Fashion Dress in The Present: Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Spring 2016

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week ATELIER VERSACE Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016: Pics + Video

Athletic Slashed: Atelier Versace Spring/Summer 2016

WHAT: Atelier Versace Spring/Summer 2016. Donatella Versace showed an "athletic"-inspired collections with overt references to Sportif via the stirrup Figure Skating-like pants, straps with metal hooks, and sporty bomber track jackets. That was for day, and then evening went with the typical HOT HOT HOT slashed-to-there, slit-to-really-up-there dresses accompanied by lots of cutaways, sequined netting. Let your inner Sex Bomb come out with any of these Super-Sexy ensembles.

TRENDS: Athletic Sportif; high slits; slashed; cutaways; stirrup pants;

COLORS: White; neon yellow, highlighter orange, black, baby blue

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Atelier Versace Spring/Summer 2016

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week VALENTINO Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016: Pics + Video

Nymph Couture: Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016

WHAT: Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016. Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli used nymphs, Isadora Duncan, expressionist dancing, early 20th century Venetian-pagan romanticism as muses and themes for this very beautiful collection. The collection featured hand-done devore velvet appliques, delicate gold leaf embroidery, silk gauze and many looks reminiscent of a Couture Turandot opera--or a very Haute expressionist dance party!

TRENDS: Loose, off-the-body dresses; caftans; boatnecks, high necks; Nymph Chic;

COLORS: Emerald green, mossy green, tomato red, gray, muted lilac, absinthe yellow, deep burgundy.

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Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016

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RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week GUO PEI Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016: Pics + Video

Guo Pei Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016

WHAT: Guo Pei Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016. Guo Pei, the Chinese fashion designer known for her very elaborate and intricate designs showed at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week for the very first time...

Rihanna in Guo Pei Couture at the Met Ball 2015

Guo Pei Couture gold ball gown--Metropolitan Museum of Art's "China: Through the Looking Glass" Exhibition

We all know Pei also from the gold colored sequined and fur Empress Coat Rihanna wore to the Met Ball last year--as well as the China: Through the Looking Glass Exhibition where several of her unbelievable couture designs were featured. Guo Pei was invited to show at this week's Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week (wonder how much that cost?), and her collection highlighted her atelier's incredible workmanship. There were many references to her native land but it was less Guo Pei Grand and more "wearable"...or as wearable as Guo Pei's designs can be. Lots of cocktail dresses and even some pants ensembles and surprisingly, not so many grand museum-worthy gowns. Some of the designs verged on a bit too late 80's/early 90's but overall, this was a nice showing for Pei. It will be interesting if those actual Haute Couture customers (many of them China's new billionaires) will order.

TRENDS: Strapless cocktail dresses; yoke details; flap front details; flared ball skirts.

COLORS: Golden canary yellow, pale blue, dusty rose

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