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Paris Haute Couture: Spring 2013 Colour Trends.

The Spring 2013 couture color palette ranged from bright and bold to soft and dreamy colours. Alexander Vauthier and Stephane Rolland opted for a restrained black and white colour palette amidst a sporadic infusion of colourful collections from couture. These are some of the colour trends Paris Couture offered for Spring 2013.

Lilac. The serenity of lilac was hard to ignore when it came to couture collections from Elie Saab, Dany Atrache, Georges Hobeika and Giambattista Valli.

From L-R: Dany Atrache, Giambattista Valli, Georges Hobeika and Elie Saab.

Yellow. Fast becoming one of the most popular colour trends made its way into the color palettes of Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli, Versace Atelier and Georges Chakra for the couture collections.

From L-R: Georges Chakra, Versace Atelier, Christian Dior and Giambattista Valli

Ice Blue. The cool tones of ice blue featured strongly at Dany Atrache, Elie Saab, Christian Dior and Bouchrar Jarrar.

From L-R: Elie Saab, Christian Dior, On Tout Aura Vu, and Dany Atrache.

Monochrome. Eternally chic, a black and white colour palette gave way to strong collections for Alexander Vauthier, Stephane Rolland, Giambattista Valli.

From L-R: Stephane Rolland, Iris Van Herpen, Maurizio Galante and Alexandre Vauthier

Red. A colour that never goes off style, Armani Prive, Valentino, Christian Dior and Elie Saab’s couture collections offered numerous frocks in this fabulous colour.

From L-R: Elie Saab, Alexis Mabille, Valentino and Christian Dior

Pale Pink. The faint tones of pale pink were visible at Georges Hobeika, Dany Atrache, Oscar Carvallo and Zahia Dehar.

From L-R: Oscar Carvallo,Zahia Dehar, Georges Hobeika and Christian Dior

Gold.  The unmistakable tone of Gold glowed on the catwalks of Versace Atelier, Oscar Carvallo, Zuhair Murad and Valentino in the Spring 2013 couture collections.

From L-R: Versace Atelier, Oscar Carvallo, Zuhair Murad and Valentino

Burn Orange. In forms of light and dark tones, burnt orange glowed on the couture collections runways of Armani Prive, Christian Dior, Dany Atrache and Ulyana Sergeenko.

From L-R: Alexis Mabille, Didit Hediprastayo, Armani Prive and Christian Dior

Paris Haute Couture: summer/spring 2013.

Couture Fashion Week- an opportunity for designers to tap into the most extravagant and outlandish of fashion fantasies kicked off to a great start. Dior and Chanel drew inspiration from the garden with flowers and leaves. Giorgio Armani drew inspiration from Turkey and Jean Paul Gaultier went to Morocco. These are the trends Paris Haute Couture had to offer for summer/spring 2013.

Off The Shoulder. Dresses descended like trapeze shapes and columns from bare shoulders for Dior, Georges Hobeika, Maison Martin Margiela and Alexis Mabille.

From L-R: Armani Prive, Elie Saab Christian Dior and Giambattista Valli

Midi Lengths. It was an exploration of midi lengths on elegant and structural dresses for Elie Saab, Giambattista Valli, Armani Prive and Valentino.

From L-R: Armani Prive, Christian Dior, Chanel and Giambattista Valli

Capes. Cascading off shoulders and trailing at the back, long capes gave a modern twist to evening wear at Valentino, Chanel, Bouchra Jarrar and Ulyana Sergeenko.

From L-R: Zuhair Murad, Valentino, Stephane Rolland and Elie Saab

Cropped Pants.  A trend that is still going strong in Paris, cropped pants featured strongly on menswear inspired collections from Christian Dior, Armani Prive, Alexandre Vauthier and Stephane Rolland.

From L-R: Alecandre Vauthier, Armani Prive, Versace Atelier and Georges Chakra

 Embroidery. Exquisite embroidery at Elie Saab, Alexis Mabille, Jean Paul Gaultier and Maison Martin Margiela portrayed flowers and blooms splayed out on dresses, crawling up a sleeve and hugging hemlines on skirts and dresses.

From L-R: Elie Saab, Christian Dior, Armani Prive and Valentino

Embellishment. Gem, sequins and mosaic encrusted dresses had a luminous and glamorous effect at Versace, Zuhair Murad, Elie Saab and Maison Martin Margiela.

From L-R: Versace Atelier, Valentino, Georges Chakra and Elie Saab

Voluminous Bottoms. Giambattista Valli, Chanel, Ulyana Segeenko and Dior gave definition to waists through volume build up at the bottom for the most romantic of ball gowns.

From L-R: Elie Saab, Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli and Armani Prive

Cinched Waists. Nipped and cinched in, Jean Paul Gaultier, Valli and Nicholas Oakwell played up the emphasis on waists with bold and colourful belts.

From L-R: Dany Atrache, Chanel, Alexis Mabille and Jean Paul Gaultier

Lace. Lace transparency sensually skimmed bodies at Valentino, Zuhair Murad, Alexis Mabille and Dior.

From L-R: Elie Saab, Valentino, Stephane Rolland and Alexandre Vauthier

Babydoll Dresses.  Couture brought back to the runway frothy baby doll dresses from Giambattista Valli, Versace Atelier, Elie Saab and Valentino.

From L-R: Valentino, Christophe Josse, Giambattista Valli and Versace Atelier.