We'll Always Have Paris: Lanvin Edition

When it comes to all of the fashion weeks, my soul sister is Paris.  It is where romance, drama, fantasy, imagination, beauty and artistry live on in fashion.  Just a couple of days into PFW and I have already seen so much to love - and to wear!

Lanvin - The House of Jeanne Lanvin turns 125

The house that Jeanne Lanvin founded in 1889, has remained remarkably relevant, in large part due to Alber Elbaz, who has been the designer for Lanvin since 2001.  And Spring 2015 does not disappoint with its Lanvin blue, pearl accessories, and inspiration taken from a screen by Armand-Albert Rateau for Mme Lanvin's dining room...

From Jeanne Lanvin's dining room, a screen by Armand-Albert Rateau

Lanvin Spring 2015.  Photos from Style.com

xo, Juliana

Real Girl, Real Vintage: Giovanna Battaglia in Alaia

Real Girl, Real vintage: the glamorous Giovanna Battaglia at Paris Fashion Week in 1991 leopard Azzedine Alaia:

and back in the day... photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and styled by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele:

and at RARE vintage... SOLD but not forgotten... we are always looking for leopard Alaia!

My Heart Goes Boom Boom Boom. Paris Fashion Week. Part IV. The Intelligent Ruffle. Balenciaga

"A ruffle must be intelligent." Cristobal Balenciaga

Combining intelligence and sexiness, Nicholas Ghesquiere gave us a ruffle with brains and a bod for sin for Spring 2013.

The ruffles were based on a detail from an original Cristobal Balenciaga dress.

1960s Balenciaga gown

Ghesquiere's ruffles were lined in pink

and lined in white

There were ruffles worn with a cropped sort of ecclesiastical looking top for that sexy, flamenco nun look.  You know, I have been waiting forever for someone to do a sexy flamenco nun look : )

 

There were also these super gorgeous, metal bands sprouting branches worn at the back of the head.  Very beautiful.

My Heart Goes Boom, Boom, Boom. Paris Fashion Week. Part Three. Grunge is...Dries Van Noten.

Grunge is... being 19 and waking up in the morning, grabbing your boyfriend's soft, worn plaid shirt, and wearing it with an anonymous 1940s  sheer floral chiffon dress you picked up in some five and dime vintage rummage bin and maybe pulling on your own long sleeve striped tee to layer if it is chilly.

Grunge is... Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis 1992.  Grunge is infamous and inflammatory.  Grunge is expensive and beautifully made.  Grunge gets you fired from designing for the house of Perry Ellis.

Grunge is... resurrected by Dries van Noten for Spring 2013.  I personally think every wardrobe should include a little Dries each season.  It is always so wearable, so well made, so somehow personal. The Dries girl/woman is smart, sexy and creative.  And the Dries girl/woman is a little grunge this coming Spring 2013. 

Girl meet Woman meet Dries meet Grunge...  happiness ensues...

coming Spring 2013

My Heart Goes Boom Boom Boom. Paris Fashion Week. Part Two. Alexander McQueen.

I think there is no doubt that one of the strongest shows for Spring 2013, was Sarah Burton's collection for Alexander McQueen.  It was brilliant, beautiful and bold.  Maybe Sarah Burton had nesting on the mind as she is pregnant with twins, but her nest of bees collection really solidified her position as the right person to take over and carry the mantle of Alexander McQueen and do it with grace, creativity, beauty and with a wild and unfettered imagination.  I think McQueen would be proud.

Clothing is really about falling in love.  A mad, passionate affair that makes you want to whip about your credit card and go shopping - or at least dream about going shopping.  And this collection was full of dreams...

Did you know that you would desperately desire a wasp-waist jacket in a small gold honeycomb pattern?  No?  Nor did I. But there it is.  Sarah Burton has given us what we did not even know that we wanted.  But want it we do!

Worn with dark amber belts with jeweled bumble bees

Wouldn't you love to find the perfect place to wear this entire outfit??!

Beautiful.  So many things here you could take apart and wear many different ways.

Victorian, panniered sexiness.

Dark amber resin corset with a honeycombed textured dress. 

Shoes with heels filled with rattling, gold crystals

Do you see how crazy gorgeous the details are?!  How astounding the craftsmanship is?!

And a baroque Marie Antoinette busy as a bee in her gilded and caged garden...

Golden honey colored fabric

The show closed with The Archies Sugar, Sugar.  Sarah Burton is our candy girl and has gotten us wanting her!

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