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Brussels, Belgium: The Jean-Paul Knott’s Party, The Exhibition

Saterday February the 6th : the Belgium 2010 first big fashion event, the party for the Jean Paul Knott‘s eponymous brand ten years old. In front of the Brussels headquarters (near the hype rue Dansaert) of the Cerruti‘s former art director, the mix of bourgeois furs coats of mature clients, with high eels fashionistas and trendy young fox in Converse, quitely waits at the entrance. I get in. Inside it’s more crowded, I look after a press officer. And go to the red lightened scales : first floor, different rooms like conceptual small spaces. A bit arty and trendy. A glance to the videos and model behind a glass door in an empty room, minimalist atmosphere. “The less is more” vibe, alreaday noticed in the Paris shows of Jean-Paul Knott for Cerruti. A smart drink of red fruits, time to get down to the big hall attending to the happening-fashion show and the live band. To be continued in the coming up post…

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Jean-Paul Knott à Bruxelles: La soirée des 10 ans, l’expo

Samedi 6 Février, premier gros fashion event belge 2010 : la soirée des dix ans de la marque éponyme du talentueux Jean-Paul Knott. Devant le QG bruxellois de l’ancien directeur artistique de Cerruti, mixité d’un public massé nombreux, où manteaux de fourrures des clientes les plus mûres, talons aiguilles de fashionistas dégingandées et Converse de la jeune garde se mêlent dans une sage file. J’entre. A l’intérieur, c’est encore plus bondé, cherche en  vain l’attachée de presse histoire de. Me dirige vers l’escalier rouge, les espaces s’enchaînent, comme de mini univers conceptuels. Un zest arty contemporain. Tendance. Le regard glisse de vidéos en statiques mannequins, vitrine, pièce vide, ambiance minimaliste. Le rigourisme du minimum, déjà apprécié lors des shows parisiens de Jean-Paul Knott pour Cerruti. On m’offre une boisson énergisante aux fruits des bois, dans l’esprit de la lumière rouge, descendre vers la salle principale, celle du défilé happening et du concert. La suite de l’article dans les prochains jours…

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Leonard: flowers and fluid elegance

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Beautiful paper and generous graphic design, I really like the flower on the invitation card. I’m a big flowers and detail and line lover. The hall is full, heterogeneous audience : Madame de Fontenay (the famous organiser of Miss France) escorted by one of her Miss ? I’m really not involved in celebrities stuff…Oh Maybe Sonia Rolland (ex Miss, now a TV actress). Lots of fashion journalists, around me many German and Russian ones. Vague impression of a right balance between the old France and the international hype : unusual match. I’m waiting for the show, like my neighbours.

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The show’s ending and I still haven’t fixed my video problem of my « other me », my capricious Canon ! Some fabrics are absolutely fabulous ! Now I can better understand  the big success of Leonard in Japan. On daily I don’t use printed fabrics, I prefer minimalist plaint fabrics. But I confess : Leonard’s flowers are gorgeous and irresistible !

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I knew the brand’s name. But I’ve discovered with this show, a really infectious classical and modern elegance. With the excellent Michel Gaubert soundtrack. And a top feminine make-up. Great hair like the Botticelli’s Venus : congratulations Mr Marc Lopez ! At last, lovely models with a great grooming. Congrat to the catwalk coach too : at last (again) slender walks ! It’s so important ! Bones teens girls disguised as women badly walking : I simply can’t look at the cloth ! 

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And of course there are those incredibly fluid dresses, especially the black background and « Ryokan » flowers printed  ones : a big fantasy ! Yes ! Those dresses reminds me the perfect dressing of a Seventies-early Eighties TV actress. Puffed sleeves and tide shoulders, or hippies chic bustier dresses and I imagine Angie Dickinson in the late Seventies. Or an extra on the « Boat Love » set. And Purdey of « The Avengers ». With Ben Gazzara as an escort boy, dressed in white flares and suit and thin Ray Ban sunglasses surrounded with gold. Wow !

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So beautiful, here the printed dress of my next sexy winter ! Irresistible, isn’t it ? Yes I love being a vintage « Charlie’s Angel » ! Wow wOw so exciting ! Champagne Leonard !

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