A Sad Day for Fashion...

[fashionwriter]

PARIS will be a poorer place come Couture Week. Both Emanuel Ungaro and Donatella Versace have announced that they are bowing out of fashion's most exclusive week, which is set to run from July 6 - 9. The news follows Givenchy's announcement this week that it would not present a couture catwalk show, as it had not yet replaced Julien Macdonald, as

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[shangri_la3]

NO!! i'm so sad..i love couture. it is art! not meant to be hung in a closet...art that should be worn and celebrated! this fashion week will be severly lacking.. :(

[roxychic54]

Thanks for keeping me posted dawling. I know I can always count on you for the fashion world haps.

[spaced_in]

So basically if it isnt practical people wont wear it?

[fashionwriter]

I think what we have to remember is that the 'couture' shows are the really flamboyant shows that promote more a designer's creativity than actual garments released for public sale. Those would be the ready-to-wear shows in March and September that are then sold through stores and boutiques. Generally, couture clothing goes right from the runway back to a designers studio and into storage.

[spaced_in]

Yeah still at the appropriate, over the top, function you could wear that as long as you weren't going to sit down! Still she looks very powerful and sexy. Perhaps thats in context though. Could the same attitude come off in the street? mmm.

[fashionwriter]

I think the headdress would kill it. ;)