If I Was A Stylist: Spring 2016

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Runway Report: Valentino Spring 2016 Couture

Valentino, designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, was my absolute favorite collection from all of all the Spring 2016 Couture collections. It was the same flowing Valentino that has become the houses new signature but with a different air about it this season. I loved the turn of the century/1920's inspiration that flowed through the collection. I found myself seeing a lot of pieces inspired by the work of couturier Paul Poiret (you can see some of his work here). I also loved that the models walked the rose petal strewn runway in the grand salons of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. With some of the looks took me back to the days of ancient Greece and Rome with the toga like flowing silhouettes in everything from bold reds to ethereal whites. My favorite look from the collection was the red and burnt orange gown (pictured far left) which I can picture someone like Alicia Vikander wearing with such effortless ease. Other women I can picture wearing this collection on the red carpet are Eva Longoria, Cate Blanchett, Emma Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, Amber Heard, Diane Kruger, Elisabeth Moss, Tilda Swinton, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Jessica Chastain, Lady Gaga, Naomi Watts, Blake Lively, Claire Danes, Emma Watson, Olivia Palermo, Tessa Thompson, Saoirse Ronan, Keira Knightley, Sarah Jessica Parker, Olivia Wilde, Lupita Nyong'o, Michelle Dockery, Kiernan Shipka, Hilary Swank, and Zoe Kravitz. We will for sure see this collection on Oscar night, at the Met Ball, and the Cannes Film Festival and I am hoping a million red carpets in between.

I have been pinning all the collections on my Pinterest page with my immediate wishes of who I would die to see wearing these stunning couture creations, so to get more of an idea of who I want to wear what from the collections I would head over there!

Friday, January 29, 2016

Runway Report: Stephane Roland Spring 2016 Couture

For his Spring 2016 Couture presentation Stephane Rolland turned back to the old days of Haute Couture opting to show his collection intimately within the walls of his couture salon in Paris with the models holding numbers which corresponded to a look which was named and announced by a live emcee. A small collection of 17 looks was all that Stephane needed to present to give a deep impact as each look was better than the last. It will take a special woman with a lot of presence like Lady Gaga, Nieves Alvarez, Tilda Swinton, Li Yuchun, Nicole Kidman, Cheryl Cole, Fan Bingbing, Rita Ora, Beyonce, or Gwen Stefani to make these creations work on the red carpet. I am hoping to see Solange Knowles wearing my favorite look, a black jumpsuit with ruffled flamenco sleeves and crystal detailing, on the red carpet.

Runway Report: Armani Prive Spring 2016 Couture

Light like clouds, that was the starting point for Giorgio Armani as he started to craft the Armani Prive Spring 2016 Couture collection. The collection titled "Mauve in Movement" was one of my favorite Armani Prive collections in a while. While I wasn't a fan of the shorts looks that started the show the cocktail dresses and evening gowns made for the the most glamorous and elegant collection from Armani in a while. I am excited to see which gown Cate Blanchett will pick for the Academy Awards, and Supporting Actress nominee Charlotte Rampling was front row at the presentation. A sign that Armani will be the designer of the night? My favorite look from the collection was a spaghetti strap gown with a pleated layered skirt and embellished bodice which a featured a plunging neckline. I can picture someone like Selena Gomez wearing this stunning gown on a red carpet and making it on the top of best dressed lists. Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Emmy Rossum, Jessica Chastain, Rooney Mara, Kate Bosworth, Zhang Ziyi, Anna Kendrick, Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Jane Fonda, Allison Williams, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Paz Vega all also come to mind to make this collection come alive on the red carpet.

Runway Report: Elie Saab Spring 2016 Couture

For Spring 2016 Couture Elie Saab took us on a journey to India. I go back and forth on my position on this collection. There are undoubtedly a bevy of extremely glamorous gowns and cocktail dresses in this collection (which we always expect from Elie Saab), but I found some of the looks presented to be sloppy. Some of the pant looks, tucked into embellished high combat boots remind me of looks that one would wear to Coachella or Glastonbury. These are not places I would normally think of when I think of Haute Couture. One question I have for this collection I have is will L'Oreal Paris spokesmodels, Bollywood superstars, and Elie Saab fans Aishwarya Rai and Sonam Kapoor take this collection and wear it on the red carpet during Cannes? Each usually takes a red carpet and does wear some sort of traditional Indian dress but will they wear a sari inspired gown from a Lebanese based couture designer? I don't quite know. I would love to see one of my favorite red carpet ladies, Diane Kruger, wearing the tan beaded fringe gown on a red carpet. I think that Diane is one of the few women who has the red carpet presence to make such a bold gown work on the red carpet. Other women I can picture wearing this collection on the red carpet include (but is not limited to) Lucy Liu, Rita Ora, Nicole Kidman, Florence Welch, Uma Thurman, Eva Longoria, Fan Bingbing, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmy Rossum, Judi Dench, Jennifer Lopez, Helen Mirren, Emma Watson, Naomi Watts, Jessica Chastain, Elizabeth Banks, Cate Blanchett, and Emma Stone.

Runway Report: Givenchy Spring 2016 Couture

Riccardo Tisci showcased his Spring 2016 Couture collection for Givenchy during Paris Fashion Week: Men's keeping with tradition that started last summer. I get excited to see all the new menswear clothes that I ogle and fawn over and then add couture and I am usually lusting over the collections. While the couture collection might have only been 12 looks they were 12 amazing looks full of absolutely beautiful details. I am happy Riccardo is showing couture on the runway and I am hoping that sometime soon he will return to the couture circuit and deliver a full runway collection during haute couture fashion week. No two looks in this collection were similar and I can see a bevy of Givenchy loyalists like Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Lea Seydoux, Rooney Mara, Rihanna, Amber Heard, Ciara, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Florence, Beyonce and Naomi Watts on the red carpet. I would most like to see Jessica Chastain wearing the chartreuse sequined gown with a halter neck and side cutouts, maybe for the Vanity Fair Oscars After-Party? While I am sure that most of these looks will be left to couture clientele I am hoping that a few of them make it onto a red carpet.

Runway Report: Giambattista Valli Spring 2016 Couture

When I think of volume, glamour, and ruffles I always think right to Giambattista Valli and he did not disappoint with his Spring 2016 Couture. In his 10th couture season I felt like this collection was a mediation on his previous 9 collections and some of the greatest pieces that he has created over the years and has done an fantastic job taking those codes and turning them into new looks without doing direct copies. When I search the couture collections I am always thinking about red carpet wear-ability and I am extremely excited to see this collection start to show up on the red carpet at awards shows, gala's, movie premieres, and then ultimately the Oscars, the Met Ball, and the Cannes Film Festival. I can see almost every look from this collection on the red carpet but my favorite look was the yellow and green draped cocktail dress (pictured above) and I think someone like Zoe Saldana would be perfect to wear this dress on the red carpet. One look has already been worn for the Sidaction Gala by Diane Kruger (and I actually pinned this dress saying she should wear it!) and I am sure it is just the first of many red carpet moments for this collection. Red carpet style stars like Elizabeth Banks, Kiernan Shipka, Daisy Ridley, Emma Stone, Kate Bosworth, Emmy Rossum, Hilary Swank, Sonam Kapoor, Marion Cotillard, Tilda Swinton, Amy Adams, Kirsten Stewart, Cate Blanchett, Lea Seydoux, Jessica Alba, Selena Gomez, Janelle Moane, Solange Knowles, Alicia Vikander, Brie Larson, Taylor Swift, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lily James, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rooney Mara, & Berenice Bejo are all women that I can picture wearing this collection on the red carpet.

Runway Report: Dice Kayek Spring 2016 Couture

I love discovering new talent during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week and this season I really fell in love with Dice Kayek. Creative director Ece Ege experiment with tailoring and volume this season and I can imagine that a bevy of couture loving ladies like Janelle Monae, Solange Knowles, Lady Gaga, Diane Kruger, Elizabeth Banks and Rita Ora would love to get their hands on this collection. I think that this is one of the couture brands that we need to watch. Dice Kayek has the potential to make it on the red carpets at some of the chic art type of events that these type of ladies attend. My favorite is the navy full skirted dress with the blouse top and green leaf detail and I can picture Bollywood superstar Sonam Kapoor rocking this dress on the red carpet.

Runway Report: Christian Dior Spring 2016 Couture

Christian Dior presented their first collection since the resignation of former creative director Raf Simons. Under Simons we saw Dior take a turn towards a more modern woman as it's clientele and that was still the case as the in-house atelier teams (headed by premieres Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux) presented the Spring 2016 Couture collection. The silhouettes still rang out with youthful modernization but with a little bit more flair than the streamlined looks of Raf. Flamenco ruffles were found on blouses, cocktail dresses, jackets, and skirts in a variety of different ways. I was seriously disappointed that there wasn't a single grand gown to kinda lead me towards what Dior spokesmodels Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize Theron will be wearing for the Oscars next month, while I was pretty much expecting custom gowns anyway I wish I could have had something to include in my red carpet wish lists for them. My favorite look was the yellow riffled beaded top and black and white beaded skinny pants which scream of the modern couture that Dior is headed toward and would look fantastic on the back of the likes of Zoe Kravitz or Solange Knowles. Nicole Kidman, Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Emilia Clarke, Chloe Grace Moretz, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Bosworth, Zoe Saldana, Natalie Portman, Rihanna, Charlize Theron, Daisy Ridley, Tilda Swinton, Rooney Mara and Marion Cotillard are just some of the women that I can picture making this collection work on the red carpet.

Runway Report: Chanel Spring 2016 Couture

Eco-conscious serenity was the starting point of the Chanel Spring 2016 Couture collection presented this week by Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais in Paris. I often find myself taken by the grand sets that Karl presents his collections on in the same space every single season. Last couture Karl transformed the Grand Palais into an interpretation of a Monte Carlo casino and for Spring 2016 RTW it was a bustling airport and for Spring 2016 Couture it was a modern wooden Ark surrounded by grass and small ponds. The set took me from the beginning and then you continued to see the eco-conscious theme through out the whole collection which featured such details as wood chips fashioned into beading and paillettes, as well as 3D elements that were fashioned out of recycled paper and organic woven yarn. When it came to the style of the clothes I think that it was very classic Chanel with some modern twists. The show started off with interpretations the classic Chanel tweed suits which transitioned into the more modern part of the evening wear and the show finished with Mica Arganaraz wearing the traditional bridal gown (far right) which was a strapless tea length column gown with an attached train and made all that more modern with an embroidered to match bomber. I was surprisingly drawn to the cork sculpted wedges which had the signature toe cap design, I think that after a few seasons of different interpretations not speaking to me I am glad that Karl found something that I actually quite enjoy and can totally picture members of the fashion pack rocking on the sidewalk runway next season. Aside from the gold lame cape that Gigi Hadid wore on the runway (which I want for my own personal collection) my favorite look from the collection was the simple white peplum cocktail with gold embellished trimming, it was irresistibly chic and I am sure that it will end up on the red carpet on the back of someone like Charlize Theron, Blake Lively, or Jessica Chastain. Other beauties I can see wearing this collection on the red carpet include Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Anna Wintour, Princess Charlene of Monaco, Amber Heard, Keira Knightley, Florence Welch, Nicole Kidman, Riley Keough, Sarah Jessica Parker, Julianne Moore, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Karlie Kloss, Anne Hathaway, Fan Bingbing, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rooney Mara, Naomi Watts, Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, Kate Bosworth, Emma Stone, Rita Ora, Olivia Wilde, Emily Blunt, and Zhang Ziyi.

Runway Report: Alberta Ferretti Limited Edition Spring 2016 Couture

I thought Alberta Ferretti's involvement with couture was a one off season for Fall 2015 so I was a little surprised when she released another collection of Alberta Ferretti Limited Edition for Spring 2016 Couture. Italian heiress and actress Marchesa Luisa Casati, yes the same woman who inspired the name of Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig's Marchesa collection, was the starting point for the Alberta Ferretti Limited Edition Spring 2016 Couture collection. We were treated to a visual feast that spanned inspiration from almost every decade that Marchesa Luisa was alive. There was some turn of the century inspiration, 20's flappers, 30's and 40's glamour, and 50's volume and I would like to believe that this is what Marchesa Luisa's closet actually looked like at the end of her life. A collection rich in different textures, silhouettes, and varying levels of embellishment. My favorite look from the collection is the bronze fully embellished flapper dress (center) that I can pictured someone like Emma Stone having a fabulous red carpet moment in. Many of these gowns could grace the red carpets from the Oscars to the Met and on to Cannes and I can picture glamorous ladies like Diane Kruger, Jessica Chastain, Florence Welch, Naomi Watts, Hilary Swank, Kate Beckinsale, Elizabeth Banks, Nicole Kidman, and Nieves Alvarez also wearing this collection on the red carpet.

Alberta Ferretti Limited Edition Spring 2016 Couture

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Runway Report: Atelier Versace Spring 2016 Couture

"Athletic Couture" that is what Donatella Versace dubbed the Atelier Versace Spring 2016 Couture collection which kicked off Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on Sunday. I have never seen athletic inspiration come across so chic and glamorous. From the skintight stirrup pants, cutouts, and the racer-back silhouettes just punctuated the inspiration. Some of my favorite looks included this Swarovski crystal rope that was designed to evoke the idea of athletic ropes. Rita Ora was the guest of honor this season donning an orange cutout mini dress which was held together by that same crystal rope. From the Grammy awards, to movie premieres, to Oscar night, and the Cannes Film Festival this collection is bound to make whomever wears it an instant sexpot glamizon. Stars like Jane Fonda, Paz Vega, Selena Gomez, Rita Ora, Elizabeth Banks, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Ciara, Freida Pinto, Lucy Liu, Gwen Stefani, Charlize Theron, Eva Longoria, and a bevy of other sexy women would undoubtedly slay this collection on the red carpet.

Runway Report: Ralph & Russo Spring 2016 Couture

If you enjoy the over the top glamour of Haute Couture then you would need to look no further than the Ralph & Russo Spring 2016 Couture collection to satisfy your thirst for all things glamorous. I continue to be blown away by the beauty that Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo drape, sculpt, and embroider to send down the runway. I am sure that onlookers, that included Uma Thurman, Rita Ora,, and L'Oreal Paris spokesmodel and Thai actress Ayara A. Hargate, were just as mesmerized by these absolutely stunning creations as I was watching the video (and probably even more that I was.) These are the types of look that get me excited for the big platforms for red carpet fashion like the Grammy's, Oscars, the Met Ball, and the Cannes Film Festival; where I am sure that these gowns will pop up. My favorite look from the collection wast a peplum bodice caped gown with a fitted silhouette floral embroidery and a midnight blue silk lining on the cape (the top center) which I can totally picture on Aishwayra Rai, Sonam Kapoor, Fan Bingbing or Eva Longoria on the red carpet at the Palais de Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival. I can picture this collection on the backs of some of the most glamorous women in the world like Nieves Alvarez, Kate Bosworth, Angelina Jolie, Amal Clooney, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron, Beyonce, Carina Lau, Blake Lively, Helen Mirren, Jourdan Dunn, Emma Stone, Olga Kurylenko, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lily James, all of the rest of the beautiful women I have previously mentioned like Sonam, Fan, and Uma as well a host of other red carpet stunners. This collection will undoubtedly be all over Cannes and I can not wait!

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Runway Report: Alexis Mabille Spring 2016 Couture

After presenting his collection via a lookbook last season Alexis Mabille was back with his intimate runway show for Spring 2016 Couture. I continue to love the classic glamour that Alexis shows in his collections. While the looks rarely push the envelope the looks are also extremely chic. On the press release a single quote from Emily Dickinson explained the inspiration behind the collection, "Beauty - be not caused - it is." All the looks in this collection seek to show the feminine beauty of a woman and without too many things that can detract from a woman's beauty this collection falls to one of my favorite Alexis Mabille collections. My favorite look from the collection was the white long sleeved double breasted Le Smoking inspired tuxedo sheath gown with ostrich feathers on the hem, the sad thing is that Lea Seydoux wore the featherless version of this gown on the red carpet at the Spectre premiere in Copenhagen. I can picture a host of beautiful women wearing this collection like Lady Gaga, Janelle Monae, Tilda Swinton, Charlize Theron, Kate Beckinsale, Uma Thurman, Jessica Chastain, Cate Blanchett, Emma Watson, and Marion Cotillard all come to mind when I am flipping through the images of this collection.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

10 Must Have Shoes For Spring/Summer 2016

10 Must Have Shoes of Spring/Summer 2016

There are a few overlaps of brands that were featured on my 10 Must Have Bags For Spring/Summer 2016 list like Altuzarra, Gucci, and Prada. Each of the designers showed so many of the different trends from high heeled espadrilles at Altuzarra, to embellished flats at Balenciaga, and lots of amazing slides, sandals, and mules from all on the runways these 10 shoes are definitely my picks for the best shoes of Spring 2016. See all the designers that are featured after the jump.

Runway Report: Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2016 RTW

Cruising on the "U.S.R.L. 1967" was the theme of the Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2016 RTW collection. These are the type of looks that you want to wear in maritime cities like the Hampton's, Venice, and the south of France. I always love that Ralph Lauren will take his inspiration from else wear but always show the American woman in these places, staying true to his clientele. Sailor hats, straw bags, and cork wedges all help aid in adding to that relaxed nautical yachty style that worked oh so well on the runway. Some of my favorite looks in this collection came courtesy of seersucker ball gowns, these would make such a statement on the red carpet but I have a feeling won't be on the top of everyone's red carpet wish lists. A navy blouse with a train paired with a white evening skirt was my favorite look which I can see Julianne Moore, who along with Jessica Chastain was perched front row at the presentation, wearing on the red carpet.