Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring Summer 2012

Jean Paul Gaultier gave a beautiful and loving tribute to Amy Whinehouse in his Spring Couture collection. It was full of rockabilly cool but still staying true to Gaultier's signatures- corsetry, suiting and not to forget trench coats. It was a fun imaginative and eccentric collection, and that is what a Gaultier collection should be.

My favourites from the collection.

Givenchy Haute Couture Spring Summer 2012

Riccardo Tisci designs yet another beautiful collection for Givenchy and the collection has a modern, raw, casual-couture feel. That meaning everything looks easy wearable, matching hand beaded delicate embroidery and embellishments with jersey vests, leather and weightless tulle and all finished with over sized heavy zips and heavy chains draped across the body. Accessories were leather opera gloves, huge earrings overly decorated with diamonds and crystals, and the unmissable nose rings worn tribally through the middle of the nose. I know I don't get it either as it doesn't fit in with the collection and should not have been included, but it was a clever and modern collection by one of my absolute favourite designers and fashion house- Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy.

My favourites from the collection.

Armani Privé Spring Summer 2012

Keywords to describe Armani Privé's collection for spring summer would be the following- Green (lots of it, in every shade possible), reptile, sequins, watercolours, underwater, snakeskin, silk, tropical.. to name a few. Day wear was all about cropped jackets paired with knee length skirts and shimmery trouser suits. Then For evening wear the sequins came out in full force most beautifully in an oyster coloured strapless dress with encrusted sequins on the upper half of the bodice, with matching embellished cropped jacket casually hanging across the shoulders. Equally as beautiful was the finale dress, a leafy green strapless embellished from top to toe gown where the fabric was folded over to look almost like enlarged scales that move with ease and grace. I can see this one as a major Oscar dress contender along with one or two other dresses from this collection too, question is which one(s) and who will be the one to wear Armani?
Here are my favourites from the collection.