PARIS FASHION WEEK RTW S/S 2018 PART 5

Back with my fifth instalment of my Paris fashion week highlights, Friday brought some of the best shows of the season. Balmain brought structured silhouettes and at Loewe's the collection ranged from dresses in silk and sheer and tailored suit jackets.
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LOEWE 

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Jonathan Anderson for Loewe combined art with fashion for his spring 2019 collection. The clothing itself was all about lightness, a white crepe dress front embellished with heavy beads is offset by layers of sheer silk and lace, while cotton skirts are gathering inwards like bags. Long leather kaftans dresses mingled together with utilitarian shorts and jackets, tailored satin trousers and wool jumpers and contrasted with jacquard trousers and tops. For his bags he slung them around the bodies of his models, sometimes even layered them over bags. New styles came in basket and crochet crossbody forms as he hopes they will be as popular as their Gate Bag which is crafted from thatched wicker.A warm palette of beige, sand and sunset orange with a juxtaposition of ice blue and forest green.

BALMAIN 

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Balmain’s spring 2019 show was with the aim to push the limits of his artistic vision, the show ended with two finale walks by Olivier Rousteing’s “Balmain army” and the show brought the return of Cara Delevingine as she opened and closed the show. Tops and dresses done in splays of pleats, bra tops and bodices done in metals and leather moulded to the body. The silhouettes had angular shouldered on jackets ranging from long ones in flowing silk robes hip-length styles in metallic tweeds. Dresses were short, tight and looked three-dimensional patterns resembling glass and bandage inspired by mummies. Egyptian being a major theme of the collection, the dramatic shoulders mixed with hieroglyphic prints, while denim and tweed looked like ancient papyrus.

ISSEY MIYAKE 

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Issey Miyake introducing the new fabrication being labelled as “Dough-Dough”, the finely, irregularly striped garments in red,blue and purple which can be seen on hats,bodices and skirts.