The Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week Spring 2024 season is upon us and as the fashion pack flock (or remain in Paris amid Menswear Paris Fashion Week) to the French capital to bare witness to the collections. In honor of the upcoming collections, we are at theFashionSpot are flashing it back a whole decade to the Spring 2014 season.
To say the world of fashion has changed dramatically within the past 10 years would be an understatement. Still on the schedule back in Spring 214 was the outright splendor and fabulosity of an Atelier Versace presentation. Donatella Versace welcomed guests inside The Ritz hotel and presented a collection which was an ode to Grace Jones. Raf Simons was creative director at Christian Dior, still on his mission to modernize couture, with his collection boasting inspiration of the work of French sculptor Valentine Schlegel. Maria Grazia Chiuri was still at Valentino alongside her co-creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, where their love of the opera was on full display. Viktor & Rolf cast the Dutch National Ballet as models while Jean Paul Gaultier invited burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese to walk his couture extravaganza. Elsewhere during the season, the titan of Italian fashion that is Giorgio Armani gave us an absolute masterclass in refined…