Fashion Dress in The Present: Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013

Paris Fashion Week Minute: Alexander McQueen and Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013--Photos + Runway Videos!

Buzzzzzzzzz...and Joan Crawford/Adrian Homage...

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013:

Beekeeper Chic: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013

Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton unveiled her Spring/Summer 2013 offering at Paris Fashion Week and EVERYONE was a-buzz about it. Oh, and did I mention that the inspiration came from Beekeepers, honeycombs and bees?

The models' heads were covered in fashionista versions of beekeepers' veils. And the honeycomb-like print popped up in every variation (not to mention the buzzzz-ing bees soundtrack at the end). The collection was exquisite--for the most part--and very McQueen. Style.com said "The clothes they wore refracted a honeycomb motif
through a dozen wasp-waisted guises, bound, haltered, and harnessed in a
tortoiseshell that could quite equally have been a rich, sweet toffee.
The hyper-exaggerated female silhouette was derived from the pinups of
Alberto Vargas."

Beekeeper Chic: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013

The suits were UBER fitted with rounded peplums, slim tulip'ed pencil skirts and capri pants--the SKINNIEST EVER!!--and with Princess seamed slits. Where Burton went a little "Oh Dear!" were the Scarlett O'Hara crinolined gowns that looked a little too much like a Carol Burnett/Bob Mackie sketch. Besides that--it was a FAB collection. And, as always with what is shown at an Alexander McQueen Runway Show, it will be very interesting to see what actually makes it to their stores --i.e. THE "Pippa" dress in various colors, black leather jackets, black sheath dresses, black pencil skirts and well, more black...

Which one of these "Beekeeper Collection" Spring/Summer 2013 items can you see on my dear TV Guide Network "Award Show Fashion Wrap" Girlfriend, Tabatha Coffey (she LOVES McQueen you know...)

Here are more Photo Highlights from the collection:

Tortoiseshell Vamps: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013

Prom Couture: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013

Enchanted McQUEEN: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013

Ball Queens: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013

Click Below to watch the FULL Runway Video of Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2013:

Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013

Joan Crawford Homage: Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013

Joan Crawford in Adrian--halter gown and SUPER Shoulder padded gown

Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013 Collection at Paris Fashion Week was all about "Old Hollywood" and all very Joan Crawford. As Style.com says "Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren revisited old Hollywood today. There
was a black and white tile floor straight out of the Regency period, and
the models stepped onto the runway via an antique mirror, like visions
from the past. For clothes they wore long pleated gowns in black, white,
and silver lamé almost as reflective as that mirror, or pastel
georgette draped and swagged from necklines and waists embellished with
ropes of crystals. Shoulders were big and waists were tiny".

Here are some of my Favorite Looks:

Golden Girls: Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013

Silver Draped Goddesses: Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013

Hollywood Calling: Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013

Gathered Asymmetry: Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013

Click Below to watch Viktor & Rolf Spring/Summer 2013 Full Runway Video:

Paris Fashion Week Minute: Chanel and Louis Vuttion Spring/Summer 2013--Pics + Full Runway Videos!

THE PURSE of the season, Rounded Shoulders, Boxy Shapes, Phyllis Diller and Checkmate Dresses...

Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld:

Does This Meet the Carry-On Size Requirements: I DREAM to have this purse and bring it to LAX for my next airplane flight--Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

Karl Lagerfeld showed another big collection for the House of Chanel during Paris Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear Fashion Week. He showed approximately 80 looks with a HUGE backdrop of wind farm and solar panels. It always astounds me what selling lots and lots of leather quilted purses, perfumes--and a bouclé suit or two--can buy you...

Wind Tunnel Catwalk: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

As usual, the show was schizophrenic with tons of ideas being thrown out to the eager fashionista public, who loved it all. In the audience were Jennifer Lopez with her little cute daughter Emme and Casper, JLo's boyfriend. They all sat sandwiched between photographer Patrick Demarchelier, Lagerfeld Boy Toy Model-Muse Baptiste Giabiconi and Kanye West.

Que preciosa: Jennifer Lopez with daughter Emme Lopez at Chanel Spring/Summer 2013 runway show

Luxe Cute: According to DailyMail, Emme Lopez wore $2,400 worth of Chanel for the first outing to a Paris Fashion Week fashion show

Look at the Pretty Roof: Jennifer Lopez' daughter,Emme, gets distracted while pretty clothes and pretty models saunter by--Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

The Fashion:

Lagerfeld showed lots of black, white, pink, blue, denim, pearl details (homage to Chanel's faux pearl necklaces), bolero and boxy/square shapes for jackets and dresses, strapless tunic dresses, oversized raglan sleeves, curved shoulders and much more, including a final group that had "Phyllis Diller" written ALL OVER them. Seriously.

Here are some photo highlights:

Pearl Girls: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

No Strap Zone: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

Riviera Travel: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

Pink Ladies: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

Rounded Shoulders: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

Phyllis Diller Muse: Chanel Spring/Summer 2013

Click Below to watch FULL Runway Video of Chanel Spring/Summer 2013:

Louis Vuitton by Marc Jacobs:

Check Fab: Models on escalators, finale of Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2013

Marc Jacobs showed his Spring/Summer 2013 collection for Louis Vuitton in Paris. I was wowed by the staging to begin with. I wondered how he would top himself after last season's train spectacle. He did, but in a more minimalist manner. But yet, one was still WOWED. Once again, it's AMAZING what selling a bunch of purses and luggage can get you. Artist Daniel Buren collaborated with Jacobs and the House of Louis Vuitton to create this astonishing set that featured FOUR escalators and a plexiglass floor of giant white and yellow checks. Add the lighting and the music, plus the models--and the "stars", the fashion and accessories--and one has to make a guess that putting this on must have cost them over $1 million--chump change for Vuitton. And they do this TWICE a year!

Marc Jacobs vs. Louis Vuitton: Same Collection???

For Spring/Summer 2013, Jacobs showed a collection that was eerily similar to what he showed for his signature Marc Jacobs line back during NY Fashion Week; instead of stripes, there were checks--an homage to Louis Vuitton's famous Damier checks. Shapes were mod/late 60s/early 70's, boxy, shapeless, straight and narrow--perfect for these size zero no-hipped girls modeling. The styling, hair and make-up was also very Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2013 with its Edie Sedgwick-like elements. I wonder if the Vuitton execs even care that both Jacobs' collection and Vuitton were so alike, it's almost hard to tell which is which. For what he showed for Louis Vuitton, I loved all the bright colors, and how perfectly mitered all those squares were. I couldn't even notice any side seams. It's like the prints just enveloped the bodies.

Here are some pic highlights: