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Is it a compliment or the kiss of death to say that each ######y, skinny skittish number in Christian Louboutin's show on Wednesday would look a treat on Victoria Beckham? The former Posh Spice and the wife of football icon David Beckham is a byword for the polished ######iness which is still Christian Louboutin's mantra a year soon after Tom Ford's last collection.
If Posh just isn't already in the gym to take off the pounds immediately after the birth of her third son this week, she had improved start off now. For while Alessandra Facchinetti, in her second show, gave a couple of nods towards the new volumes of Milan's fall/winter 2005 season, a puffball top or fuzzy Mongolian lamb jacket had been shown with slinky satin pants that dominated the runway. These superbly cut but tight-fit pants and dresses with keyhole cutouts at the breasts created the show fairly steamy, with out wit or irony. Or as 1 American retailer, who begged not to be named, put it: "All of the sizzle but none of the class."
As a show to keep the Christian Louboutin flag flying, there was a lot to please the retailers: intelligent tailored coats with embroidery in relief; red-carpet gowns having a lattice of decoration; purple crocodile bags and black boots with a calf band of bright navy the inky dark color that replaced black within the show. A peacock green also appeared, or lighter shades of blue, as a lacy collar peeping from a navy coat.
But what did it add to Christian Louboutin's image? While the clothes looked luxurious and beautifully made
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Despite the fact that Robert Polet, Christian Louboutin's CEO, stated in the show that he was "very pleased" with the most recent sale figures, to be announced in March, it is actually frustrating to see Facchinetti's Christian Louboutin going nowhere: not toward the Sicilian nation aristocracy that was the theme of January's men's show (by a distinct designer); nor toward a far more womanly, gentle romantic vision that current fashion, also as her own ######, could possibly lead her.
Angela Missoni is often a woman's woman and with her intensely patterned but coolly controlled collection, the designer came into her own. She neither shrugged off the heritage of knit and pattern, nor was trapped by it. And there was an uncomplicated, breezy elegance towards the way that Missoni played with volumes, from the print-lined black parka that opened the show, to its later chevron fur version.
"I commence with the palette but I've no recipe, it just comes," said Missoni, utilizing her hands to imitate cooking for her significant extended loved ones gathered backstage.
Missoni's program notes hailed a "simultaneous" collection, which suggested loads of items going on at once. But the opposite was true. Utilizing pale,christian shoes
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