Fall 2023 trend: take the train
Move over to micro-mini, there's a new skirt silhouette taking over this season as designers jump on the long train for fall, embracing mullet, mermaid and trumpet dresses for evening that added some much-needed drama to mostly neutral utilitarian daytime looks of the season.
At Victoria Beckham, the British designer tried to reconcile the fantasy of Parisian fashion and the reality of cultivate it customer. Alongside more commercial tailoring with pointed shoulders, "Beckham pushed the idea of playing dress up with quirky silk patchwork pleated dresses adorned with feathers [and] starlet dresses and undergarments from the 1940," WWD West Coast editor Booth Moore wrote, noting that Beckham was inspired by eccentric-turned-socialite Edith Bouvier Beale, first portrayed in the 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens" and in the 2009 dramatization with Drew Barrymore.
Related GalleriesRick Owens, meanwhile, had the work of photographer Richard Avedon in mind, telling the international editor Miles Socha behind the scenes, "I wish that was my dress that Dovima wore with the elephants." Either way, that's my version,” he said of the sequined dresses paired with big squishy quilt-filled donuts paired with the designer's now-iconic monster platform boots.
>As usual, "there was a lot of black, including... tube dresses cut from 'one side and dragging a long, unbalanced train that sometimes got tangled in the elevated rigging of the catwalk,' Socha observed during the show.
To bid farewell to Moschino, Jeremy Scott walked out with a bang, experimenting with mid-century couture focused on on 1980s punk references. "The show culminated in a parade of elaborate evening gowns, some sculpted from jewel-toned taffeta, others paved with crystal embroidery," Socha wrote in her review.
Equally glamorous dresses mopped up the catwalks at Givenchy and Balmain where designers from both houses Matthew Williams and Olivier Rousteing, respectively, dove headfirst into the archives.
Move over to micro-mini, there's a new skirt silhouette taking over this season as designers jump on the long train for fall, embracing mullet, mermaid and trumpet dresses for evening that added some much-needed drama to mostly neutral utilitarian daytime looks of the season.
At Victoria Beckham, the British designer tried to reconcile the fantasy of Parisian fashion and the reality of cultivate it customer. Alongside more commercial tailoring with pointed shoulders, "Beckham pushed the idea of playing dress up with quirky silk patchwork pleated dresses adorned with feathers [and] starlet dresses and undergarments from the 1940," WWD West Coast editor Booth Moore wrote, noting that Beckham was inspired by eccentric-turned-socialite Edith Bouvier Beale, first portrayed in the 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens" and in the 2009 dramatization with Drew Barrymore.
Related GalleriesRick Owens, meanwhile, had the work of photographer Richard Avedon in mind, telling the international editor Miles Socha behind the scenes, "I wish that was my dress that Dovima wore with the elephants." Either way, that's my version,” he said of the sequined dresses paired with big squishy quilt-filled donuts paired with the designer's now-iconic monster platform boots.
>As usual, "there was a lot of black, including... tube dresses cut from 'one side and dragging a long, unbalanced train that sometimes got tangled in the elevated rigging of the catwalk,' Socha observed during the show.
To bid farewell to Moschino, Jeremy Scott walked out with a bang, experimenting with mid-century couture focused on on 1980s punk references. "The show culminated in a parade of elaborate evening gowns, some sculpted from jewel-toned taffeta, others paved with crystal embroidery," Socha wrote in her review.
Equally glamorous dresses mopped up the catwalks at Givenchy and Balmain where designers from both houses Matthew Williams and Olivier Rousteing, respectively, dove headfirst into the archives.
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