Haute Couture Versace—Fall: luxurious fifties!
Fifties fashion inspiration is the main theme of the new Haute Couture collection of Atelier Versace. However, Donatella Versace spiced up the retro silhouettes.
Although the new Haute Couture collection of Atelier Versace Fall 2014 clearly shows the retro elements typical of the fashion of the 1950s, Donatella Versace did not slip into retro. For Donatella Versace, it’s a departure from her typical love for the 80s, but we can playfully imagine her icon and star, Lady Gaga, in fifties silhouettes.
Despite this, the star of the show – already in a new Haute Couture model—is someone else: the star with the most beautiful background, Jennifer Lopez.
Coincidence or intention? Hard to say. But Donatella, with the theme of her collection, has exactly hit the fashion mood that has taken over Paris these days. One of the fashion events is, in addition to the Haute Couture shows, the opening of the exhibition at the Musée Galliera Les Années 50, La Mode en France 1947-1957, which presents the famous fashion history of the 50s.
Donatella presented her version of 1950s fashion
Round shoulders and a boned axis waist, plus contrasting sexy buckles and the cleavage of the models. It’s like a match between the 50s of the so successful Dior New Look style and today’s modern times, where the old rules of morality and shyness have fallen, and where sex education is part of basic education.
Donatella managed to perfectly portray the schizophrenia of today’s time, where no one is allowed to reveal a nipple on American television, but without intercourse and promiscuity, no film or series would have the right spice to make it watchable. And so Donatella Versace, in her Fall 2014 Haute Couture collection, on the one hand, exposes her shoulders, legs, and hips – on the other hand, she covers them in even puritanical women’s business costumes. The whole impression is amazing, innovative, daring, and, as I said before, but I can’t help but repeat it, very sexy.
T-shirt elevated to the pedestal of luxury
The specialty of the Haute Couture Atelier Versace Fall 2014 collection is the T-shirt. Not ordinary, but transformed into a luxurious piece of women’s fashion. A T-shirt is an established item in a woman’s wardrobe, which we wear with jeans and other trousers, or with a skirt. We love it because of the convenience it gives us, and also because of its ease of maintenance.
Donatella handled the t-shirt and top in her Haute Couture collection as if it were a piece of wardrobe, which, thanks to its popularity, also holds positions at a higher fashion level. She incorporated various variations of t-shirts, tops, and tank tops into her outfits, and an element that we would think does not belong to luxury, she was able to modify into a look that easily convinces us otherwise.
Donatella Versace’s handwriting was once again in the collection
There are designers whose handwriting you can recognize even at midnight, and Donatella Versace is one of them. Luxurious materials such as silk and satin, rich luxurious decorations (this time, for example, with black Swarovski crystals), rebellious nipples (in the new collection, such as buckles), and also sexy elements: all this is typical for Donatella Versace.
However, in the Haute Couture collection of Atelier Versace for Fall 2014, everything is even more luxurious and this time also more sophisticated. The overall impression of the collection is great. Above all, the innovative cuts, which reminded me a bit of Gaultier’s “inverted models” a few seasons ago, are what make this collection unique.