SS 2010 Balmain
Christopher Decarnin is the man on whose glittery, highly padded shoulders rests the success of the whole of the mass market as it currently stands. No doubt, one of Balmain's studded jackets ($9000) could pay for an entire wardrobe of Balmain knockoffs for 10 teenage girls, but no matter, this season Balmain is HOT. the models scorching with anya rubik and abbey lee kershaw leading the pack. Balmain's influence on the sequins-for-day trend is visible almost every which way one cares to look in a chain store.
For Spring, Decarnin brought out another whammy of a no-brainer blockbuster: disco cavewoman goes to the front. His army of sizzling, sleek-limbed supergirls strode out with huge-shouldered, metal-epauletted military tailcoats. Their T-shirts were tattered; bullet belts were slung around artfully "destroyed," stained, and holed jeans or, yet more sensationally, minute, hypersexed, raggedy suede and leather loincloths (the term "skirt" hardly covers it). Patching together seventies
M*A*S*H and early Versace chain-mailed goddess-dressing, (and I should never have let the girls make me depart with my beloved 15 yr old chain-mail wardrobe of late) the show moved from camouflage to sequined camouflage to patchworked gold-sequined camouflage without a flicker of irony or the slightest fear of treading on politically sensitive ground. a few runway favourites:
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