{"id":120615,"date":"2017-10-01T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120615"},"modified":"2017-10-01T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:51:07","slug":"amazonian-colour-dramatic-silhouettes-hit-the-paris-runways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/01\/amazonian-colour-dramatic-silhouettes-hit-the-paris-runways\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazonian colour, dramatic silhouettes hit the Paris runways"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here are the highlights of the spring-summer 2018 ready-to-wear collections on Saturday.\u00a0(Photo:<\/a> Paris Fashion Week\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PARIS — Amazonian colour and exaggerated silhouettes reigned at Paris Fashion Week shows, as actresses Abbie Cornish and Emily Robinson joined it-girl Olivia Palermo on the coveted front row seats.<\/p>\n

Here are the highlights of the spring-summer 2018 ready-to-wear collections on Saturday.<\/p>\n

ELIE SAAB’S AMAZON FEVER<\/p>\n

Elie Saab always adds a little bite to his creations — and this season, the Lebanese\u00a0designer\u00a0evoked the verdant Amazon — in all its danger, wildness and tropical vivacity.<\/p>\n

Saab used the vivid colours of the forest to show off his daring designs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s flesh-baring collection opened with a frayed mini-dress in python with a dangerously plunging neckline. The python motif morphed into a floor-length Charlie’s Angels dress with diaphanous neck scarf and giant, retro circular shades. That established a 70s-theme that infused much of the 61-look collection.<\/p>\n

Foliage and leaf shapes made up the bodice of one beautiful dark green cinched-waisted gown, with a sheer silk skirt frayed to look like creeper tendrils.<\/p>\n

A Cerulean blue peaked-shoulder tuxedo mirrored the shards of blue sky in between trees, and a loose safari jacket in blinding Cadmium yellow evoked the sun.<\/p>\n

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MUGLER’S ROBOTIC CHIC<\/p>\n

David Koma, the talented Mugler\u00a0designer, showed off a hyper-kinetic vision of women in Saturday’s graphic, angular collection that riffed on the robotic.<\/p>\n

A dark, structured corset sported trompe l’oeil lines that exaggeratedly cinched the waist on an android-looking model with slicked back hair. Her pants tapered out at a circular jutting waist that gave the look a clever, off-kilter quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis minimalist and sophisticated styles with metallic details constitute the new timeless wardrobe of the Mugler woman,\u201d the house said in its notes.<\/p>\n

Koma’s designs became more fluid as the show progressed — with loose acid-yellow and flame red silk gowns making an appearance. Still, the floaty gowns were stylishly truncated at the top, as if the shoulders had been slashed by a guillotine.<\/p>\n

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ANDREAS KRONTHALER FOR VIVIENNE WESTWOOD<\/p>\n

Vivienne Westwood’s other half, Andreas Kronthaler, her Austrian former fashion student, certainly brings ideas to the table as the house’s principle\u00a0designer.<\/p>\n

Gleaming boxers’ trophy belts, 18th-century prints, flame red head sculptures and colorful men’s’ swimming trunks sound like they shouldn’t all be in the same sentence — but they all mixed together in Saturday’s wacky fashion spectacle.<\/p>\n

Colour and prints were the only unifying themes.<\/p>\n

A fluid printed silk dress was worn with pale blue knitted rugby socks and colored sneakers with a frothing voluminous tongue. The socks and shoes showed off Kronthaler’s clever eye and sense of humour — they perfectly evoked the style of an 18th-century nobleman though the medium of contemporary clothing.<\/p>\n

A well-known 18th-century oil painting — a pastoral featuring tigers, stags, rhinos and swans — appeared on several street-wise dresses as a flurry of colour and busy movement. And one thick, tight-fitting dress in grey and black looked almost like Renaissance peasant garb.<\/p>\n

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THE YVES SAINT LAURENT MUSEUM<\/p>\n

To coincide with Paris Fashion Week, the much-anticipated Paris Yves Saint Laurent museum is finally opening its doors.<\/p>\n

The project has been years in the making, and was initiated by the late\u00a0designer’s former partner Pierre Berge, who died in September at 86.<\/p>\n

Housed in the revamped 5 Avenue Marceau, where the famed French couturier designed his work from 1974 to 2002, the museum will host a special retrospective of Saint Laurent’s fashions. The iconic YSL women’s tuxedo will be included, as well as other famous boundary-pushing creations such as the Sahara jacket, the jumpsuit and the trench coat.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0designer<\/strong><\/em>, who died in 2008, was also an avid art lover. His vivid Mondrian dress, which shook the fashion world in 1965, will also be showcased.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrailblazers and fighters, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge were tireless. This museum is an example, the result of a long labour of conservation,\u201d French Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen said. \u201cThey both shared … the same urge to push back the borders of creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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SUPERMODEL CINDY CRAWFORD<\/p>\n

For over two decades, Cindy Crawford’s chiseled looks have been almost synonymous with the luxury watch brand Omega.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s time for the 51-year-old supermodel’s children — and their equally sculpted faces — to follow in their mother’s footsteps.<\/p>\n

At a Friday night event, Crawford introduced her teenagers Presley, 18, and Kaia Gerber, 16, as OMEGA’s newest ambassadors. Gerber, a debuting model who bears a striking resemblance to Crawford, has already made a splash walking the runway for top houses such as Fendi and Chloe.<\/p>\n

The family was joined by Omega CEO Raynald Aeschlimann.<\/p>\n

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