As it has been known to happen at Fashion Week, the runway show for this year’s fall/winter 2009-2010 collection by Givenchy started late. The show, which took place on the evening of Sunday, March 8, 2009 at the Carreau du Temple in Paris, was plagued because the clothes arrived late. Blame it on the overly cramped scheduling of Paris Fashion Week combined with the bad parisian city traffic.
Once the Givenchy catwalk show got underway — almost an hour late — the colors of the evening were black, white, and silver.
Hemlines were often long, and often paired with long sleeves for this fall/winter 2009-2010 collection.
As stated by the AP, “[designer Riccardo] Tisci, known as fashion’s resident goth, stayed on the dark side with a display that was at once hauntingly beautiful and a tad repulsive.” Why repulsive? There was a very liberal use of hair, ranging from “Cousin Itt” dresses to necklines to sandals. One skirt even featured what could be considered a tail.
Commenting on this “weird” obsession with hair, the Times Online’s Lisa Armstrong said the following, “What they do is find a goat [...] Next they buy the hair, dye it witchy-black, iron it, and hang it off clothes. Mostly shoulders, a few hips, but at Givenchy it covered the whole front of a dress. From a distance, I thought that one model was wearing Naomi Campbell.”
The prognosis for autumn wasn’t entirely dreary in color, however; there were also bright dark blue sequined or rhinestone shoulder pads and hints of pale pink.
Silver and white were the colors of the Givenchy evening wear designs, many covered in studs. One notable piece involved a white ostrich feather shrug.
Overall, Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy Fall/Winter 2009 runway show at Paris Fashion Week was “a lovely but lurid collection of gorgeously tailored pant and skirt suits with hard-core finishings”, according to the AP.
Sources: Telegraph
- AP
- Times Online
- Photo sources: Telegraph and Guardian UK
