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Aymeline and numerous other babes aside, I don’t totally love this collection….sorry :’( I feel like Balmain’s RTW lately has been skewing a bit.. 80s? Is that what I mean? Some of the fabrics & construction is starting to look a little cheap - especially in contrast to the couture collection, which was just so gorgeous.
You can see threads of the same ideas coming through here (the lantern-shaped skirts, the Blamain [typo and it stays] shoulder-redux, etc), but I’m not 100% feeling the execution. This is one of the instances where I think if the girls and the styling weren’t so beautiful, I wouldn’t like the collection half as much as I do. Good contrast to the NY shows at least where I felt like half the time the styling was so bad it was fighting the clothes. Not ideal.

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Christ take her, this is literally the only girl in the whole show that style.com hasn’t identified. Beautiful girl, beautiful coronet, off to construct one out of alfoil, brb.

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Jesus absolute Christ on a cracker. This is the show I’ve been waiting for, and D&G did NOT disappoint. This is so glorious I think I’m going to hyperventilate.

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Eeeeeee!! They put Yulia in one of the best looks!!! Woooooooo!!!!!!!
Would love to know what this suit looked like away from these terrible lights - bet it looks much richer and more luxurious.

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Usually I don’t go for Zuhair Murad, but admittedly this is beautiful. Rest of the collection is as eh as is to be expected, but this is quite glorious.

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Aaaaaaaargh SHUT THE FUCK UP, Balmain. Good to see they’re back into absolute-tears-of-inarticulate-joy territory, after what was (for me at least) a reasonably blah SS show.
I love this because it’s opulent without being too obvious. That may not make a whole lot of sense, but what I mean is that it’s the richness of the colours and textures and the precision of the cut that conveys that dress’s surely astronomical price tag (because you know it is literally going to cost like $100,000, not even exaggerating) - rather than any showy blingy nonsense.
This is what designers like Versace, Cavalli and the Gucci of old (not anymore - not since Tom Ford and then Frida Giannini started hitting it out of the goddamn park at every opportunity) just do not get - you don’t have to shout showy to whisper expensive. Did you see the appalling half of a dress Halle Berry just wore to the Golden Globes? Knock me down with an awards statue if that didn’t just look like the worst, cheapest piece of crap to have ever been dredged out of a casino-basement clothes shop.
What I will say is that this doooooes seem like shades of this Alexander McQueen show, and this Proenza Schouler show, but since you all know that both of those gave me a quivering case of the YAAAAAASSSSes, I’ll have more of that, thank you.

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Tom Ford just gets it, you know? Knows what women want - not in a patronising, dictating-to-you way, but in such a way that before you’ve even articulated the thought “I’d quite like a pair of sexy but tough but flashy gold shoes that don’t look cheap”, there they are, on your feet. Well, not mine exactly. I wish.

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Ooooo, new style-crush alert! I realise I’m a little late to the Candice Lake party (whatever, everyone knows you don’t arrive to any sort of party on time, how terrible naff), but I think I’m beginning to see what all the fuss is about.

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Look at those goddamn Dolce & Gabbana shoes, would you. Christ on a cracker.

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