There’s been a while since my previous post here and there’s been a lot happening in fashion during my long winter holidays. SJP for Halston, new Spring-Summer AD campaigns, creative directors changing in some of the brands, Jimmy Choo collaboration with UGG Australia have been all talked about, so I decided to focus in this post on one collaboration which seems a bit of a fresh air, but at the same time takes a bit of the concern.
Emma worked with PT’s CEO Safia Minney and design team to create capsule lifestyle collection. As the result there is a beautiful range of jersey t-shirts, dresses, woven skirts, trousers, shorts and knitwear for both men and women. The ecological issue together with the poverty issue make all the campaign and collaboration important in a way. The collection is totally created from organic cotton and wool by Fair Trade groups by hand, using hand weaving, hand knitting and hand embroidery to create livelihoods for some of the most disadvantaged people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
While journalist writing for site of Vogue Russia have their doubts why did Emma Watson decide to take her part in People Tree collection while she said earlier last year that she was not interested in designing her clothing line, there is an accurate explanation for this such as poverty issue and connection of fashion and social working. If fashion can help poor people than certainly other industries can make it too, here I do agree with Emma.
But here is the concern part. Whether Emma is going to be one of celebrities who make one appearance as a creative someone and than just forget about it, making it clear for themselves that they are not that creative, or she takes it seriously as her other beginnings in life such as Brown and we will see many outstanding and helpfull (which is sometimes more imposrtant) creations some time?
No matter how far one fashionista is concerned with modern politics her wardrobe however is always politically fashionable. As Anna Wintour said, looking at runway models you can always understand what is happening in the world. And that is true.
So, Kali Arulprgasam’s Super Fertile Cra$h Spring-Summer 2010 collection doesn’t surprise. It is inspired by financial crisis. Is it? I thought it is inspired by the US military politics. Nevermind. We have to listen to the designer.
Scandinavian artists have always had a special view which defined them as totally different from anyone else in art and fashion world. Being totally different they put their accents on some other things that are not always mentioned by other European designers. This time I got impressed with designs of Swedish designer and artist Emma Lundgren whose works show a new angle on theme of folklore.
As Emma says she has created a hand-crafted folklore collection for the future, by combining time-honoured Swedish tradition, with contemporary East London flavour. You can clearly see Lego motifs as one of major swedish inventions of all times. Emma redesigns them by mixing old wall hangings and tablecloths with shiny plastic materials, strong colours and oversized accessories, so the feeling of past and future works together. She calls it a new generation fashion puzzle. I suppose it really is.
I had no opportunity to touch those creations but I think that if they are comfortable and soft I’d like to own of those. Way to colour! And nobody is bored with 21st century fashion.
Oh, that is so cute! This AD is funny and nice. You do already want such a helmet, don’t you?
The helmet company is joining forces with the Karl Lagerfeld brand to inaugurate its “Multiples” collectors helmets in editions of 12. The coming together of Les Ateliers Ruby founder Jerome Coste and Karl Lagerfeld led to the creation of the motorcycle helmets featured in the Karl Lagerfeld Autumn/Winter 2009-10 Collection.
Remember the show? It was great and futuristic. Karl always thinks about the future, but never about the past.
Sometines I can’t think of something more feminine and sophisticated than bows. When I do think about bows in fashion first of all I see Chanel’s spring-summer 2008 show with a huge black bow on the runway. It was stunning, it was like a miracle and staying one of my favorites shows ever it makes its point in love for bows.
Flowing or hardly fixed they look gorgeous. You can put them the way you like and make a belt or a pin, put a really big one on your dress or hide it by transforming one of the parts into the dress as it has been made at Moschino and Lanvin shows.
If you think about it deeply you’ll realize that a bow was never out of fashion. At some point there were obviously too much of a bow, that some women looked ridiculous in outfits covered with huge and tiny bows. Still they remain fashionable and even this season with its big-shoulder jackets, platform heels and lots of leather clothes.
You can find bows in D&G, Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Moschino, Moschino Cheadp&Chic, Chanel and some other designers’ collections.
Usually I’m not critisizing Marc Jacobs and his collections for Louis Vuitton and his own brand. Strange, but being great about Marc Jacobs collection I’m awfully surprised by Louis Vuitton collection. Whatever the idea is, but those shoes look not Louis Vuitton at all, actually, my granny had one of such a kind when I was little.
Bags are great! Truthfully, it is the only element of spring-summer 2010 Louis Vuitton collection to be impressed by.
Maybe Bernard Arnault has influenced marc in a way to create things for popular markets such as Japan. But what about others who is not that into pink and screemin green colours?!
Just to be clear from the beginning – nobody really wants women to wear those shoes in a real life, and by nobody I mean nobody, even Alexander McQueen himself.
Those shoes were made to show where fashion can actually go and to express McQueen’s creativity as progressive modern designer. He is progressive in any way you look at his work. Alexander shows outstanding pieces on the runway that look unbelievable and impossible to wear, while they actually are wearable.
At the same time he presents very wearable and comfortable, even at first look, clothes in his boutiques. Speaking about comfortable shoes, do you remeber Nina Ricci boots made by Theyskens for this winter? Thaey are comfortable, so what makes us think that McQueen’s boots are not?
Those shoes are not alluring for any kind of woman, and here is the point. High fashion is not for everyone, that’s why McQueen makes other shoes for everyone to wear. They are not high fashion, but common, almost every woman is far busy to think of high fashion in a real life. You have to be vain to wear such kind of footwear!
As someone can be bored by using the same colours season after season, another one can be enjoying using the same colours. The second one is Karl Lagerfeld. You can never say that using of his beloved black and white is boring, because they are shown differently every single time. No wonder Karl Lagerfeld spring-summer 2010 collection for his own label is black and white shaked by two red looks which are surprising, knowing that Lagerfeld hates the red colour.
Shorts and jackets together with chiffon ties look so familiar and so new at the same time. Classy Karl’s looks are mixed with fantastic mirror high-heeled shoes and flats which remind of cosmic girls from comics and amazing glove-bracelets.
High heels and tight belts covered with arrows are bit of a rock style. Little arrows are pinned to the jackets and such a look says “hey, I’m feminine, but I can do everything myself!”.
Famous Lagerfeld playing guitar picture became a decoration for bags and trenchs as well as guitar itself found its place on sunglasses.
Mix of rock, classics and cosmic elements made Karl Lagerfeld’s collection unique. It’s probably the only one collection where every single thing can live its own separate life.
Turns out leather is a very long-term trend in modern fashion last winter we all thought it would be two seasons as for now we can see that it’s have already been three and the fourth is coming. So, in spring-summer 2010 collections leather is still an essential.
Nor that I didn’t like other designers’ collections but it seems that Nicolas Ghesquière is the only one who achieved perfect perfomance of leather art in his collection for Balenciaga. Basically he managed leather clothes to look so natural and weightless. Shoes is probably the most heavy part of any Balenciaga look.
Grey, green, dark-green, red, black leather makes models look differently in the same looks made in different colours. Playing with colours on such a difficult fabric as leather Nicolas showed everyone that he is more than a fashion designer. He is a fashion architect.
When someone says Dolce&Gabbana I start to imagine tight corsets, sexy dresses and extremely high heels. This time it’s not an exclusion. I’m touched by Spring-Summer 2010 decadence. First of all because of traditional Dolce&Gabbana looks which became sort of italian classic for me.
The exceptional shoes made of shifon and leather, lace dresses and tight corsets over little shorts and skirts as usual.
Sexy as usual, wanted as usual. What is unusual is decadence and youth. You can’t imagine a woman over 35 in such clothes if she is not Madonna, right? You can tell – style at every age, and I will tell you that it’s not about new Dolce&Gabbana style.
Prada Spring-Summer 2010 collection doesn’t need many words to describe. The first moment you will decide whether the clothes for you or not for you. Of course, plastic shoes with crystalls and plastic bags that are in fashion for at least the last three summers, will be regarded as the absolute must-haves not by everyone.
More interesting is how many girls will be willing to appear publicly in “undone” Prada costumes and dresses. Can you imagine those judging looks telling “what a disaster!” or “honey, you forgot to change at your fitting”? The clothes really look like it is unfinished yet, but by those scissored raw edges you undersatnd a total look.
Tops sewed with crystalls will appear in plenty of wardrobes and will be one of the exclusive outfits to wear.
I questioned myself how long could I wait till something on the runway that would take my breath away? Here it is – made of chandellier parts and crystalls dresses by Prada. And this is when I don’t care how confortable it will be to take a sit in them, I can’t stand the whole evening long! It’s definately worth it.
Miuccia’s fashion was never about borders, it has always been about crossing them.
When all designers try to save us fron cold she makes us lace dresses, when everybody thinks about comfortable shoes Miuccia puts high heeled shoes with silk socks on her models. So if you wear Prada you’re always fashionable, but that doesn’t mean that evry passing stranger will understand it.
Recently I’ve written about Marc Jacobs Spring-Summer 2010 collection which is still shocking for me. I love to be impressed and Marc impresses every new season. His Spring-Summer 2010 collection is fabulous, can’t wait next season to get that dark-blue little jacket and shorts and many other things.
Have you seen the whole celebs list this show?! Madonna and Lady GaGa are quite enough to make the show top of the Fashion Week, though Marc’s show is always at the top.
Take a look at the video from Marc Jacobs show.
The most interesting thing is to listen what Mark says about his collection, his own view together with the comments of fashion editors and critics. You can also get to backstage and see how preparations to the most exisiting show of New York Fashion Week goes.
In a longtime history of fashion (I mean fashion not a costume history) there has always been a place for a hat. It was the kind of an accessory every woman from a respectable class should have. Those hats were enormously beautiful but uncomfortable to wear. Then there was a time of Coco Chanel when she replaced hats with birds, fruits and flowers by the simple and chic hats which made women even more sophisticated. Even though there was a non-hat period in the 20th century, hats have been back again. Right now it’s difficult to say what kind of hat is fashionable – fruit-bird-like or simple and little, but we can say that hats are in fashion.
Fall 2009 season will be all about hats: little, big, black and screaming-bright, bandaids and hair accessory which replace the role of a hat. Almost all the designers made place for a hat in their collection. Even in haute couture collections:Chanel, Lacroix, Dior, Givenchy, etc. Though you’re not supposed to wear them in the street some women do.
Ready-to-wear collections will make you buy some of those lovely hats for sure – there’re many-many of them – and you can go for any kind you like from gloves-made Dolce&Gabbana to simple and round Chanel, or if you’re not a hat-type person you can check with some head accessories from Zac Posen, Louis Vuitton or Yves Saint Laurent. Armani also went for tiny hats which make one newly elegant.
It seems that time of birdy-fruit-like hats came back or at least that it’s time for extreme hats such as you can find at Dior or McQueen.
Whatever you will wear next season there should be place for at least one hat. You don’t have to be that McQueen extremal to wear a hat you may be that Lacroix simple, so go for it and the title of fashionista will be yours.
London style was never easy to describe though it always had its own characteristics which distinguish it from any other fashion capital style. One of those charateristics is the ability of fashion style to be unpredictable. As the result we’re all waiting for something surrealistic, something special, something, that can surprise us. Well… Antonio Berardi show was very surprising.
First of all, Berardi is not going the way of cutting high luxury quality of his collections as his other colleagues are doing in time of crisis. Crystal-embellished corsets, short tight dresses and crystallized jackets together with embroidered skirts make Antonio Berardi collection classy italian, still made in british atmosphere. Berardi is absolutely british, though he has the italian roots that can be seen in the way he works.
The collection was absolutely Berardi, you could see it from first looks. Expected to show something surprisingly new, Berardi in fact has showed his traditional looks with new refinement.
The only thing newly sexy is shoes, classy beige with black or dark-blue heels. Antonio Berardi Spring 2010 collection is unarguably beautiful, but arguably revolutionary.
The editor-in-chief of renewed popular british magazine POP Dasha Zhukova has appeared at the POP magazine party in Proenza Schouler Spring 2010 collection dress.
The party was September, 12 in London while Spring 2010 collection was showed on September, 16 in New York. Dasha has managed to get the dress not even before its arriving to the boutiques (nex Spring), but even before the show of Spring 2010 collection took place. That is fashionable!
