Quick Little Bits

VALENTINO
I was thrown for a loop. I was so excited by the adorable, leg-tickling shoes and those stunning cream and brown numbers at the start that I somehow thought this would be the show of the season. But, unfortunately, the rest of the looks were somehow more offensive than 70's era drapes. Big, fat bows (yes, style.com, I know it's his "signature") looked out of date and old-fashioned and some of the dresses were...uh...hideous. So, I guess I'll have to settle for just two Ladies Who Lunch looks this season. Plus, I've got nowhere to wear 'em as his other looks have me craving a marathon of the first through fourth seasons of "That 70's Show".




ELIE SAAB
HE STARTED WITH LA MARIEE! HE STARTED WITH LA MARIEE! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PUT AN ACCENT OVER THAT FIRST E AND RIGHT NOW I'M TOO THROWN TO EVEN ATTEMPT TO LOOK!
Okay. He ended with Tiiu as la mariee again. (Still no accent. People, you're lucky I'm still breathing after that scare.) For those that perhaps aren't couture obsessed, "la mariee" is the bridal dress that goes as your last couture look. That's how it's done, people. But this Elie Saab character threw in two and I thought that Blahgerfeld had maybe tricked the poor bastard into thinking it went first or that Elie, not long in the world of haute, might have read the directions wrong. Nope. The rat just gave me palpitations for no reason.

He designs dresses for events like the Oscars. He does a pretty okay job. There were some pretty colors in there. I need to lie down.

GIVENCHY
The hair. Tamarin monkeys have better hair.

You'd have to be plum CRAZY not to love Givenchy!

I know she's like 6 feet tall, but when did Hana become surrealistically, almost menacingly tall. The garbage bag attire isn't helping.

I like the fact that this show, this show that cost oodles of money to create, this show that highlights dresses that cost oodles of money to buy, is being shown in a place where they couldn't even bother to take the extra stacked up chairs out of the room. Now that's classy.


All that being said, I kinda liked it.

MODEL NOTES:
It's sad when I think Alek Wek looks a bit too skinny and Karolina Kurkova is starting to look hippy. Alek was cute the way she was and there ain't nothing wrong with Karolina. Natasha Poly on the other hand...
And thanks to Valentino's copious use of the strapless dress, I was reminded that should I ever lose my fancy marble cheese cutter that I could just use a model's shoulder blades. Whew!