Moroccan-born designer Bouchra Jarrar shows at Paris' haute couture week

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(2 Jul 2012) BOUCHRA JARRAR PLAYS UP HER FEMININE SIDE IN PARIS
Bouchra Jarrar is relishing her feminine side.
The lauded Moroccan-born designer showed at Paris' haute couture week on a breeze of soft A-line silhouettes Monday (2 JULY 2012).
"What I achieved was the expression of femininity. I very much wanted to put the models in red lipstick in order to say that," said Jarrar, who is slowly gaining a reputation as one of haute couture's emerging talents.
The 22 highly wearable dresses - in a gentle palette of lavender, black and white - floated by with clean draped collars and backs with effortless elegance.
But the simplicity of the collection was deceptive.
At work here was the atelier of the last great embroider, Francois Lesage, who passed away last year - a huge loss to Parisian fashion.
Lesage was the last living link to Charles Frederick Worth, haute couture's 19th century founder with whom he worked.
But here his techniques carried on.
A perfect example was on one silk georgette knee-length dress with a deep green flash of crepe de chine.
Its hand-woven draped collar in tweed showed off couture's accomplished fastidious technique.


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