subscribe to style file blog via RSSSessilee = Grace: More Eighties At Couture
January 30, 2009 10:29 am
With Jean-Paul Goude doing the rounds this week and Inès de la Fressange at Gaultier Paris, it seems like a full-on eighties couture revival is upon us. Alexandre Vauthier, former first assistant to Gaultier and a veteran of Thierry Mugler’s atelier, narrowed his vision on Grace Jones. A pointy shoulder formed the main silhouette story and Vauthier took it to extremes, sending out the kind of sharp angles that of course recall the decades-old heyday of Mugler and Gaultier (well, actually, also Gaultier’s current day) as well as the more recent revival kick-started by Martin Margiela. Still, it was somewhat of a time warp. Sessilee Lopez with an ultra-cinched waist and shoulders out to there was pure Grace incarnate. Not that we minded. When it comes to full-on fashion drama, we’re slaves to the rhythm.
tags: Alexandre Vauthier, Grace Jones, Ines de la Fressange, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jean-Paul Goude, Thierry Mugler
I don’t mind either that gorgeous Sessilee Lopez was a kind of Grace Jones incarnate. I loved Gaulthier’s show. The 80’s was a great decade I was a slave to the rhythm then and I still am now. So it doesn’t make me sad to wear this look again. What did I say? I already do for almost a year: wearing my vintage Mugler jacket! Yes, I knew it the time was right…..
By Appollonia on 01/30/09 at 12:11 pm