Haute Couture Spring 2012 - Chanel and Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Having been brought up on a healthy diet of 1950's and 1960's movies, I have always loved the glamorous 'New Look' silhouette. There was barely a 'look' I did not like at Bill Gayten's Haute Couture collection for Dior, and the pictures below do not do it justice, as there is further beauty in the incredible details:












Chanel

For years I said my favourite colour was blue. Now I'm not so sure, as I love so many! But I do love blue...Karl Lagerfeld offered in his Haute Couture collection 150 different shades of blue, in beautifully elegant silhouettes, some of which were reminiscent of 'homie boys', as the designer describes it: the designer said, "like boys whose jeans are slipping off. But somehow, elegantly so?














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Prada Spring/Summer 2012 Campaign Video

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Peut-être Magazine Issue 3 (aka 'The Haute Couture Issue')- Out Now!

Issue 3 of Peut-être (I dub it the 'Haute Couture issue') is out now!

As Peut-être's Fashion and Lifestyle writer and Editor, I am so excited to share about this beautiful 'magazine', which is really more a photography or coffee book (filled with exclusive photographs by the incredibly talented and lovely photographer, creative-director and editor-in-chief Nathalie Malric).

This third quarterly issue takes you ‘behind the scenes’ of Haute Couture shows by Chanel (including a look behind the curtains of its Haute Couture atelier), Didit Hediprasetyo, Basil Soda and exciting ‘new’ designers Yiqing Yin and Iris Van Herpen. It also features interviews with cake ‘Haute Couture’ designer Rachel Mount, French artist Cendrine Rovini, Argentinian model Lucho Jacob, and much more.

Available to view online, you can also purchase your stunning hard copy here and in several prestigious stores in Paris (such as Colette and Palais de Tokyo), run, don't walk to get your copy:



Polaroid photo shoot with cover girl Gabrielle Dubois, wearing Christophe Josse Haute Couture


Exclusive behind-the-scenes of stunning Haute Couture shows

Incredible detailing at Basil Soda

The 'water dress' by Iris Van Herpen

Ethereal beauty at Yiqing Yin

Nathalie takes an exclusive look 'behind the curtains' of Chanel's Haute Couture Ateliers, capturing the amazing details and work-in-progress of Haute Couture runway pieces


Backstage before the actual Haute Couture runway show


Exclusive photo shoot and interview with dreamy-eyed Argentinian model Lucho Jacob

Edible works-of-art by Rachel Mount (and an exclusive interview)

Interview with artist Cendrine Rovini

all images courtesy and copyright of Peut-être Magazine
www.peutetremagazine.com