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LOUIS VUITTON - FALL 2011 - MARC JACOBS - FASHION WEEK PARIS

Streamed live, tweeted live-er and consumed instantly by millions - even billions - worldwide, fashion has become the ultimate voyeuristic pursuit. Was that what inspired Marc Jacobs to explore the fetishist - and, indeed, feti-chic - side of Louis Vuitton for Autumn/Winter 2011
That of course is prime Belle De Jour territory - as if it needed underlining, Jacobs winched his models into the show space in a quartet of concierge-manned and distinctly Parisian wrought-iron lifts
Granted, the models wore Night Porter caps and a couple seemed to have forgotten to put on their skirts, but overwhelmingly these clothes tapped into the late fifties early sixties bourgeoise thing we've been seeing.

Portiere Di Notte - R Liliana Cavani, Italie, 1974
Louis Vuitton Fall 2011

Belle De Jour - Catherine Deneuve

SOUNDTRACK CHANEL - FALL WINTER 2011 - MICHEL GAUBERT

MUSIC PJ HARVEY - THE GLORIOUS LAND - 2011

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN - FALL 2011 - SARAH BURTON - FASHION WEEK PARIS - LA CONCIERGERIE

Alexander McQueen Fall 2011

Elizabeth Peyton - Marie Antoinette

Alexander McQueen Fall 2011

Sarah Burton definitely isn't shying away from the weight of legacy she's inherited. Her venue was La Conciergerie, Marie Antoinette's prison and the site of an Alexander "Lee" McQueen show that was made memorable by the presence on the catwalk of live wolves (doped-up wolves or perhaps just some particularly lupine dogs, but still). No such threat of danger tonight, though the crackling neon lights were a reminder of McQueen's asylum show and the theme—"The Ice Queen and her court"—had the suitably chilly ring of a vintage McQueen ritual. The collection furthermore drew on what the show notes called "heritage silhouettes."