FRANCE: HAUTE COUTURE PARIS FASHION WEEK KICKS OFF WITH JULIEN FOURNIE'S COLLECTION FOR TORRENTE

Record ID: 860144

  • Title: FRANCE: HAUTE COUTURE PARIS FASHION WEEK KICKS OFF WITH JULIEN FOURNIE'S COLLECTION FOR TORRENTE
  • Date: 19th January 2004
  • Summary: (L!1)PARIS, FRANCE (19 JANUARY, 2004) (REUTERS) MULTI-POCKET SHORTS AND SAFARI JACKET IN COFFEE SILK ORGANZA, WITH CORSET IN FAWN BUFFALO SKIN SLEEVELESS JACKET WITH BELT IN AZURE SILK DENIM BELTED KIMONO IN POWDER PINK SILK WITH WIDE MANDARIN SLEEVES TRIMMED WITH BLACK SILK ORGANZA IVORY JACKET WITH CREPE DRESS WITH SATIN FACINGS AND CRYSTAL MOTIFS SHORT TROUSER SUIT IN SILK TAFFETA PRINTED WITH 17TH CENTURY MOTIFS, DECORATED WITH SILK FLOWERS AND BLOWN GLASS WHALEBONE WRAP-OVER OUTFIT WITH HIGH CHIFFON COLLAR FINISHED WITH GLASS DROPS, OVER EVENING TAILCOAT TROUSERS ASYMMETRICAL FROCK COAT WITH DEEP COLLAR AND BARE BACK, WITH LOWER SECTION IN SILK TAFFETA EMBROIDERED WITH IRIDESCENT SUNS OVER A PLEATED TULLE CRINOLINE LONG CORSET DRESS IN CHARTREUSE STRETCH SATIN LEATHER MERMAID SHEATH DRESS IN CREPE WITH IVORY SATIN EMBROIDERED WITH SIGNATURE ROSES WITH TULLE VEIL DESIGNER JULIEN FOURNIE ON STAGE WITH MODELS MODELS ON CATWALK
  • Embargoed: 3rd February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Topics: Arts
  • Reuters ID: LVA3F04IFZF2U9Q9VCYQQ2MXCNS3
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  • Story Text: Haute Couture Paris fashion week kicks off with Julien Fournie's collection for Torrente.
    Torrente's fashion show on Monday (19 January) was the first of the 2004 Spring-Summer Haute Couture collections to be presented during the Paris fashion week.
    It was also Julien Fournie's first collection for Torrente since the young designer joined the Champs Elysee-based fashion house.
    The themes favoured by Fournie did not depart, though, from those so dear to the label's founder, Madame Torrente-Mett, for three decades: femininity and elegance.
    Dresses in organza allowed elusive glimpses of the body. Skirts were pencil tight or layered into full ballerina-like shapes. But there was a harder edge to the collection too -- a multi-pocket safari jacket and shorts was worn with a buffalo-skin corset.
    Collars were a feature of the collection: knotted into neck ties, asymmetrical, plunging or high. The wildest of the entire collection was the a high purple chiffon collar finished with glass drops for a lavender whalebone tailcoat outfit.
    With a Castilian mother and a French father, fashion seems to flow in the Fournie's blood. One set of his grandparents were tanners: his genetic inheritance from them was a taste for fine materials. His grandmother on the other side of the family was a lingerie seamstress and corset maker, who instilled in him the importance of always producing the best possible work.
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