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Top 5 fall-winter 2012/13 looks from Paris

 
I’ve given you one week to digest – think of me as your Fashion Week Pepto Bismol. Not to compare fine fashion to food-induced heartburn, think of it rather as a feast of fine cuisine. Paris did not break the bank this year, with forty shows and approximately one thousand outfits up for scrutiny.

Ricardo Tisci, left with an insatiable appetite even after draping Madonna in Givenchy haute couture for her American SuperBowl half-time performance, managed to deliver a collection worthy of the top spot in the fall/winter 2012-13 rankings. Also noteworthy is that his man-skirt will be the first ever featured on this blog. Bravo.

This new heir to the throne of the top spot emphasizes the difference in the rankings from last year: although met with positive reviews last June, the Smalto show was unfortunately cancelled and its black colour was relegated to the last rows of the Dior Homme show. But above all, the most puzzling feat of this years fashion week is the disappearance of the lovely Ann Demeulemeester, without any look featured after a peak of 4 last year. The queen of my previous lists has finally fallen. Acne (as always), Maison Martin Margiela, Mugler and Lanvin, in this order, have usurped her throne.

More stunned than dazzled, my head has turned a lot this week. But fortunately it’s still standing on my shoulders.

 
Non qu’elle soit l’occasion d’excès alimentaires – ce serait même plutôt l’inverse, quelques jours de répit ne sont jamais superflus après l’indigestion d’une semaine de la mode. Paris n’échappe pas à la règle cette saison, avec une quarantaine de défilés et près d’un millier de tenues à scruter le temps d’un passage chronométré.

Etourdie plus qu’éblouie, la mienne a beaucoup tourné cette semaine ; mais touchée n’est pas coupée.
 

1. from Givenchy show.

2. from Acne show.

3. from Maison Martin Margiela show.

4. from Mugler show.

5. from Lanvin show.

The publication may be on hiatus, however the models were certainly out in full force to celebrate the opening of Paris men’s fashion week during the bash Guapo Magazine hosted on Friday at Club 1979.

The following night at Social Club, it was Dior Homme and their artistic director Kris Van Assche’s turn to play host to the glitterati who despite three days of shows were in a high-fying state of mind…

 
La publication a beau être en sommeil, pas les mannequins, venus nombreux et pas des moindres fêter l’ouverture de la semaine parisienne de la mode masculine lors de la soirée Guapo Magazine donnée ce vendredi au Club 1979.

Le couvert est remis dès le lendemain soir au Social Club, où Dior Homme et son directeur artistique Kris Van Assche recevaient également tout ce beau monde, ma foi, après trois jours de défilés, dans un tout aussi un bel état…

Fall-Winter 2012/13

1. from Roberto Cavalli show.

2. from Roberto Cavalli show.

3. from Neil Barrett show.

4. from Calvin Klein show.

5. from Costume National show.

Top 12 sping-summer 2012 looks from Paris

Belgium may not have had a head of government for over a year now, however it is still maintained by a matriarch. With three looks presented in this edited-down selection, Ann Demeulemeester’s latest outing takes the crown as my favorite collection this season yet again. Acne also aces the fashion game, albeit in a whole other manner. Veronique Nichanian’s collection for Hermès remains a sure bet, qualifying two of it’s looks on to the list- it is mostly thanks to the presence of a Haut-à-courroies bag (a BEB staple) that one of them got there in the second place.

To start with, there were more than one thousand, now I have edited them down to barely 12. And if you thought that for even one second I would require your votes to make this drastic selection, you forget that here it is I who am king!

 
Certes, la Belgique n’a plus de gouvernement depuis près d’un an, mais sa Reine règne toujours, tête haute. Avec trois looks représentés dans cette cabine resserrée, Ann Demeulemeester demeure, cette saison encore, ma collection préférée. Dans un style très différent, Acné réalise également un sans-faute. La maison Hermès demeure quant à elle une valeur sûre et parvient à qualifier deux ensembles. C’est à la faveur d’une pièce maîtresse, un sac Haut-à-courroies, que l’un d’entre eux se hisse même sur le podium.

Ils étaient au départ plus d’un millier… Il n’en reste plus que 12. Et si vous songiez un instant que j’allais solliciter vos suffrages pour opérer cette drastique sélection de looks printemps-été 2012, c’est commettre la grossière erreur d’oublier que le Roi, ici, c’est moi !