Marie Linker Paris Fashion Week FW19

Represented by The Riviere Agency.

Australian fashion designer, Marie Linker, showed her elegant eveningwear label, L’Elegante, for the first time internationally this on the runway in Paris during fashion week in collaboration with Oxford Fashion Studio.

The Sydney-based line paraded its latest creation of gowns and luxurious formal wear throughout a ballroom filled with fashion industry guests eager to view her work for the first time outside of Australia. Designer Marie Linker’s Spring/Summer collection, the Elegance collection, exuded pure romance and love with luxurious red silks and fairytale-esque pastel floral appliques. The collection also included hand-designed, dyed, and embroidered fabrics with Swarovski crystal embellishments and French lace. Bright, happy colors reflected the designer’s intentions like red for passion and crystal for glamour and femininity.

 
Marie Linker: Paris FW19

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Beautiful clothes were always an important part of Marie Linker’s life, and she was excited to bring her creative vision to life on the runways of Paris. Her past travels to Paris, Milan, London, and New York inspired her work as a designer and led Marie Linker to develop a skill for choosing luxurious materials and embellishments, which has come full circle this season through her runway presentation.

Special Occasion wear became the basis of L’Elegante whose designs could easily be seen on any red carpet or gala event. With a gown for every personality, this latest L’Elegante collection consisted of statement-making accents like thigh high sexy slits, Swarovski embellishments, keyhole cutout necklines, and beautifully draped chiffons.

Marie Linker’s romantic and feminine style resonated with the audience as each look made its way across the catwalk. Slate greys, sky blue, and pastel pinks softened the passionate reds, whites, and full crystal looks while three dimensional floral and bow appliques brought girly touches into the elegant silhouettes.

Marie Linker wished to introduce L’Elegante to the globe with this collection hoping that her vision of romance and femininity can be passed on to the many women of the world and inspire women of all ages and sizes.

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About Marie Linker

Marie Linker opened her first fashion boutique in Sydney at only 21. She quickly expanded her venture establishing not only her name but 5 more boutiques within Sydney. At the same time she helped distribute Australia’s top fashion designers like Charlie Brown, Cover and Lisa Ho. Marie then expanded into design and the manufacture of her very own fashion label “Marie Cie”.Ten years ago she began specializing in Mother of the Bride & Groom. Today Marie’s experience and fashion sense are the cornerstones of her business “L’Elegante more than just fashion. It is a way a of life”. The head office is located in Sydney’s exclusive Double Bay. For more information, visit www.lelegante.com.au or @lelegante1954 and lelegante on social media.

About Oxford Fashion Studio

Oxford Fashion Studio presents independent and emerging global fashion brands to press and stockists through a runway show platform around the world. Its team of curators reviews more than 40,000 designers a year issuing invitations to brands with original concepts to present their collections in the world’s four fashion capitals. They are experts on these cities and the global fashion currents that flow through them. OFS has produced over 100 runway shows presenting more than 6000 looks across New York, London, Milan and Paris. For more information please visit https://www.oxfordfashionstudio.com/ or follow along on Instagram at @oxfordfashionstudio.

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CHANEL Paris Fashion Week FW19

On Tuesday, October 2, CHANEL transformed the Grand Palais into a beach to present the Spring-Summer 2019 Ready-to-Wear show.

An ideal setting, complete with sand, sea and azure sky.

The colors are luminous: sunshine yellow, golden sand, tan-beige, pink, blue, iced mint and mother-of-pearl white with navy blue and black. A parasol print on chiffon, multi-colored plumetis over tweed, and embroidery of sand and seashells echo the joyful atmosphere.

 
CHANEL: Paris FW19

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The look is defined by sophisticated elegance with fabrics from tweed to chiffon, crêpe, lace, cotton serge, denim, leather and poplin. The suit takes on new volumes: jackets with wide shoulders and flared sleeves paired with slit skirts, or opening over mini-skirts or oversized trousers. Jumpsuits with wide legs sharply contrast with outfits of short jackets and tweed dresses. Masculine jackets couple with strapless shorts or leggings. Jeans go with belted cardigans or swimwear with an asymmetric shoulder.

For both day and evening, vest dresses appear in white tweed, swathed in stripes or embroidered with sequined parasols and sandy-hued tweed dotted with sequins. Others are knotted like towels around the chest and adorned with seashell necklace straps. Oversized tunics with scooped necklines open at the back. Other dresses in mint tweed, beige tweed or crushed golden sand silk, are slit to reveal coordinating shorts. Beach hut stripes appear over layered dresses in crêpe georgette, inlaid with ladder lace. Long chiffon dresses printed with two-tone parasols over a lace outfit create diaphanous fluidity. Resembling trails of sand, embroidery of golden sequins sketches delicate grooves on a pearlized white tweed suit and on dresses in navy crêpe georgette. The waterproof coat for summer showers is reinvented as a flared raincoat in plasticized lace.

Karl Lagerfeld reinvents robes cabanes, or beach-style dresses, in multi-color plumetis of pink tweed and lace ruffles. For evening, dresses are adorned with an origami of chiffon ribbons. The designer reveals a kaleidoscope of sequined parasols over a strapless dress and a scintillation of sequined palm trees over a cage dress in black chiffon. Another is embellished with satin bows and ribbons.

The collection is accessorized with double visor caps and wide-brimmed hats in fringed straw sported with layers of sautoirs, pendants, beaded necklaces and oversized cuff bracelets. A sense of relaxation is accentuated by mules with small, transparent heels or cork soles.

The 11.12 bag is designed in tweed and braid or with parasol embroidery. The Boy CHANEL bag appears as a saddlebag in leather and tweed patchwork. Other bags carried together, crossing over each hip, and introducing a new way of being worn. Flap bags are in terrycloth or with an oversized bead handle and large beach bags come in denim and straw, while multi-color net bags and leather and wicker camera cases complete the collection. Finally, minaudières take shape as seashells or miniature beach balls.

For Spring-Summer 2019, Karl Lagerfeld invites us to enjoy the summer months from morning to night in complete freedom and sophistication. CHANEL ambassadors Vanessa Paradis, Pharrell Williams, Caroline de Maigret, Soo Joo Park, Nana Komatsu, Alessandra Mastronardi, Gwei Lun-Mei and Jennie Kim; singers Jorja Smith, Ibeyi and Clara Luciani; and actresses Mia Goth, Sylvia Hoeks, Sandra Ma and Jelly Lin applauded the creativity of the CHANEL Spring-Summer 2019 Ready-to-Wear Collection.

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Lysandre G.L Paris Fashion Week FW19

Represented by Totem Fashion.

Minhua Guo Lenoir, Olympia Le-Tan former Protégée, launched Lysandre G.L in 2016.

Passionate about the creation of art and fashion, she has spent the last ten years mastering the most difficult techniques. Impressed by her exceptional embroidery skills, between 2011 until 2016, Miss Olympia LeTan, appointed M G Lenoir to elaborate sample models for all of her collections.

 
Lysandre G.L: Paris FW19

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Lysandre G.L invites the art of painting in fashion. The high-end ready-to-wear and handbag brand, created by the designer, carries on its narrative weaving tradition and ultra-contemporary design.

The SS19 collection is the result of the designer’s intense creative process, imbued with a poetic feeling and with influences stemming from the Sahara Desert and the color of Morocco. A modern dichotomy that captures within the lace the most unbridled romanticism. Touch the desert, touch the cactus, touch the color of carpet and travel with the mind.

The chromatic mixtures that M.G.Lenoir uses for her clothes are unexpected and rare, offering a wonderful story to dream and wear. She is an embroidery creator who embroidered her original illustration with delicate silks, and set into the clutches, named Fantasy clutch.

She is an illustrator who paints her rich emotions on fabric. By being inspired by the complex beauty of embroidery, she imagines fashion as a story; LYSANDRE G.L is transforming ordinary objects into eternal works of art.

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Leonard Paris Fashion Week FW19

Represented by DM Media.

This season, Parisian House Leonard takes us on yet another journey, to explore and endlessly rethink the notion of French elegance.

She has wide pockets, platform sandals and is ready to go. The Leonard woman as seen by Christine Phung has left everything to discover the landscape of Masai Mara, at the frontier of Kenya and Tanzania, a childhood dream of hers.

 
Leonard: Paris FW19

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Clad in a cotton gabardine, a clay leather jumpsuit, a Saharienne in Klein blue, or a destructed suit, she feels both lonely and profoundly energized. The sun has burned the earth, and mirages smile at her from afar. Bathed in the shadows of Acacias, she gazes at buffalos, zebras, rhinos and lions.

The aesthetic choc is followed by an identitary one. She meets women from the Masai region, and detects a radically different relation to ornementation. Every piece of jewerly is a sign of belonging and never fragitilty. These designs envelop her neck and ear lobes; they even inspire her to create an adornment in braided silk.

This questioning is reflected in the outfits, with gradually blurry silhouettes. Dresses are assymetrical, semi-pleated, adorned with the Leonard flower in tender, moiré pink. Drapes are warmed up with embroided impressions of a setting sun evoking pointillism. Outfits are knotted, wrapped, interlaced.

This sense of duality will be her main souvenir: she has found both a desire of escapism – expressed in her technical detailing of a her wardrobe – and a profound self-introspection, of her place and codes, symbolized in a soft blur that will never cease to shake her.

To celebrate Leonard’s sixtieth anniversary, seven « heritage » silhouettes inspired by the Maison’s archives will close the show.

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Ambell Paris Fashion Week FW19

Represented by REP Agency.

Ambell is keen to set up the basis for a modern Japanese fashion house balancing Japanese history and skills with novelty designs and away from ideologies of consumerism.

Bunzo Kadono moved back to Nara, Japan in 2009 to found AMBELL after working under Anne Valerie Hash in Paris. He initiated a label anchored in Japanese craftsmanship and tradition with a distinct allure nourished by his deep connection to Paris.

 
Ambell: Paris FW19

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Spring / Summer 2019 Collection
Kintsugi: Recreating heritage

Kintsugi is a traditional pottery repair technique that embraces authenticity and imperfections; that highlights rather than hides the scars; that celebrates the imperfections as part of the object’s history.

This is the dynamic at the center of Ambell’s story line – the belief that beauty itself exists in the essence of all nature. Artistic challenge is born from melding the new out of the inheritance.

The feature of Kintsugi is aptly demonstrated here in the unification of seemingly estranged pieces by banding together vintage kimonos cut outs to create coats and dresses. Kadono emphasizes the general concept of highlighting imperfections, visualizing mends and seams as an additive to celebrate, with a play on metallic inserts in gold, reds and blues and prints and textures reminiscent of pottery embellishment.

Ambell is developed and made exclusively in Japan revitalizing both traditional heritage and promoting innovative local skills.

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John Galliano Paris Fashion Week FW19

Represented by OBCM.

Everything, if only you could see it clearly enough, is beautiful and complete – the ragged nest, Marion’s torn muslin skirts fluted like a nautilus shell, Irma’s ringlets framing her face in exquisite wiry spirals – even Edith, flushed and childishly vulnerable in sleep.”

From Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay

Galliano Spring Summer 2019 is unashamedly pretty, inspired by the original Picnic at Hanging Rock. Galliano girls offer a modern twist on the St. Valentine’s day explorers; feminine, romantic and innocent, wearing lace-panelled pinafores, the Galliano Gazette or their regatta stripes, with straw hats and berets.

 
John Galliano: Paris FW19

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A sun-bleached palette of blues, pinks, monotones to midnight blue compliments the demure high-collar school-girl shapes crafted in feather-light layers of tulle, point d’espirit, lace and woven organdie bands, that flutter down the form in transparent ripples, while tailored check is printed on bias cut shapes. Signature tailoring and delicately ruffled gigot sleeves create a soft Galliano silhouette that is embellished with delicate thread and beaded embroidery. Age-worn silks and dirt trodden prints add narrative to this ethereal silhouette with contemporary toughness as pinafores are styled over string vests and clumpy paramilitary boots.

Boys wear braces, over-sized tailored pants, circular cut collars and jackets with string vests and long johns. His fabrics are oil-washed, dirt-beaten and worn in appearance, the muted check print is bias cut and the Gazette is disheveled to add to the character from the suede sequins to tough paramilitary boots.

This is a spring summer of self-discovery, adventure and identity.

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