Paris Fashion Week - what on Earth is its point?

The dress looks like a Disney character should be wearing it - the right way up of course.

I guess it is just a bit of fun?

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

I liked the animal head costumes.

Would save doing hair and face I guess.

Kylie Jenner

I hope that’s not real.

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

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

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

FannyCornforth

Kylie Jenner

I think that they are absolutely ghastly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

I’d love a pic of that FC! 😂

Ridiculous!

I hate the animal ones

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/

Here is Daniel Roseberry's Maison Schiaparelli show:

www.schiaparelli.com/en

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.