It's hazardous to be in style these days. Witness the movie stars and models who stumble, while wearing the break-an-ankle platform or spike heels and risqué fashions in trip-over lengths paraded on red carpets at Hollywood awards and catwalks during spring fashion week.
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months," Oscar Wilde said.
Indeed, this season, it seems haute couture designers can't decide what era they want to imitate. Tribal prints and textured fabrics are trending alongside leather harnesses layered over gauzy, translucent tunics.replicalvhandbags Also in are backless and frontless (or so it seems) mermaid gowns that have sweeping fishtails. Hello … the reason the little mermaid didn't join the prince on shore was because she couldn't walk on her fishtail.diorhandbags A '40s revival of Dior's nipped-waist jackets with peplum-accented hips has reemerged as a Greek tunic belted with a flap of fabric at the waist. Egad! Raise your hands now: How many of us are trying to hide,cheapchaneljewellery not accent, bottomly figures? Sweet Peter Pan collars have returned from the '60s along with vintage apron dresses that are supposed to bring to mind wholesome Donna Reed housewives, but conjure up a French maid instead.
Speaking of the French, Parisian milliner Rose Bertin was the first designer to gain fame.womencanadagoosecoats Her career got a boost after she met Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria/queen of Hungary. Maria Theresa had 16 children, so in an effort to get at least one of them out of the castle, she hired Bertin to give her rebellious 14-year-old Maria Antonia a makeover.hermesbirkinreplica Then she arranged the girl's marriage to an awkward teen from France, who soon became King Louis XVI.
Marie Antoinette, as she was known in France, dazzled the court in Bertin's elaborate designs with corseted waists, pannier-framed hips and deep décolletage, but Mama was appalled; she thought her daughter looked like a trollop and would make Mr. Blackwell's worst-dressed list — or worse yet.
At least she didn't wear a naval ring or have a safety pin through her eyebrow. As comedian Carol Hughes observed: "I didn't even know your eyebrow could fall off!"
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months," Oscar Wilde said.
Indeed, this season, it seems haute couture designers can't decide what era they want to imitate. Tribal prints and textured fabrics are trending alongside leather harnesses layered over gauzy, translucent tunics.replicalvhandbags Also in are backless and frontless (or so it seems) mermaid gowns that have sweeping fishtails. Hello … the reason the little mermaid didn't join the prince on shore was because she couldn't walk on her fishtail.diorhandbags A '40s revival of Dior's nipped-waist jackets with peplum-accented hips has reemerged as a Greek tunic belted with a flap of fabric at the waist. Egad! Raise your hands now: How many of us are trying to hide,cheapchaneljewellery not accent, bottomly figures? Sweet Peter Pan collars have returned from the '60s along with vintage apron dresses that are supposed to bring to mind wholesome Donna Reed housewives, but conjure up a French maid instead.
Speaking of the French, Parisian milliner Rose Bertin was the first designer to gain fame.womencanadagoosecoats Her career got a boost after she met Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria/queen of Hungary. Maria Theresa had 16 children, so in an effort to get at least one of them out of the castle, she hired Bertin to give her rebellious 14-year-old Maria Antonia a makeover.hermesbirkinreplica Then she arranged the girl's marriage to an awkward teen from France, who soon became King Louis XVI.
Marie Antoinette, as she was known in France, dazzled the court in Bertin's elaborate designs with corseted waists, pannier-framed hips and deep décolletage, but Mama was appalled; she thought her daughter looked like a trollop and would make Mr. Blackwell's worst-dressed list — or worse yet.
At least she didn't wear a naval ring or have a safety pin through her eyebrow. As comedian Carol Hughes observed: "I didn't even know your eyebrow could fall off!"
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