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Amazing dress on Nancy Ajram, a Lebanese Singer...
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Chanel News: Haute couture, Haute culture

Haute couture us women from dreams, gold, hard work, and excellence. It is an ode to the artisans of luxury, a wiled madness, a fabulous dinosaur, and a glittering Atlantis that dazzles us twice a year, bringing reassurance that in a globalized world of robotic manufacturing, a sanctuary still remains, a place where clothes are lovingly created by hand over hundreds, even thousands of hours.
The team "haute couture" may be legally restricted, but the poetic inspiration knows no bounds!
Today, in France, (Paris, the capital of "la mode") Haute Couture continues to sustain artisans, workshops and suppliers who pass on their unique specialist skills to new generations. Chanel has acquired and fussed several  of these rare workshops together, such as embroidery from Lesage and feather work from Lemarié, ensuring that their knowledge is handed down and their artistic crafts survive.
Haute Couture is a French national treasure, yet it was invented by an Englishman, Charles Worth, at the time of Napoleon III. Barely a century after it had beheaded its king, France quickly understood that luxury could act as an inimitable ambassador for French expertise.
After Worth, couturiers such as Callot, Patou, Poiret, Vionnet and Lanvin continued to dress women beautifully, without always taking the shape of their bodies into account…
At that moment, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, known as Coco, arrived on the scene with her hands in her pockets and a cigarette between her lips. She was surrounded by an air of nonchalance, eternal allure and insane elegance in her wonderfully fluid jersey suits and dresses, which went on to represent a real liberation for women. It seemed a natural step but someone had to invent it, someone had to have the confidence and the talent to understand what women wanted, longed for, even before they knew it themselves. Was Chanel a revolutionary, a prophet? Absolutely!


The Chanel Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture collection has created a dazzling bridge between the 1920s and the 21st century.


Low waists, slender busts and delicate feet encased in ballerina shoes with transparent ribbons have been combined with the colors of clouds or pearls and waves of shimmering spangles, while embroidered shirts have been paired with Couture jeans that lengthen the legs to infinity… It is a younger look that is lighter than ever, rejecting any kind of bourgeois heaviness. The collection is characterized by total grace and luxurious materials that make their mark with skilled understatement, recapturing a style that came as second nature to Coco Chanel…

Paris fashion Week

Paris fashion week brings each season's hectic schedule of fashion shows to a close, capping off a whirl-wind tour of international fashion weeks that starts in New York, moves through London and Milan, and ends in Paris. As with each, PFW occurs twice a year, taking in the autumn (fall) / winter and spring / summer seasons.

Designers are really exited as usual to show there new collection... They're all super busy...

I was at Zuhair Mrad a couple of days ago... they were preparing the "defile".

Everyone want to be in PARIS these days, on the fashion week! 
God, the Fashion World can be soooo interesting!! 


To see the schedule, just scroll 2 posts down :)

Pierre Katra

International awards winner Pierre Katra Haute Couture was founded in Beirut, Lebanon in 1965. Pierre Katra was specialized in Fashion Design in Paris, France and he designed superb gowns for Queens and Princesses of Arabic countries. In 1972, Miss Universe Georgina Rizk of Lebanon was wearing unique designs from Katra’s Collection. 

Fashion show schedule 2011 haute couture Paris

http://www.modeaparis.com/va/collections/2011ephc/index.html

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H&M AND LANVIN: IT'S CONFIRMED

It's official: H&M is teaming up with Lanvin.

Yesterday the fashion world was abuzz with rumours that H&M had signed up Lanvin for its next designer collaboration. It has been confirmed that the rumours are indeed true. Women's and men's collections hit stores in November.

Just how Lanvin's luxe creations will translate onto the high street remains to be seen but Lanvin's artistic director (and ELLE's hero) Alber Elbaz said, 'I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.'