givenchy couture fall 06

The most dramaticly beautiful collection of the couture season.

"PARIS, July 6, 2006 – At Givenchy, what’s interesting is watching what the young designer Riccardo Tisci can make of the rarefied milieu of haute couture. It is a field now narrowed to a very few players, some of whom were running their own ateliers before Tisci was born

Tisci is working toward expressing a somewhat dark, contemporary vision of Parisian chic, permeated with an awareness of global undercurrents. The themes in his program notes were drawn from multiple ethnic sources, including Bosnia, India, Africa, and Indonesia. They produced a show, mainly in shades of dark browns and black, that juxtaposed precise tailoring and evening gowns with vast tribal headpieces, veils, and skeleton-like boleros, and suggested imagined worlds of ritual, ceremony, and myth. "-style.com