Who has not been in a situation in which something seems harmless in the beginning, but the longer you consider it, the more you pause. Broadly speaking, this is how I feel when couture is described as erratic. Although the term catches the imaginative nature of the extensive items of clothing, it can suggest that they are not made to be worn. It can also give a fickleness to an art form that entails meticulous construction and hundreds, if not thousands of hours, of work – often to make a single piece.
Few words were more accurate than “erratic” to describe the fantastic, storybook, looks in and outside the Couture shows in Paris last week. There were feathered jackets and cute Balaclavas, corsets and cinched waist, large skirts and Waifish silhouettes. Much of fashion had a youthful sky, so that people sometimes looked a bit like living dolls, whether they walked on a runway or just on the street.
