Lebanese fashion designer Georges Chakra joined prestigious
international fashion houses in showing his fall/winter 2016-17 Couture
collection at Paris Fashion Week. His show was held at the Jardin des
Tuileries in the center of the city last Tuesday. Chakra is one of the
Lebanese fashion designers who for some time now have been producing the
kind of refined haute couture fashion that can compete with the
prestigious international fashion houses on the global stage at Paris
Fashion Week.

Haute couture fashion distinguishes itself as the height of luxury,
with designs being created entirely by hand with obsessive attention to
detail and made from the highest quality if fabrics. They are
custom-made and exclusive.

The Paris Fashion Week sees a large
number of celebrities attending shows to scope out looks from the big
names for their upcoming red carpet events.

As usual a large crowd
of fashion lovers and celebrities such as Princess Camilla of
Bourbon-Two-Sicilies, Czech model and philanthropist Petra Nemcova,
Chinese actress Kira Shi, model Jessica Min Anh, French actresses
Vanessa Demouy and Emmanuelle Boidron as well as French model and beauty
pageant winner Flora Coquerel attended Chakra’s show alongside
international press.

For this new collection, Chakra’s new muse
ignites passion and romance through melancholia. The silhouette is
consumed with desire and dresses are adorned with incandescent feathers,
sequins, crystals, pearls, and petals.

Chakra’s trademark is
architectural cuts and silhouettes that emphasize the waist. The cut is
graphical, the shoulder detail is sensual and the fringes and pleats
play with light and shadow. Capes and coats are paired with sheath
dresses or jumpsuits and long trains add drama to the twirl.

The
fabrics chosen for this season’s collection include velvet, tulle as
light as a feather, glamorous organza and intricate guipure lace. Crisp
pleats are perfectly crossed, sequins shimmer and stun and silk gazar
floats down the runway.

The color palette is dark and rebellious
but despite black and deep colors, there is a ray of light in the blush
and Indian pink, pale yellow, blue wisteria, scarab green, ruby red,
royal white with some gold and silver accents that capture the
attention.

The grand finale of the show was the wedding gown of ivory, with hand painted platinum, gold and fuchsia twirls.

If
you are planning for weddings or galas in the upcoming season now is
the time to start making appointments to be ready for special occasions
in the few months to come.

By Hadia Sinno