The Year of the Yeti, or Paris Part Deux

In the hopes of just tying this up, I am about to upload a small village of images. If you recall, fashion shows have been in full swing since the last week of January and I'm kind of ready to move onto something else (specifically my other two sadly neglected blogs and the final revisions of the Wordpress blog). So let's do this, shall we?

The Year of the Yeti

I'm not entirely sure why this has occurred. Do you think maybe it's Karl's middle finger on the rumor that's going around that maybe he's retiring, Chanel did not renew his contract and that maybe he is being replaced by Albert Elbaz? I'm not sure; I like the non-Yeti part of the designs in the second image but otherwise...I'm just not sure, Karl. I'm just not sure.



Ungaro sans Lohan

You will never hear me say this again but I'm not sure Lindsey is what screwed up Ungaro. I dare say it was never meant to go right at all because this collection, sans Lohan, was not a whole lot better than last, minus the pasties. I am just not a fan. It looks like anything you could buy at H&M. Maybe I missed something. I kind of like the draping in the second look and I like the color of the third look but I was already so unimpressed by the time of their arrival that it was like good words falling on deaf ears. I'm not getting the abundance of those belt-tastic things in image one either; she had them in every color and they were kind of like rubberbands of non-greatness.


Bambi Lives

I really loved this dress from Jean-Charles de Castelbajac until my eyes focused and I realized what it was. And then I started having flashbacks. Not a fan of Bambi. Kara does not like.

I did, however, like these from the same designer.


So those were my "not so much" picks. Let's move on to the...

Um, maybe

Vivienne Westwood
(I love Vivienne, did I mention that?)

Leonard

Junya Watanabe


Celine


Barbara Bui


Balmain


Veronique Leroy


Tsumori Chisato


Talbot Runhof


Loewe

The more I look at most of these (above and below), the more I really like them; maybe even love. I don't really ever dislike anything from a runway simply because, hey, someone's putting it out there. What a risk, whether we like it or want to wear it or not; it takes a lot to put a collection out.

These fell into another folder, simply entitled...

Like

Isabel Marant


Hermes


Haider Ackermann


Giambattista Valli


Cerruti


Miu Miu


Lutz


Jean Paul Gaultier


John Galliano


Issey Miyake


Vanessa Bruno


Thierry Mugler


Sonia Rykiel


Rue du Mail


Rochas


Wunderkind


Vionnet

Dear Lord. Until September...
xoxo,
kvlm