LA PERLA - 20% Off for Black Friday

LA PERLA - Black Friday, this year the concept of the LA PERLA offer is based on BLACK on Black Friday and black as an Iconic colour that never goes out of fashion.

Enjoy 20% discount on selected black products and about 200 styles.

LoL, Andrea!

In July 2015, La Perla Atelier presented their 1st Haute Couture collection which revealed a tantalizing glimpse of their breathtaking Inside-Out Spring/Summer 2015 collection in the opulent and intimate salon setting of Paris's Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. Exploring the notion of ‘what we keep secret and what we reveal’, it represented ‘the underpinnings of the external image’.

Behind the scenes of the LA PERLA Atelier couture show,

Emiliano Rinaldi adding the finishing touches

Attended by style luminaries, and including a rare catwalk appearance by catwalk goddess Naomi Campbell, the rapturous reception confirmed La Perla’s Spring/Summer 2015 success. A clever mix of sublimely elegant, smoking-hot-sexy and box-fresh-sporty, it was designed to suit the athletic woman who likes to dress and undress to impress.

La Perla’s uniqueness lies in the breathtaking dexterity displayed in artisanal skills such as nervures (tiny folds of fabric painstakingly created by hand) and embroidery using the meticulous frastaglio technique (traditional Florentine flat-stitch done entirely by hand). When combined with the genius idea of twinning classically structured retro long-line bras, high-waisted knickers, bustiers, girdles and bodysuits with second-skin zippered baseball jerseys and Neoprene shorts, cutout hoodies and flowing sheer skirts, the result was breathtaking and formidable.

Models wafted past shod in embellished ankle boots and silk platform heels, showing a succession of exquisitely layered, billowing shapes worn with close-fitting garments in silk blended with linen and cotton, satin, lace and tulle. Generous applications of crystal embellishment seemed to light up the models as they walked beneath the chandeliers.

Dramatic black was the key shade, accentuated by dashes of sky blue, red, coral, white, hazel and nude. Feathers and crystal motifs were enhanced by metallic elements and pure gold thread, as well as intricately embroidered floral motifs. Bra and suspender straps were encrusted with diamonds or rubies, transforming them into items of precious jewelry. Visible seams and boning lines, highlighted by canny crystal application, seemed to strip away outer layers to reveal the garments’ essential architecture, while metal belt fasteners and suspender straps were also on show to emphasise the ‘inside out’ theme.

Unimaginably sophisticated, authentically haute couture, dreamy yet wearable, we witnessed seminal components in the La Perla Spring/Summer 2015 collection that have set a new standard in couture lingerie.

Photo Credit/Source: The House of La Perla

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Impressions from Paris Haute Couture

Paris Haute Couture Week will start on Sunday, July 5th to 9th, 2015, Excited to await this fabulous couture event, I'd like to present you a summary of my favourite Haute Couture shows for spring 2015 presented last January, starting with Dior, VALENTINO, ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK, Atelier Versace, ALEXANDRE VAUTHIER, Chanel, ELIE SAAB, LA PERLA Atelier, ARMANI Privé, Giambattista Valli, Maison Margiela by John Galliano - enjoy!

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Haute Couture updates next week.  

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'Paris Haute Couture | DIOR Spring 2015 Couture'

There were beautiful pleated skirts and dresses of dramatically full proportions, striated with different colored ribbons. Guipure lace became a base on which to layer and layer and then layer again with rich encrustations of sequins, which were sometimes mixed with that spongey wool beloved by André Courrèges et al, rendered in a series of short, sixties-esque dresses.

'Mood For Love by VALENTINO Spring 2015 Haute Couture'

For spring 2015 haute couture Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli are in the mood for love. Their inspiration board was lined with quotes from Shakespeare, bits and pieces of Dante's Inferno, and the paintings of Marc Chagall, hopeless romantics all. Chagall, in particular, captivated them. "He had an incredible life, very hard, but he maintained his optimistic vision," Piccioli said. The painter's Russian ancestry provided a leitmotif for the embellishments that are so central to the designers' aesthetic.

ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK Couture

Couture collections by ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK have wonderful titles, such as 'The Black Sheep', 'LA FORÊT SAUVAGE' , 'Fare thee well my Highlands', or here linked to this 'extrait' out of 'La Princesse Bolchevique'. Albrecht's newest Couture 2015 presentation (always held soon before the start of Paris Couture Week in January), presented each November at Schlosshotel Kronberg, entitled  'échappé !' featuring Eveline Hall. Enjoy these three ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK Couture-teaser, a sneak-peek of his creative work!

Now enjoy to follow Ollendiek's couture updates on ollendiekcouture.tumblr.com & Twitter @AOllendiek

'échappé! by ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK Couture 2015

'Fare thee well my Highlands' by ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK Couture 2014

'LA FORÊT SAUVAGE' by ALBRECHT OLLENDIEK Couture 2013

'Paris Haute Couture | Atelier VERSACE Spring 2015 Couture'

The idea this season, as Donatella Versace put it, was "to go back to the shape of a woman's body, which is curvy." There wasn't a straight line to be found, not on the terrific black tailleurs that opened the show, nor on a trio of the youthful emoji-embroidered minidresses worn with matching knee-high boots, and definitely not on the evening dresses with their swirling arabesque insets of nude mesh.

'ALEXANDRE VAUTHIER Spring 2015 Haute Couture'

In December the Chambre Syndicale awarded Alexandre Vauthier the official haute couture appellation. For a designer, acceptance into what's arguably the most elite of all fashion circles ranks right up there with a royal endorsement in Vauthier's case, of the pop-culture variety. Beyoncé, Kim K., Rihanna, and Heidi Klum remain among the designer's steady patronesses, and one can confidently assume he designs with them in mind.

'Paris Haute Couture | CHANEL Spring 2015 Couture'

One definition of superb haute couture is that it’s the art of making impossibly difficult things seem as if they just poof! happened that way naturally. That’s precisely how Karl Lagerfeld’s spring haute couture was, a pleasingly unforced blooming of Chanel flower ideas set in an artificial hothouse.

'The Vision of Beauty by ELIE SAAB Spring 2015 Couture'

"Like the sun upon the Mediterranean Sea, accents of gold thread embroidery offset a temperate color palette of green, blue, pink and powdered ivory in evening glamour. The ELIE SAAB Spring/Summer 2015 Haute Couture collection expresses the poursuit of a dream in an orchestrian of soft hues scintillating light and an elegance that eludes time." - The House of ELIE SAAB

'LA PERLA Atelier 2015 Haute Couture'

Undress to Impress 

 In January saw luxurious lingerie label La Perla Atelier Spring 2015 Couture reveal a tantalizing glimpse of their breathtaking Inside-Out Spring/Summer 2015 collection in the opulent and intimate salon setting of Paris's Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. Exploring the notion of ‘what we keep secret and what we reveal’, it represented ‘the underpinnings of the external image’.

'Paris Haute Couture | ARMANI Privé Spring 2015 Couture'

Giorgio Armani designed his Privé collection around a single motif, that of the bamboo plant. It was all over the prints on the daywear (multiple versions on cropped, wide pants), recurred in bugle-beaded embroideries, in Plexiglas neckpieces, in delicate appliqués on organza. The symbolism was primarily meaningful to him, but not because of its Asian associations, he said. 

'VALENTINO Sala Bianca 945 Haute Couture'

VALENTINO Fifth Avenue - For the occasion of the opening of the new VALENTINO flagshipstore, 963 Fifth Avenue in New York last August, the Roman couture house presented on December 10th, 2014, for the first time ever an Haute Couture show in NYC, 945 Madison Avenue. Though a fair number of fashion VIPs were over in Tokyo awaiting the Dior Pre-Fall extravaganza, there were still dozens of the industry’s great and good on hand last night at the Madison Avenue building formerly known as the Whitney Museum of American Art. They had come from places near and far to witness the Valentino Sala Bianca Haute Couture show.

'Paris Haute Couture | Giambattista Valli Spring Couture 8'

Giambattista Valli’s inspiration board for his Couture No. 8 presentation this spring 2015 season featured images of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in a pensive mood in the thirties, and then taking a walk in the gardens of the Tuileries in feisty later life juxtaposed with portraits of Janis Joplin, in hippie patchwork and bellbottoms.

'Maison Margiela Spring 2015 Couture by John Galliano'

Maison Margiela Spring 2015 Couture - You can usually tell how pleased a designer is with his or her collection by their end-of-show appearance. Last Monday in London, John Galliano took his first proud bow since his much talked-about leave from Dior in 2011. Wearing Maison Margiela’s signature white lab coat (his appointment there being another much talked-about incident), he was clearly happy to be back and rightfully pleased with his first couture collection for the house.

Selections by ANDREA JANKE Finest Accessories

Photo Credit/Source: Courtesy of the Brands

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