Beauty and Fashion Dubai

Last week, Paris Gallery hosted the press day at the VIP Fashion Lounge, Dubai Mall.

The event had an amazing display of the Autumn Winter Men’s and Women’s Collection.

A lot of attention and detailing is found in the patterns designed for AW 2015/16 Collection. The fabric, the design, the shades and the patch work gives the collection an elegant and luxurious look.

From the Brand

For this season, Veronica Etro creates a fashion collection that circles her family’s twin pursuit: the world of home interiors. Ornate wallpapers, rich tapestries and luxurious upholstery textiles provide a lush canvas and new creative playground for beautifully-made clothes. The opulence gets tamed with a new sense of precision and an intimacy that feels cozy and warm. A dose of eccentricity shoots down the bourgeois formality, as the colours of interiors get translated into a rigorous metropolitan style.

Pattern is, as always, at the heart of the collection. The swirling motifs of furnishing fabrics are produced through weaving, printing and rich embroideries. Graphic geometrics, inspired by carpet patterns, create a soft optical effect.

Paisley makes a surprise appearance within the deep folds of pleated dresses with a splayed skirt. Lush landscapes, created from elaborate thread embroideries or fur intarsias, unfurl along the bottom of coats. Pattern is freely mixed and matched, but the animation is held in check by a controlled tone-on-tone palette of earthy tobacco, coffee, camel, salmon and ochre.

A mélange of different materials – jacquards, velvets, sequins, and printed silks – are patched together to create rich, new tapestry effects. Pleat-front dresses are a puzzle of printed silk, tie prints and two different jacquards.

Mink strips are inserted into jacquard bedroom jackets. A ‘denim jacket’ is newly configured in slices of five different haberdashery ribbons. Coats are a bricolage of mohair, embroideries and jacquards or suede, leather and exotic skins. A spectacular sequin dress faithfully recreates the jacquard patterns featured throughout the whole collection in one artfully declined beaded garment.

Sharply cut shapes are clean and exacting this season, allowing for precise silhouettes. Sturdier fabrics create a crisp substance, while the idea of homewear blankets and double faced fabrics produce an undeniable ease. Two piece jacquard tunics and pants and wide leg pants and matching jackets are both inspired by pajama sets. Buttonless coats wrap around the body like robes. Shrunken patchworked waistcoats are layered over pants and skirts. Long sleeve dresses, anchored with chunky belts, are refined but cool.

The accessories underscore the collection’s play between order and intricacy.

Rich patchworks of exotic skins and upholstery-like jacquards are reproduced on winter espadrilles, square heeled tall boots, ankle strap platform shoes and structured handbags. Clutches transform into shoppers, while a three flap postman bag has an extendible strap.

Chunky cuffs and chokers are crafted from hammered gold metal and mixed with leather or crocodile.