This is slowly becoming a Lady Gaga Outfit Appreciation blog but you cannot deny, the woman is fabulous. Whether you love her, hate her or are a farmer in county Down who thinks she needs to put on more clothes, her style is a chameleon, ever-evolving to accompany new trends.
Tottering about London before her Jonathon Ross appearance, in those mint skyscraper boots (the texture and colour looking very much like the Chanel boots worn by Lindsay Wixon at Paris Fashion Week, see my previous post), the singer best known for her eclectic fashion donned a see through lace dress from Simone Rocha's 2012 SS collection, a Baby Spice-esque fur coat, kooky retro glasses and the cherry on top - a pastel green beehive.
This look captures the recurring trend of pastels seen in SS 2012 collections, like House of Holland, Chanel, Meadham Kirchhoff and others and typical Gaga, she's ahead of them all.
That's why the Lady is a tramp.
Please forgive me for my use of a terrible pun, but there was definitely something fishy going on with the Chanel S/S 2012 collection at Paris Fashion Week.This show was too perfect to escape a blog post. Hosted under the glass-domed roof of the Grand Palais, it was very much under the sea (I hope you're all humming that for the rest of the day now) with a very tranquil looking catwalk which was the length of two football pitches; an underwater inspired paradise with clumps of seaweed, shells and "bubbles".
One by one, the models began to emerge from a bubble-infested cavern. The first few monochrome outfits are pretty basic - knee length skirts, structured shape and practical. A minute or so in and we start to get a taster of the pastels that seem to be so popular for Spring/Summer, after Daphne Groeneveld, in a glitter adorned white ensemble - the perfection being that it doesn't end up looking tacky. When they zoomed in on her, that's when I noticed, all the model's had pearls adorning their slicked back hair. A cute, fitting accompaniment to the underwater theme.
The outfits were very much sea inspired, the shapes and patterns reminded me very much of fish; the use of metallics symbolizing the metallic sheen of a fish, the criss crossed patterns that resemble a fish's scales, chiffon skirts flaring at the bottom recreating the shape of a fish's tail.
A fusion of very 90's transparent, plastic rain coats, chiffon, florals, metallics, and of course, the trademark tweed jackets and quilted, chain bags.
As if this wasn't a spectacle for the lucky front-rowers, the life sized clam opened itself up to reveal Florence Welch, concealed inside. Welch proceeded to sing What the Water Gave Me (another cleverly suiting addition) looking like a modern day, Chanel-clad Venus, while the models continued their rounds along the "seafloor".
On the beauty side, were pearlescent nails with matching eyeshadow and natural groomed brows. It was a very metallic affair, and natural like the sea itself.
All in all, a very cutesy, mermaid inspired show. My favourite was the minty coloured outfit worn by Lindsey Wixon.
I don't know about any of you, but this show was most aesthetic to behold. Ya done good, Lagerfeld.
