Paris fashion week was flashy and trendy
In fashion, there’s a never-ending battle between the crowd-pleasing commercial and the boundary-pushing conceptual. And nowhere was it more clear at this week’s Paris runway shows than at Balmain and Balenciaga, destined to be two of the spring season’s most influential collections. Both emphasized a new urban sportiness but in vastly different ways.
Christophe Decarnin’s flashy, trashy glamour at Balmain has been driving the fashion world — the sequins, stripes, ripped jeans and fringed booties on the street and in stores right now are all from him. So Zara and H&M should be thankful for another hot Balmain show.
For spring 2010, he turned to the military look, with coppery metal mesh as the main stylistic element in his raucous collection, set to the disco-era anthem “Rapper’s Delight.” Read more
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