INSPIRING RUNWAY FASHION SHOWS 2022/23
Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture
by Olivier Rousteing
IRIS VAN HERPEN
Paris Haute Couture Week 2022, Iris van Herpen celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the Maison with ‘Meta Morphism’.
SCHIAPARELLI
“Elsa Schiaparelli instilled a creative spirit in 20th-century fashion with her inventive imagination and revolutionary vision on sportswear, Haute Couture, art, fragrance, and ordinary elements turned into elaborate creations. Her iconic collaborations with artists like Dalí, Cocteau, Man Ray, Giacometti and Marcel Vertès became legendary.
Nowadays, the Maison Schiaparelli cultivates this incredible heritage, offering women of the 21st-century the essence of a bold style and timeless allure.”
BORN AGAIN
HAUTE COUTURE FALL-WINTER 2022/23
“All of us who work in fashion know that much of the rest of the world thinks that what we do is silly. It’s a boring criticism, and we all argue otherwise, but if you think about it, fashion is silly at times. It’s also provocative, upending, challenging, and meaningful. It’s breathtaking. It’s beautiful.”
GIVENCHY
Women’s and Men’s Spring Summer 2022 Collection show by Matthew M. Williams.
VERSACE
Never shy or retiring, the Versace Woman for Fall-Winter 2022 has a powerful and seductive sense of mystery, shifting in and out of sight. With unapologetic certainty she fully owns her allure and knows exactly when to unleash her power.
A REGAL REBEL
Energy seems to erupt throughout the collection, as signature Versace tweeds fray, unravel and drip in crystal and metal chains, while raw female force is seemingly caught and enhanced through tightly cinched waists. Latex gloves and knee-height boots flirt with the subversive. Typically regal pearl jewelry is disrupted by sharp punk spikes, and pin-sharp pumps are finished in a latex-like brushed leather with metal heels.
VALENTINO
Creative Director: Pierpaolo Piccioli
‘I have always loved cinema and during my adolescence I dreamed of becoming a movie director. When I discovered fashion and its narrative power, I decided to become a designer. It was for me a natural evolution of a dream.’
Valentino Haute Couture collection revealed from Piazza di Spagna in Rome on Friday, July 8th.
RICK OWENS
SS22 FOGACHINE WOMEN’S COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 2021, PARIS
“AFTER FOUR COVID ERA SHOWS LIVESTREAMED FROM MY HOME ON VENEZIA’S LIDO BEACH, RETURNING BOMBASTICALLY AT FULL BLAST TO THE PALAIS DE TOKYO PARIS SEEMED TO IGNORE THE HUMBLING EXPERIENCE WE ALL WENT THROUGH TOGETHER; AND ARE STILL EXPERIENCING. THOSE COVID SHOWS WERE ABOUT DEFIANT FEROCITY IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY BUT SHOULD RETURNING TO THE PARIS RUNWAYS BE ABOUT HUMILITY AND A LESSON LEARNED? OR CARPE DIEM?”
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
The Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer SS22 show space and collection, filmed by Sophie Muller. The show space was designed by Architect Smiljan Radic.
