Pedro Lourenço Paris Fall 2010

 

The remarkable level of technical accomplishment
in the color-blocked collection.

Paneled leather dresses had high necks, long sleeves,

and rows of stiff horizontal plastic slats and buttons.

The same plastics—this time cut into triangles
and vertically lodged, finlike,around the skirt of a dress.

A well-cut, tan leather coat
completely encased in a “cage” of gilt chains.

A rounded-shoulder style, in black velvet
was stamped with leather.

Leather dresses featuring peekaboo
paneling in flesh-colored tulle.

 

Pumps and knee-high boots with stiff fins sticking out of them,
and heels in primary colors.

Brazilian Fashion Designers NY Fall 2010

Alexandre Herchcovitch

Beautiful old-world silk prints became quilted motorcycle jackets.

Ornate rhinestone embroideries added a finishing touch 
to tailored wool coats.
Fishnet tights.

Structured Coat Dress / Robe Manteau

 

Oversize metal studs painted to resemble wood 
trimmed delicate blouses.

Smocked waist.

Crocheted pieces crafted from rubber, yarn, 
black crystals, and gold chains.

A body-hugging black and red plaid pantsuit. 

Studded booties covered in belt buckles added a splash of punk.

Swing skirt trimmed in synthetic fur. 

Fake fur muff.  

  A slashed black mesh top 

that felt too warrior-woman for the classic-punk mash-up. 

  Printed bandannas, wood-chain headpieces, and bell necklaces. 

Carlos Miele 

One-shoulder, strapless, body-con dresses
in geometric slices of fuchsia, 
red and violet, banded with sequins.

Electric-blue satin dress featured zigzags
of silver sequins, across the body.

 Boleros constructed from loops of fabric and chains.

Feather-striped curve-hugging gowns in sinuous rainbow-bands 

of red, blue, green and yellow.

Paper-bagged pants made in a new Bio Denim, 

treated with Brazilian fruit butter.

Full-sleeved fitted dress cinched with a satin corset-belt.

  The delicate work of human hands in the signature rosettes. 
 

 Iodice                                                       

Well-cut blazers and trenches with sustainable elements 

like fallen nuts repurposed as buttons.

 Liquid leggings

  Goddess draped dresses.

A sparkling bell-sleeved frock hemmed with feathers. 

A strapless dress in macaw print

Alexander McQueen Paris Fall 2010

McQueen's Grand Finale Collection

Artworks were captured digitally and transferred onto 
red, gold and silver outfits embellished with embroideries.

 The abstractions of Bosch paintings 

on the bodice of a dropped-waist dress.

 Folds of double duchesse satin, 

in a short dress extravagantly swagged at the hip.

The hand-painted gold feathers 
visible under the draped skirt of a one-shouldered dress.

  Digitally printed with part of Stefan Lochner’s Altarpiece
 

A long sleeved floor-length dress in a pearl-like shade, 

digitally printed with the lightest suggestion 
of 17th century Dutch wood carvings.

Prints of angels decorated the wing-like folds and pleats 

that jutted out of a cropped jacket.

A silk gown with cap sleeves 

and a saintly image on each side of the V-shaped neckline.

Wing-like folds on the back of an ethereal sleeveless gown.

The bodice displays angels with their hands raised.   

A sculpted neckline that arched above the collarbones.

Bandaged caps topped with gilded feathered mohawks.

Stiff cartridge pleats.

A high-collared, formfitting cutaway jacket 

made entirely from golden feathers.

A multilayered white tulle skirt sprinkled at the hem 

with delicate gilded embroidery.

The lacquered gold feathers was probably 

a nod to Grinling Gibbons' wood carvings.

  Lacquered feathers  Jeweled-tone bib necklace   Gold sequins

  Byzantine gold embroideries   British royal heritage of lions

A crimson cape, cut away to reveal the dress beneath,

seemed to echo how, in Botticelli's Annunciation,

Mary is pushing open her blue cape to reveal a red dress beneath.

A long,cardinal-like cape over a column dress, 
bristling with gold sequins.

 Even a non-printed dress was fit for a Virgin from Van Eyck.

 A regal, full-sleeved gown in cream duchesse satin and silk chiffon,  

worked with gold thread.

Lions are embroidered in gold around the hem of a silk caped dress.

A midnight blue floor-length gown caught in curtain folds at the hip.

Thigh-high buckled boots.

  Gold ankle-boots with gold filigree soles.

Jewel-encrusted shoes with hand-carved heels.