Paris Couture Fashion Week Fall 2015: Our top 50 looks from the runway
updated the 6 October 2015 à 22:53
From a rice sack dress at Maison Margiela to a princess gown at Elie Saab – we look at this year’s most exquisite couture creations while wondering what really constitutes Haute Couture…
As the most glamorous and exclusive of fashion weeks – Paris Couture Fashion Week – rounded up today, one message was clear; couture is not merely about bling any more.
While our inner princess still longs for those beaded and glittering gowns fit for the Oscars red carpet – thanks to Lebanese designers Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad we got plenty of those as well – it was clear that most of the couturiers these days prefer a rather different approach to couture.
Edgy, unexpected and original, Haute Couture this year catered to the tastes of a younger and more experimental audience whose understanding of luxury does not necessarily equate the amount of embroidery and decoration on a dress. It is far more subtle – lying in the fabric itself and the hard work taken to manipulate it into something otherworldly, be it in a dramatic or understated manner.
Texture, intricate details and innovative techniques took priority here. A dress, say, from Raf Simons’ Christian Dior Couture collection may seem simple from afar but upon closer inspection reveals a far more complicated structure which photos can never capture the beauty and delicacy of. That’s the magic of this kind of couture: it is an intimate relationship between the dress, its designer and the wearer. The audience and show factor come second.
But since when a fringed leather jacket and PVC pants as seen at Alexandre Vaultier or a dress made up of rice sacks like John Galliano‘s brilliant creation for Maison Margiela, make up couture you ask? While the debate is too heated and controversial for a simple answer – what we can do is admire fashion at this level with both its elegant and flamboyant forms.
So for now, let’s celebrate this dreamy world of couture with all its extravagance and enchantment as we pick our favourite looks from the Paris Couture Fashion Week runway for Fall 2015.
Get dreaming…
Rana Wehbe
