Paris Fall RTW 2007
I don’t care much about what happens on the runways; to me, the street is where the REAL action is. Tons of great looks by glamorous fashion editors, edgy fashion lovers and your average celebrity fill the cobble-stoned streets of Paris, as they await entrance to coveted fashion shows.
So, as I scroll through page after page of fabulous clothes and accessories, by high fashion labels and street brands, brilliantly put together in ways that I never thought possible, one thing stood out most this season.
There was not a single piece of legging in sight on the streets. Elation, happiness, delight - these don’t even begin to describe my emotions. Basically, I was over the moon, and full of gratitude to God Almighty, for having removed the single most vile piece of trash that I absolutely abhor from the face of this planet. Okay, I exaggerate but you get my drift. No more of those god-awful stretchy tight-y things that cut off at the calves, making you look like Dumbo stuffed in a condom.
Instead, we have stockings galore, which I ABSOLUTELY approve!
Plain black stockings, with a bolt of colour, led by Giovanna Battaglia, fashion editor L'Uomo Vogue.
To the FEMALE fashion editor or stylist who gave advice to the hapless girl, who wanted to know how to layer black, TAKE NOTE. You do not put her in a black dress with fugly leggings in an even fuglier shade of teal that highlighted her thick thighs. You layer black on black with TEXTURES, get it? Like what these women have done:
Carla and Franca Sozzani
Imagine that! With rubber boots no less. How adorable!
Melanie of Paris VOGUE. Dayum, those legs are to.die.for.
The cape is so Sleepy Hollow, innit?
I love her red Chanel, and am working my way towards owning that piece of beauty.
A cute guy as her accessory? Clever, this one.
Don't be fooled...
... she's got the colours ON her face. How cool is that?
Take a bow, ladies. THAT is how it's done.
Now, go sulk in a corner and write “I will burn all my leggings” one thousand times while I delight in more pictures of stocking-ed women. Leggings, begone!
How about coloured stockings?
Pretty, no?
Finally, the time has come for me to announce: “Leggings are soooo last season!” Or is it too early to be celebratin’?
Pictures courtesy of Style.com