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Entries tagged with 'Givenchy'
Posted Mar. 3, 2008,
Will From Mexico Ends Up in the Front Row!
By Mickey Boardman
Meanwhile, outside the Givenchy show earlier this week, a super cute kid from Mexico named Will ran up to me and wanted to get a picture of the two of us, which naturally thrilled an old ham like me. He's a student and trying to get into the shows. Flash forward to the Lanvin show and there he is sitting on the stairs until just before the show when he sees an empty seat in the front row and grabs it. Who is he sitting next to? Superstar photographer Mario Testino, French Vogue's Carine Roitfeld and singer Kanye West! Not a bad spot.
Posted Feb. 28, 2008,
Mr. Mickey Hearts the Givenchy Show.
By Mickey Boardman
Last season Mr. Mickey really liked the Givenchy show and people acted like he was deranged! This season MM loved the show and it seems like everyone else did too. What can MM say, a toreador is a hot look. Just glue some doo-dads onto a pant of jacket and MM is happy as a high fashion clam. Yes, designer Riccardo Tisci likes a look that is super complicated -- some people even say he has trouble creating "outfits" instead creating super complex individual items. Mr. Mickey doesn't know about that but this show was great!
Photos from Style.com
Posted Oct. 4, 2007,
Mr. Mickey Takes on Paris Fashion Week: Costume National, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy and Hussein Chalayan
By Mickey Boardman
Mr. Mickey was very excited for the Costume National show on Wednesday. It somehow feels like now is the right time for the classic Costume look of sleek, slick and sexy -- don't you think? Anyhoo, if Mr. Mickey was hoping for a full blown sexy & slick revival, he was in for a “sari, wrong number!” The show was full of mini saris and despite the fact that Indian themes are all over the place in Paris, Mr. Mickey didn't know what to make of this sartorial journey to the subcontinent. In fact, the entire show seemed to be actively NOT sexy. Is this a new look for the brand's 21st birthday (being celebrated with a book from Assouline) or is it just a temporary fancy? Only time will tell.
Meanwhile at Christian Lacroix, things were inspired by 1940s and 1950s era photographs by iconic lenswoman Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Mr. Mickey is sorry but he LOVES him some Christian Lacroix. He's just genius at making gorgeous, beautifully-made, young, elegant dresses. Soooo chic and soooo fun. Let's hope that a revival is in the works and that the charming and humble Frenchman returns to the superstar status he enjoyed when he first exploded onto the scene in the 1980s with his hysteria-inducing poufs, first at the House of Patou and then at his own house. Mr. Mickey was glued to CNN's “Style With Elsa Klensch” in those days, and any true follower or fashion who was coherent in those days remembers the adoration and scorn that those poufs created. “Revolutionary!” some cried, while others groaned, “Ludicrous!” Another round of declaring couture dead because of its outrageous prices and disconnectedness to the real world ensued. Those arguments still go on and Lacroix still feels fresh and fabulous to us.
Costume National, Christian Lacroix and Givenchy
Posted Oct. 2, 2007,
Funny Face Turns 50!
By Ann Magnuson
Because Mr. Mickey is in Paris right now for Fashion Week and because my Dad is going there this Thursday to celebrate his 80th birthday (Happy B-Day Dad!) and because there was an article in this Sunday's IMAGE section in the L.A. Times about this fabulous movie turning 50 this week... I give you the infamous fashion shoot sequence from Funny Face. ("The musical that dares to rhyme Sartre with Montmartre") Never have the worlds of fashion and cinema been so perfectly enmeshed (well, there IS The Eyes of Laura Mar but that's later and a tad more nafarious -- just like the era it's set in!). But this 1957 classic, ladies and germs, is why little girls grow up to be frustrated actresses. And why little boys come out of the closet.
Posted Oct. 1, 2007,
Mr. Mickey Takes on Paris Fashion Week
By Mickey Boardman
Bonjour pussycats! You all LOVED PAPERMAG.com's gorgeous coverage of New York Fashion Week soooo much that Mr. Mickey has hightailed it to Paris, France to report on all the excitement of Paris Fashion Week.
Today things got off to a colorful start with the show of Manish Arora, the London-based Indian designer who is a favorite of PAPER. Arora's show was at the Salle de l'Opera in the Grand Hotel, a lavishly Baroque little room that was a feast for the eyes. However, once Arora's eye-poppingly colorful creations started parading down the runway, the room suddenly didn't seem quite so visually rich. Is there any place with wilder colors than India? Neon pinks, saffron yellows, tangerines all mixed and matched (well sort-of matched) on classic Indian silhouettes, particularly full, floor-length peasant skirts that were primarily modern in shape.