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A View From the Front Row: Vogue.fr Looks Back at Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2013

Posted: 31/01/2013 00:00

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Haute Couture week. The opportunity afforded to a select few designers to demonstrate the expertise and savoir-faire of their artisans through some of the most breathtaking creations to ever take to the runway.

The Spring/Summer 2013 installment was a whirlwind, with designer's transporting us from a Spring garden, to the Arabian nights, to the future of fashion by way of a healthy dose of good old fashioned Hollywood glamour.

Take a look back at the highlights.

By Eliza Chubb.

Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2013

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Karl Lagerfeld set the scene for a spectacular show by transforming Paris' Grand Palais into a Goethe and Schiller-inspired woodland with a neoclassical amphitheatre at its heart. Models sporting dramatic headdresses and intense black eye make-up paraded a collection featuring the classic Chanel two-piece updated with statement shoulders, evening gowns with light-as-air puffball skirts and structured, sequinned floor-length dresses. The traditional bridal gown finale featured two brides walking hand-in-hand, leaving the fashion set to speculate that Lagerfeld was making a bold statement about the same-sex marriage laws in France, a hot topic at the moment.

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