Listen to this episode from Subversive Style Fashion, Beauty, Lifestyle Podcast on Spotify. Paris Fashion Week Spring 2023 was by far the best capital of fashion for the Spring 2023 season… The Paris collections are full of joie de vivre, embracing the fashion-forward, avant-garde, original, and innovative design. They are elegant, modern, wearable, and vivacious. Even the simplest gowns have a unique touch- a structured geometric bodice, are beautifully draped, or have a unique cut. Featured Wicca Totem T-shirt available at AuricWear.com A farewell to the icon Issey Miyake, who will forever be remembered as a fashion innovator with his original pleating and knitting techniques which revolutionized the techniques and the industry beginning in the 80s. The collection featured unique knit designs which darted out from the figure to create interesting silhouettes, allowing different parts to contour to the body such as the sleeves at the wrists while adding volume to other areas such as the waist to create a peplum. Botter Botter’s Spring 2023 collection is full of originality, featuring interesting takes on suiting: double-lapel and facing suit jackets tucked into pants, heart-shaped keyhole cutouts, zipper lapel jackets reveal a striped shirting or lining beneath for an all-in-one look…quite interesting and innovative... Christian Dior Christian Dior’s Spring 2023 collection features many of the techniques of fabric manipulation we saw in new york fashion week: smocking, pleating, ruching, and draw-string gathers. Beyond the ever-present cargo pants, the trending slip dress and nighty are also represented, but I doubt the hoop skirt will make a comeback. I love the cascade neckline of the trench coat with a drawstring waistline and sleeves. ... Koché: Interwoven open-weave knit sweaters; burnout sheer sweaters, pants, and knit dresses reveal the models’ skin beneath varying shades of black, nude, and brown... Roland Mouret: Roland Mouret’s simple yet elegant gowns feature just the right amount of draping and structure- not a single look appears to be over-designed, but rather evokes effortless elevated style... Saint Laurent: Are we sure this is the correct collection? It looks more like a fall show given the color palette and fabric selection. Mustard, olive, pea, plum, raisin, currant, and black.... Rodarte The bold red and turquoise neon lights may be a bit overpowering for these garments, but they certainly are eye-catching. Slip dresses, spaghetti strap psychedelic prints and asymmetrical hemlines... Rochas A ruffle shirt-dress in blue and white stripes with black drop-waist cincher, another in white with a shirred bodice, windowpane suiting as well as hot shorts in black and white atop white sheer pants, a light blue skirt suit paired with cravat-evoking ruffle top, a deconstructed pagoda-sleeve mini-dress in black with white leaf pattern paired with matching tights in a smaller scale of the same print... Balmain Is Balmain coming for Iris Van Herpen? If you had told me years ago that the little-known brand putting out simple American flag tops and pagoda sleeves would be transformed into this avant-garde house all due to a young creative director I hardly would’ve believed you. I simply live for the avant-garde, and adore the originality of the cage-shoulders,... Rick Owens One of my favorite collections from Paris Fashion Week, as well as the season as a whole, is that of Rick Owens: he’s one of the few designers who are pushing fashion forward, even if it began with models worn as backpacks and penis-revealing cut-outs… Dramatic pagoda sleeves, bomber jackets, sheer fabrics, draping and twisting, tonal monochromatic looks, unique paneling, and pleating... Full post at Subversive.Style --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/subversivestyle/support
