HAPPY HAPPY HAUTE COUTURE...

'HAUTE' MEANS ELEGANT OR HIGH, 'COUTURE' MEANS DRESSMAKING, SEWING, NEEDLEWORK. I LOOOOOVE HAUTE COUTURE. ITS THE CHANCE FOR THOSE FASHION HOUSES TO REALLY SHOW WHAT THEY CAN DO. 

HOW TO PRONOUNCE HAUTE COUTURE...



HAUTE COUTURE IS A BIT LIKE CHAMPAGNE AS ITS THE BEST OF THE BEST.

ITS GOT TO BE APPROVED & FROM PARIS. EACH GARMENT IS MADE SPECIFICALLY CUSTOM MADE FOR THE WEARER & THEY ONLY MAKE ONE COPY OF EACH GOWN UNLESS THE BUYER GIVES PERMISSION FOR ANOTHER TO BE SOLD.

DESIGNERS WITHIN THE 'CHAMBRE SYNDICAL DE LA HAUTE COUTURE' HAVE TO ADHERE TO THESE REQUIREMENTS...

• Design made-to-order for private clients, with one or more fittings.
• Have a workshop (atelier) in Paris that employs at least fifteen people full-time.
• Must have 20 full time technical people in at least one atelier or workshop.
• Each season (i.e., twice a year), present a collection to the Paris press, comprising at least thirty-five runs/exits with outfits for both daytime wear and evening wear.

LOVE THE GIVENCHY HAUTE COUTURE CAMPAIGN

LOVE THIS LOOK & HAIR FROM CHANEL COUTURE

LOVE PYJAMAS FOR CLOTHES AT JEAN PAUL GAULTIER COUTURE

LOVE THIS LOOK FROM JEAN PAUL GAULTIER COUTURE

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER COUTURE... MMMM

I WOULD MOST DEFO WEAR WHITE IF IT WAS VALENTINO COUTURE

I ALWAYS THINK THE PEOPLE WATCHING THE SHOWS ARE AS EXCITING AS THE SHOWS. CHECK OUT TOMMY TONS PICS... http://www.style.com/trendsshopping/stylenotes/011112_Pitti_Menswear/

100% LIVING THE DREAM...

ME & ELLY DECIDED TO GO TO PARIS TO SEE THE COUTURE SHOW OF JEAN PAUL GAULTIER ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE DESIGNERS.

WE MET AT BRILL PLACE WHICH WAS A PRETTY GREAT WAY TO START THE DAY...

GOT ON THE EUROSTAR & WENT TO PARIS. WE WERE PICKED UP FROM THE EUROSTAR BY HUGO WHO MR GAULTIER HAD KINDLY SENT TO LOOK AFTER US FOR THE DAY.

ARRIVED AT THE SHOW. ELLY WAS SAT WITH JEAN-BAPTISTE MONDINO WHO IS MY TOTAL GOD-HEAD & EMMANUELLE ALT WHO IS ALSO A TOTAL GOD-HEAD SO WE GASSED WITH THEM IN THE HOUR AND A QUARTER WAIT...... BUT IT WAS SOOOOOO WORTH THE WAIT.

THE SHOW OPENED.... AND N O MUSIC. IT WAS CATHERINE DENURVE DESCRIBING THE LOOKS COMING DOWN THE CATWALKS LIKE PROPER SALON STYLE. WAS SOOOO EFFECTIVE & DRAMATIC WITHOUT THE MUSIC. COULD HEAR THE SWISHING OF THE FABRICS, THE THUD OF THE MODELS STOMPS. IT WAS SO SO DRAMATIC.

I CANT EVEN DESCRIBE THE AMAZINGNESS WE SAW... WATCH THIS...





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I CLAPPED SO MUCH MY HANDS HURT AND HAD TEARS IN MY EYES AT THE END... FROM CLOTHES... I KNOW. BUT IT WAS HONESTLY SO GOOD & I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH WORK HAD GONE INTO THOSE AMAZING PIECES...ALL BY HAND. WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW IT WAS LIKE WITNESSESING A PIECE OF FASHION HISTORY. IT WAS A PROPER PERFORMANCE LIKE BALLET OR THEATRE SHOW & I FELT TRUELY MOVED BY THESE AMAZING CLOTHES.

AFTER THE SHOW WE WENT TO CONGRATULATE JEAN-PAUL ON THE AMAZINGNESS OF THE SHOW. CHECK OUT THE 2 PUNKS TOGETHER.

PHOTO BY R. TORRADO

MUCH TNX TO CAROLINA & JEAN-PAUL FOR OUR AMAZING COUTURE DAY OUT LIVING THE DREAM

JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER... I LOVE YOU... ALWAYS & FOREVER

SO I SLIGHTLY AGREED WITH SARAH MOWER'S WRITE-UP WHEN SHE SAID IN  HER REVIEW THAT...   

Heres a man who could make mincemeat of any competition in Paris when it comes to tailoring, and this is a time when women are crying out for daywear, sportswear, any kind of wear that is clean, stripped back, and new. It's a shame he's not seizing that agenda.'

BUT THEN WHO ACTUALLY BUYS COUTURE??? ALL THE REST OF THE COUTURE SHOWS WERE BORE OFF SO FAR. I LOVE JPG... ALWAYS AND FOREVER.

PLUS ARIELLE DOMBASLE SANG FOR THE SHOWS FINALE. ME AND MYLES MET ARIELLE AT THE BARBIE PARTY IN COLETTE AND SHE WAS A PROPER L A U G H. 

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE HER HAIR...

PARIS FASHION WEEK- SATURDAY

WENT TO JEREMY SCOTT PARTY AT THE REGINE. ALL THE FREAKS CAME OUT TO PLAY.














MYLES. ME














ANNA.




























JEAN SEBASTIEN.














ELLA. MYLES














NOVA. ANNA.














PEACHES.


















MARIA.


















THOSE MIS-SHAPES KIDS.














NICE JUMPER.














KABIR.


















OUR NEW DANCING M8TY


















MYLES WITH SOMEONE ELSES GLASSES ON.
































THESE WERE MY FAV LOOKS FROM THE SHOW...






















THEN WE GOT BORED WHEN THE FREE DRINKS RAN OUT COZ ALL THE FUN PEOPLE LEFT SO WENT TO GIRLCORE AT LE BARON WHICH WAS EXACTLY LIKE GIRLCORE IN CATCH!



















MYLES. ANNA.














MARYLIN. ANNA


















LIZ. LATEITIA.














NOVA. PHIL OH














MY FAV STUFF OF THE DAY WERE THESE PIECES...

ANN DEMEULEMEESTER...












COMME DES GARCON...























JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER...IS MY ULTIMATE LONG-TIME FAV DESIGNER. LOVED THESE PIECES FROM HIS SHOW....































BUT IT WAS THE HAIR THAT WAS AMAZING ...