http://www.douglasjchen.com Dedicated to fashion Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:37:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Merce Cunningham Dance Company is in Paris, performing for the last time in The City of Light, their home away from home. The French have always embraced Merce's work more so than anywhere else in the world. The Company is in its last weeks of their Legacy Tour ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/the-end-of-an-era-merce-cunningham.html Sarah Burton's collection for Alexander McQueen was one of the top collections of this season. Her feminine details and focus on the tiny waist created the most beautiful silhouettes. The movement created by the soft ruffles and peplums were influenced by the movement of jellyfish swimming in the sea ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/sarah-burtons-beautiful-moment-at-alexander-mcqueen.html Yohji Yamamoto is back to his romantic old tricks. Beautiful flow of fabric and draping for the feminine side of his woman and  boyish tailoring for the masculine side. He opened his show with the most beautiful gown in an intense blue violet color with a train covering half ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/yohji-yamamotos-spring-romance.html Alber Elbaz has a dark side. The s.s 2012 Lanvin collection he showed Friday was one of his best. He managed to bring a bit of the devil into his beautiful world. The one key element ( other than the dark more sinister styling ) was his new small but ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/lanvin-albers-devilish-side.html This is what the show looked like from my vantage point. Beautiful from any angle...... Photos: DChen http://www.douglasjchen.com/dries-van-noten-my-view.html Dries Van Noten found his inspiration within the architectural shapes of 50's Italian and Spanish couture.  His collaboration with photographer James Reeves for his city night scape prints cleverly pulled the collection back into present day relevance. It wasn't one of his more emotional collections, but the beauty and ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/dries-van-noten-couture-bent.html photo: DChen No time for runway shows in Milan... just a tornado of showroom appointments packed in two and a half days.  A pleasant surprise was at our first stop this morning to via Formentini... at Luisa Beccaria. A beautiful s.s 2012 collection inspired by Mediterranean colors and popular vacations ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/milanese-beauty-luisa-beccaria.html Raf Simons consistently ups the intellectual bar each season at Jil Sander. He continues his exploration of  couture and how it fits in today's world. He ended his show with these four gowns in white. As tradition goes, couture shows often close with the bride. These very pure, beautiful gowns ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/jil-sander-pure.html No... that's not a typo in the heading. It's been mentioned that I only have good things to say when I write. I admit, I do like to say nice things about new ideas and beautiful things. But... sometimes.... it's just not there..... What is this man doing to the fashion ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/nyc-fashion-weak-thom-browne.html There's a lot of noise about unexpected colors for Spring.Summer 2012. The designers who have shown the first few days of NY Fashion Week have definitely blasted that as a trend. Only fitting that GREGORY PARKINSON, the master of mix of fabrics and colors decides to take a quieter road. ... http://www.douglasjchen.com/ny-fashion-week-gregory-parkinson.html