Comme des Garçons Fall/​Winter 2012 | Paris Fashion Week

Androg­yny Now–Hid­den under a mop of jet black disheveled hair, the boys of Comme des Garçons told a tale of unadul­ter­ated rebel­lion. Fash­ions for the ele­gant punk, a long coat, pulled in at the waist deliv­ered charm in quaint vari­eties, rang­ing from polka dots and somber black to dis­creet etch­ings. Com­ple­mented with pleated skirts and cape jack­ets, large flo­ral prints made a divine state­ment, know­ing no bounds and lend­ing Rei Kawakubo’s mis­fit a soft touch, fused with mod­er­ate angst. Fin­ished with large bows tied at the neck and petite heels, ready for the cat­walk, Comme des Garçons deliv­ered a wel­comed col­lec­tion of means and mode.

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Dries Van Noten Fall/​Winter 2012 | Paris Fashion Week

Psy­che­delic Ele­gance–A keynote of any Dries Van Noten col­lec­tion, prints really spoke great vol­umes this sea­son. Tak­ing Oscar Wilde’s dandy and lend­ing him an atti­tude befit­ting of music artist Frank Zappa, the sea­son was Van Noten’s can­vas. Keep­ing fall’s inspi­ra­tions on a tight leash, the back­bone of the col­lec­tion was entrusted to sharp over­coats and pleated trousers, nar­row and wide. With fine form at the collection’s heart, next came excit­ing prints in vivid col­ors. Dress­ing sweaters and pants for a psy­che­delic reemer­gence, Van Noten no doubt made a loud state­ment, but also deliv­ered charm sub­tly with finer print motifs and lux­u­ri­ous fab­ri­ca­tions such as vel­vet dri­ving his effort­less ele­gance home.

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Issey Miyake Fall/​Winter 2012 | Paris Fashion Week

Sim­plic­ity in Color–First to hit the cat­walk for Issey Miyake was a lineup of tex­tured knits and trousers, cut loose with sig­nif­i­cant pleat­ing. Deliv­er­ing quite the num­ber of col­ors against a core grounded in gray, color, tex­ture and shape gave the new col­lec­tion def­i­n­i­tion. A com­bi­na­tion of keen atten­tion to sil­hou­ette and the nur­tur­ing of an aes­thetic, the options remained lim­ited but excelled in the sense of sell­ing the label’s finer points. Mar­ry­ing an east­ern school of thought with west­ern ide­ol­ogy, relaxed jack­ets, shirt­ing and trousers were mixed and matched for an end­less wardrobe of laid-​​back style options fea­tur­ing a dis­tin­guished harmony.

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Jean-Luc’s Casting Call Diaries | Paris Fashion Week – Day 2

Boys, Boys, Boys–For my sec­ond day of this new exclu­sive ‘Cast­ing Call Diaries’ series for The Fash­ion­isto, I chased mod­els across Paris from Hauss­mann build­ings by the Chi­cis­sime Avenue Mon­taigne and Avenue de L’Opéra to some more indus­trial photo stu­dios in more pop­u­lar dis­tricts; out of a slightly ambi­tious pro­gram of eight cast­ings I man­aged to cover six : Dior Homme, Mugler, Louis Vuit­ton, Arnys, Yohji Yamamoto and Alexis Mabille … This jour­ney proved to be pretty intense behind the cam­era due to the amount of mod­els who would never miss giv­ing it a chance at cast­ings for such major shows even if they have to carry an umbrella, but granted me to pin to my list of daily tro­phies the likes of Yuri Pleskun, ris­ing star Bap­stiste Radufe, Nico­las Ripoll, Matvey Lykov, Dou­glas Neitzke, Lyle Lod­wick, Corey Bap­tiste, Paul Boche, Vic­tor Nylan­der, Alexan­der Johans­son, Juan Manuel Aran­cibia, Alexan­der Beck, Julien Chanca etc, some newer faces such as Andrea Bel­lis­ario, Timmi Radicke, Julius Ger­hardt, Jay or Noma Han for instance and even the fresh­est first timers you can imag­ine : Jus­tus Eis­feld (who doesn’t even have a paris agency yet) or Isaac Ekblad (who came to Paris to visit his fam­ily and was only dis­cov­ered today by an agency scout as he was walk­ing in the street !) … Also snapped were design­ers Romain Kre­mer (Mugler) and Alexis Mabille … check this space for more to come very soon !

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Cole Mohr, Jonatan Frenk, Lyle Lodwick & Yuri Pleskun by Christophe Kutner for Common & Sense Man

Black & Gold–Cole Mohr, Lyle Lod­wick, Yuri Pleskun (Request) and Jonatan Frenk (Next) deliver a mis­chie­vously good time for a new story in Com­mon & Sense Man’s fall/​winter 2011 issue. Pho­tographed by Christophe Kut­ner, the infec­tious lot of char­ac­ters are out­fit­ted by Chris­t­ian Stroble in this season’s lineup from Diesel Black Gold.

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Snap! | Lyle Lodwick by Samantha West

New York-​​based pho­tog­ra­pher Saman­tha West reunites with Ford model Lyle Lod­wick for Yestadt Milinery’s upcom­ing spring 2012 outing.