Fashionlines Online Magazine
Fashion & Trends People & Places Art & Design Beauty & Health Shopping About Us Editor's Note
This Season's Trends

Customize Your Style >
Chantal's Secret:>
Versace Luxe Jewelry >
Could Fashion Soon Sing the Blues? >
Risks and Rewards of the Birkin Bag >
Let the Fur Fly >
Tom Ford Visits Oxford >
Family Jewels >
LA Finds >
Ins and Outs of 2005 >
Young Parisian Chic>
Couture Snowbunny>
Haute Couture Fashion Week>
Paris Men's Fashion on the Move>
São Paulo Fashion Week >
In the Bag >
My Couture Valentine
>

Featured Designers
Vivienne Westwood >
Jenni Kayne >
Paris Updates >
Brasil Anunciação >
as four Interview >
New West Coast Designers >
Elsa Schiaparelli >
Louis Verdad >
Au Bar with Alber >
Troubled Times at Jean Paul Gaultier>
Fashion Blues >
Passing the Torch at Geoffery Beene>
Hilfiger Buys Lagerfeld >
The Legend of Winston>
All in the Mists of Time >
LVMH Sells Lacroix Couture >
Spring 2005 Carol Christian Poell >
Runway Report
Haute Couture - Spring '05 >
São Paulo Fashion Week >
Paris Men's Wear - Fall '05 >
Paris - Spring '05 >
Milan - Spring '05 >
NY - Fall '05 >
LA - Spring '05 >
SF Fashion Week >

Schönberger Rolled but Didn't Rock

By Timothy Hagy

PARIS, January 30 - The Dirk Schönberger show, which took place Sunday evening in the Couvent de Cordeliers, rolled by with high tech staging - spotlights that traced models with laser precision, snow that fell from the rafters and a globe that glowed on a large screen. Despite the references to Euro rock culture, as in guitar cutouts applied like insignia, or an instrument woven into a scarf and twirled around the neck, the collection lacked the heat of past seasons.

The knitwear was certainly a high point, whether in a furry turtleneck sweater, or in the transparent mesh that reveled a model's chiseled chest. And then there were some spiffy new fabrics that blended wool with glistening gold Lurex threads, and heavy silver metal that poured down the pleats of a set of evening shirts. Sharp tailoring was evident elsewhere in short tailed jackets and trenches that were inlaid with leather strips.

The collection was certainly commercially viable, if somewhat austere, and perhaps that was all the beat that was needed.

 

 



 


Contact Us | Subscribe | Visit the fashionlines-lookonline-zoozoom forum | Fashionlines Archives | “Jewels By Christine”

© 1998-2005 Fashionlines.com. All rights reserved.

NARS at Beauty.com