserts and liberated side panels. ....

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Versace SS 16 haute couture: White colored and stitched sundress with insights
permissive and linked by cords

Spring/Summer 16 of Chanel haute couture: fairy dresses of tulle with
pompons, pailettes,puffed sleeve, fine mesh inserts and embroidered
applications

Giambattista Valli - SS 16 - haute couture: rose colored bodice dress
of tulle and crepe

Balmain Homme Fall/Winter 16: marine styled jackets with golden buttons
or check pattern with gold inserts in combination with black leather gloves
Balmain women: white colored victorian dress with embroidered pearl

Plein soleil - Alain Delon by Bella Clement
The talented Mr. Ripley

The costume designer Bella Clement has designed the stylish wardrobe for the french actor Alain Delon in the classic movie "Plein soleil" - "The talented Mr. Ripley" from 1960, who has perfectly played the part of Tom Ripley by showing a complex character without any words to say.
Nobody has embodied french style like Alain Delon in this decade.

Alain Delon´s first appereance has shown masculine effortless elegance with a relaxed and even rebellious feel by wearing a blue shirt in combination with white jeans and brown loafers.
Later in this movie we can see suits of elegance which reminded us to Marcello Mastroianni´s part in "La dolce vita".
Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet have shown this kind of lifestyle by being cool in their looks and manners and obviously having fun.

This kind of clothing including chinos, linen shirts and suits in combination with loafers and the expensive watch as an classic accessoire has shown the main male characters in order to present the lifestyle of the high society....

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Alain Delon has shown masculine elegance by wearing a blue shirt in combination with white jeans -
the perfect "riviera" style

The costume designer Bella Clement has designed the stylish wardrobe for the french actor Alain Delon in "Plein soleil"

La dolce vita style: Maurice Ronet has worn a white linen suit in combination with loafers

Happy Birthday Kate Moss

The british topmodel Kate Moss has started her career with an ad campaign for Calvin Klein together with singer and actor Marky Mark in 1993.
Yesterday she has celebrated her 42 birthday and continued to work for editorials, ad campaigns and magazine covers like Vogue and Harper´s Bazaar.

Kate Moss has also designed a line of clothing with Topshop to present her individual casual style.
She´s still famous for her bohemian looks and worldwide known as an fashion icon...

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2003: Kate Moss and David Bowie

for Q Magazine / photo by Ellen von Unwerth

Mango Evening wear - winter 2015: Cara Delevingne, Baptiste Radufe, Kate Moss and Vinnie Woolston  / photo by Daniel Jackson

La dolce vita by Piero Gherardi

The movie "La dolce vita" from 1960 of Frederico Fellini has shown the glamorous and extremely licentious lifestyle of the high society in Italy.
This movie was shot in black and white in order to show the oppositions between the old rural way of life and the new modernising Italy after the end of Facism and the Second World War.

The costume designer Piero Gherardi has created the designs for Marcello Mastroianni and even for Anita Eckberg by showing her female side with the strapless black dress in combination with a white mink stole.
Her sexiness by presenting her blonde locks, fuller figure and American accent juxtaposed with the old Rome and even with the famous scene in "La dolce vita".

Marcello Mastroianni has worn the perfect casual suits by presenting the modern masculine style of the Italian man. He has played the part of the journalist who was fascinated of the decadent lifestyle of the high society....

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The strapless black dress with a white mink stole /design: Piero Gherardi

Anita Eckberg with her strapless dress in "La dolce vita"

 Marcello Mastroianni by wearing a casual suit / design: Piero Gherardi

1960: Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Eckberg in "La dolce vita"/The sweet life

Jean Patou 1950s design - romantic retro look

Jean Patou was a french fashion designer who was famous for his dresses in the 1920s.
After his dead in 1936 this label was still popular during the 1950s and 1960s decade with Karl Lagerfeld and also Marc Bohan, who was the head designer for Jean Patou haute couture collections from 1954 until 1956.

One of his favorite designs was a wonderful cocktail dress in 1955 which was littered with pearls, sequins and floral motifs...

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1958: dress of Jean Patou couture / photo: Philippe Pottier

1956: model Dovima wore a polka-dot dress of silk / design: Jean Patou couture / photo: Henry Clarke

spring 2014: The same idea: Dolce&Gabbana presented retro glam design in combination with mixed- and polka-dot prints

1955: Marc Bohan for Jean Patou couture / cocktail dress with pearls, sequins and floral motifs