RUNWAY REPORT.....Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week: Elie Saab Couture S/S 2014

Oscars...Here We Come! Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014

The Look: The Oscars. Red Carpet. Gorgeous, perfectly made dresses for UBER wealthy Gulf States, Chinese, Indian clients...oh, and the Red Carpet Fab actresses can borrow them as well. The gowns are hand-made, cost over $100,000 (if you can order them to buy) and well worth every penny! In this Haute Couture collection, Lebanese designer SCHOOLED every other designer on How To Make Red Carpet Evening Gowns.

The collection was inspired by 19th Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted scenes (above) from the Roman Empire. His subjects always seemed to be reclining amid marble statuary with the Mediterranean Sea shimmering in the background. It was Perfection.

Colors: Salmon pinks, chartreuse, gold, bubblegum red, ivory, lilac, soft violet, hydrangea blue.

Trends: Fuller dresses; A-line; Ball gowns; Chartreuse-gold color; Waist cinching; Hand-pleated "Grecian Goddess" gowns; Nude applique; the peplum is here to stay; geometric necklines; gathered full backs, the new "Watteau".

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