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Gareth Pugh's Parisian Debut

Quickie vid post... So it seems people like Gareth Pugh a WHOLE LOT more after moving to Paris judging from the TFS thread going on which is amusing.  Gareth said that it was basically going to be the same show that he would have done in London but it just happens to be in Paris.  The truth of the matter is, that the Palais de Tokyo setting, the manufacture of garments in Italy and a different attitude within Pugh consequently means that it wasn't the same London show.  As opposed to a front row of clubkids, you had Carine Roitfeld and Emmanuelle Alt.  The music slowed down (provided by Matthew Stone as always) to something sharper and less frenetic.  The construction of everything was more refined and superSLICK (the word that I kept on thinking...).  There was a purpose about everything that meant whilst the shapes and techniques have been seen before in Pugh's previous collections, the strings have been tightened to a positive effect.  The setting of Paris did change something.... being on that schedule demands that Pugh do an upgrade manouvre and I think he achieved that yesterday...

Paris Fashion Week S/S 09: Day 1

So yes, a few of you pointed out Altamira's pic of me (finally got to meet the guy!) and yes, I am here in Paris for fashion week and yes, I am doing the whole hog.  What with Gareth Pugh's show being on the first day and Miu Miu and Lanvin on the last, there are crucial consequences here...a) I'm going to be missing episodes of The Restaurant on the BBC and b) I had to lug a quarter of my wardrobe here because staying for nine days in Paris during fashion week and NOT having everything at my disposal frankly scares the bejesus out of me...

I will be checking in on the blog as often as I can but everyday will be pretty jampacked with a combination of mass image editing/uploading, tradeshows, appointments and of course the shows...what shows... I don't even know as invitations are being delivered as each day comes it seems... there's some good uns' coming up though...

I've enlisted Tommy of Jak and Jil to be my unofficial outfit photographer because a) the boyf is at home pondering why Arsenal lost to Hull and b) my hotel room is so titch that a tripod would not have been any use and frankly c) if I can't labour over posts each day then a lazy outfit post will have to do.... so apologies in advance.... at least the backgrounds of the pics are nice though, eh?

Boudicca white pleated dress, Robert Cary Williams dusky pink zipper dress, American Apparel black leggings, Bronx cut-out shoes, Outsapop's zipper collar

JPB does it Milano style....

Jean Pierre Braganza was a sore omission from London's schedule but his move to Milan I think is a cool one considered the support of a fashion tradeshow/salon like White who are really shaking things up I think in Milan.  Still, I wonder if it was the city, the different look of the models but SS09 Jean Pierre Braganza had a whole lot more sex in it...especially when looking at these pieces which has some sort of shiny black going on that I can't quite figure out and will have to send him an email to ask exactly what it is that is making these pieces really stunning. 

I should be put off by the flesh baring but somehow, the choppiness and slightly off-kilter cut of the dress is really drawing me in.  Oh and it helps that the model looks like a young Carine Roitfeld and thus I can see her in it... which makes me happy because that would really put Jean Pierre Braganza on the international map and that give me mad grinning expressions and...and... I'm feeling a bit deranged...

P.S. Apologies, I'm posting like a mad woman to vent my frustration at not being able to check into my hotel in Paris and I've had no sleep due to a ridiculously early Eurostar train and standing outside their ticket office looking utterly pathetic...