Fashion

Spring/Summer Haute Couture 2010
Here are two of my favourites from the Spring/Summer Haute Couture 2010 Collections.

Stephane Rolland



Stephane Rolland is undoubtedly a Genius.

His collection for Spring/Summer 2010 has again set even higher standards of modern day haute couture.

For this season, he has created beautiful dresses and suits with luscious draping around the shoulders and the shoulder blades. The Rolland look is definitely present in the collection with his voluminous fabrics that fall and form mini capes that drop just below the waist. It takes on a graphic look at times with added on embellishments on the shoulder of his cream gown or his white dresses. These pieces are used to encircle the shoulder or to open up dresses at their splits above the knees.

Rolland definitely has a love for silk chiffon. He uses it to create large, yet soft structures on one gown. When you see this, you understand what it truly means to be a part of the world of haute couture.


Chanel






"an electronic flash in my head at five o'clock one morning Silver and pastel,"said Karl Largerfeld to style.com. "It's the first time in my whole career I've done a collection without black or navy. There's not one gold button."

From the heart-shaped cartoonish hair to the horizontal bands of mille-feuille chiffon frills, minutely frayed at the edges, his collection is a soft romantic paradise for any girl looking for her feminine side.

The collection gives a sense of a 1950's night gown with more sophisticated femininity.

Overall I adore the collection, as always Largerfeld captured the classic Coco Chanel designs while creating something new and beautiful.

Quotes I Love

Coco Chanel
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

"A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."



"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

"Elegance is refusal."

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

"Great loves too must be endured."

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."

"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."

"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."

"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."

"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

"There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!"

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"

"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger."

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."

Imelda Marcos
"I do not have 3000 pairs of shoes, I have one thousand and sixty!"


Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Destiny is what I believe in. Destiny commands. We must obey.

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