Posts with tag HauteCouture

Good news designer handbag fanatics who also love cheap pizza, it appears that the next time you order a medium or large 'Viva pizza' -- whatever that is -- you also get a chance to win one of "five authentic Gucci bags!" Hmm, why does that seem so completely messed up? Maybe because one company sells high end fashion clothing and accessories and one sells schlocky stuffed crust pizza? Yeah, we're not sure why either company agreed to this promotion.

It is often difficult for people to find anything that you can bring into your own life when it comes to haute couture except for the entertainment factor. That's what we're here for – to pull the haute trends from the runway and deliver them to you in wearable form.

After visiting the house of designer's like Jean Paul Gaultier and Valentino via YouTube, we've uncovered the biggest trend that was shown on nearly every haute couture runway.

Drum roll please...

Madness! Total madness! We adore Jean-Paul Gaultier's sense of creativity. His 2009 haute couture show was like a fashion circus! It's always fun to see clothes that no human being in his/her right mind would ever wear. But, hey, isn't that what it's all about?

If you're on green overload and can't bare to hear about another "eco-friendly" this or "%100 organic" that, then take a deep breath and exhale because we kind of need a break from it all, too.

No, this post is about another cool way to get chic and ethical clothing: buying vintage.

Next time you're heading out in the rain, or just want a little shade on an especially sunny day, why not consider this, er, unique hat from Valentino? It'd definitely keep you dry, and, best of all, it looks like a flying saucer -- what more could you want? OK, maybe the fact that you can't see while you're wearing it is a small problem (speaking of that, how did this model make it down the runway without crashing to her death?).

The odd piece of enormous headgear was part of Valentino's Haute Couture runway show in Paris last week. Couture, if you're not familiar with it, is to fashion what modern art is to painting (sometimes it's good for inspiration, other times it's just weird) -- so rest assured, gargantuan, alien-spaceship style hats won't be showing up on store shelves anytime soon.

But you know, cut out some holes for the eyes, and maybe this would work -- albeit in a Scientology kinda way. What do you think?