Paris News

HATS TO TURN HEADS:Wherever Milan-based Kirsztina Reisini goes, the handsome, well-travelled Hungarian woman turns heads, and in Paris recently her extraordinary millinery was capturing the attention of stylish Parisians.

She has been making her own hats for years, but started a business after receiving so many requests to make them for others and now her reputation is growing internationally. Her materials are luxurious felts, furs, velvets, feathers and straw, but her shapes, flamboyant, sexy and dramatic are what distinguish her inimitable style. Check out her website at kreisicouture.com.

REAL PEOPLE, REAL GEMS:

The trend for campaigns using real people to sell fashion continues, with Louis Vuitton taking it a step further with its latest fashion jewellery collection. Fun and fanciful could easily describe both the jewellery, in paste, beading and acrylic, and those who model it, including actresses, singers, artists, students and tennis players.

The collection is divided into four different lines, the names of which speak for themselves: Damier Perle, Eye Candy, Cosmopolitan and Cocktail Tropical, with each girl bringing her own style to the various pieces from chunky necklaces, to bold bracelets or cute brooches.

IN THE BAG:

Neon, a colour palette energising clothes and accessories with its otherworldly look, is currently on the fashion radar. The cobwebby day-glo yellow knits that lit up the zany printed dresses in the window of Colette windows during Paris fashion week copper-fastened its growing status as the shade to watch. Nearby on the Rue St-Honoré, the Sequoia handbag shop, a French brand quick off the mark, featured great PVC shoppers in fluorescent colours such as acid green, bright blue and pink that were selling for €75, capturing the current trend at affordable prices.

POP-UP. PARIS STYLE:

Crowds thronged a pop-up shop on the fashionable Rue St-Honoré during Paris fashion week, which was a collaboration between cult fashion shop Colette and Chanel. A former garage was transformed into a industrial boutique combining fashion, visual arts, books and CDs. Various musical performances by up and coming young musicians took place each day and Chanel’s new Mademoiselle bags were cheerfully customised by graffiti artists and illustrators. Cupcakes from Chez Bogato, a chic patisserie.