It was certainly meant as a last-stand fin de siècle blast against the predicament in which fashion, and possibly consumerism as a whole, finds itself. The set was a scrap heap of debris from the stages of McQueen’s own past shows, surrounded by a shattered glass runway. The clothes were, for the most part, high-drama satires of twentieth-century landmark fashion: parodies of Christian Dior houndstooth New Look and Chanel tweed suits, moving through harsh orange and black harlequinade looks to revisited showstoppers from McQueen’s own archive.

The romantic side of McQueen’s character, which rises intermittently in deliriously beautiful shows like his recent tribute to the Victorian empire, was emphatically in abeyance. This is a designer who has drawn so much poetry out of the past, yet this time his backward look appeared to be in something like anger, defiance, or possibly gallows humor. Some of the pieces, like a couple of swag-sided coats, seemed to be made of trash bags, accessorized with aluminum cans wrapped in plastic as headgear.

Nevertheless, however frustrated McQueen may be by the state of commercial fashion, he was not really in absurdist rip-it-up mode. Whatever else is gnawing him, this is a man who will never compromise on construction and craftsmanship. This season, he’d noticeably forgone his typical carapace corsetry, making for slightly easier shapes, like boxy jackets, airy gazar dresses, and a fringed dogtooth sheath. For McQueen’s faithful, there were also fiercely tailored coats, nipped in the waist and picking up on biker quilted leather and big-shouldered silhouettes. Evening-wise—sans the drag-queen makeup—there was a slim, black paillette homage-to-YSL wrapover dress with a red-lined hood that would stand up as elegant in any company.

Ultimately, for all the feathered and sculpted showpieces that must have taken hundreds of seamstress-hours to perfect, this was a McQueen collection that didn’t push fashion anywhere new. Yet that seemed to be exactly one of the things he was pointing to: the state of a collapsed economy that doesn’t know how to move forward.

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Johnny Depp’s longtime girlfriend & mother to his children, Vanessa Paradis, has reportedly replaced fellow actress Kirsten Dunst as the lovely face for Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada’s sporty fashion line.

Paradis will be seen in the coming fall sporting the label’s futuristic campaign & my, will we be so much happier with this choice compared to Dunst…. by blavish

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On May 17-18th graduate students of fashion design faculty at Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts demonstrated their graduation collections.
Among them were young member designers of Armenian Fashion Council Margarita Sargsyan, Ani Melikbekyan, Anoushik Mayilyan, Janna Katunyan, Anna Cherkezyan. All of them got excellency marks for their collections.
From retro inspired themes of  20’s and 60’s fashion to urban styles inspired by disco ballerina, rock and gothic culture,  ethnic styles and  tribal motives enspired by egyptian mummies and Armenian folk -  the new collections had a strong sense of fashion trends and artistic approach. 
All designers are young ladies making their first steps into fashion industry, with some of whom contracts are already signed for developing commercial lines.

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• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Zatik Studio
• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Zatik Studio
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07

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• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Kevork Shadoyan
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07

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• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Gayane Soghomonyan
• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Gayane Soghomonyan
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07
• Preta-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2005’06!

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• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Arevik Simonyan
• Fashion Collection fw0708 by Arevik Simonyan
• Arevik Simonyan in Russian Fashion Week SS08
• Arevik Simonyan in Russian Fashion Week SS08
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07
• Pret-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2006’07
• Preta-a-Porter Yerevan Fashion Event 2005’06!

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