FRANCE: A Glam-Rock display for Balmain with a smell of the eighties for Balmain's fashion show in Paris

Record ID: 197337

  • Title: FRANCE: A Glam-Rock display for Balmain with a smell of the eighties for Balmain's fashion show in Paris
  • Date: 29th September 2008
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 28, 2008) (REUTERS) MODEL WEARING WASHED OUT JEANS AND BLACK HUSSARD LIKE JACKET WITH STRASS MODEL WEARING FLASHY PINK SHORT DRESS AND TOUCHES OF GREY STRASS SHORT BLACK SKIRT WITH SEE-THROUGH STRASS SLEEVES KNEE-HIGH SKIRT WITH LACED SEE THROUGH BLACK TOP LONG FLOWING WHITE DRESS WITH STRASS BELTS AUDIENCE WATCHING SHOW JEANS WITH BLACK LEATHER JACKET JEANS WITH MULTI- COLOURED STRASS JACKET WITH ROUND SHOULDER PADS VARIOUS FINAL WALK WITH ALL MODELS GOING PAST AND AUDIENCE APPLAUDING VARIOUS AUDIENCE APPLAUDING DESIGNER CHRISTOPHE DECARNIN WALKING OUT ON CATWALK RECEIVING AUDIENCE APPLAUSE
  • Embargoed: 14th October 2008 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA6MFE7JFY6BYK59SL5T7CWCH9Y
  • Story Text: Balmain fashion house choses to travel back to the early 1980's at a Paris show.
    Balmain presented it's collection in Paris to a classic Madonna soundtrack on Saturday (September 28).
    Balmain designer Christophe Decarnin used the classic combination of a top over a pair of torn jeans, giving a sophisticated glam rock feel.
    The designer mainly used strong colours and strass hussard-like jackets with a military feel and tuxedos showing with astonishing round shoulder pads.
    For Vogue magazine director Carine Roitfeld, it's a good start to Paris Fashion Week.

    "You know it starts in Paris so it's very important for us, it's a good mood for Paris, it's very exciting and I think that the girls on the run-way are exactly like us, we want to wear those dresses so I think that we are going to start the push-ups now, a lot of gym because they are very tiny, very skinny but it's so beautiful. And the music, everything is a good mood," she said.
    Also attending the show was actress Milla Jovovich, who simply loved it.

    "Amazing, I loved it. I'm a big fan of shinny stuff, so anything shinny can come my way any day" she told Reuters.
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