Schiaparelli // Serving Couture

We all know about Schiaparelli's revival and if we don't why the hell not?

I know I've mentioned it and since Marco Zanini becoming creative director I've been waiting in anticipation of what he'll create and the direction of the brand. Recently massively exciting news has come to light about Schiaparelli!

Schiaparelli are set to show during Couture Fashion Week!! 

Schiaparelli with Marco Zanini have been elected as a guest member of the Cambre Syndicale, the S/S 2014 schedule is set for January 20th to January 23rd. 

What can we expect from Schiaparelli?

Will Zanini intend to continue where Lacroix left Schiaparelli or will he take the brand in a completely different direction? I can't wait to see what happens and where we end up with Schiaparelli! Sadly we're now just going to have to wait until January.

Lacroix // Schiaparelli Collection

After taking a short break from blogging I thought I'd return with something massive to firstly talk about, so here you have it Lacroix and Schiaparelli! Finally we're seeing his collection for the French label being revealed, I love that Lacroix chose not to present the collection in a massive show but rather on this mirrored carousel. Currently on dispay at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs the 18 piece collection is a definite collection of interest. 

 

  

  

Lacroix talked about how his approached was as natural as possible towards the project, wanting to pay tribute to the two very different sides of Elsa Schiaparelli. He described her work as 'crazy baroque, opulent, extravagent' but also commented on her 'modernity, simplicity and purity'.

I think this is a really perfect way to describe Schiaparelli's work, clearly a great way to think about the project tackle the challenge. If I were Lacrox I'd hate to have all of this pressure on me with regards to creating this collection. 

  

 

  

My thoughts on the collection are that I think Lacrox did a really good job at creating a modern collection for Schiaparelli, he really did manage to create a collection for 13/14. There are so many various elements in the pieces which I love, great patterns and silhouette to highlight women's figures and then more crazier ideas too. I do think certain looks are more Schiaparelli than others but regardless it must be so hard to attempt to follow up someone as famous as Elsa.

Lacroix//Schiaparelli

With the recent news of Christian Lacroix designing for Schiaparelli I anticipate something amazing. I really love the work Schiaparelli did with Salavador Dali, my favourite of it all being the famous skeleton dress desgined in 1938.

I think the reason I love this piece so much is just the sheer simplicity of it and almost irony of it, the idea of a dress based on human anatomy is something so bizare. I love how a dress is something to cover skin, which is something which covers bones and flesh and here you have a dress displaying bone. It's almost the idea of a reverse skin, highlighting bone instead of hiding it as if to present the beauty and complexity of human structure.

Showing his 15 piece collection in July duriung Paris fashion week Lacroix is expected to be creating reinterpretations of some of Schiaparelli's most famous designs so hopefully there will be another take on this wonderful dress.