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Christian Lacroix to design a couture collection for Schiaparelli: What can we expect?

By Randi Bergman | April 17th, 2013 | 12:00 pm

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Christian Lacroix to design for Schiaparelli

Left: An original Schiaparelli sketch. Right: Christian Lacroix Couture Fall 2008.

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The year of Schiaparelli speculation has finally culminated with today’s announcement that Christian Lacroix will show a one-off couture collection for the brand this July. “Elsa is a sacred sphinx who will never cease to make us question things, all the while offering new puzzles by way of answers. My wish is to reinstate her at the centre of her fashion house and on the stage through which she seduced the world,” he told French news magazine L’Express today. For all those who were a little more than miffed over his own line’s demise in 2009, this might just be that match in designer heaven we can all agree on.

Known for his penchant for pure extravagance, Lacroix was long lauded as a titan of Paris Couture since his debut collection in 1987, though he was never quite able to capture ready-to-wear sustainability despite his many diffusion lines, prominence in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s and long-time cultural association with Absolutely Fabulous.
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If you want to know what the most amazing couture salon looks like, have a peek at Schiaparelli’s new digs

By Kyla Parrish | July 9th, 2012 | 2:15 pm

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The Schiaparelli revival is going strong, and the resurging label has opened couture salons on the exclusive Place Vendôme in Paris to prove it. The “prêt-à-couture” brand has yet to hire a designer, but if the magnificent interiors of its new salons are any indication of what’s to come, the fashion world is in for a visual treat.

Drawing on the house’s surrealist roots, the colourful rooms offer a quirky take on luxury. The main salon boasts a beautiful lobster-shaped chest of drawers designed by Vincent Darré— a nod to the famous lobster dress hat Schiaparelli designed alongside Salvador Dalí — as well as a sphinx sculpture that once perched in Schiaparelli’s original atelier. The salons will provide the backdrop to the luxury label’s first show, which will take place during Paris Couture Week next January, and with all the rumours swirling around the yet-to-be-appointed designer, we can hardly wait to see what marvels will come from house Schiaparelli.

They said/We said: With news of Schiaparelli’s relaunch, John Galliano’s name is being thrown into the ring

By Kyla Parrish | May 9th, 2012 | 6:00 pm

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A vintage Schiaparelli sketch via WWD

More than 50 years after its shuttering (and almost 40 years after the death of its brilliant founder), the house of Schiaparelli is set to relaunch just as its name once again reaches the prominence it had in the pre-war years.

To coincide with the opening of the Met Costume Institute’s retrospective exhibit Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, Italian business tycoon Diego Della Valle announced the official relaunch earlier this week. Though the brand has remained dormant, even since being acquired by the titan in 2006, Della Valle plans on giving the old house a contemporary update, saying that it “doesn’t have to get involved in the frenetic world of numbers, accounts and dimensions, but it just has to express itself at its best.” Read more »

They said/We said: Derek Lam out at Tod’s, and Galliano in? Let the guessing games begin!

By Laura Kathleen Maize | March 13th, 2012 | 6:00 pm

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Our heads are beginning to spin a bit from all the news, rumours and speculation of designers changing their fashion house posts. (Seriously, can we all just decide on a 2012 Trade Deadline?)

It was reported yesterday and confirmed today that much-loved designer Derek Lam would be leaving his post as Tod’s creative director. And while we love Lam’s shoes and accessories, we’re not all that disappointed—relinquishing Tod’s might just give him more time to concentrate on his acclaimed namesake line, or expand his diffusion line, 10 Crosby.

But a WWD interview with Tod’s chairman Diego Della Valle is causing an even bigger stir (sorry, Derek) for its seemingly off-hand comment about John Galliano being linked to the house. “Lam’s departure coincides with continued speculation that John Galliano was in talks with the Italian firm to either do a Tod’s capsule collection or revamp its Schiaparelli brand. However, Della Valle firmly dismissed the rumors.”

It’s too bad those rumours were dismissed, but we’re still crossing our fingers that they’re true. We think this could only be good news for Schiaparelli, a brand that’s gone without a head designer for the last several years. Galliano’s been a free agent for a while now, and the pairing could be a good first step back and a match made in heaven—quite romantic, actually.
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Christian Lacroix to design a couture collection for Schiaparelli: What can we expect?

If you want to know what the most amazing couture salon looks like, have a peek at Schiaparelli’s new digs

They said/We said: With news of Schiaparelli’s relaunch, John Galliano’s name is being thrown into the ring

They said/We said: Derek Lam out at Tod’s, and Galliano in? Let the guessing games begin!

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