"It's Like A Really Important Designer."**
Fall Couture. This is where art and fashion truly hop in bed together, and produce one of the following:
- A gorgeous and heavenly creature
- A really ugly babe, one whose mother wouldn't even want it.
The couture shows are fun, either way. They are meant to infiltrate your mind with aggressive opinions one way or the other. And when we get a rare treat of being able to see a show from a designer who truly marches to his own beat, while giving prominent parts of the fashion world "the finger", we consider ourselves lucky.
This is the case with Azzedine Alaia.
Sweet Daddy Alaia has not done a show since 2003. And as the NY Times writer Cathy Horn points out, he "has brought the world to him." He has been focused on creating in the past eight years, that taking time to follow the expectations - in terms of sharing - has not been a priority. And what he pushed out onto the runway this week demonstrates what his priority has been.
And the outcome is beautiful.
(I want this coat for Fall/Winter.)
The world waited eight years to peek into Mr. Alaia's world... And it was well worth the wait.
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