The 5 Best Things about Paris Haute Couture SS15

Beauty will save the world. And the haute couture it is, or at least should be, the perfect example. In Paris, the designers try to keep faith in this sentence written many years ago by Dostoevsky, but there will be managed?

#1. CHANEL

Inside the Grand Palais lies a dormant garden of 300 white flowers, carved in metal, awakening by the passage of a magical gardener in overalls and armed with a watering can. All of a sudden the hi-tech bends to poetry and the petals of these tropical plants bloom, coloring the environment of pink, apricot, yellow.  It's a feast for the eyes, a romantic and sensual world, born from the imagination and from the work of Karl Lagerfeld and his staff. In this synthetic paradise move Chanel girls, wrapped in their sorbet suit.

#2. GIAMBATTISTA VALLI

"I love the idea of impossible conversations. Although they seem like opposites, everything you never think could go togetheróactually, they do. Coco and Janis are both free spirits, with that nonchalant kind of attitude."

With these words, Giambattista Valli tells his couture collection, a dialogue between two icons free and revolutionary, between Janis Joplin and Coco Chanel. In a sumptuous hall of the Grand Palais, under a sky of mirrors, between flowering hedges, an enchanted atmosphere and suspended welcomes pastel tones, clouds of fine fabrics, large volumes, the ripples of ruffles, embroidery three-dimensional.

#3. VALENTINO

Amor Vincit Omnia. Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli try to describe the feeling that moves the world, traveling through the heart beats. This collection is a pure look on love and fashion, described by art and beauty. Valentino turns the dream on the subject, in corsets that wrap the figure, in layers of tulle, in long velvet suits and shirts muslin.

#4. ARMANI PRIVE' 

Armani has always Armani. Just this last name to evoke the epitome of refined elegance.

Its high fashion smells of the East, Japan and bamboo. "Because the bamboo?" - Explains Re Giorgio- "Because I wanted it to be the symbol of this collection to embody the idea of a woman strong and supple. Altera nell'attitude but very feminine and enveloping in its charm. I tried every look no telling l 'idea of femininity stiff, stiff. I liked working more sull'evanescenza, on the shadow. as if the body was wrapped in a fog. "

The plain Asian reigns on every item in the collection. And 'hand-painted on the suit of gazar, is carved in the jackets, is virtually woven into the fabric.

#5. DIOR

"For too many years I thought the future was the total rejection of every fragment of the past, then I realized that the past can be just as interesting and intriguing. For this collection is a mix between the charm of the 50s, 60s and experimentation the liberation of the 70s. "

In these words of Raf Simons's full collection Dior. The Rodin museum, a structure of industrial scaffolding, between walls and floors -Mirror carpet colored powder is staged the rainbow of colors and styles signed by the Belgian designer.