FRANCE: Lebanese designer Elie Saab's unveils his spring/summer 2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week

Record ID: 198478

  • Title: FRANCE: Lebanese designer Elie Saab's unveils his spring/summer 2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week
  • Date: 7th October 2010
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (French) LEBANESE FASHION DESIGNER ELIE SAAB, SAYING: "The collection is the Seventies, I did this whole range of colours, the colours of the Seventies, but more subtle. Me, I adore the the colour coral, that's clear, it's always in my head since I was a little boy. All the women in the Seventies used to wear it and I think it's a very flattering colour for wom
  • Embargoed: 22nd October 2010 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Fashion
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GAUK1UJ73770RYALYG4X6MG0
  • Story Text: Lebanese designer Elie Saab brings seventies signatures and the spirit of Studio 54 to the Paris catwalk.
    Bianca Jagger, fashion designer Diane von Furstenburg, Lauren Hutton - jet-set women who in the 1970s defined glamour with their regular appearances at the ultimate disco club, Studio 54 in New York.
    These were the muses behind Lebanese designer Elie Saab's collection for his spring/summer 2011 show on the last day of Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday (October 6).
    Models were sent out in jump-suits but with a minimal twist, softened colours like light-grey, salmon, olive green or coral.
    Bomber jackets, shorts and Saab's signature evening gowns were sent out in shiny sequins, some looking like mirror balls in keeping spirit with the collection.
    Asymmetric draping across the shoulder in chiffon brought a sense of the sweeping drama of the disco queens' statuesque and rebellious beauty.
    The collection got approving looks from the burlesque dancer and ex-wife of Marilyn Manson, Dita von Teese, who was amongst the VIPs sitting front row at the show.
    The show was dominated by dresses, either short baby dolls, floor-length with minute pleating, or figure hugging day dresses with square shoulders; but all in signature seventies colours.
    Long billowing kaftans in the style of the Bond girls from "The Spy Who Loved Me" were revived on the runway, with the featherweight fabrics kept in place with either skinny belts or gold chains.
    Besides the belts, accessories included small clutch bags in the collection's palette of periwinkle, coral, salmon, olive green or light-grey. Chunky gold necklaces and gold bangles topped off the looks.
    "The collection is the Seventies, I did this whole range of colours, the colours of the Seventies are more subtle. Me, I adore the the colour coral, that's clear, it's always in my head since I was a little boy. All the women in the Seventies used to wear it and I think it's a very flattering colour for women and that's why it's so prevalent in the collection," Saab told Reuters Television backstage after the show.
    The models' final walk through included one of the biggest club tracks of the time, "Heart of Glass", from the disco queen herself, Debbie Harry.
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