100% with you on #1 bootylicious... Couture is all about being outrageous... although I think fashion is not surprised by a boob nowadays... Heck, they shave messages into pubic hair now! But this is just my humble opinion. I know what a boob is. I have 2 of my own. ENOUGH ALREADY.

AND IF NAOMI'S TIME IS "PASSED", THEN I SAY PHHOEY ON THE FASHION WORLD.

Thanks again SALTYT... Terrific job... I am speechless.

PS Someone FEED Eva.

I'm afraid my very subjective editing process could lead to a wrong picture. Haute Couture is definitely about clothes, and spectacular ones, and not about boobs.

Yet if the HC shows are a big event in the modelling world (lots of $$$, big exposure, tons of gossip), it is not very important in the fashion world. For example, Anne Wintour, Carrie Donovan and other big shots are not in Paris this week - they'll come only next month, for the Pret a Porter shows. And more and more fashion houses deliberately close down their Couture lines. The new designers do the Couture week for exposure, but they don't dig it, so it really looks like a regular ready to wear show.

So why the tits are out? Most dresses are so expensive only very very rich ladies can afford them. A strong proportion of those are saudi princesses, and the dresses therefore must be very conservative (Le Figaro pointed out yesterday that some designers have straightforwardly presented black muslim dresses on the catwalk). Since you cannot have a show with this kind of garnment, the designer cuts the dress strategically for the show purpose, revealing legs and tits to keep the public alive.


Take even the "scandalous" wedding dress above - if you look at it closely, you'll see the dress is a kind of huge tent, that could easily cover the bride from head to toe. For the show, the designer cut it out in the middle, and the model was asked to wear nothing underneath. It looks bold, sexy, parisian. But he will sell about three dresses, all of them altered to cover maximum body. The real brides in the Emirates will wear the dress alright, complete with the diamonds - but no skin will appear under the eyes line.

As for Philip Treacy - he's a London folk hero. He didn't received any reviews in the French press, but British tabloids are full of his show. Still, it's more interesting when you have a true iconoclast on show...

Naomi - I agree, she still has it. Very strong "presence", and lots of media coverage. Almost all the classic supermodels are here this week, I even noticed Helen Christiansen walking on some catwalk. I wished Kate would...

Patrick... I MISS KATE TOO!!!

Maybe you could have a Kate "special"... :)

Keep up the great job! I am a huge fan!!!

Oh yes, JPG is a national hero here. Probably the most important French designer since Yves Saint Laurent. And journalists love to say how nice and polite he is, he and alber elbaz are the most beloved designers in the French press.

The truth is a friend at ELLE gave me a carton (that's how we call reserved invitations) for tomorrow night, but generally those events are disappointing. The real wild parties are at secret locations around 4 o'clock in the morning, not at midnight at the VIP Room. You can't expect a wild party at a spot that was already mentionned in Page Six -- too many ordinary people could show up... I've heard rumours about the Jaccuzi room at a place called Villa Beaumarchais, all the models are there and it's not mentionned in the official logistics brochure, let alone in the magazines.

of course not the VIP room, being there for more than an hour is boring..
i really cant dig the whole cheeze of it, i rather be in a place with good music. in october some place on saint honore was where gisle, damon, and aoki were. after hearing jayz for the 9th time i was gone.
its not hard to find those designer gigs though honestly... they should hide it better...and most the designers never even go to them. even the models seem bored, like they are paid to show up to them.

Hi fashiondoodleguy, long time
no hear from you... Yes, I agree about Maja, she's very interesting. I have the cover, but Ii'm not sure about the mag yet, surface*. It seems to me too thin, too confusing, without a clear editorial policy. Can you be about art AND fashion AND design AND Interiors in a mere 100 pages? The jury is still out -- but I'll give it another chance. Hey, I even dislike this stupid asterik * of their title - so 90s....

Amen to that! Gaah!