Ooh La La: Parisian Style with Dresses.ie*

Last week I jetted off to Paris with my bestie Lorna (of Fashion Boss) for a couple of days of fashion, food and fun! The last few times I’d visited the French capital were on business trips, and before that I was a young teenager visiting family with my Mam. Therefore, to head away on…

Paris Fashion Week – October 1st

Louis Vuitton The Louis Vuitton show sent out a lot of colour, prints and patterns, trousers and dresses, leather and lace. It really had a bit of everything from striped motifs and still art prints to sequin embellished floral designs and even velour pants. Art itself was a major theme throughout from the prints to…

Paris Fashion Week – September 30th

Chanel How can one not love Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld’s beautiful designs for the iconic fashion house? And for this show, feminism was a huge theme; it even ended with the models taking feminist protest marching holding placards and chanting. It wasn’t necessarily all fun and games, the fashion was on-point with suits of all…

Paris Fashion Week – September 29th

Elie Saab As y’all know, Elie Saab is one of my all time favourite designers so I was very excited to see what his latest collection would entail. From the first look, I was instantly blown away! The monochrome stripes with that artistic print in a flowing waterfall cut and a black & white ombré…

Paris Fashion Week – September 28th

Kenzo Designers Humberto Leon & Carol Lim stepped up their game for the Kenzo fashion line this season. Oversized jackets and shirts in Spring-ready blue hues, stripes and abstract lined panels, pastel pink mosaic-style prints, plunging necklines and suits with futuristic visor sunglasses to complete the looks. Céline Oh how I love Céline fashion. It…

Paris Fashion Week – September 27th

Jean Paul Gautier This Spring 2015 RTW collection was truly the end of an era as designer Jean Paul Gaultier announced earlier this year that it would be his final prêt-à-porter collection for his label, and so he ended it with a bang. It full of theatrical exaggeration taking on the theme of a Miss…

Paris Fashion Week – September 26th

Chalayan The Chalayan Spring show was an interesting one, opening with longline jackets and side cut pants, ruffles and pleated textures, then moving into wide brimmed hats, colourful patterns and sweetheart necklines, black plunging pieces and floral prints before closing with more printed looks including women in burkas cautiously looking out. Talbot Runhof I very…

Paris Fashion Week – September 25th

Roland Mouret The Roland Mouret show was full of colour and clean lines, fun designs & patterns and vibrancy from open to close. The French designer kept to his aesthetic with clean, slicked back ponytails, neutral makeup and red lipstick. Carven For Guillaume Henry and the Carven SS15 RTW collection, it was all about speed,…

Paris Fashion Week – September 24th

Christophe Lemaire The Christophe Lemaire show was as Parisian as a PFW show could get. Clean lines, chic capes & jackets, playing on monochrome with black, white, grey & navy, and effortless cuts. It may not have ben an exciting collection but it was definitely one of the most elegant this season. I loved the…

Paris Fashion Week – September 23rd

We’ve now moved to France for Paris Fashion Week, and my what an exciting buzz this gives me! With Paris and French fashion renowned for its feminine chic, daring and bold choices and of course on-trend pieces, designers, attendees and bloggers are all at the edge of our seats to see what is turning out…