the Goddess alive and well at Paco Rabanne Spring 2012

Manish Arora says he found something about himself when he explored the Paco Rabanne

archives for his wonderful futuristic Spring 2012 in Paris a few days ago. I think he found something about the female body, such sensuality, power and beauty, even

though there was so much structure, which is not what I would normally associate with femininity.

The above ensembles were the ones which got to me most, but his ending of frill-necked lizard cup-cake style constructions were full of life and humour, and reminded me of the early eighties when Issy Miyake's sculptural ensembles looked like they might take flight.

yellow shoe coincidence

Over the period of two days, I spotted two people wearing bright yellow shoes..must be a trend?
Admittedly, they are each wearing their shoes in a totally different sort of context, but hey...I thought it was extraordinary...

Louis Vuitton fall 09

Marc Jacobs has re-worked the eighties to the extreme, and introduced this era's multi-layered-ethno tribe (which is also quite eighties I think). Check out the rest of the cat-walk, it will be very familiar to those of us who were flying our feromones back then in the eighties!!