Alexis Mabille: Haute Couture Available Online? Hallelujah!

$233 at colette.fr

Alexis Mabille's fleeting frivolity is enough to make any bunny hop for joy! 

Your bunny is in good company, too; Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, and Hedi Slimane are all devotees to his bowtie accessories line, "Treizeor" and his whimsical unisex fashion line, "Impasse 13". 

Haute couture may connote a certain inaccessible air, however Mabille's comely creations have popped up all around the interweb -- and quite reasonably, at that (for couture of course). Some favorites:

$1,008 at couturelab.com

$316 at couturelab.com

$252 at couturelab.com

The zany soprano Princess Calixta Biron von Curland rather humorously opened Mabille's show with a fiery aria comprised of haphazard German prose and facetious Jeff Koons passages. The audience's reaction is devilishly priceless [video below].

 

Alexis Mabille, January 2008 Paris Haute Couture Week:

Bows Galore! 

 

 

Alexis manifests his engaging quirkiness in a recent interview with Hint Magazine. Some of your bunny's choice highlights:

Hint Magazine: What was your earliest fashion moment?
Alexis Mabille: "As a child I loved to make costumes for myself. I couldn't stop sewing old fabrics together and getting into mischief to pull my ideas off."

HM: And your first encounter with a bow tie?
AM: "My grandfather, who was a country doctor. He wore a bow tie everyday."

HM: What are your obsessions?
AM: "Bows, elegance, how to play with people's moods, how to create beauty—or not. The line between the two is very thin."

HM: What does unisex mean to you?
AM: "For me, unisex means clothing for both boys and girls, but not just androgynous. It's simply the fact that the cut and the fit of my clothes works for both. But a man stays masculine, if he wants to, and girls can be boyish or feminine. It's all frivolité!"

HM: What is your biggest weakness?
AM: "M&Ms."

HM: Describe one indispensable person in your life and work.
AM: "My friend and confidante Katell Le Bourhis. She worked with Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan [Museum]. She's fun, eccentric and very chic à mourir—and also a little girl. She's like 'Eloise in Paris' or the famous 'Madeleine.'"

HM: What makes your head turn?
AM: "A good champagne in good quantities."

HM: What is your favorite possession?
AM: "My 18th-century bed, which looks like a meringue cake."

HM: And your philosophy?
AM: "To be a little inappropriate."

Alexis Mabille

bunny BISOUS

& bows too!

xx jf

Just a few more weeks until your bunny will be jetting to Couture Week in Paris for Paper Magazine! Stay tuned for all the mayhem...