I like to think of Haute Couture as a dream, where the creative and imaginative cells intertwine.

This season though, in the shows where most of the pieces spoke of one tone, where cropped jackets and squared shoulders were celebrated, I’m not sure if those cells met.  The silhouettes were clean and simple; from Armani Prive’s Asian-influenced tight skirts and pagoda shoulders to Dior’s waist-clinching, crinoline-bouncing, full skirts.  Let’s just say that Chanel and Gaultier topped the list for me but other than that, very few designers left me sitting on the corner of my chair.

The details were there, but they were subtle.  Perhaps the most ingenuous of them all came at Chanel’s show, where Japanese hairdresser, Katsuyo Kamo cleverly constructed all the paper hats and floral ornaments.  Genius!

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Tags: Chanel, Christian Dior, Haute Couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Katsuyo Kamo, Spring 2009

Categories: Fashion, Runway