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The Lebanese designer Elie Saab makes perfectly fine clothes, the sample sequence from Elie Saab's Fall 2011 ready-to-wear show: plum crepe belted slim dress, plum crepe belted dress with A-line skirt, plum crepe A-line dress with inverted pleat. This season, his message is Parisian, specifically Belle de Jour. The designer doesn't do retro, so there was only a faint whiff of the sixties, a decade that has proved so popular elsewhere. Black and buff predominated, but there was also gray, dark red, and an abstract multicolor print, and the silhouette was close to the body. I love the red belted slim dress, the nude belted dresses and the A-line skirt!
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Sarah Burton is keeping doing a great work for the weight of legacy she's inherited. Her venue was La Conciergerie, Marie Antoinette's prison and the site of an Alexander "Lee" McQueen show that was made memorable by the presence on the catwalk of live wolves. The McQueen's asylum show and the theme—"The Ice Queen and her court"—had the suitably chilly ring of a vintage McQueen ritual. The collection furthermore drew on what the show notes called "heritage silhouettes."
What Burton designed had a blurry-edged softness, which came from the fur that lined hems, cuffs, and shoulder seams. The material wrapped the skirt of a drop-waist halterneck dress or swathed the hood of a sleeveless sheath. And when it wasn't fur, it was frayed, streaming organza that blurred the lines. (Amid such extravagant touches, you weren't likely to forget the rumor that Kate Middleton has selected the house to design her wedding gown!!!)
The most (quietly) spectacular piece was a gown with a body collaged from broken china, which erupted into a froth of organza. McQueen himself might have injected an edge of barely suppressed violence into such a piece. Here, serenity ruled. Which, in the interests of future princesses everywhere, is probably a wise option.
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