Couture has finally arrived and true to her word, Donatella Versace presented her Fall 2012 couture collection on a runway at the Ritz Paris. Last season Atelier Versace opted for a terraced presentation, but this season the house went for motion courtesy of a catwalk that featured amongst others Sigrid Agren (Ford), Julia Nobis (Ford), and Kate King (Ford). [Style.com]
At deadline Raf Simons had yet to make his Dior debut, streamed or otherwise, with the Fall 2012 couture collection, but rest assured as soon as it is technologically feasible to upload and watermark runway pictures NOWFASHION.COM, then the link that follows this sentence will be flush a slew of runway images thusly formatted. [Now Fashion]
Over the weekend Riccardo Tisci presented his Givenchy Spring 2013 menswear collection in Paris. The runway casting featured the requisite tall, dark, and handsome male models, but also a handful of women including Janice Alida (Ford). The platinum blonde wore a sleeveless white top emblazoned with the number 17 rendered in collegiate block lettering over top an icon of the Virgin. [WWD]
Aesop Rock delivers a kung-fu style punch with a new music video for the single “ZZZ Top” off his forthcoming album Skelethon, which comes out July 10 on Rhymesayers. [MTV Hive]
Julia Nobis (Ford), Kate King (Ford) & Sigrid Agren (Ford) | Versace Couture Fall 2012 (Photography: Yannis Vlamos / GoRunway.com courtesy of Style.com)
