Foulkes, as many of you will know, is a well known fashion writer and historian, and his research on some of the 20th century’s most extravagant balls was used by Van Cleef & Arpels’ creative director, Nicolas Bos, as inspiration for the company’s latest high jewellery collection.
It may hold the record for the number of times the word balls has appeared in a single story in any Luciremedium.
Our report of Basil Soda’s autumn–winter 2011–12 haute couture collection is now online, too, and it’s the first we’ve published in English and French on this site. Following on from Soda’s show will be Stéphane Rolland, and other reports which Lola and Léona will file.
The photographs in the report are the official ones, but that’s not because we didn’t have our own. In fact, Léona’s ones are below and at the left, from her vantage-point at the show, and they have merit—they’re a teaser to the ones that are in the story, shot front and centre at the venue on the rue St Honoré.
