Since Fashion Week is winding down, I decided to take a quick weekend trip to Corsica with my friend. Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and is located west of Italy, south of France, and north of the island Sardinia. I can’t wait!
Fun and lightweight, this suitcase adds a bit of style to any travel situation. Plus it’s big enough to stuff your travel essentials, while small enough to fit in an overhead. Cute!
Bottled Blond bombshells have been rocking Louis Vuitton’s Spicy Sandals lately:
Ms. Rose added the hot kickers to her Alexander Wang dress, while Christina Milian went for a more laid back look.
Who wore ’em better?
Here’s the collection:
The shoes go for about 995 Euros, which translates roughly to $1,300. If you don’t have a month’s rent to spend, might I suggest considering these $150 Katrin Leather Exotic Sandals…
So while Claire is hopping around to shows at Paris fashion week, I decided to give you bombshells the lowdown on the hottest runway shoes for Fall.
Our Spring ’09 Paris Fashion Week shoe roundup was filled with footwear that made you lust for warmer weather and a bigger budget. Fall ’09’s shoes, er…well, at least designers can’t be accused of not taking current times into consideration. Sure, there are some gems, but for the most part designers kept it stark and somber below the knee. Here we go… Giambattista Valli: fab croco-patterned black platform boots…but a shoe collection heavy on satin for the fall?
Givenchy: Probably my favorite of the bunch (although the black boots are somewhat similar to Loboutin’s Forever Tina boot from Fall ’09). The studded sandals are sick!
Lanvin: Practical and alive with wearability, certainly, but I can’t muster too much excitement beyond that.
Nina Ricci: I don’t see these anywhere beyond the pages of a magazine editorial, a display case at the FIT Museum, or a Sasha Fierce video. They’re fun to look at but suffer from the other extreme you find in a recession: denial!
Stella McCartney: Again, here the black boots seem the strongest to me (this time with an intricate perforated pattern in the leather). Otherwise…
Viktor & Rolf: I’m feeling the sequin boots on the bottom left–the signature, just-right V&R touch of unconventionality. I’d have loved to see the white boots on the top left in a brown leather, though.
Yves Saint Laurent : The black suede and washed out teal pumps are the business, and I love how the heel incorporates elements of a wedge, a stiletto, and a platform all in one. Loves!
Last night my buddy Avon and I followed the signs around Paris’ Bercy stadium for the Alexander McQueen show:
I’m a huge fan of McQueen’s edgy dresses, skirts, and big shouldered jackets (think Beyonce en concert), and I was expecting to see a continuation of his practical pieces on the runway. Most designers thus far have presented collections that were largely wearable, as YSL paraded tops that anyone could rip off a model and wear to work the next day.
Oh, not so with McQueen:
I was shocked, awed, and thrown for a loop. Gasping, pointing, and uttterly thrilled. Have you ever seen anything like this?
With a middle finger raised to the recession, McQueen offered fantasy, theater, and couture like combinations for Fall 2009. With relics of his past in a scrap metal like heap in the middle of the runway, it seemed McQueen was presenting a New World/Post Apocalyptic order, which shunned practicality in favor of color, excess, and luxe:
In the show program, he admitted to referencing Christian Dior’s hounds tooth check pattern, which was obvious with the first few looks:
But as Christian Dior said ‘bullocks’ to budgets with his revolutionary New Look, it seemed McQueen was saying the same to our current fiscal crisis, using fabrics like organza, cock feathers, nappa leather, and snake jacquard, to “turn the bourgeois fashion system…on [its head].”
The models themselves looked alienesque with their kabuki makeup, slow gates, and high as the sky shoes:
Highlighting that McQueen is thoroughly out of this world. The final walk:
The McQueen show last night was a fantastical journey, unlike anything I’ve ever seen! Before the show I snapped these two lovelies outside the venue at Paris’ Bercy stadium:
Black on black is always chic. Add a bit of sparkle and patent for fun!
Kanye was very gracious (as usual)…and Ms. Amber was looking fierce in a black catsuit. Represent!
What did you think?
Pssst, a fashion birdie told me that the lovebirds are also here shooting a video for Kanye’s single Robocop. Perhaps why they haven’t been to every show on the schedule…
