Yea or Nay: Balmain Jacket

Yes, Ladies, it's the Balmain spring '09 jacket! Seen on celebrities everywhere!

Balmain Spring 2009 Collection

(Emmanuel Lewis accessory sold separately.)

Come. The fuck. ON. We can accept that certain best-forgotten trends are always going to get recycled eventually, but THIS? There is no way to look at this jacket without thinking of a pre-pedophile-charges Michael Jackson showing up at an awards ceremony with either Macauley Culkin or Emmanuel Lewis on one arm and professional beard Brooke Shields on the other. It's not even about the relative merits of the jacket; it's about the fact that it is solely derivative of one (largely fallen and discredited) celebrity of years past. It's way too soon for this trend to be resurrected. Anyone over the age of 15 looks at that and thinks of the De-nosed One.

NAY.


[Photos: WireImage/Getty Images/Style.com]

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Yea or Nay: YSL Caged Heels

In the long run, there's only so much you can do with the modern high heel: stumpy or stilleto, kitten heels or fuck-me heels, metal, wood, leather or lucite, in the end, it's almost always variations on a theme that repeats season in and season out.

But the YSL Spring 2009 collection managed to offer something slightly new and interesting and we can't quite decide whether we like them or not: the "caged" heel.

Tilda Swinton was (of course) the first celeb to wear them on the red carpet.

Let's separate the shoe from the heel in this conversation. The shoes themselves, while kinda fab, look incredibly painful, so ignore them if you can. What do you think of those heels? We admit, we're leaning toward the side that says "love 'em!" but also admit that they're a little gimmicky, like those Chanel gun heels that Madonna and Posh were wearing a while back.


[Photos: Getty Images/Style.com/ELLE.com]

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Vogue Paris: Old School Fabulous

Darlings, spring is in the air and for some that means buds on the trees and the blooming of the crocus; for Lorenzo it means hours of reading the spring issues of the fashion mags and exclaiming, "We HAVE to do a post on this! GORGEOUS!"

And so it came to pass that we're passing more pretty on to you. In an editorial shoot for Vogue Paris' April 2009 issue styled by Editor-in-Chief Carine Roitfeld, photographer Patrick Demarchelier and model Ymre Stiekema reinterpret some fabulous looks by shooting at the Paris Agricultural Show and providing us these very old school glamour shots. It's like some alternate history where French farm girls of the 19th Century did their chores dressed head to toe in couture.

Christian Dior Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Olga Sherer

Christian Dior Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Kamila Filipcikova

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2009 Couture

Model: Olga Sherer




Givenchy Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Anna Gushina




Armani Prive Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Charlotte di Calypso




Chanel Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Shu Pei Qin




Atelier Versace Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Georgina Stojiljkovic




Avalon Vega Spring 2009 Couture




Valentino Spring 2009 Couture
Model: Yasminka Muratovich




Zuhair Murah Spring 2009 Couture

A behind-the-scenes look at the photo shoot [First half of the video]:



[Photos: Style.com/WWD.com/Vogue.fr/Fashionspot.com]


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Atelier Versace Spring 2009

Darlings, there just isn't enough pretty on this blog (besides us). Let's end the week with some eye candy, shall we?

Instead of just presenting a collection, we thought it would be interesting to show the original sketches with their notes alongside the finished product. Lorenzo is obsessed with fashion sketches and if Tom didn't put his foot down, the walls of our home would be overrun with them. When he looks at these sketches Lorenzo is reminded of Loïc Prigent's fabulous documentary Signé Chanel, which traces the evolution of the Chanel fall 2004 haute couture collection from sketches by Karl Lagerfeld right through the fashion show and selling to customers, specifically the scenes where the seamtresses struggle to read his notes and realize the designer's vision.

Enjoy!

Acid-green evening dress in satin and silk organza
A bow motif on the bust retains a multitude of pleats, forming the volume at the back of the dress





Bubble shaped mini dress in silk organza
Embroidered entirely in lacquered red sequins





Black silk organza evening dress
A pleated motif effect forms three-dimensional fan shapes creating graphic rhythms of transparency which curve around the entire body





Bouganville silk chiffon ballgown
Large purple crinoline bands define each ruffle of the skirt and create a dramatic asymmetric motif on one shoulder





Aqua-green and smoky grey organza evening gown
Large organza circles embroider the asymmetrical volume of the draped bustier





Mini cage shaped dress made from gold silk tulle
Embroidered bodice with feathers hand painted and metallic sequins in complementing shades of gold





Crinoline bands of crystal mesh curve around the bust retaining plisse and forming the straps
Large folds open out to form the volume





Fuchsia pink silk organza bustier mini dress
A pleated effect in a fan shape creates graphic rhythms of transparency and open out in a three dimensional effect





Antique rose evening dress in silk tulle and georgette
Micro draping forms the bodice while boned piping retains the shape before falling to create the "cage" shape
Embroidered entirely in crystal in a "degrade" effect





Nude colored evening dress entirely embroidered with transparent sequins and crystals in a degrade effect





Black silk chiffon and organza evening dress
Pleated organza bands with crinoline and crystal mesh tubes create the graphic contours of the bustier






Cream silk crepe de chine evening dress with open back
Pleated bands of organza twist around the body before opening out to form the train





China red silk organza ballgown
Pleated bands define the shape of the bustier and form the edges of each ruffle on the skirt





Smokey grey silk organza ballgown
Crinoline and crystal mesh tubes out line the body and fall to gather the volume of the dress, creating ruffles in petal shapes

Model: Georgina Stojiljkovic

[Photos and Sketches: www.versace.com]


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