Christophe Decarnin has always done excellent job for glittery, and highly padded shoulder designs. It’s a known fact that cost of his single jacket (costing $9,000 or thereabouts), could pay for an entire wardrobe of Balmain knockoffs for ten teenage girls. But it hardly matters for fashion enthusiasts who are crazy for Christophe designs.
For Spring 2010, Decarnin brought another whammy of a no-brainier blockbuster. His army of sleek-limbed, sizzling super-girls strode out with huge-shouldered, metal-epaulet military tailcoats with tattered T-shirts, and bullet belts slanged around artfully stained and holed jeans.
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Patching together 70’s MASH and Versace’s early chain-mailed goddess-dressing, the show moved in a sequence, starting from camouflage to sequined camouflage to patch-worked gold-sequined camouflage.
Faded military tailcoats and frock-coats, came in washed-out denim, leather, and khaki cotton, their shoulders dripping with gilded, chain-mail epaulets. Microscopic pelmet-skirts and bikini-pants, with jagged hems, were seen in studded crocodile and leather, and belts jangling with metal hardware.
Among the rag-tag army, heavy metal brigade glistened with chain-mail and sequined, body-con, minidresses beaded in dazzling camouflage patterns. Gold lame halter-dresses came with mini-toga skirts, raw-edge hems, or draped with unraveling ‘bandages’ of fabric.
Balmain presented well styled Military Dress-ups for Spring 2010