Designers Hermes and Dior play safe

By THOMAS ADAMSON
AP Fashion Writer ©sacbee,com

A model wears a creation by French fashion designer Veronique Nichanian as part of the Men’s Spring-Summer 2013 collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, France, Saturday, June 30, 2012.

PARIS — Day Four of Paris menswear designers had one overriding message by Paris menswear designers from Dior Homme to Kenzo: – We’re tastefully playing it safe. Fashion collections at this time of year are often about anticipating summer and celebrating color. But in Saturday’s strong line-up of Paris menswear week, shows there was a clear emphasis on hues that tended towards the muted and soft. Subtle shows from designers Kenzo and Hermes featured wide-ranging and inventive palettes, but it was tonal balance that was the key. Dior homme dazzling colors, prominently in previous seasons, appeared only momentarily: like the red splashes in Kris Van Assche’s Dior Homme show. Could this spell the return to elegance for Paris menswear designers? Sunday, the last day of Paris menswear Paris fashion week includes shows by Pierre Cardin, Lanvin and Paul Smith. Read more…

Pierre Cardin celebrates his 90th

French fashion designer Pierre Cardin appears at the end of his Men’s Spring-Summer 2013 collection, for the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, PARIS (AFP) – The first couturier to put men on the Paris catwalks back in 1958, style veteran Pierre Cardin earned fond applause, if not critical acclaim, Sunday at a comeback show on the eve of his 90th birthday. Pierre Cardin is the last active survivor of the great postwar French fashion houses, the Italian-born Cardin is today owner of a sprawling luxury empire, but his catwalk shows are few and far between, his last in Paris a women’s line in 2010. Faithful to the space-age theme Pierre Cardin has mined on and off since the 1960s, his men’s look featured broad-shouldered, sleeveless tunics in navy felt, wool tartan or diving suit neoprene with futuristic visor shades. Pierre Cardin jackets had vertical slashed panels at the back, or were adorned with twists of black rubber tubing, like a prickly hedgehog across the shoulders.TO READ THE FULL STORY Go to…. Straitstimes.com

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Designers Hermes and Dior play safe

By THOMAS ADAMSON
AP Fashion Writer ©sacbee,com

A model wears a creation by French fashion designer Veronique Nichanian as part of the Men’s Spring-Summer 2013 collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, France, Saturday, June 30, 2012.

PARIS — Day Four of Paris menswear designers had one overriding message by Paris menswear designers from Dior Homme to Kenzo: – We’re tastefully playing it safe. Fashion collections at this time of year are often about anticipating summer and celebrating color. But in Saturday’s strong line-up of Paris menswear week, shows there was a clear emphasis on hues that tended towards the muted and soft. Subtle shows from designers Kenzo and Hermes featured wide-ranging and inventive palettes, but it was tonal balance that was the key. Dior homme dazzling colors, prominently in previous seasons, appeared only momentarily: like the red splashes in Kris Van Assche’s Dior Homme show. Could this spell the return to elegance for Paris menswear designers? Sunday, the last day of Paris menswear Paris fashion week includes shows by Pierre Cardin, Lanvin and Paul Smith. Read more…

Rick Owens at Paris Fashion Week

Menswear Autumn 2012 Runway Show

 

Models presents a creation by US designer Rick Owens during the Autumn-Winter 2012/2013 ready-to-wear men’s fashion collection show on January 19, 2012 in Paris. Color palette made up of black, white and a hint of turquoise is the only evidence of simplicity at Rick Owens’ show at Paris Fashion Week Menswear. French fashion at the menswear runway shows at Paris Fashion Week, featured American Designer Rick Owens. Other Americans that work in Paris like Marc Jacobs have long been a staple of Haute Couture. Companies like Louis Vuitton and Dior Homme have long featured American fashion designers. Winter 2012 Menswear Collections is no different. The major fashion houses are style hunters and indeed welcome America’s urban fashion sense. French fashion, Japanese Fashion, Milan Fashion has brought to the fashion industry, American Vogue at full tilt. [Photograph by: Alexander Klein, AFP/Getty Images] – - see More highlights

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