{"id":92587,"date":"2017-03-05T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92587"},"modified":"2017-03-05T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:46:41","slug":"blue-is-the-colour-of-the-season-at-paris-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/05\/blue-is-the-colour-of-the-season-at-paris-fashion-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue is the colour of the season at Paris Fashion Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s no secret that politics infuses fashion \u2013 and some critics are interpreting the current mania for blue at Paris Fashion Week as a statement of \u201cthe blues\u201d about the perceived rise of nationalism across Europe and America. (Photo: Paris Fashion Week\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PARIS \u2013It’s no secret that politics infuses fashion \u2013 and some critics are interpreting the current mania for blue at Paris Fashion Week as a statement of \u201cthe blues\u201d about the perceived rise of nationalism across Europe and America.<\/p>\n

Here are some highlights from Sunday’s fall-winter womenswear shows in Paris.<\/p>\n

BLUE IS Colour OF SEASON<\/p>\n

While its exact symbolism is up for debate, one thing is certain: blue is the colour of the season.<\/p>\n

France’s culture minister told The AP this week that the Parisian fashion industry \u2013 that relies on foreign talent \u2013 is under threat owing to the rise of nationalism.<\/p>\n

A host of designers have all used the symbolically-charged hue in their fall-winter collections being shown at Paris Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

Those included Briton Phoebe Philo at Celine, Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri at Dior, Japanese Yoshiyuki Miyamae at Issey Miyake, Georgian David Koma at Mugler, Lebanese Elie Saab and French Columbian-born Haider Ackermann.<\/p>\n

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VALENTINO RAVISHES<\/p>\n

What do you get if you combine Victorian-era styles with those of Italian Postmodern design?<\/p>\n

Designer Pierpaolo Piccioli gave us a pretty good idea in his gentle and thoughtful Valentino collection Sunday that took both for inspiration.<\/p>\n

His high 19th-century collars fused with the geometry of the Memphis Group, a design and architecture group founded in Milan that created furniture, fabrics and objects in the 1980s. Silhouettes were softly geometric and hung loosely from the shoulder.<\/p>\n

Colours were also gentle \u2013 raspberry, sage green, turquoise, sheeny black with white. A stylish flash of Cadmium yellow blossomed on a standout silken dress.<\/p>\n

An ethnic, multicolored patchwork coat was handled with subtlety \u2013 while long, soft pleats gently lined some of the most beautiful gowns seen this season.<\/p>\n

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IVAN, THE 9-YEAR-OLD FASHIONISTA<\/p>\n

Valentino’s illustrious guest list normally causes a stir for its famous attendees.<\/p>\n

But Sunday’s romance-inspired fall-winter collection had heads turning for a different reason: Ivan, 9, whose feet didn’t touch the floor as he sat front row at Valentino’s show in the gilded salon of the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris.<\/p>\n

Ivan sat in a mint green fur coat, Gucci slippers and shades admiring Pierpaolo Piccioli’s soft geometric designs.<\/p>\n

He didn’t let his age or the famous attendees \u2013 actresses Kate Mara, Kristin Scott Thomas and model Natalia Vodianova \u2013 intimidate him, and snapped studiously as the collection went by.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m Ivan. I’m nine. I designed the capsule collection for my mom who’s a designer, Natasha Zinko,\u201d he told The Associated Press, before defending his choice to wear shades on a drizzly day. \u201cIt was sunny when I came here.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added he’s been following fashion \u201cnearly a year maybe,\u201d and has enjoyed attending collections by Dior and Haider Ackermann.<\/p>\n

His mother said she brought him because she couldn’t find a nanny.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was (at shows) last year a few times, but this time there was no one to stay at home with him, so I brought him with me,\u201d Zinko said. \u201cHe’s enjoying the weekend in Paris. And, now he’s going back to London to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

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HONEY, I SHRUNK THE CELINE MODELS<\/p>\n

Designer Phoebe Philo seemed to shrink the models in her inventive, proportion-play of a Celine show.<\/p>\n

A gargantuan knee-length white necklace accompanied a 1-meter (3-foot) long canary yellow handbag, a cape made of oversize sleeves, a 2-meter (6 1\/2 foot) emerald green scarf-like garment and huge blown-up prints.<\/p>\n

Later, oversize tailored menswear jackets made an appearance, fusing into gathered gowns with Empire-line busts.<\/p>\n

One of the best looks in navy, with this Napoleon-era silhouette, was given a beautiful contemporary twist with exaggeratedly wide, long flappy shirt cuffs.<\/p>\n

The collection was intellectual yet highly wearable.<\/p>\n

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NINA RICCI GOES WEST<\/p>\n

It was the Wild West \u2013 but not as we know it.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Henry saddled up his fashion horse and headed to America for Nina Ricci’s collection late Saturday.<\/p>\n

The lauded designer tamed the styles of the American cowgirl for the chic Parisian audience with a beautifully soft colour palette, with lashings of pink and peach. Skirts and coats with hip cutouts evoked cowboy chaps.<\/p>\n

Prints with cowboy and rodeo motifs speckled with stars followed buttoned-up shirts, belts with exaggerated silver buckles, checks and hanging pendants with cowboy- style silver clasps.<\/p>\n

A standout long coat-pant look toyed cleverly with the rodeo style. Feminine soft turquoise replaced blue denim, and the big Western leather collar was given a feminine twist, flopping softly and delicately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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