Fall // Couture 2013

Another collection of shows this time in the form of couture shows. Obviously the highest of the high when it comes to fashion we expect everything from them, we expect extravagence total extremes of fashion and pieces that look like they should never be worn.

With all the shows there's so much I thought I'd try my best to cover as much as possible! Prepare for a MASSIVE post full of the highest end fashion.

//Atelier Versace//

Atelier Versace brought some amazing pieces, predominately black their couture was full of everything you'd expect from Versace. Revealing enough and yet still enough to flatter a woman's silhouette, the red dress has to be my favourite, there's so much detail and I love the way it begins at her neck and flows down with her body. 

//Christian Dior//

The Christian Dior show was so differnt to pretty much all of the other shows, most had a really flowing theme and Dior seemed to been really eclectic which normally wouldn't work. Amazingly it did it had so many different looks to it and elements, my favourite two being the ones pictured above and the white dress is my ideal thought of couture. To me its also a take on nature meaning technology with the top patterns, but it's perfect.

//Alexis Mabille// 

 

Alexis Mabille's show was amazing and one of my favourite shows! It was like the perfect fantasy and everything I expect from couture, amazing fabrics and intricate shapes in perfect colours. Out of all the looks I have to say I absolutely adore the hooded black gown, it's like a menacing sparkling black varsion of red riding hood. 

//Giambattista Valli//

Giambattista Valli had another couture show which really poped and was amazing, it was a great mix of light colours and whites. Occasionally there was a flash of red or colour, but through out the collection it reflected a feel of wearing porcelain or bone china. I loved the different shapes Giambattista Valli used especially in the top white dress, the different lengths and layers give the dress so much depth it's amazing.

//Chanel//

Chanel's show was probably my favourite location of all of the shows by far, it was a burnt out theatre somewhat reminiscent of the one in Romeo and Juliet where Mercutio dies. Minus the setting Chanel brought us the largets collection of all the couture shows as expected as the most famous couture house, I thought the show was a great collection with some great variations in there. The two looks pictured above are my favourite I think the silver is just to die for!

//Ulyana Sergeenko//

Ulyana Sergeenko had yet another of my favourite collections, I think she presented a really magical feeling collection. There was so many looks with brilliant fabrics and shapes, all of them really fitting the models and looking great on their bodies. I think Ulyana really delivered some really romantic feeling dresses and looks, especially the white and gold above. Both of them are the types of dresses I'd image some form of princess in. 

//Armani Privé//

 

Armani Privé's show was something really special, with light dresses and furs. All of the looks were especially strong here, Armani Privé's collection delivered on that magically quality I'd expect from couture. The pieces all looked especially gorgeous and magical, I imagine looking even better in person  but even in photographs they look straight out of a fairytail but also having a really high class glamourus feel.

//Alexandre Vauthier//

Alexandre Vauthier's show was another of amazement. Not so much my cup of tea as it was less of a magical show as I'd have wanted but still amazing, I thought they were similar to Dior and delivered their own take on the word couture. Their looks were still stunning especialy the one worn be Lindsey Wixon, I think the colour of it is perfection, working great with feathers and embellishment.

//Bouchra Jarrar// 

 

I think Bouchra Jarrar's collection was yet another collection which really delivered their own take on couture, less of a fairtail magical experience. The collection was definitely couture daywear, which I think is an awfully clever idea. The whole collection was really wearable but still had that special look to it, making it stand out and define itself as couture. 

//Maison Martin Margeila// 

 

Maison Martin Margelia yet again brought a really impersonal faceless approach to their collection, it gives their collectiona a whole different feel. The whole idea and appeal of couture being the fact it's a type of fashion most of the worlds women won't ever experience makes it a really impersonal concept. Maison Martin Margeila's collection wasn't my favourite but had various elements I loved, the two images above are definitely some of my favourites, the second being so detailed I think it's amazing.

//Elie Saab//

 

Elie Saab had a collection I loved, like I've mentioned before I love couture that's magical and romantic. Elie Saab was exactly that, the dresses and looks were full of detail and embellishments in various colours and styles. All of them looking incredible on the models and delivered the idea of a perfect dress for a woman, capturing a good way to look at couture. I adore the dress above where two extra models were needed just for the train, as if add to it's beauty and appeal. 

//Jean Paul Gaultier//

Jean Paul Gaultier was a different show but I loved it, couture is something which I see as occasionally unwearable and similar to costume. I think the whole collection had this, as it started slowly it became clear it was growing in ideas and extremeness. I reminded me of a 00's show where there was such a focus on entertainment, theatrics and the clothes were really bold. 

//Vionnet//

 

Vionnet had one of the smallest collections of all of the couture shows but it was still an incredible show. I think that they've created some really feminine looks and pieces. My favourite of these has to be the right picture of the red dress, I think the dress is amazing it suits the model's figure so well and has such a striking prescence. 

//Valentino// 

Valentino was one of my top favourite shows, I struggled to stop at only four photos! I think Valentino really have some of the strongest looks and pieces from all of the couture collections. I love the colours and the patterns they've used and created, I think they had some special creations. I'd pick a favourite if I could but honestly I love all of the above, I think the bottom light one is such a perfect colour and I think the top left has great imagery on it and it's so detailed.

//Viktor & Rolf//

 

Viktor & Rolf showed a couture show for the first time since 2000. Their all black collection had some really interesting elements to it, I think I love their use of black the way they play around with shapes and different elements and details in their collection is really interesting. The two images above are my favourite I love the way the left sits on the body, I think the one on the right has such an different shape and silhouette because it of how it covers her shoulders.

//Zuhair Murad//

 

The last of the couture shows but not least! Yet another show I really really loved, it had some of the best details I'd seen through out the shows. I love the bottom left dress the most and how the imagery resembles both nature in the form of treas but also is somewhat reminiscent of veins. Another factor which really appealed to me about this collection was the choices of shapes and overlaying of fabrics, shown in the two top images. 

After all of the couture shows there has really been some amazing things shown, I loved all of the really  magical, intricate looks that were presented. Couture is obviously so famed because of the magic and mystery surrounding it, both of which are something which I'd define specifically being linked only to couture. I really think that it presents itself as something on another level to all other levels of fashion, I think looking at couture shows just highlights one of the main reasons I love fashon.