An Overview of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 written by: Joyeeta Bose The star studded audience, elite models wearing fashionable clothes, interesting dresses designed by world class fashion designers, five car pile up for centrepiece of runway, exciting music and tribal drums made Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 a complete one. This fashion show has many highlights to its credit, of which some are discussed below.Women are powerful rather than pretty!Phoebe Philo’s show had the theme “power and women” while Prada’s show was about “strong and visible women”.
Coco also voiced out her opinion that fashion is a mirror that reflects the world people live in. The spring and summer show of Paris fashion week made sure that its main theme was about women and them being powerful rather than their looks.Goodbye minimalism!Gone are those days where fashion designers created interesting designs with minimalist look. Simons had the romantic city flooded with flowers while Slimane has glitter and grunge in full. The colourful and quirky dresses with flat shoes of Roland Mouret are also worth the mention.Fashion week gets a frieze transformation!
The opening of the Paris Fashion week by Azzedeine Alaia was a hot one and the way the Grand Palais was transformed By Lagerfeld as National gallery of Chanel with huge amounts of art installations and Coco portraits. Chanel’s chart swimsuits with thick paints and art themed clutch bags are worth the mention. This fashion week was actually an art meets fashion week.Toffee penny yellow is in!The color of the Paris Fashion week was toffee penny yellow that has an impressive gold sheen to it.
Dries Van Noten had ruffles in gold leaf while Lanvin and Yves Saint Laurent had audiences mesmerised with sweetie pie golden frocks for party. With so many extraordinary features added to it, Paris Fashion Week 2014 would be known as the Golden era of fashion. Fashionistas will be happy to wear a few pieces off this fashion week collection, as it will depict them as woman with power.
