Posts in Tag ‘Formal Dresses’

Formal Dresses 2011 | Balmain

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

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This season, fall winter 2010 2011, Balmain’s gone Baroque ‘n’ roll, with a Balmain outing pitched somewhere between Prince’s Purple Rain pomp and Louis XIV at Versailles. Gold, brocade, frock coats, Louis-heeled ribbon-laced boots, sequin and lamé formal dresses galore: Decarnin went for it.

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Formal Dresses 2010 | Carolina Herrera

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

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Carolina Herrera’s program notes explained that the spring summer 2010 collection’s starting point was the intricate forms woven in Japanese baskets. A rarefied inspiration, to be sure, and one that meant there was plenty of surface interest to take in on the clothes, from an intriguing vest-jacket woven in gray linen jacquard to a strapless white dress embroidered with tiny wooden tiles.

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