Paris Fashion Week starts with glamourous haute couture · 2007-01-23 15:29
Paris launched its couture week on Monday. Around 25 designers will show their haute couture collections during the most expensive week of the international fashion.
Four designers revealed their Haute Couture collections including the visions of Elie Saab, a designer whose collections attract the very rich who can afford the most expensive clothes in the world.
Saab has been doing high fashion for five years and counts actress Halle Berry as one of his clients.
For Christian Dior haute couture show designer John Galliano chose a theme of Puccini’s tragic romance, Madame Butterfly. He displayed kimono-style gowns featuring intricate origami pleating and shimmering floral embroidery.
“This is haute couture at its highest level,” Dior CEO Sidney Toledano said before the show. “We wanted the show to be quite intimate so that the press and all the people present can appreciate the exceptional quality of this work.”
Only several fashion houses continue to produce haute couture creations, whose price tags can run into six figures. With fewer than 500 customers worldwide, couture is traditionally a loss-making activity that serves mainly to enhance a brand’s image.
Italian designer Valentino took a “less is more” approach with a white collection that paid homage to his landmark 1968 show in Florence’s Pitti Palace.
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