Status Quo Of Women'S Wear Industry: High-End Fashion Elements Are Integrated Into Ready-Made Clothes

The fashion industry always turns the tide, which is especially applicable to the fate of high-end women's wear. senior Women's wear industry Almost every ten years, it encounters a crisis, but it often survives and develops by virtue of its scarcity and the unremitting efforts of its practitioners. Just a few years ago, the high-end women's wear industry was impacted by mass consumption and fast fashion, and the scenery was no longer in an awkward position. Another undercurrent came quietly: while the high-end women's wear tended to be ready to wear, the high-end fashion elements in ready to wear also became increasingly apparent. This may be seen as an eclectic expression of haute couture. At the same time, people are increasingly concerned about the extraordinary sense of value in high-end women's wear.

Chanel 1213

Just over a month ago, when Paris Fashion Week in autumn and winter of 12/13 was coming to an end the Buddha Karl Lagerfeld explained why most high order fashion customers are willing to pay more than 30000 pounds for a coat. He explained that high-end customized fashion could not be made by others. Do you know that these flower tweeds are not flower tweeds, but the art of embroidery, all made by hand. For example, a sleeveless coat took 3000 hours to complete. This is a shocking figure, especially in this era. If we assume that a technician with the most exquisite craftsmanship in Paris works eight hours a day, 3000 hours means 375 days, which is just the workload of a coat. So the value of this coat is completely quantifiable.

Galeries Lafayette is a staunch defender of the high-end women's clothing industry in Paris. Since 2002, Chanel (Weibo) early autumn series will launch an advanced handicraft workshop series named after a country's place name, which has so far passed through Paris, Monte Carlo, New York, Tokyo, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Byzantium and India. Lao Foye hopes that this way can help Chanel's seven traditional French handicraft workshops, including feathers, beads, jewelry and shoes Zi, the exquisite fashion handicrafts can be inherited and carried forward, and also pay tribute to the handicraft masters who work silently in the high-end fashion industry. However, the significance is more than that. It is said that he insists that "we must not let ourselves go into a comprehensive downturn", so this can also be seen as Laofo is tirelessly looking for a new model to save the Paris haute couture industry in order to resist the crisis of haute couture industry.

Chanel 1213

Of course, it is not just Mr. Lao Foye who carefully protects the Paris haute couture industry. At the recently concluded 12/13 autumn/winter Paris Goulding Fashion Week, the beautiful high-end customized women's clothing once again brought endless inspiration to the fashion industry. Giambattista Valli repeatedly discussed the possibility of wrinkles. He was obsessed with the structural changes of high-end women's wear and expressed his preference with a "dazzling" paranoia. Jean Paul Gaultier squanders his talent wantonly and creates a changeable design style by combining irrelevant factors like a magician. No matter from Laofo, Gaultier to Giambattista Valli, they are trying their best to maintain this already scarce high-end women's wear business. Giambattista Valli even once said that he hoped to turn the high-end women's clothing customization workshop into a UNESCO heritage base, although this hope seemed very slim. They put all their dreams and efforts on the stage of high-end women's wear. They can spend 350 hours to complete a vest just to show their excellent technology. In this era of mass fast selling, they carefully maintain the last "luxury", which aims to make people realize that these workshops are the inspiration for the achievement of the fashion industry. They try to make women's clothes have a real value, and they firmly believe that clothing It can be "metaphysical", not just superficial. {page_break}

Jean Paul Gaultier 1213

Giambattista Valli 1213

So we see more and more high-end clothes Women's wear Especially in autumn and winter 1213. When fashion reverses, the clean and elegant style that has been deeply influenced by C é line for several seasons is finally challenged, minimalism suddenly stops, and a more full-bodied style of decoration emerges. The combination of advanced customized details and retro style has become so popular in ready-made clothing design, from the hourglass shaped outline highlighting the waist curve, the Edwardian dandy tight lines to the hot gothic style; And exquisite decorative details are everywhere from fold trim, embroidery, feathers, beaded tassels, etc.

McQ's 12/13 autumn and winter series made its debut in London. This is a show beyond expectation, even though Sarah Burton explained that the original intention of creating McQ was to consume McQ at any price clothes However, she also proved that simple styles can still retain luxury details. The whole series of McQ runs through a strong military style theme, and the customized four bag officer jacket is the key piece. But Burton has never solved the problem so simply: her design is still full of contradictory romanticism and various exciting details. The military style coat is complemented by 3D embroidery details and luxury furs, creating a strong contrast of texture changes; The rigid military uniform lines are expressed by the extremely feminine hourglass outline. In terms of evening wear, a lot of embroidery and sequins velvet corset are perfectly combined with Gothic black lace, and New Look style evening dress is full of colorful flowers; The white tulle petticoat gives the skirt a full trumpet shape. The details of high-end women's wear have never left, but the way of interpretation is more approachable. {page_break}

　　MCQ

Karl Lagerfeld continued to practice, and his autumn and winter 1213 series completed the definition of luxury with rich mineral gem tone and cubism style modeling. The multifaceted and three-dimensional crystal gems have inspired Karl so much this season that a large number of crystal stone decorations are scattered everywhere, from suits, tweed jackets, parkas, and even heels. Crystal also obviously inspired Karl's thinking about cubism. He creatively designed a three-dimensional mosaic with edges and corners on the sleeves - a new silhouette, in other words, a polyhedron extending to clothing. The coat with cubism style sleeve design is also decorated with metal ore logo, shiny feathers and sequin applique details, and even the sequin hood is used to decorate the tweed parka, to continue the luxurious and elegant style of gem decoration.

　　Chanel

Dolce&Gabbana's 12/13 autumn/winter fashion show carried out the Baroque style to the end, and even the chandeliers were decorated with rose branches to complement each other. A large number of black and gold tones are perfectly integrated: for example, black lace and gold embroidery; The tight corset cut by high fashion and the hourglass shaped contrast formed by the exaggerated hip circumference design, the shirt with wide lantern sleeves and the slim straight skirt highlight the soft and plump feeling. Extremely beautiful curves and luxurious decoration finally present a dramatic shape. {page_break}

　　Dolce &Gabbana

Albert Elbaz celebrated his 10 years as creative director of Lanvin with autumn and winter fashion shows, and the design of this season did not boast that it made him reach the peak of fashion. Albert Elbaz explained the importance of shaping for women with facts: the streamlined hourglass shaped customized suit dress suit and tight dress, both of which use structural wavy ruffles and sculptural pleated slanted collar, which reveal amazing skills in a coherent line. The same waist contour also permeates into the armor style custom coat, supplemented by semicircular shoulder lines and exaggerated lapels to highlight the slim waist. Albert Elbaz here gives ready-made clothing design the ultimate possibility of reshaping women's body shape with advanced customized cutting technology.

　　Lanvin

Prada is always unexpected. After paying homage to the golden age with the charming pastel style of the 1950s last season, she returned to the familiar field again, creating a slender outline that can be called "strange beauty" with innovative colors and alternative patterns of the 1970s. Customized men's tailoring runs through all the pieces. In the season when half skirts are in vogue, she uses narrow leg pants as the main piece that can be used everywhere. In addition, we can see a lot of details: cut large jewelry decoration, sequins and laser cut resin coating trim, spherical buttons, all in the form of mixed materials overlap. The deliberately "tacky" jacquard fabrics and "mismatched" geometric patterns present the authentic "Prada" style. Who dares to say that this will not become another new trend of women's clothing development in the next season?

　　Prada

Riccardo Tisci presented a perfect visual feast for Givenchy's autumn and winter fashion show. Riccardo Tisci's style this season is a continuation of its iconic black gothic inspiration, and ingeniously integrates the riding elements: a manly jacket, paired with loose riding pants on the hip. The overall style is the opposition and integration of some contradictory factors: for example, the masculine rider image created by the rigorous hourglass shaped contour has a sense of androgyny; The marten jacket decorated with artificial gemstones and the dress with lace applique show a very feminine side. {page_break}

　　Givenchy

　　Giambattista Valli

Giambattista Valli has always been a loyal defender of the high-end women's wear industry. He is immersed in the pursuit of the ultimate beauty. Even in his ready to wear shows, he still reveals the advanced tailoring techniques like dazzle. He used the legendary "The Sound Factory" club in New York in the 1980s as the inspiration source of the autumn and winter series to create an elegant image of a girl in the city: behind the simple black and white color and the slim outline emphasizing the waist line is Giambattista Valli's endless pursuit of free cutting; Subtle details are everywhere: such as luxurious fur stitching at the skirt hem, bow tie collar and chiffon dress decorated with crystals.