Paris Fashion Week: Fashion Royalty.

 

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Christian Dior.

A powerful and undoubtedly feminine aura exuded from Maria Grazia Chuiri’s latest autumn/winter collection at Christian Dior. Her second A/W collection can once again be seen as a colourful protest, celebrating womanhood and life. Contrasting from AW17’s dark palette of navy blues and blacks, this year the designer opted for a more playful board of tones and patterns. Though I admired the mysticism that surrounded the latter, this year the clothes are alive; triumphant with life. Slouched silhouettes continue to adorn the models, ever-graceful, igniting a sense of power and authority which rippled through the crowd. Captivated by almost every piece that strode down the runway with a double personality (one of the model and one of the clothes), I find it difficult to be content with choosing my favourite six looks.

These patchwork trousers are a heavenly concoction of luxury fabrics and imaginative patterns.

The finest craftsman ship was used to create this divine dress. Composed of different coloured yarns and a tulle underdress. It has a chic bohemian style.

Adwoa Abaoh closed the show sporting a dress that screams ‘Flower Power’, complete with CD underwear and fine gold bands around the wrists and neck.

These are a celebration of life. It has a series of botanical and spritual motifs covering the two piece and is alive with energetic bursts of colour.

A typically Chuiri silhouette. Slouched yet effective in asserting authority.

This dress reminds me of a close up of a Monet painting. Its beauty transcends the runway and I feel that it has a spirit of its own.

Saint Laurent

Belgian-born designer: Anthony Vaccarello, presented his AW18 collection on 27th February 2018, at nightfall. The mood: black, seductress. The collection mirror aspects of Vaccarello’s SS18 show, thinking of the sparse lack of clothes and the maximum parade of flesh. Not that this is a bad thing at all. Structural shoulders and extremely plunged necklines decorated the models, with attention being drawn to the shoulder area. Leather in tones of ebony added a durable toughness to the otherwise delicate ensembles. In a deliberate juxtaposition to this dark disposition, vibrant floral outbreaks, strode in the shapes of shorts, blouses and playsuits, in the shows unexpected finale.

There is a provocative allure to this sensible yet seductive black dress. I adore the extravigant earrings too!

Tiny black leather shorts may give you frost bite in Paris at Winter-time but atleast you’ll look cute.

I love this look. It is strong and fierce and I feel like it describes the woman everyone wants to be.

Kaia Gerber stuns in this architectural number which (I am sure) stole the show.

Creative director Anthony Vaccarello dirupts the moody aura with injections of floral motifs on similar silhouettes.

This piece is glam-MORE at it’s finest. a sequin designed dress was not flamboyant enough, the fur trimmed upper hem must be.