Is it strictly appropriate for a French couturier to send out a catwalk homage to
Amy Winehouse complete with models wearing exposed bra straps,
Fred Perry collars, baseball jackets and shirts tucked into
pencil skirts? Probably not. But yesterday in
Paris Jean Paul Gaultier chose to do just that. A live barbershop quartet crooned an elliptical rendition of the late singer’s most famous recording, “
Rehab”, and Gaultier went so far as to attach black veils to towering beehives for his … story ®Courtesy of
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Read more! NOTE: Paris fashion shows will begin very soon hosting
Paris Fashion Week with the Fall fashion celebration of
Haute Couture fashion. It will feature fashion designers design from the likes of
Elie Saab,
Yohji Yamamoto, House of Christian Dior,
Karl Lagerfeld
for Chanel and many other fashion icons and Red carpet fashion Gurus.
So if you have the fashion bug, get ready for Paris Fashion Week in
February. It is always filled with standing room only events, fashion
accessories, fashion jewelry, magazine fashion and maybe a little
fashion show oops surprises. All the business people in fashion, will
attend hoping to see Models like
Karlie Kloss and
Lindsey Wixson
strut their stuff. For those of you with a lot of fashion sense, you’re
promised to enjoy the Spectacle that Paris Fashion makes to the Press,
Celebrities and The Rest of fashionista royalty.
Back in 2005, Gareth Pugh
was living in a squat in London when all the important UK fashion
magazines attached themselves to him like a Fred Perry-clad tumor. Fresh
out of fashion school and an internship with Rick Owens, he was soon a
style-page wank fantasy, representative of the type of hijinks English
fashion clamors for. It was all justified. Gareth’s first shows featured
inflatable outfits and light-strewn garments. Everyone in attendance
over the age of 30 offered mealy-mouthed praise—like it was all very
well and fun and diverting but ultimately fey and immature. Attendees
under the age of 25, however, cheered the models and clothes down the
runway, feeling like somebody had finally reinvented fashion for the
21st century and rescued us all from retro regurgitation. Six years on,
fashion sites are overflowing with photos of androgynous kids addicted
to black who look just like Pugh. His line garners the type of attention
and praise usually reserved for the vaunted and dusty old guard. He
shows annually in Paris and New York, working and hanging out with all
the ritziest fashion people, like Karl Lagerfeld and Mario Testino. We’ve known him for a while, though, so we persuaded him to take a few minutes for the following little chat..Read on : View more Gareth’s Collection 
