AAAAAAAAAAAAnd we are off and running!!!! Welcome to Paris
and Haute Couture Fall 2013
Here are some musings direct from the horse’s mouth... no
pun intended…. “To go back to real glamour,”, “that black-and-white era,”,
“where everything [was perfect]. The photography was perfect. The lighting was
perfect, the hair was perfect, the makeup was perfect. It was all always to
perfection.”
Well they may have been the words of “Donatellamommamia” but
one just can’t be sure what she was referring to as one can hardly make the
connect with the presentation of Sunday
evening’s Haute Couture presentation.
Atelier Versace held no surprises and a lot of the usual over top, labor
and time intensive embellishments and not much design power.
The collection was an ode to the Cher of her television and Bob
Mackie days and then Ms. Versace decided to revisit the hook and eye era which
graced runways decades ago … I can’t seem to pinpoint the who and where but it
happened. Bare midriffs seem to be de
rigeur as are bra tops and the swaths of soufflé have become a signature of the
house which she seems to have perfected with this collection.
So, getting down to the nitty gritty of it all: cat suits
will be fabulous “under Burka wear,” mink lined croco coats perfect for St.
Petersburg winters, bare midriffs with turtle neck long sleeve tops perfect for
J Lo and Beyondme and then there were a few wearable albeit questionable suits
and dresses with the hook and eye details or shall one say theme.
The sum up is this; there have been far more collections of
more questionable taste than this one
and despite all the razzle dazzle visuals and attention grabbing
elements, it was business as usual chez Versace … yawn! One can only assume that mother Russia, the
Far and Middle East and a smattering of Euros still depend on
“Donatellamommamia” for their personal moments of high drama at stratospheric
prices!
PS… Nai on the runway…yawn!
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