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THE PRIDE OF PARIS...

Imelda's too busy tanning thus I'm phoning in a the slew of wordless catwalk reports below.

As expected, we’ve seen a plethora of interesting trend developments (and confirmation of trends first seen in Milan) coming out of Paris, including the geta sandal at Galliano, Juun J. fusing futuristic moulded soles with sportive inspired uppers, gender-bending Ziggy Stardust platform wedges at Rick Owens and Raf Simons’ boxed toe Velcro monk strap. I’ll brb with a comprehensive overview, once Yum Yum figures out how to pry me off the sun bed.

RAF SIMONS

 

DIOR HOMME

 JUUN J.

RICK OWENS

 DRIES VAN NOTEN

 

image credit / Sonny Vandevelde

VIKTOR & ROLF

 

JOHN GALLIANO

 JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

 COMME DES GARCONS

 GIVENCHY

 

LES CHAUSSURES DE PARIS

Another mega mash-up...more to come.

GIVENCHY

  

DIOR

 

DRIES VAN NOTEN

LANVIN

THE PRIDE OF PARIS - PART ONE

I’d like to believe that nothing gets in the way of Imelda giving good shoe, but over the past 3 days that hasn’t been the case.

When you’re in the eye of a cultural shit storm (and it's chewing up your inbound traffic) an astute blogger once told me, to pull back, horde your content like Edie Beale and wait for it to pass. Since menswear is already under reported and with people glued to news-a-tainment sites E and TMZ, why (as Wendy Brands tweeted) “waste the content”.

Despite designers presenting some of the most exciting footwear innovations seen by the Despotic Queen for several seasons, no one (except maybe my dire hard Imeldette’s) was interested in reading about men’s footwear. I might be a couple of days late with my rent but I'm always good for it...as you're about to discover. 

DIOR HOMME

LANVIN

PAUL SMITH

MIHARA YUSHIRO

JOHN GALLIANO

I’m trying not to short shrift chu but with about 20 collections to churn through, I’m going to pull out my highlights and then comeback with for the wrap post.

HARE APPARENT

This afternoon at Louis Vuitton, Gareth Pugh and his new Over Lord, Bernard Arnault dished up another high profile bitch slappn' to Dior Homme Creative Director, Kris Van Assche. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! 

Make the call so we can all move on...Imelda can't help but to speculate, are LVMH staff are subjected to such torturous public ridicule? 

CLICK TO ENLARGE...IT'S A WHOLE LOT FUNNIER!

BUBBLE, BUBBLE, BOIL & TROUBLE

Squeezing back inside the Paris Fashion bubble is proving more difficult than I anticipated. I've been unnecessarily weighed down with distractions (like running a covert International human trafficking business) and they've proven most hazardous to my blogging schedule - and of course the post Mardi Gras recovery hasn’t helped. No,no,no…that last statement isn’t open to interpretation - Imelda hasn’t done rufies since the cloak check at 54 switched Liza’s purse for mine.

Yesterday I called to order the unholy triumvirate (aka Despotic Frocks Take On™) and we’ve agreed to reconvene our Coven it Live extravaganza for a dis-cussion of A/W 09/10. Start noting down your pithy observations…time and date to follow.

Now that I have an impending date with my beloved Imeldette’s, I’m starting to squirrel away all my good material instead of dropping it here. But fear not, batten down your petty pants because if we’re to talk shoes I want you to have seen ‘em all…so without further 'gobble-gobble' from this old boiler…here’s the last 3 days (working from today back) of Paris Fashions.

VIKTOR & ROLF

GIAMBATTISTA VALLI

STELLA MACARTNEY

SONIA RYKIEL

DRIES VAN NOTEN

COMME DES GARCONS

ANN DEMEULEMEESTER

ISSEY MIYAKE

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA

LANVIN