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FEATUREFriday 4 March 2016
Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner swap hair color at Balmain Paris
THOMAS ADAMSON from the 18th century.
AP Fashion Writer But Chloe— the house that
PARIS (AP) — Models-of- was credited with inventing
the-minute Gigi Hadid and women’s ready-to-wear in
Kendall Jenner provoked the first place — is for girls
double takes from the front at heart.
row crowd at Paris Fash- Thus the Gaucho styles
ion Week on Thursday, ap- were translated for a femi-
pearing to have swapped nine palette — with pon-
hair color at Balmain. The cho, or cape-style silhou-
playful hair confusion was ettes — coming as a ruffled
cheered by front row at- dress in blue, or elsewhere
tendees Kanye West and a pale peach silk top.
mother-in-law Kris Jenner. ___
Here are the other high- RICK OWENS COCOONS
lights of the fall-winter 2016 Paris’ enfant terrible Rick
shows. Owens presented a typi-
___ cally strong show Thursday
HAIR SWAP evening — replete with
Jenner, 20, opened Bal- abstract creative flourishes
main’s show in a dramatic that saw models becoming
pale blue layered cape sil- organically cocooned in
houette. material. In one of the U.S.-
But the flurry of photogra- A model wears a creation for Rick Owens’ Fall-Winter 2016 - 2017 ready to wear collection pre- born designer’s most color-
phers’ flashes directed at sented Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Paris. ful shows in recent memo-
the bold fall-winter outfit ry, yards of purple, umber,
Associated Press
was likely intensified by the opulent venue contrasted there was little subtlety and didn’t quite work since it jade, gray and off-white
former brunette’s transfor- with stripes on heavily orna- sense to many of the looks. slouched down the model. fabric was conjured up in
mation into an icy blond. mented silhouettes. ___ ___ divergent shapes —some-
It was a tongue-in-cheek Heavy fringing, netting, LANVIN PRESENTS WITHOUT CHLOE’S FEMININE GAU- times ruffled and draped
move on the part of Bal- thick layering, hips sculpted A DESIGNER CHO and gathered down the
main designer Olivier Rous- roundly in corset-like ribbed Lanvin is, alongside Chris- Designer Clare Waight body, or exploding horizon-
teing. skirts and stone-studded tian Dior, one of two major Keller took the famed tally across the bust.
Adding to the hairstyle dra- chokers created the sense Parisian houses steaming Chloe girl on a Seventies- Nylon candy floss-style wigs
ma, Hadid, who’s also 20, of weighty opulence through the fashionseasons infused tour of the world of signaled the obligatory turn
strutted out straight after alongside decorative fab- without a creative director. the gaucho in Thursday’s to the abstract for the laud-
Jenner, and in the place Israeli designer Alber Elbaz
parted ways in October of
last year after 15 years of
his creative tenure under
which storied Lanvin saw its
reputation restored as one
of France’s most creative
brands.
Thursday saw the label
present its first collection
without him.
Celebrity guests Kelly Row-
land and Ciara ensured
that the media interest was
maintained in the fall-win-
ter collection — but in the A model wears a creation for Carven’s fall-winter 2016/2017
A model wears a creation for Manish Arora’s Fall-Winter 2016- clothes themselves there ready to wear fashion collection presented Thursday, March 3,
2017 ready to wear collection, Thursday, March 3, 2016 in Paris. was the slight feeling that
something was missing. 2016 in Paris. Associated Press
Associated Press
of her enviable blond locks ric embroideries and ba- A beautiful gathered and fall-winter ready-to-wear ed 53-year-old designer —
she sported dark hair with a roque swirls. ruffled one shoulder cock- morning show. as they completely envel-
chic center parting. The feel was the late 19th tail dress in cream hit a Models strode past guests oped the models’ heads,
The hair swap couple century — and at certain high, as did a Katharine at Paris’ Grand Palais in with the silken feeling of a
posed backstage for a points it evoked the noble Hepburn-style 1940s strong- leather boots in black, tan, spider’s web or a sticky but-
photo that appeared on dames of the Paris Opera shouldered black coat with brown and cobalt blue — terfly cocoon.
Balmain’s Twitter account. under the Second Empire. fox fur slug chicly over the in often billowing and ruffle- Despite this description,
___ But this was still very 21st shoulder. laced silhouettes and 70s- many of these creative
BALMAIN’S THEATER century Balmain. But in many of the 46 looks style center partings. looks were also highly sale-
Designer Olivier Rousteing’s Waists were aggressively there was something off Neckties and ponchos able, and for once Owens’
famed sense of drama cinched, often with the kilter in the fit of the silhou- conjured up the spirit of the paid attention to the fe-
reached new heights — for help of big bands, some- ette. famed Argentine or Uru- male form — highlighting
good and for bad — at his times leading up to a cor- The blue-gray metallic tux- guay-style cowboys —who shoulder, and presenting
fall-winter show for Balmain set bustier. edo that opened the show became greatly admired some billowing pant de-
as the black and mirrored Metallic sheen leggings made an attempt to play and renowned in legends, signs that enviably elongat-
lozenge stone floor of the shimmered past sexily and on eveningwear-as-office- folklore and in literature ed the leg.
wear with its ruffled frills, but
