The snow falls into their hair, into their taffeta blouses.
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His favorite materials are textiles — especially silk, satin and taffeta.
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The epic train was made of ivory taffeta and antique lace.
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A pink taffeta minidress sprouted two enormous ruffs at the shoulders.
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It includes a bunch of silk-taffeta in two-toned jewel shades.
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Laura Bush in a taffeta gown, as if ready to attend a gala.
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Taffeta sleeves are insulated with Thermogreen 100% polyester (90% of which is recycled).
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The ivory-colored, silk taffeta gown boasted 10,000 pearls and stunning antique lace.
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But an older set is getting in on the tiara and taffeta fun, too.
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Over the base of simple white jeans or shorts and a white singlet were layered ruched and ruffled taffeta tops (only they weren't taffeta, they were polyester made from recycled plastic that looked like taffeta); big, explosive skirts, in Old Dutch florals or graphic swirls, tiered and frilled and hiked up on the side to show the cool beneath or left to billow grandly behind (all 130 feet or so of fuchsia).
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It retails for $595, and according to Barney's product description, is crafted from black tech taffeta.
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The entire lace-and-taffeta ensemble was designed by Helen Rose, a costume designer from MGM.
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Town & Country reported the ivory taffeta dress was embroidered with sequins, frilled lace and 10,000 pearls.
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As a sultan he wore many lavish fabrics including silk, brocaded velvet, taffeta, mohair, and cashmere.
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The bride wore a strapless silk taffeta ball gown with beaded bodice created by Reem Acra.
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The '80s scarred us in myriad ways — from the colorful taffeta to the over-lined lips.
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A handful of floral prints added to Valli's usual monochromatic gowns of tulle, chiffon and taffeta.
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There was a fuchsia satin T-shirt over baggy red trousers under a gold taffeta coat with a train; a double-face cashmere sweatshirt patchworked with lace anemone intarsia atop anemone-printed moiré pants; and a navy cashmere pea coat paired with explosive taffeta palazzo pants.
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The days of five-lady, five-guy bridal parties, all in matching taffeta and boutonnieres, are numbered.
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The bride's hand-embroidered silk taffeta ball gown was completed with a matching hand-embroidered cathedral veil.
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Isn't the only dress you have that weird taffeta thing you wore ironically to the summer ball?
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Underneath her jacket, the musician wore another Lela Rose piece: the $2,250 Drop-Shoulder Embellished Taffeta Minidress.
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When I was little, she made me shiny dresses in satin and taffeta to wear in family weddings.
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The new rule didn't ban taffeta, chiffon, sequins, or beads, however, and those embellishments only grew in popularity.
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A tuxedo trouser suit with a sheer chiffon T-shirt was topped by a lushly ruffled taffeta shrug.
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Having unearthed their taffeta gowns from deep storage, they show off pinched waists, bare arms, throats and shoulders.
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People buy dresses to be happy, not to hear about somebody who suffered over a piece of taffeta.
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The playful taffeta design featured an off-the-shoulder drop sleeve, plus crystal beaded floral embellishments dotting the front.
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It has the same taffeta-covered keys and, while not quite full-size, is still comfortable to type on.
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Goddard also scrunched colourful open-collar smock and taffeta frocks and used puffy floral dresses to play with volume.
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There was also a pouf skirt, some quilted bags and a watercolor taffeta with a single giant ruffled sleeve.
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Iridescent organza bustles printed with silk screens of berries were strapped behind utilitarian short suits with taffeta corset tops.
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There were navy belted jackets worn with cropped culotte trousers as well as taffeta pleated dresses, tops and skirts.
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This braless, somewhat frumpy, taffeta situation has become known by many as the worst Oscars look of all time.
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Answer: Bridesmaids dresses have gotten major upgrades in the past few years — they're not the taffeta terrors of the past.
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Authorities later found a whole skeleton, along with a wedding ring and a piece of taffeta inside the corpse's mouth.
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A wedding is actually one time when a vibrantly-colored taffeta dress doesn't look out of place, so make it work!
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Of the three dresses that Marie Antoinette took with her to prison 17 years later, one was a puce taffeta gown.
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At the bar, a man held a baby in a taffeta dress in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Ethereal mesh pieces in muted browns and greens are accented with an iridescent taffeta, gathered in tight ruffles and structured bows.
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There was a nod to Mr. Lagerfeld's love of a Belle Epoque frock: a strapless taffeta number with detached puffed sleeves.
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Cloud helped Britton style the sweater with a Max Mara taffeta ballgown skirt and accessorized the look with items from female designers.
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From the charming Arlésienne to the shepherdess in a fairy tale, with faille, piqué, taffeta, tulle, embroidery, lace, the repertoire is inexhaustible.
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Sadly, though, I met no one who had a taffeta Schiaparelli evening dress that was shared among the women for formal occasions.
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The combination of dye and water created a subtle ombre effect on her burgundy taffeta skirt rather than a noticeable sartorial disaster.
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A black sheath with a sweetheart neckline was tied with a giant taffeta bow at the waist, hands plunged into the loops.
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Instead of using nylon for the shell, however, he had used taffeta—a material often fashioned into ball gowns and wedding dresses.
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At one point, when he was spending time at a château in Brittany, he had a taste for billowing shirts made in taffeta.
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She did it by taking work wear tropes (shirtwaists and cargo pants and hoodies) and remaking them in taffeta, the fabric of formality.
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Minaj had a little more skin exposed in her custom Prabal Gurung blush dress featuring hand-embroidered chandelier crystals and a silk taffeta train.
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Once a self-described beer-drinking trucker bride, in the show's last episode Donovan gracefully walked down the aisle in layers of white taffeta.
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That taffeta, for instance, came from thinking about the work of the outsider artist Ionel Talpazan, whose art also inspires prints in the show.
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The "Crazy Rich Asians" star's fuchsia taffeta gown was a favorite of many, and not just because it had a pair of hidden pockets.
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Others strutted past in dollar bill miniskirts and pastel crystal-studded prints of detergent pods; foxy stuffed animal stoles and tiny taffeta cocktail dresses.
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After winning for best song (and losing in the best acting category) Lady Gaga somehow managed to vanish in a puff of Valentino taffeta.
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Even though it's roughly the same size as the Apple's taffeta-fabric-covered Smart Keyboard, the physical keys are better defined and offer excellent response.
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Certainly when compared with the time-traveling cool of black cigarette tuxedo trousers matched with cropped rococo taffeta jackets, and petit-point floral skater frocks.
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Inside, a soft, warm polyester taffeta keeps you nice and toasty even when you're out on frigid slopes or facing winds howling through city streets.
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It still has the same taffeta-covered keys, but they are slightly larger and more spread out, giving you what is, essentially, a full-sized keyboard.
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A visitor was ejected from the Metropolitan Museum of Art for wearing a gown of blue silk taffeta and silk organza modeled after 18th-century dresses.
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Most say she was wearing a long, brown taffeta gown, though that description matches none of the 40 gowns in the museum's collection, Mr. Bellov said.
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Taffeta, chiffon, sequins, and beads became figure skating costume staples in the '80s, but Katarina Witt's outfit caused a major stir, even changing dress code rules.
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Also high/low dressing: taffeta and moiré frocks cut thigh-high in the front, and backed by billowing trains, so they make both entrances and exits.
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Attempting to curb his wife's sartorial extravagances, the king observed that a silk taffeta robe she was trying on resembled couleur de puce—the colour of fleas.
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"The garment drapes are based on a swirling movement," explains Phillips of the pieces, which include an A-line taffeta skirt with a dramatic spiral-like silhouette.
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The best supporting actress wore a one-shoulder yellow taffeta Valentino gown with a dark burgundy bow at the waist and Lorraine Schwartz brooch on the shoulder.
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I mean, if their "blood pact" as teenagers weren't enough, in the end Grindelwald beckons his followers with reams of flowing black taffeta to a Parisian graveyard!
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First she wore a custom Armani Privé black sequin, wide neck bodysuit dress featuring a white gathered skirt of silk taffeta covered in a oversize polka dot paillettes.
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Oddly, they also resembled clips from disparate films — one "Sunset Boulevard," another "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane," a third maybe "Mystic Pizza," via ruched taffeta dresses and leggings.
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The collection itself featured full-length gowns in materials like stiff taffeta or pleated, soft lamé, which made it look like the models were floating down the runway.
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The stylist Mary Alice Stephenson will be on hand if you're torn between, say, a taffeta parka ($1,250) and a puffer jacket with a fox fur collar ($1,195).
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A sweep of colorful gowns in taffeta and sequined tulle hangs in a back room, and an assortment of belts and pumps in pastels are spread out nearby.
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A boutique, run by Greeks from the wave of guest workers in the '50s, offers white taffeta baby dresses and sugarcoated almonds, traditional symbols of Greek Orthodox baptisms.
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Witherspoon, 42, donned a black panther-patterned cocktail dress by Dundas featuring pink embellishments and a black taffeta bow, Christian Louboutin pumps and a black velvet Christian Louboutin clutch.
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He did it with toile de Jouy knickerbockers and matching cutaways in macaron shades; in patchworks of elaborate velvet brocades and bubbles and tiers and trains of floral taffeta.
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Dresses came in truncated, tented taffeta beneath coronas of quivering leaf hats and as silver-embroidered lace tank gowns under slouchy matching cardigans, as easy as a nightgown and robe.
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Dresses came in truncated, tented taffeta beneath coronas of quivering leaf hats, and as silver-embroidered lace tank gowns under slouchy matching cardigans — as easy as a nightgown and robe.
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Yohji Yamamoto's Victorian sportswear — suiting, athletic and otherwise, ruffled and ruched with taffeta, twisted into elegance — set to guitar tunes sung and strummed by the designer, had a singular charm.
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What's helped guide them there is curated specialty boutiques like Charlotte's Capitol and Dallas's Forty Five Ten — at the former, high-waisted silk printed taffeta skirts are flying off the shelves.
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Designer Molly Goddard, known for her colorful eye-catching tulle dresses, said her clients would "stomp through the storm" next winter in her taffeta frocks, pinstripe suits and bright argyle knits.
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Viktor & Rolf Mariage, known for its wearable art-like designs, presented a dramatic taffeta V-neck gown with a petticoat-style skirt in its latest collection inspired by a winter garden.
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Princess Diana waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in 200723, wearing an ivory-silk taffeta dress with 200713,200703 pearls and a 211999-foot train, with Prince Charles at her side.
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The rapper and singer wore a custom H&M dress, featuring "extravagant raw-edged silk taffeta and black vinyl roses trapped at the hem and beneath the train," according to the release.
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For her civil wedding, Grace wore the first of two gowns created for her by Hollywood wardrobe designer Helen Rose: a two-piece light pink taffeta dress overlaid with champagne colored lace.
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"It's important that this industry takes responsibility," said British designer Stella McCartney, after showcasing a contrasting collection of cotton T-shirts and bright taffeta skirts at Paris' baroque Opera Garnier on Monday.
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The modern maximalist décor evokes many of the places where cotton has been cultivated, from India and Egypt to New Orleans, and room categories have names like Panama, madras, taffeta and damask.
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Who makes clothes that range from the minimalist — the simplest black tux or red taffeta bubble — to the maximalist (those embroideries), but that either way are defined by one essential quality: generosity.
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So her signature broderie anglaise was grounded in vinyl and knotted down one side, nude tulle covered in peonies, heavy taffeta remade as a trench, and big shoulder bags slung across the body.
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Dolphin pedestal shoes aside, the collection featured pastel shades and a distinct pre-French revolution era vibe with pannier skirts, peplum jackets, corsets, taffeta bloomers, and towering beehive up-dos decorated with bows.
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Matching Reds Ms. Campbell wore a black taffeta knee-length dress, designed by Sara Campbell, under an ivory cardigan trimmed with fur and a red cloche hat, which lent a Diane Keaton resemblance.
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Red flags pop up on cue: a teenage son with the hots for the daughter of a cartoonishly nosy Stasi neighbor; eagle-eyed storekeepers who note purchases of large amounts of taffeta fabric.
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Valued at $12,000 (equivalent to $41,000 today), the stunning gown, which was designed by Elizabeth and David Emanuel, was made of ivory silk taffeta and embellished with lace, hand embroidery, sequins and 10,000 pearls.
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For the newly betrothed who has fever dreams about being swallowed by a taffeta nightmare, worry not: Stone Fox Bride's creative director Molly Guy's designs skew more indie IT girl than pretty-pretty princess.
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James once created a dress ruched to resemble a Dalí-esque lobster at the height of 1930s Surrealism, and his later trussed abstractions of taffeta and wool recalled Constantin Brancusi's metal and stone objects.
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He also experimented with exaggerated volumes, as seen in bulbous '60s-inspired taffeta dresses and gowns, while a carefree spirit of the Italian Riviera infused the collection with a sense of lightness and ease.
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Silhouettes were as attenuated as a pen and ink drawing or drowned in enormous volumes; glittering rats chased their tails around Victorian coats; phantom hands reached across taffeta gowns; satin cracked from side to side.
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They could be Juliet swoony, in silvery tulle and bronze leather sequins atop sheer chiffon, or regal, in glimmering taffeta bedecked with a tapestry of unicorns (that one took 110 hours to paint by hand).
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There is a showroom displaying many of the 100 kinds of fabric the mill can produce: brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moiré, rustic filaticcio in silk and linen and stiff shimmering ermisino, or shot taffeta.
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You could see it in Frances McDormand, in a leaf-green Valentino taffeta cape, a matching halo of Philip Treacy leaves quivering about her face, vogueing her way up the Met stairs for the cameras.
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The flower girls wore Ralph Lauren silk taffeta dresses with organza sashes and flowers, teamed with white leather Mary Jane flats, and the ring bearer wore a Ralph Lauren cotton sateen coverall with intricate eyelet embroidery.
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Mr. Campbell's oddly assorted elastic-limbed models, dancers and a publicist's mother vamped in wispy negligee silks, taffeta minis and tailored gabardines that were evocative simultaneously of Russ Meyer's big-screen bombshells and fragile Warhol waifs.
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Jackie's dress, which was designed by African-American designer Ann Lowe and had 50 yards of taffeta, was drenched after a pipe burst, along with all 10 of her bridesmaids dresses, as Digital Director Zoe Ruderman explains.
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In 2014, the College Republican National Committee released a series of ads aimed at young women, based on the TLC program "Say Yes to the Dress," with Republican candidates for governor standing in for garish taffeta creations.
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One of the stars of the exhibit is Valentino's cardinal-red taffeta dress that's priestly in silhouette, but with a low-necked, rustling sensuousness that makes it appear as though it could just slip off the body.
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The costume designer Alvin Colt's original sketches of outfits for women performing in "On the Town," which belong to the Museum of the City of New York, are marked with instructions for stitching straw, taffeta and spangles.
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Combining notes of fairy-tale forest with nods to military attire, Miu Miu's fall 2019 collection featured shearling-lined parkas and camouflage utility jackets reimagined as hooded capes and worn with puffball taffeta skirts and floral silks.
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Erdem has long designed prairie looks, citing Laura Ashley as inspiration for its flutter-sleeved, floral pre-fall offerings (the cornflower blue taffeta worn by Evan Rachel Wood's frontierswoman robot on "Westworld" would have looked right at home).
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In it, you'll find recycled taffeta mini dresses, cocktail slippers embellished with recycled glass beads, and a floor-length polyester ball gown that'll have you packing your bags and hopping on a flight to Nice in no time.
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The North Face Mossbud Swirl Reversible Water Repellent Heatseeker Girl's Jacket, $67.50 (originally $90) [You save $22.50]A plush fleece interior and a water-resistant taffeta exterior make this the perfect coat for kids on cold, rainy days.
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One evening gown, embroidered with laser-cut metal sequins, was designed to evoke the sound of loom heddles as it moved, while the final dresses were made of taffeta sculpted to resemble the roses of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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Across town on 11th Avenue, some Brits have touched down: Christopher Kane (sci-fi pansies, including big lace mitochondrial petal "blobs" inset randomly on iridescent pleated skirts) and Peter Pilotto (haute peasant, with technical taffeta and Peruvian rug embroidery).
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Arriving heiresses seeking his imprimatur needed only to show up during August at Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, the yacht-racing capital of the world, to upstage the British competition in a blaze of Worth-designed taffeta silk.
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Here it was a billowing swing coat of pearl gray moiré taffeta with a rumpled rosette at the collar, worn over a turtleneck and pinstripe trousers and accessorized by a white velvet opera glove and a single pearl earring.
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The exhibition's most identical canvas-clothing pairing comes from Ignacio Zuloaga's "Portrait of María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duchess of Alba" (1921) and Balenciaga's 1952 tiered taffeta gown in a lush, cherry red perfectly matched to the painting.
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It's easy to mock those who are dragged down the rabbit hole, crying over fondant flowers and wiping mascara tears on ivory taffeta, but the spreadsheets reveal the ugly reality behind the picture-perfect facade: Weddings can be intensely stressful.
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Because of the pleated leather clown trousers with giant taffeta and silk rosettes at the waist and blouses with matching out-to-there bows at the neck, all in a Cover Girl palette of ruby, hot pink, turquoise, marigold and grape.
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Z. Guest-meets-Rita-Hayworth-by-way-of-the-fruit-bowl vision, in iridescent taffeta, plush velvet, silk shantung and Swarovski crystal, with balloon sleeves, blossoming "strawberry" skirts and football shoulders — all in shades of orange, lemon, grape and cherry.
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The V&A show also marks the next stage in Goddard's evolution as a designer; she has become one of London's brightest new talents and has made a signature out of opulent, decadent concoctions of tulle and taffeta in skewed proportions.
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She wore a custom gown by the Harlem designer Victor de Souza: pink-and-blue striped silk taffeta, with a large bow on the bust and a train so long that it could have qualified for its own subway line.
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Scrunchies and barrettes are today's accessory must-have, Susan Alexandra's beaded bags are all the rage, and up-and-coming designers like Sandy Liang and Molly Goddard revel in puffy sleeves, tulle and taffeta princess dresses, and pink plastic hair clips.
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Other documents and photos from private collections and the archives of Maison Balenciaga accompany the exhibition's 60 or so finished day suits, jackets, and evening cocktail dresses, some lined with silk taffeta, edged with fringes, and decorated with satin ribbons and sequins.
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She was wearing a gown of blue silk taffeta and silk organza in the style of dresses worn around 1765–1775, as found in portraits from that era (and somewhat similar to a dress from that period in the Met's permanent collection).
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Like Mr. de la Renta, he was known for his unabashed appreciation of femininity, though in Mr. Copping's case it often took the form of a lace-trimmed silk chiffon slip dress, while in Mr. de la Renta's, it tended to the taffeta.
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Midcentury sleeveless martini-shift dresses were made from crushed rosettes of taffeta caught up at the hip or shoulder with rhinestone circle pins and finished with a big bow at the top and a gear harness draped like a cape on the shoulders.
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But by the mid-19th century, men had largely ceded pink to their sisters and wives, any of whom might have worn the coy mid-1800s dress showcased at F.I.T., a pink silk taffeta gown, its multiple tiers bordered in an effusion of ruffles.
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A friend had stayed up every night for three weeks sewing Bella's ball gown, a puff of peach taffeta, pink feathers, plastic butterflies and rose gold spangles that Bella immediately began to scratch with her fuzzy gray leg after Ms. Ducasse snapped her in.
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The night largely seemed to be a game of entrance-making one-upmanship, a raising of the stakes of sartorial absurdity higher and higher until the point of it got lost somewhere under a thousand acres of taffeta and a couple of severed heads.
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Hidden in Giambattista Valli's pâtisseries — little black-and-white coquette dresses, often paired with corset belts in sheer tulle — were two of the weirder moments on a runway this season: a pair of black taffeta blouses, ruched and elaborate, atop … Nike dry-fit leggings.
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As for her dress that day, Grace wore one of the most famous wedding gowns of all time: Fit for a princess, it was a creation of 300 yards of antique Belgian lace and 150 yards of silk, taffeta and tulle created by 30 studio seamstresses.
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Her operatic plot, which builds gradually, is broken off for details of the ducal lifestyle: silk, satin and taffeta for the horses, plentiful staff (26 men to look after the hawks and dogs), and the cuisine (165lb of veal, 14 capons and 24 chickens eaten daily).
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When I visited, wardrobe racks had been rolled against each wall, filled with pieces Carmen had made her: gowns and tuxedos in electric turquoise; candy apple red; nude; swishing taffeta; beads with weight; fabric that is delicate where there were slits measured to elongate her legs.
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Her resort collection is an enchanting confection of sparkling tulle cocktail and evening gowns in shades from nude to graphic black-and-white — plus a few denim numbers for day and a terrific pair of wide peach taffeta trousers to wear with a white cashmere sweater striped in sequins.
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Inspired by Lurie's childhood in Miami, the geometry of dominoes and dice and the stunning plaid textiles Lurie found on a 2017 trip to Sri Lanka, Coming of Age (COA NYC, for short) bags are made of iridescent gingham silk taffeta sourced from the garment district in New York.
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In the room with gowns, there were tables full of costume jewelry and impossibly large (and tall!) stiletto heels; there was a table devoted to makeup, and on racks, an enviable number of ball gowns in all sorts of materials and shades — pink sequins, purple plaid taffeta, black tulle.
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The tables, between 10 and 15, are covered in gold, taffeta tablecloths and adorned with massive floral centerpieces of yellow roses (more than 2,500 were used) and sprigs of golden wattle, the national flower of Australia, which has fuzzy, sphere-shaped buds of bright yellow and green leaves.
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The collection features bold faux fur coats with oversized polka dots, sweatpants featuring Leon's own hand-drawn Mickeys that took a page out of the Disney archives, mouse ears peeking over the shoulders of a-line mini dresses, and over-the-top taffeta pieces pieces showing the mouse in action.
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As the face of the French luxury house, of course she arrived wearing an off-white silk taffeta coat and bustier dress from Dior Haute Couture, but kept things fresh with a nod to the '90s in a teeny tiny pair of white rectangular sunglasses, custom made by Andy Wolf Eyewear.
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But I was quickly discovering that everyone thought that by placing an engagement ring on my finger, my fiancé had activated some dormant gene that would turn me into a wedding planning expert, the kind of person who could tell you what chateaubriand was, or the difference between tulle and taffeta.
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From the purple carpet (maybe those Pantone folks really were on to something when they declared the color of 2018 was ultraviolet) to the "regal" dress code, the event was the opposite of the usual parade of staid taffeta mermaid dresses, and the Internet went into a paroxysm of delight.
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FROM PEN: Justina Machado on 'In The Heights' co-star Lin-Manuel Miranda On Friday, Rihanna stepped out wearing an off-white silk taffeta coat and bustier dress from Dior Haute Couture, but she kept things fresh with a nod to the '90s in a teeny-tiny pair of white rectangular sunglasses.
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Kelly's ivory dress, made up of 450 yards of peau de soie, taffeta, silk net, and lace, and with its enormous train, evoked a legacy of fairy-tale princesses; yet Rose used relatively simple lines that were quite fashion-forward for a 1956 wedding gown, offering an updated version of the fairytale.
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But the designer was also playing with form, and the cuts and silhouettes of the evening-focused collection — including those of two dresses (one in turquoise, the other a ruffled taffeta silk number in magenta plaid) with skirts nearly as wide as the runway — showcased the designer's knack for tailoring and proportion.
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Offered in a multitude of fabrics and styles (ruched, draped, beatnik black knit), they appeared as trompe l'oeil bustier tops in 1950s frocks paired with those long full skirts, most often fabricated from technical jacquard or taffeta, so while they looked heavy they were light enough to practically float around the body.
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With two cars waiting downstairs outside The Carlton hotel, Kelly pulled her hair back, arranged it with flowers, put on her one unwrinkled outfit (the thick silk taffeta "Easy To Sew" floral model she'd worn a year earlier for McCall's Patterns) and of course, finding the elevators without power, rushed down several flights of stairs.
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And that became the basis of a trompe l'oeil collection of classic Moschino-isms — little black suits with gold chains draped at the hip and throat, leather biker jackets, a host of bowed and beaded taffeta party dresses — all silk-screened on the front and sporting rectangular white tabs at the arms, shoulders and side.
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From sequin sweatshirt dresses splashed with a leaping panther to billowing caftan gowns, Lurex-embroidered silks cut long and flowing at the back and thigh-high at the front, faded denim mixed with leopard fur and fussy ruched taffeta or sheer cocktail frocks trailing long neon bright bows at the back, he's been here before.
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There was Georgina Grenville, now in her 40s, in "Marianna, Maria P.," a narrow lace sheath-turned-pointillist-seascape, every dot a sequin, her head enclosed in an ivory ostrich feather hood; here was Adut Akech in "Debora, Cristina, Sara, Ricardo, Elena," an explosion of ruffled amethyst taffeta that took 903 hours to make.
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Giambattista Valli's presentation of more than 30 signature looks at the Jeu de Paume museum, for example — bubble dresses in silk taffeta covered in organza petals; sweeping ball gowns in 300 yards of daffodil tulle; a lime green silk faille caftan encrusted in crystals — spoke of Jackie Onassis and Truman Capote's swans with cigarette holders.
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A gentler soul would have formed a kind of kinship with the girl, who was wearing a gray, passed-down blouse, but Bella bossed the girl around, showing off her Swiss chocolates and her Japanese stationery and her dresses made of silk and taffeta and velvet, allowing the girl to touch the fabric with only one finger.
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Apart from the feathered fancies, there were coronas of leaves in fuchsia and jade green that bristled like haute dandelions on the model's heads, capping off a remarkable outing that took the elements of classic high fashion — ruffles, volumes, bows, embroidery, taffeta — and rendered them weightless, and without pomposity: couture for the era of the casual everyday.
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Albeit the more interesting pieces were minidresses in taffeta that took that idea and blew it up, literally, into giant puff sleeves that circled round the back in an enormous flounce (more interesting than the floral dresses in a Japanese vase print and micro-pleated technical silk with curving little ruffles at the hem, cuffs and neck).
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At Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada may have eschewed her usual post-show press meet-and-greet-and-kiss-and-ruminate but her runway ruminated for her in a highly idiosyncratic game of silver screen dress-up: crushed silk sheaths in circus brights, taffeta poufs, 1940s suiting with skirts slit to the thigh; sheer slips dripping crystal drops.
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Visitors can compare it with a 88883 British evening dress of cut velvet, twill and organdy; a 1995 Yohji Yamamoto dress with a black bodice and red and gold brocade skirt; a 1991 strapless black silk taffeta Commes des Garçons Noir dress with a hand-painted skirt; and kimono-influenced designs from Alexander McQueen and Tom Ford.
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Also the glittering tunics with a tailcoat dip in the back over narrow mosaic skirts, L.B.D.s (lengthy black dresses) bristling a feather ruff at the shoulders and neck and exploding at the hem, elaborately pleated and gathered taffeta frocks, and emerald-trimmed duchesse-satin dresses — all worn over thigh-high black ruched suede boots and matching shoulder-length fingerless gloves, and topped by towering curled pompadours.
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Ms. Waight Keller, for one, took the latter approach, imagining a winged creature trailing shreds of feathers and fringe, straps hanging off parachute puffs of pink taffeta and iridescent green jacquard, as she smashed her way through a host of classic chateaus (in reality it was the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, part of the Louvre complex, one of the most elaborate palaces in France).
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So there were ensembles entitled "Love is the Drug" and "Joy Division" and "Funkytown," which translated to deeply luxurious pajama trousers and bathrobe suits striped in crystals, acid-washed jeans and acid-washed taffeta, Lurex and leather leggings under one-sleeved asymmetrical chiffon leopard tunics, and a series of black-and-orange evening looks that resembled the remains of a Halloween party: looks for the bash after the holiday years before.
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Yet there was the box, descending like a mirage from the ceiling of a show space constructed in the shadow of the Invalides, to disgorge … not the twig-like just-post-adolescent in truncated taffeta of his first collection for the brand (and his former work at Saint Laurent) but rather a woman in tweed culottes, gray jacket, pussy-bow blouse, knee-high leather boots, aviator shades and a chain bag.
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It's what the designer says it is: blouson leather-like (but nonleather) trousers in a caramel shade paired with a one-shouldered knit; an off-the-shoulder peasant float of a dress made in an ikat print that on closer viewing turned out to be a pattern of desk fans; acid-washed denim in electric green cut like a big tee and dropped over a hot pink taffeta skirt.
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The Akris show, for example, was titled "A Woman in a Coat With a Bag," and that's exactly what it was: a series of great coats — double-face wool checkerboards, cashmere trenches, techno taffeta parkas, shearlings, minks, a long velvet for evening — and lots of bags (granted, it was a little more complicated; it had been inspired by Rodney Graham's self-portrait, "Coat Puller," but it came across as fairly straightforward).
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At Off-White, it meant Hadids of all ages (Bella and Gigi and mother Yolanda) plus other famous models (Karlie Kloss and Alek Wek and Carolyn Murphy) in a bit of this, a bit of that: slick sapphire-and-white cow-print pencil skirts and trench coats; hallucinogenic houndstooth-check suiting; mint green leather jumpsuits and amethyst knits; billowing tulle ball gowns spliced on top with Arc'teryx technical jackets, the taffeta of the outdoor rec world.
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Her geek-chic quirkiness, which mixed camouflage and sequins for day, and denim and taffeta for evening, all of it layered with big costume jewelry, was a model not just for those she worked with, but also for her customers: "Jenna's picks" were publicized in the catalog and on the website; she was photographed at home in Park Slope, Brooklyn (and later, post-divorce, at home in SoHo); she once appeared in a catalog shoot painting her young son's toenails pink.
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