The Native Shoe: The Best of Backstage and Front Row Photographs at Spring 2014 Couture

Saturday, February 1, 2014

The Best of Backstage and Front Row Photographs at Spring 2014 Couture

Armani Privé

Photographed by Kevin Tachman

The Dior 2012 Spring Couture Collection was the very first fashion show I ever viewed. I watched the video time and time again, reveling in the glamour, luxury, and superb fantasy fifties that the collection mirrored. The word has changed a lot in these past two years, and the couture collections this season mirrored just that.

When I look at most of these collections, especially the backstage photos, my favorite of which are featured here, I am struck with the feeling that so many of these faces, these clothes, these collections, represent the bygone ages of the renaissance period. Of course, to be honest, not all the collections reminded me of just that era, Chanel being the most prime example, with Karl Lagerfeld's models parading down stark white catwalk, and Dior, which mirrored the iconic fifties, and then Jean Paul Gaultier, representing the careless flapper. Still, I think all these photographs represent art at its finest. All these designers know how to sing their own song, and their song spells art.