Paris Fashion Week - what on Earth is its point?

How are they expected to get into a car, I suspect we will see someone promoting hats that look like lampshades or upside-down fish baskets. The comments after the Sunday times fashion section are much more interesting than the articles themselves.

You will see little puppy or pussy face on the shoulder of a Primark jumper. A bit of fun for a tenner.
I just want to see the end of Little-house-on-the-Prairie frocks. Just hate frill and furbelows on clothes.
Agree about Sunday Times Style section; used to love it but now it just makes me feel old.

I thought, and still do, that Vivienne Westwood's clothes were absurd, but they made her a lot of money, and fame, from people desperate to be different.

Here is Daniel Roseberry's Maison Schiaparelli show:

www.schiaparelli.com/en

There are some that will translate to the highstreet straight away.
Instead of looking at only the most curious ones you may like to have a look at a few others:

www.elle.com/fashion/trend-reports/g41408352/best-looks-paris-fashion-week-spring-2023/

Ridiculous!

I hate the animal ones

I’d love a pic of that FC! 😂

Brilliant idea FannyCornforth. I would copy you except that I don't wear a vest. Would my bra do? .

Utterly ridiculous clothes at fashion weeks. But I suppose ideas trickle down into something wearable. These weeks mean a lot to the fashion industry I think. Business gets done, trends get copied, etc.

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I think fashion weeks wherever they might be held are more about theatre than anything else. Sometimes a look will transfer to the high street, but more often than not what's being displayed is preposterous and they, who ever dreamed it up, know it!

I don't think it was always thus, maybe I'm mistaken but I think these events have morphed into the ridiculous in recent times. I honestly loved fashion once, certainly back in the times of Biba, I find so much of it and what surrounds fashion weeks a fatuous load of nonsense, showing my age clearly.

Nowadays even the Sunday Times fashion magazine gives me the urge to fling it from one side of the room to the other, so expensive, ridiculous, irrelevant and ugly are much of what they display, God knows who it's aimed at.

MawtheMerrier

Perhaps it’s my age (!) but I thought the upside down dress bodice just looked like great auntie’s droopy boobs!

Yes! They could have done a better job with that bodice

Georgesgran inspired by Paris Fashion week, today I will wear my vest inside out and put the cat on my head 🐱

Perhaps it’s my age (!) but I thought the upside down dress bodice just looked like great auntie’s droopy boobs!

Yes FC I’m sure we’ll see similar but less dramatic trends filtering down to us - mere mortals of modest means.

Georgesgran

Actually Maw I think a 3 year old could do better.
A fool and his/her money comes to mind….

The stuff you see on the run way is usually just one off pieces.
Art / advertising

The snow leopard one doesn’t really work.
Tbh when I first saw them, I thought it was a PETA / anti fur thing.

Actually Maw I think a 3 year old could do better.
A fool and his/her money comes to mind….

FannyCornforth

Kylie Jenner

I think that they are absolutely ghastly.

That’s a relief. Still think it looks awful though.

No, it isn’t.
Here are all three of the Schiaparelli costumes on the runway.
Inspired by Dante’s Inferno apparently

I love the top part, it's like a tulip or a goblet.
The saggy bust is horrible.
Only in Paris!!

I hope that’s not real.

Kylie Jenner

Would save doing hair and face I guess.

Ha ha! They’re taking the proverbial aren’t they. 😆

I liked the animal head costumes.