Georges Chakra Fall 2011 Couture Collection

Today I’m attacking Georges Chakra’s Fall 2011 couture collection, I think we can place him fourth on the worldwide popularity scale of lebanese designers, as he dressed celebs like Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, and Blake Lively. And that’s why, after Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad, and Georges Hobeika, here’s a review of Georges Chakra’s Fall 2011 couture collection.

I have to start by saying that I always find Chakra’s collection really intriguing as they are totally heteregeneous, and filled with great ideas, unfortunately often badly executed… So I divided the dresses in three categories, the best ones, the almost-good ones, and the bad ones… And if I don’t show you all of the dresses you can see the rest on his site.

(Very Mugler-ish, but amazing suits !)

 

(So ethereal !)

(Vivienne Westwood style, love it !)

 

(This one’s stuning, somehow reminds me of Alexander McQueen)

(Classy and original, you’ve got to love this !)

(Somehow glamorous…)

Now let’s check the good ideas that could have given wonderful dresses…

(It should have been the same black on the upper part…)

(Shorter, shorter…)

(I don’t know what, but something disturbs me in the dress, although I love the work on the shoulders…)

(Shorter, and other colors…)

(Without the rhinestones…)

(I love the bottom, but the top just doesn’t suit in…)

( A less stiff fabric for the bottom would have been better…)

And now, the ugly dresses, the weird ones I’d never want to see someone wearing as I would probably start laughing…

(No comment…)

 

(Oh my…)

(Sheep-ish, much ?)

(The ‘’What Le Fuck’’ dress of the collection…)

To sum up, Georges Chakra is a designer whose work deserve more attention, but also more sophistication… I think he should be looked at, as a pioneer, he is truly one of the sources of lebanon’s designs, and a designer that dares some architectural cuts that are really original if you look at them from a specific angle…

Bleeeh ! It may not be the best post on my blog, I got distracted by some firends and TV… Anyway I hope you’re enjoying these reviews, and I promise to be back soon with another one, but I don’t know when cause I’ll be really busy for a while my friends… You know how it is… Summer, trips, friends, etc.

See ya !

Photos source: Reportrunway.wordpress.com.

Georges Hobeika Fall 2011 Couture Collection

As I promised, in the reviews of lebanese designers collections, after Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad, I’m glad to present Georges Hobeika,  because it’s one of the best collections of the season (Yes, better than many many designers), as you’re going to see.

As a general matter of fact Georges Hobeika is one of the local designers I’m starting to like, as Zuhair Murad, his work really evolved throught the past years, and his last collections have been really well executed, really simplified and adjusted. Looking back at his first collections you’ll understand what I mean by ‘’simplified’’, it’s not the chaotic abuse of details and colours anymore…

Anyway, for this Fall 2011 collection the inspiration was Anthea, greek goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths, that’s to explain the details you’ll see crawling on the dresses. In addition to these amazingly well executed vegetal sculptures, pay attention to the way he used lashes of fabric to create some surprisingly beautiful texture.

Enjoy my favorites and check the rest on his site.

(Gaga-ish !)

(Love this ! It’s absolutely stunning, isn’t it ?)

(The movement of this dress is mesmerizing especially when you realize that they are all lashes of fabric (look at the bottom), consider the hours of work ! It could be my favorite…)

(Flawless assymetry, wow !)

(So classy, so chic ! So stunning ! Perfection !)

(Beautiful, quite impressing the way he revisited a straight dress… Mixing two techniques.)

Next up these three dresse I can’t make my mind about:

I mean the ideas are very good but there’s something disturbing me, though I can’t say what. (Help ?).

And of course no collection is perfect here are two fails…

 

(Huge ‘’What Le Fuck’’ here…)

(I’m not too keen on all these lashes pending it somehow looks like a mop…)

And to finish: the wedding dress that is quite impreessive, the shape, the details.

  But I have to say I’d have preferred the flowers without the shape or the shape without the flowers…

I guess I’ve said it all, let me know what you think about all of this… And… See ya !

Photos source: Fashionwindows.net.

Zuhair Murad Fall 2011 Couture Collection

I widely suppose that on the worldwide popularity scale, Zuhair Murad comes right after Elie Saab and just before Georges Hobeika (or at least that’s the way it should be), and that’s why his Fall 2011 couture collection is the second one I present in this lebanese designers series.

I have to start by saying that I prefer Murad to Saab, for a very simple reason: he is much more daring. He actually brings something to fashion, (even if it caused him some awfully disastrous collection). Of course Elie Saab makes us proud to be lebanese, and I am really glad to have someone taking that much importance in the fashion industry, but somehow, Zuhair Murad’s collections interest me much more, they’re always about someting new, a new theme, a new inspiration, and about great and powerful women, filled with caracter and determination, and that’s what I like about it, he has this thing that makes him special, it’s always thrilling to find out if his new collection’s a blast or a fail.

And I’m glad to announce that this one’s a major success, I love almost everything about it, it’s the organized originality, the fitted creativity I was talking about in my last post ! Anyway, that’s enough talking, admire my favorite dresses, I hope you’ll like them too, and you can see more on his website.

(By the way the pictures were really hard to find so these may not be all of my favorites.)

(This cut is absolutely flawless ! Divas only !)

(I love the prints on the legs !)

  

(May be dejà-vu but it’s stunning, dare say it’s not !)

(Sexy ! Damn !)

   

(Peeeeer-fect !)

(I love the way lace is used here !)

And the wedding dress…. That is kind of disappointing I must say.

 

To sum up, I definitely like Murad, he joined the band, and I can assure you that it’s not easy to be part of my favorites ! I hope he’ll keep up the good work and push himself even further in the creations he realizes.

Stay connected for the next lebanese designer’s Fall 2011 couture collection review: Georges Hobeika (as mentioned), it’s gonna be good ! See ya !

Photos source: Keephealthyandbeauty.com (Google… Ya know !), and Beautyisdiverse.com.