The Paris Fashion Week Fall 2019 Shows Had a Lot to Offer

The fall 2019 shows have come to a close in Paris. Here, the best Paris Fashion Week fall 2019 collections, in our opinion of course.

Chanel

Paris Fashion Week resumed on March 5 with a moving and heartfelt send-off of Chanel’s late creative director, Karl Lagerfeld, as the fashion house showed his last collection. This time, and perhaps for the last time, the Grand Palais was transformed into a winter village, complete with a ski chalet backdrop — Karl apparently loved winter and the snow. The audience was packed with Lagerfeld’s past and current muses, including Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Kristen Stewart, and Janelle Monae. And the lovely Penelope Cruz walked the runway for the show. The collection included a healthy dose of tweed, pops of fuchsia, and an overall ski-galore vibes. RIP, Karl!

Louis Vuitton

One can never be let down by the amazing Nicolas Ghesquière, who was heavily influenced by the 80s for Fall 2019. He also updated the telogreika, a quilted jacket worn by Soviet soldiers in World War II and North Koreans a decade later, by using floral fabric for the bodice. LOVE!

Miu Miu

Leave it to Miuccia Prada to consider camouflage a neutral, because the print popped in different iterations all across the Miu Miu Fall 2019 runway. Like pairing a camo scarf with a floral dress, or a full camo rain coat. Miuccia Prada also chose to highlight the cape because she sees in young people a desire to clothe themselves in something with meaning, given the perilous state of the world, and especially the environment. Brava!

Alexander McQueen

It’s been a hot minute since we’ve loved a McQueen collection this much. And that’s not to say Sarah Burton has been producing bad collections, per se. For fall 2019 she showed how precise and focused she really is — superb tailoring, incredible flower dresses of black, scarlet, or fuchsia taffeta, and a subtle lean into the punk aesthetic, which we appreciate very, very much. Truly, Made in England!

Valentino

“I feel that people are looking for emotion and dreams—but not distant dreams,” Pierpaolo Piccioli told Vogue. “I want to create a community for Valentino. I mean something different from ‘lifestyle,’ which is about owing objects. It’s about people who share values.” Piccoli pretty much described it best – emotions and not distant dreams, and for his Fall 2019 collection for Valentino he created — once again — magic. His magic was inspired by poetry, and different lines from “The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive” were embroidered inside coats, on mid-layers of tulle dresses, inside bags and boots. Breathtaking.