Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 Coverage: Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Valentino

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 Coverage:
Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Valentino

By Alexandra SUHNER ISENBERG
Editor-at-Large

October 6, 2011, [Paris]

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen's underwater-themed show certainly stood out in a sea of very boring spring summer 2012 collections. The collection is quite wild, which is very typical McQueen, but Sarah Burton has certainly added her own handwriting to this brand, because everything feels so much softer and feminine...read more

Louis Vuitton

Kate Moss, a carousel, and a lot of white, that's what dominated this Louis Vuitton show. The collection was heavy on the flower power patterns, which looked slightly cheap as a broderie anglaise, but quite beautiful later on a tweed and as appliques. I love the biker jackets, worn as coats and as suit jackets...read more

Valentino

Maybe it is just that I am sick of looking at fashion shows, or maybe it is that this season is genuinely boring, but this Valentino show put me to sleep as well. Lots of lace, sheers and ladylike cuts, some worked, some didn't...read more

Photos courtesy of Vogue.com