Animals Are Trending on the Spring 2023 Haute Couture Runways

Regardless of the season, haute couture promises refined artistry and craftsmanship on its runways. For Spring 2023, Iris Van Herpen debuted otherworldly designs in water as an ode to women's resilience, while Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri honored Josephine...
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Chanel Does Mini Skirts the Haute Couture Way

8 days ago | By Fashionista

This Spring 2023 haute couture shows have been heavily inspired by animals, myths and surrealism. Chanel is taking a more subtle approach than, say, Schiaparelli's faux-taxidermy, with its latest collection by Virginie Viard. Among large plywood animal sculptures by French...
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Chanel Couture Spring 2023

8 days ago | By WWD

If the past 24 hours have taught anything to luxury brands, it's that featuring animals in a fashion show is a fraught proposition. While Schiaparelli set off a hailstorm of controversy with its eerily realistic depictions of animal heads, the bestiary that artist Xavier Veilhan created for the Chanel couture show was fanciful enough to skirt any accusations of cruelty to animals.
His giant stylized sculptures of creatures including a buffalo, a horse and the fictional “croco-dog” were wheeled out at the start of the show, held in the temporary Grand Palais venue near the Eiffel Tower...
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Iris Van Herpen Celebrates Feminine Perseverance for Spring 2023

8 days ago | By Fashionista

Haute couture tends to evoke emotions and tell stories that otherwise don't get told in fashion. Whether it be through theatrical presentations that transport you to another world or with dancers showing how the clothes come alive through movement, these collections can be magical, even...
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Lùchen Demi-Couture Spring 2023

8 days ago | By WWD

For her Paris debut, New York-based designer Lu Chen explored her feelings about the industry and her relationship to technology - social media in particular.
“I'm always cropping in 4-by-5 but I can find so many possibilities within that frame,” she explained after the show, acknowledging the inescapable tech-enabled mores of the modern world.
And certainly, with the rise of AI as a creative force in its own right, fashion design will only become increasingly enmeshed in it.
The lineup, which she described as demi-couture, was cathartic and explored feelings of isolation and detachment...
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Rahul Mishra Couture Spring 2023

8 days ago | By WWD

Rahul Mishra was inspired by the cosmos for his spring couture collection. The idea began with an ancient Indian philosophy espousing that “what is outside you is also inside you, for you are a micro-version of the macro-cosmos,” he explained.
Mishra said that generally, when people look into the cosmos, it's upward, toward the celestial sphere. “But when you look downward, like within our planet, even a dewdrop can have an entire cosmos,” he said.
There are issues of relativity. What's considered up might actually be down. “Someone seeing us from outer space will feel like we are hanging...
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