Paris Fashion Week | Mode à Paris Fall/Winter 2011/20122

Paris Fashion Week (Mode à Paris) Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2011/2012 Collections

July 4-7, 2011
Paris, France

Schedule

Monday, July 04, 2011
10:30am Anne Valerie Hash
Hotel Shangri-La Paris
10 Avenue du Lena
Paris 16e

Anne Valerie Hash was born in Paris in 1971. In 1991 she began her artistic education at The Duperré Art School. In 1995, she recieved a diploma from the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. In June of 2003, she received the ANDAM prize and in June 2009 Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture and Communication, personally rewarded her with the prestigious insignia of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

11:30am Christophe Josse
Couvent des Cordeliers
15 Rue de l’Ecole de Medecine
Paris 6e

Christophe Josse is a French fashion designer and an haute couture fashion brand. Christophe studied art history for three years in Paris, followed by one year in stylisme. Christophe Josse worked in different fashions houses as designer’s assistant. Then he moved to the Haute Couture studio of the Torrente house where he soon became the first assistant of Rose Torrente-Mett, the Director of the Studio at that time. After the departure of the designer in February 2003, Christophe Josse assumed the direction of the Haute Couture collection.

Christophe Josse left Torrente in 2004 and on July 2005 presented in Paris his first couture collection under his own name. Since January 2006 the designer has been invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to present his collections during the official Haute Couture calendar as “invited member”. In January 2008 he opened his atelier and showroom at 231, rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.

12:30pm Bouchra Jarrar
Odeon Theatre de l’Europe
2 rue Corneille
Paris 6e

Bouchra Jarrar is one of the few ready-to-wear designers to present a collection on the haute couture calendar. The Balenciaga-alum is beloved for the gamine simplicity of her silhouettes, the refinement of her hand (Jarrar’s clothes look as good inside as out), and her cool way with a slit. This collection she showed at the Odeon on Monday did not disappoint: 17 minimal looks cut from men’s suiting wools, tie silks and tuxedo satins. Here, her take on a smoking with an asymmetric collar and a slinky slash down the back.

2:30pm Christian Dior
Musée Rodin
79 rue de Varenne
Paris 7e

The Parisian house known for untouchably chic and bold designs has yet to choose a successor for Galliano, who was fired from his role as top designer in March after a video surfaced of him making anti-Semitic comments at a Parisian bar.
In his absence, studio head and longtime Galliano collaborator Bill Gaytten put together an eclectic collection that pleased buyers, but failed to convince fashion die-hards that Dior can sail on much longer without a skipper at the helm

5pm Alexis Mabille
Theatre du Chatelet
1 Place de Chatelet
Paris 1e

Alexis Mabille promising young designer from Lyon, France. In 1997, Alexis graduated from Paris’ Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. After training the young designer gained experience from renowned artists such fashion houses as Ungaro and Nina Ricci. Later Alexis Mabille was invited to the fashion house Christian Dior, where he worked for nine years

6pm Adeline Andre
Hotel d’Ecquevilly
60 rue de Turenne
Paris 3e

Adeline André is a French fashion designer and the head of one of the ten haute couture design houses in Paris.
She was born in Bangui, French Equatorial Africa and studied at the School of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture. After her graduation in 1970 she entered the House of Christian Dior as an assistant for Haute Couture collections, working with Marc Bohan. In 1981 she formed her own designer house Adeline André. That same year she also registered her most famous fashion innovation, the “three sleeve hole” at the French National Intellectual Property Institute. In 1982 she registered it with the World Intellectual Property Organization. An example of this sleeve is in the collections of French Fashion Museum, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Fashion Museum in Lisbon.

In May 1997, Adeline Andre became an invited member of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture. She is currently the head designer at the fashion house that bears her name.

7:30pm Giambatista Valli
Galerie de la Madeline
30 rue Boissy d’Anglas
Paris 8e

Giambattista Valli is an Italian fashion designer from Rome, Italy. Valli obtained his education from one of Rome’s Vatican schools. By the time he was in art school he sketched copies of drawings made by Yves Saint Laurent. He began to comprehend how a silhouette gave a designer a certain identity. He got his first job in fashion working with Cecilia Fanfani planning couture shows in Rome. A job in public relations with Roberto Capucci led to a promotion to the design staff. From there he found employment with Fendi andKrizia. In 1997 he was appointed art director of fashion for Emanuel Ungaro ready-to-wear. Among Valli’s most famous clients is Victoria Beckham.

8:30pm Iris Van Herpen
Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt
9 place des Vosges
Paris 4e

Iris van Herpen stands for a reciprocity between craftsmanship and 
innovation in technique and materials. She creates a new direction of couture that combines fine handwork techniques with futuristic digital technology. Van Herpen forces fashion to the extreme contradiction between beauty and regeneration. It is her unique way to reevaluate reality and to express and underline individuality.

The essence of van Herpen is expressing the character and emotions of an unique woman and to extend the shape of the feminine body in detail. She mixes craftsmanship- using old and forgotten techniques- with 
innovation and materials inspired on the world to come. Iris van Herpen (born 1984 Wamel, The Netherlands) started her own label Iris van Herpen in 2007. She studied Fashion Design at ARTEZ (Arnhem) and did internships at Alexander McQueen in London and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011
11am Giorgio Armani Prive
Theatre National de Chaillot
1 place du Trocadere
Paris 16e

Armani was born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza, where he was raised with two other siblings. His father, Ugo, was a transport executive, and his mother, Maria, was a homemaker. Armani aspired to a career in medicine after reading A. J. Cronin’s The Citadel, and enrolled at theUniversity of Bologna. In 1953, after two years of studies, he was called to military service, which included working in a military hospital. The experience convinced him that he was not cut out to be a doctor.

12:30pm Maison Rabih Kayrouz
Couvent des Cordeliers
15 Rue de l’Ecole de Medecine
Paris 6e

Complicity – Complexity
Maison Rabih Kayrouz adapts the heritage of Couture to the Ready-to-Wear industry.
impeccable craftsmanship is an evolution rather than a revolution.
The concept of luxury is constantly changing; as is its denomination “Haute Couture”.
Today’s clientele seek a new approach to “Couture”, one that is more accessible, less venerated and restricted.
They seek instant empathy and comfort in order to keep up modern life while benefiting from artisanal
Maison Rabih Kayrouz offers designs of timeless style, almost beyond trends, yet keeping a contemporary poetry, executed within the Couture-specific techniques. The spirit of Rabih Kayrouz, which refutes seasonal expiry and the diktats of fashion, can be understood as Ready-to-Wear, with an underlying highly advanced degree of technical know-how and artisanal craftsmanship.

2:30pm Stéphane Rolland
Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
1 place du Trocadero
Paris 16e

Stéphane Rolland is a French fashion designer and an haute couture fashion brand. Rolland spent his childhood in the South of France, Argentina and the West Indies. He studied fashion in Paris at l’Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la haute couture. At the age of 20 Rolland joined Balenciaga and within a year was promoted to the position of Creative Director of menswear and international licenses. At 24, he left Balenciaga to start his own prêt-à-porter company, which he ran for six years, until Jean-Louis Scherrer asked him to become the artistic manager of his haute couture fashion house, a position he occupied for the next ten years.

Rolland simultaneously worked as a costume designer. In 2006 and 2007, he was nominated for the prestigious Molière awards and became an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival.
On the 2 July 2007, Rolland presented a couture collection under his own name.
Rolland is a full member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture and therefore his brand can officially bear the “haute couture” label.

4pm Atelier Gustavolins
Espace Nicolai
25 rue de Montpensien
Palais Royal
Paris 1e

Forty-five year old Gustavo Lins studied to be an architect in his native Brazil. He would be designing dwellings today if his professor hadn’t asked him to reconsider which materials he’d rather be working with – glass and steel or linen and silk?

Lins’ vocabulary is still that of an architect or a sculptor. He describes the upside-down, stitched “T” that shapes the elbows and shoulders and his jackets and the knees of his trouses as the pilier and the poutre of his clothes, and says that women particularly like the drapé of his dresses. “J’ai vraiment le sentiment d’exprimer l’esprit de l’architecture à travers le vêtement,” he says. “A distance, c’est un objet; porté, ça devient une espace. Je le construit, mais c’est la personne avec son esprit et son intelligence et sa personnalité qui l’occupe!”

Fashioned from the most exclusive fabrics – cashmere, silk jersey, cool wool, wool crepe and softest lambskin – Gustavo Lins’ clothes are quietly luxurious.

5pm Alexandre Vauthier
Bibliotheque de Genovefains
Lycee Henri iV
1 rue Clotilde
Paris 5e

Emerging French couturier Alexandre Vauthier says he will follow in the illustrious footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld, Emanuel Ungaro and Roberto Cavalli and design costumes for the celebrated Crazy Horse cabaret’s latest revue.

When he arrived in Paris at 20, Alexandre Vauthier, a former law student , began fashion studies with determination.

He soon became a member of MrThierry Mugler’s crew.
After spending 4 years close to the master of architectural garments, he became assistant for Jean-Paul Gaultier’s budding Haute Couture collection GAULTIER Paris.

After 4 years’ collaboration, he felt the need to achieve a more personal touch.
Travels to Asia and California have opened his creative mind and given him the hint of a new collection.

7pm Givenchy
Private Location

Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy born February 21, 1927 is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy.

He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970. The younger son of Lucien Taffin de Givenchy (1888–1930), Marquis de Givenchy, and his wife, the former Béatrice (“Sissi”) Badin (1888–1976), Givenchy was born in Beauvais, Oise. The Taffin family, which traces its roots to Venice, Italy (the original surname was Taffini), had been ennobled in 1713, at which time the head of the family became Marquis de Givenchy.

8pm Julien Fournié
Showcase
sous le pont Alexandre III
Paris 8e

Julien Fournié is a French fashion designer and CEO of his own eponymous haute couture company founded in the summer of 2009. Previously, he was the last Creative Director of the Paris-based haute couture fashion house Torrente. In 2008, he was named Creative Director for womenswear, menswear and accessories at Ramosport.

Julien has a Castilian mother and a French father. One set of grandparents were tanners. His other grandmother was a lingerie seamstress and corset maker. From the age of three Julien’s favourite toy was the crayon, his favourite pastime: drawing.

Fournié initially decided to study medicine and took a degree in Biology. After two years he changed career to study fashion, continuing his studies at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne graduating in 2000.On his graduation day, Paris Fashion 2000 awarded him with the Moet & Chandon Prize for best accessories.

10pm Chanel
Grand Palais
Avenue de General Eisenhower
Paris 8e

Chanel is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, recognized as one of the most established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods (haute couture, ready-to-wear, handbags, perfumery, and cosmetics among others). She gained the name “Coco” while maintaining a career as a singer at a café in France.

Chanel has always specialized in items such as simple suits, dresses, women’s pants, and costume jewelry. Coco Chanel’s vision was to replace such opulent, sexy pieces with items which conveyed casual elegance. Her designs and creations are timeless, considering that the basic silhouettes have remained consistent from generation to generation. Today, Chanel is most famous for the “little black dress”. According to Forbes, the privately held House of Chanel is jointly owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer who are the great-grandsons of the early (1924) Chanel partner Pierre Wertheimer.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011
10am Valentino
Hotel Salomon de Rothschild
11 rue Berryer
Paris 8e

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani born 11 May 1932, best known as Valentino, is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino SpA brand and company. His main lines were Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino. There he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.

By the mid-1960s he was already considered the undisputed maestro of Italian Couture, receiving in 1967 the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award, the equivalent of an Oscar in the field of fashion. The Begum Aga Khan, Farah Diba, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lee Radziwill, Queen Paola of Belgium, Babe Paley, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Jayne Wrightsman, Marisa Berenson, Veruschka and Princess Margaret were already customers as well as personal friends.

11am On Aura Tout Vu
Jardins du Palais Royal
3 rue de Valois
Paris 1e

12:30pm Elie Saab
Theatre National de Chaillot
1 place du Trocadere
Paris 16e

Elie Saab born July 4, 1964, sometimes known simply as ‘ES‘, is a Lebanesefashion designer.
In 1982, Saab launched his Beirut-based fashion label when he was 18 years old. His main workshop is in Lebanon. He also has workshops in Milan and Paris.
Born to Maronite Catholic parents in Beirut, Saab is self-trained. He started sewing as a child and knew that one day he would make a living out of it. In 1981 he moved to Paris to study fashion, but ended up returning and opening his workshop in 1982.

In 1997 Saab was the first non-Italian designer to become a member of the Italian Camera Nazionale della Moda, and in 1997, showed his first collection outside Lebanon in Rome. In 1998, he started ready-to-wear in Milan, and in the same year, he held a fashion show in Monaco which was attended by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.
He became an overnight success after he became the first Lebanese designer to dress an Oscar winner, Halle Berry, in 2002.

In May 2003, the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture invited him to become a member, and he showed his first haute couture collection in Paris in July 2003. His first ready-to-wear collection in Paris was the Spring-Summer 2006 collection, and Paris is now his permanent ready-to-wear runway.

2:30pm Jean Paul Gaultier
325 rue Saint-Martin
Paris 3e

Jean Paul Gaultier born 24 April 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French haute couture fashion designer. In the past, Gaultier has hosted the television series Eurotrash. Gaultier never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970. In 1985 he introduced man-skirts, and produced sculptured costumes for Madonna during the nineties, starting with her infamous cone-bra for her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour, and designed the wardrobe for her 2006 Confessions Tour.

In 1988 Gaultier released a dance single titled “How To Do That” on Fontana records from which came one of the first ever “single title” remix albums “Aow Tou Dou Zat” on Mercury records. He has designed the costumes for Kylie Minogue‘s international KYLIEX2008 tour. In addition to being a fashion designer, Jean Paul Gaultier is known for a popular line of perfumes.

4:30pm Maxime Simoens
BETC
85/87 rue du faubourg Saint-Martin
Paris 10e

5:30pm Franck Sorbier
Private Location
Franck Sorbier is a Paris fashion house that achieved haute couture status in 2005. After working successfully for Chantal Thomass and Thierry Mugler, the French fashion designer Franck Sorbier, who was born in 1961, presented his first collection in 1987.

Then, some major stores, such as Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus in the United States, Seibu in Japan, noticed him. In 1995, The renowned French jeweller and watchmaker Cartier gave him the opportunity to present his winter 95/96 collection in a prestigious place, the \”Carrousel du Louvre\”. In 1996, he became a member of the French Federation of Couture and Ready-To-Wear,supported by Jean-Paul Gaultier and Sonia Rykiel. In 1999, Franck Sorbier designed glasses for Vuarnet sunglasses. He presented his first Couture collection this same year.

Thursday, July 7, 2011
12pm Azzedine Alaïa
Private Location

Azzedine Alaïa was born in Jemmal, Tunisia on 7 June 1940. His parents were wheat farmers but his glamorous twin sister inspired his love for couture. A French friend of his mother fed Alaïa’s instinctive creativity with copies of Vogue. He lied about his age to get himself into the local École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis and began studying sculpture where he gained valuable insights into the human form.

He produced his first ready-to-wear collection in 1980 and moved to larger premises on rue du Parc-Royal in the Marais district. Alaïa was voted Best Designer of the Year and Best collection of the Year at the Oscars de la Mode by the French Ministry of Culture in 1984 in a memorable event where Grace Jones carried him in her arms on stage! He then signed a partnership with the Prada group in 2000. Working with Prada saw him through a second impressive renaissance, and in July 2007, he successfully bought back his house and brand name from the Prada group, though his footwear and leather goods division continues to be developed and produced by the group. In 2007, the Richemont group (Cartier, Van Cleef) took a stake in his fashion house but he still does not show during the collections.

12:30pm
Boucheron
Chanel Joaillerie
Chaumet
Dior Joaillerie
Mellerio
Van Cleef & Arpels
By Appointment