Eleonora Genieve de Gray

Chanel Haute Couture Fall Winter 2021-2022

Posted on August 7, 2021 by Eleonora Genieve de Gray

Painting is at the heart of the Chanel Fall Winter 2021-2022 Haute Couture collection: “It was when I rediscovered these portraits of Gabrielle Chanel dressed up in black or white 1880s-style dresses, that I immediately thought about tableaux,” explains Virginie Viard. “Works by Berthe Morisot, Marie Laurencin and Édouard Manet. There are impressionist-inspired dresses, skirts that look like paintings and a long white satin dress punctuated with black bows like Morisot’s…” It made perfect sense…

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Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2021-2022

Posted on August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 by Eleonora Genieve de Gray

Another fabulous fairy-tale of Pierpaolo Piccioli, artistic director of Maison Valentino, unfolded today, as a final firework of Haute Couture fashion week in Paris. Indeed Valentino house presented in Paris, but this time the show took place in Venice. Driven by the need to create a community of artists around Maison Valentino, convinced that painting is to contemporary art what Haute Couture is to fashion, the Artistic Director Pierpaolo Piccioli brings a group to the…

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Fashion Show: CHANEL

Posted on July 25, 2011August 14, 2019 by Eleonora Genieve de Gray

There was some early morning rain on October 5th– the great morning of fashion week. Karl Lagerfeld showed his collection for Chanel in Grand Palais – the Grand Canyon of Paris. The whole stage was grand in nature and was shown as a replica of the Versailles garden. The only distinguishing difference was that the garden had a black and white, monochromatic color scheme which portrayed the garden in a different light. The runway theme was…

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Romantic Summer of Parisian Haute Couture Fashion Week 2011

Posted on June 25, 2011July 25, 2019 by Eleonora Genieve de Gray

Parisian Haute Couture Fashion Week is always a great parade of wonderful surprises and discoveries. It is the archetype of all collections from the past and present came together to represent the iconic styles of great romantic woman today. The new collection by John Galliano mirrors the early beginnings of Dior. The collection is distinctive of its charming and ultra feminine ladies of the 1950′s, such icons as Crudelia De Vil and high society housewives are…

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