Texture, color and fit are pulling fashion forward from young designers like Julien David who refines his girlish vibe with fabric innovation, Raf Simons who is breaking the couture codes at Christian Dior to suit a modern woman and Isabel Marant who injected new volume into her trademark style.

Raf Simons continues his clean sweep at Christian Dior. His unconstricted silhouettes, a an easy mix of flou and tailoring, are beginning to make the secondskin hourglass look like fashion history. Simons playfully put what looked like corset lacing on the sides, and across the fronts of coats and dresses, but for him the refference is sneakers which just goes to show where his mind is leading Dior. He sportified classic black stilettoes too giving them multicolored plastic sneaker soles. Couture embroidery is reduced to a faux-brooch slashed through by the slit of a skirt, and Simons takes the paintbox to fur, coloring mink in yellow and green and giving the asktrakhan coat a wild ride in brilliant pink. Double dresses looked like paper doll cut outs and trapunto quilted silk was spiced up with sinuous nudes stitched into the patterns.

Is the Isabel Marant girl ready to trade in her swivel hips for a pair of slouchy pants ? Marant posed the question beginning her show with a pair of side-laced parachute pants with a high paperbag waist in white worn with a strapped on fur vest. Ethnic blanket stripes, leather strapped fur boots, military khaki tailoring, plaid shirt jackets, wrinkled silk and padded cottons followed for a more relaxed, rough and rustic look bordering on grunge.

Julien David did something marvelous this season, he managed to produce a collection that was both girlish and sophisticated. Two crushed barricade sculptures dipped in 24-karat gold by the artist Aaron Young set the scene for his exploration of texture in simple shapes with genuine street appeal. David’s girls like capes, duffel coats, bathrobes and T-shirt dresses, stadium jackets, cardigans, crunchy textured socks and cowhide leather shoes, but that’s just the sweet and simple framework.  The real show here was all in the fabrics.  Mixed in with honest wool melton and washed cotton is a cache of fantastic textures including stretch silk which wrinkles over the body like sculpture, shrunken leather, wild loopy hand knit wool, embroidered cord fringe and metallic wire loop embroidered in ombré colors for T-shirt flapper dresses with sizzle and shine.

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5: Woodkid Performance at Eiffel Tower

Intel gave Vice loads of money to put together the biggest hipster event of the year. The concept: Music meets Fashion. To ensure it would be the biggest hipster event of the year they did something very simple: they combined the hippest designer (JCDC), the cool indie guy of the moment (Woodkid), and the most known place on earth: The Eiffel Tower.

http://www.tendaysinparis.com/woodkid-live-performance-at-the-eiffel-tower-8422.html

4: Dior Aftershow at Social Club

Social Club is usually crowded with hipster teens dancing to performances from top DJs and engaging in drunken make-out sessions. This time it was the same, but different. Still electronic music, still a party culminating in drunken hook-ups, but this time the teens were not hipsters but male supermodels doing what drunk male supermodels do best… Oh, and Olivier Zahm, Jared Leto, and Kris Van Assche were also at the party.

http://www.tendaysinparis.com/dior-aftershow-at-social-club-8362.html

3: Prix Lafayette X Toilet Paper Magazine

La FIAC seems boring as fuck: old people and culture-lover-wannabes looking at overpriced art. But surprisingly it turned out to be one of the best moments of the year when Maurizio Cattelan decided to bring all the art world and some Italian beauties to Maxim’s. Oh mama!

http://www.tendaysinparis.com/toiletpaper-magazine-fiac-11954.html

2: This Is New York at le Regine

A total classic of fashion week: drunk models, drunk NYC cuties, and drunk stylists. This one at le Regine was crazy. Can’t wait for the next women’s fashion week for another epic Sunday night party at le Regine

http://www.tendaysinparis.com/this-is-new-york-by-grandlife-at-regine-11717.html

1: Jalouse Prom Ball

Cocktail dresses, high heels, and tuxedos? Seems a bit cheesy. But not when it’s organized by Jalouse. Jalouse is by far the coolest fashion magazine in town, which is why they’ve got all the coolest friends and know the cutest Parisian girls.

http://www.tendaysinparis.com/prom-ball-jalouse-15-years-birthday-party-11681.html

0: Ten Days in Paris 2-Year Anniversary Party at l’Inconnu

Yes, sorry Jalouse, but we were responsible for the party of the year! No need for the Eiffel Tower–just take over the new cool spot in town (L’Inconnu) and bring top Djs (the model Mae Lapres and GLD & Manare, the upcoming Parisian sensations  of Youngunz). The result: loads of cute drunk chicks, cupcakes, and a week-long hangover.

http://www.tendaysinparis.com/ten-days-in-paris-2nd-anniversary-party-10033.html

Article: Ruben Nataf

Andre, Natacha Ramsay, Olivier Zahm

It was one of fashion week’s hottest parties, held Sunday, March 4 at the Salomon Rothschild Hotel. Victoire De Castellan presented her bright new jewelry collection with all our favorite cool, worldly celebrities and designers. Kid Creole &The Coconuts set the vibe and the real luxury soirée opened with tasty champagne, a mountain of juicy fruit, and gold, shiny, black-suited guests.  Santé!

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For one night Social Club, the Parisian temple of electronic music, was free of kids and hosting a totally different crowd: Dior Homme booked the place for a huge party. Drunk male models everywhere, Olivier Zahm, Jared Leto, Kris Van Assche and a DJ set by Andy Butler from Hercules  & Love Affaire.

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