Paris Fashion Week, Fall 2008!

Crap, I'm so behind in keeping up with all the Paris shows! Which is too bad because there has been some stunning work so far, Paris being the city of truly visionary design talent, where some designers really are auteurs and bizarre runway styling is just par for the course. If there's one designer who's got me, it's completely Rick Owens, and he turned in a superlative show this season. He took the couture experimentation of his spring show and brought it back to his usual post-apocalyptic tropes, and the result are feats of fantastic cut and construction by someone who was already was a master at those things. If you're at all a fan of jackets, Owens is your man. Balenciaga, of course, is always eagerly awaited; who doesn't want to see what emerging from the mind of Nicholas Ghesquiere? He always freaks people out: "I don't want to look like a scary sci-fi freak!" "That's so shiny!" "Who can walk in those?!" But take apart his collections piece by piece and there is often something wearable, even as it challenges the eye. In fact, so much of Paris is about challenging the eye, thinking about the foundations of clothes and their relationships to bodies -- and how this overarching project gets translated into actual product is why this city is the beating heart of fashion.

There was so much else, of course -- seeing Comme des Garcons experiment with "trashiness," watching Galliano being so subdued at Dior -- but alas, pictures are better than words, no?

(l-r: Ann Demeulemeester, Balenciaga)

(l-r: Balmain, Comme Des Garcons)

(l-r: Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier)

(l-r: Jun Watanabe, Kris Van Assche)

(l-r: Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens)

(l-r: Tao, Undercover)

(l-r: Veronique Branquinho, Viktor & Rolf)

(l-r: Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto)

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