Saint Laurent Ready-to-Wear Fall 2018. Paris Fashion Week

 

(Images: Yannis Vlamos / Indigital.TV via Vogue.com All credit.  Used in promotion of the designer)

After the woeful showings at all the Ready-to-Wear fashion weeks leading up to Paris, it is of course reliant that the Paris fashion week/s be the Crème de la Crème (on a good day) however failings occur at every fashion week.  But New York, London and Milan just showed how poor fashion is being crafted at the moment, too many brands eager for a spotlight and dreadful sourcing of trends from hashtag ‘digital’ movements (which was noted by two major Fashion magazine/websites).

You cannot reshape fashion as an attempt at reshaping the physical form.  If there is a duality in fashion it is to accentuate the male or female physique.  The skilled designer can decree styles, even with experimentation, that will still define both of the sexes.  In which was witnessed via the Men’s Fall 2018 collections that embraced and representing the masculine form (within its different mediums),  as opposed to the Fall 2018 RTW women’s shows so far this year, it has been a covering up, dampening and suppressing of  the female shape.   These are not social/political statements derived from a confused idealogical spectrum, but rather, sloppy designers assuming markets exist (which they’ll find out the hard way – don’t exist at all).  Women dress for themselves, not men, their narcissism of reflected beauty is one of the perfections of the feminine.  Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent understands this.

As noted in my Saint Laurent Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear. Paris Fashion Week review, Anthony Vaccarello has reinstated the rebellious sex appeal, a defiance against enforced convention.   Drawing from the early years, more so from Yves Saint Laurent‘s Russian ‘Cossack modernist’ collection which was shown in 1976, Vaccarello has stripped it back, revealing more flesh and risqué.  Even with the cold snap that has ascended across Europe, a sexual radiance of female desire is the eternal flame.  What better way to keep warm at night.

Saint Laurent Ready-to-Wear Fall 2018 collection is absolutely stunning, the intricacies  and mystique of lace and its dark enveloping styles, which emanates a free flowing and sensuously crafted array.  As it emphasizes those core aesthetics, a confidence within becomes its reflection of desire.  Once again, as noted with Christoper Kane’s Fall 2018 collection, leather and lace, combined is an impressive look.  A sexual exuberance, that holds the mysterious.  That in turn works so well as a combined piece.  Leather pants and loose style high hemmed shorts, vastly different than tighter styles.   Vaccarello paid homage to Yves Saint Laurent‘s Rive Gauche Paris bohemianism,  tassels, jewelry, beads and hanging accessories.   Sequence dresses, hemmed high over the knee with floral designs.  Evening style cocktail dresses.  The colour spectrum is mostly dark and moody, with an overall sultry focus.