Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 Coverage: Chanel, Hermès and Yves Saint Laurent

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 Coverage:
Chanel, Hermès and Yves Saint Laurent

By Alexandra SUHNER ISENBERG
Editor-at-Large

October 4, 2011, [Paris]

Chanel

After trawling through the 83 looks in this show, nothing really stuck. It was typical Chanel, lots of versions of the suit, and lots of embellished cocktail dresses. To be perfectly honest, I got bored. I suppose this would have been much more interesting to see in real life....read more

Hermès

I could imagine that Hermès, being pissed off with LVMH for the story about the shares, might try and sneakily do something to piss them off. And if that thing is to do a Céline-like collection better than Céline, well then, they have succeeded. The minimal silhouettes, genius leather pieces....read more

Yves Saint Laurent

After all these rumours that Raf Simons was going to take over at Yves Saint Laurent, you'd have thought that Stefano Pilati was at least going to TRY to make a nice collection. But he didn't. At first I thought this show was Oscar de la Renta, then I got bored, and then I just thought it was bad....read more

Photos courtesy of Vogue.com