January 2011
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couture week: valentino
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the s/s 2011 valentino haute couture show was plenty of the prettypretty things, at least enough to convince most of the important fashionies that couture isn’t something to be dismissed. not so quickly, anyway.
“If fashion is about today, then today it’s time to go back to elegance,” one of valentino’s two designers announced of the...
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spfw: amapô
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sometimes in the course of my fashion wanderings, i wonder whether i’m just completely out of touch with the universe or whether something is more of a random decision. for example, at the amapô a/w 2011 show at são paulo fashion week in brazil, they not only marched their show to the tuneage of the band linkin park, but cited them as one of the inspirations, as well. ...
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couture week: christophe josse
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christophe josse is a relative newcomer to the world of haute couture, though apparently for the s/s 2011 season, he’s been certified as a full member. this collection, with its whites, light yellows, and blacks was inspired by photography.
the designer used the work of bruce weber in haiti and heinrich kühn, winding his airy, feminine creations together with...
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amsterdam fashion week: sage & ivy
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far too lovely for the weak solution of anthropologie-meets-forever 21 and has a conversation about gaia, earth mothers, recycling, and girl power (in the form of shopping) mess of a website they’ve got, is the sage & ivy a/w 2011 collection.
in fact, just so we can have a laugh, here is their mission statement;
“Sage and Ivy creates beauty and...
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berlin fashion week: maicco
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the a/w 2011 maicco show at berlin fashion week drew inspiration from “asymmetry in symmetry”, attempting to incorporate elements that don’t really work together, but gradually blend in the viewer’s eye to make a decent getup.
the brand is the creation of georgian designer maia samkharadze, originally a medical student in tbilisi before...
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amsterdam fashion week: individuals by amfi
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the f/w 2011 individuals show, presented at amsterdam fashion week in the netherlands was probably a bit more cohesive, more professional than the s/s 2011 effort, but without some of the pizzazz and certainly less fun to wear. and what was with the models’ greasy faces?
anyway, the facts about the label include that it’s now in the tenth...
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spfw: triton
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any label thinking its wise to open a show with paris hilton probably requires some consideration. you know what they’re spending their funds on. do you really want even your easiest-earned cash money to somehow end up back in her pocket? and yet the triton a/w 2011 show, closing out the first day at são paulo fashion week, was full of desirable, colourful pieces.
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berlin fashion week: vladimir karaleev
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vladimir karaleev’s a/w 2011 collection, titled “principles of disarrangement” was pronounced “captivating” by wwd. perhaps we should just stop there.
the young bulgarian designer relocated to berlin just over a decade ago, studying fashion at some intellectual-sounding school, and founding his namesake label in 2005. his bio page notes...
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couture week: adeline andré
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in a rather startling twist on the usual haute couture presentions, awash with luxuriating appointments and lollipops with sticks found in a cache during the rococo era (and offered to us exclusively by the house in question), french designer adeline andré eschewed all that, stocking her s/s 2011 runway with friends, of varying ages and physical beauty (as defined by the...
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spfw: animale
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starting out the fall 2011 são paulo fashion week with fabulously in-demand brazilian models like raquel zimmerman (who opened the show, above) and isabeli fontana, the animale show found inspiration in “the world of saddlery” (translated), reminding us, through another medium than using the same catwalkers, just how close they are to the other oft-equestrian...
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couture week: gustavo lins
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gustavo lins may not have the most glam couture collections—indeed, he usually eschews sequins in favour of uneven hems—but nevertheless, the show is frequently one of my highlights. probably for the very fact just mentioned, that one might expect some unexpected.
for his s/s 2011 show, the designer (whom, you’ll probably remember is native to brazil,...
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berlin fashion week: kilian kerner
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kilian kerner’s a/w 2011 collection was executed in a brash swarovski crystal-studded event that wwd called “brazen in color and style”, and is likely the kind of thing that will make its way into the pages of people style watch, where we will see the likes of kim kardashian & those hills girls vamping it up in the bright shades.
the show was...
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couture week: givenchy
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last time we dealt with the overwrought ribbon that is couture week, riccardo tisci at givenchy had decided to show half as many looks, in presentation rather than runway-style format, giving observers time to take in how much effort had gone into the pieces.
as style points out for the s/s 2011 haute couture collection, “One outfit required 2,000 hours of cutting...
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amsterdam fashion week: roparosa
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the brief roparosa f/w 2011 collection launched the second day of afw with attitude to spare in the edgy sportswear. the line had a bit of eighties punk chic in the loose garments, fitted in all the right places and radiating from a central point on the body.
roparosa is designed by roos van der camp, a young award-winning dutch lady whom one feels is probably...
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couture week: stéphane rolland
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for the spring 2011 couture collection at the house of stéphane rolland, the designer commented of his work (in translation), “It’s Indian summer…It is a very positive collection, energetic and sensual tones, warm and very spicy.”
the silk creations were indeed presented in the many deep tones indicative of that period, with ochre, beige, black, and...
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berlin fashion week: a.f. vandevorst
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though a.f. vandevorst presents their signature line in paris (one always wants to be able to point out to all these silly designers that if they took their major wares to other cities, it would sap some of the strength out of having to hear fashionies drone on & on about pah-reees fashion, giving a little credence to other places, as well), they took it upon themselves...
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couture week: chanel
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“I was sick of all those Eiffel Towers, sick of all those violent colors,” karl said, in reference to his latest work for the s/s 2011 haute couture chanel show. instead, this was an ethereal, light show, presented in the tones of one of the impressionist winter paintings, such as claude monet’s ice floes series.
karl’s close friend, lady amanda...
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berlin fashion week: lever couture
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not the type to be fucking around with pretending bfw is supposed to be about “art” or “expression”, a lot of the shows for the fall 2011 season thus far have bluntly informed us they’re about celebrating the good life and flaunting what you’ve got. and this was once more the case for lever couture.
working with silk, leather,...
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berlin fashion week: rena lange
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one of the things that regularly entertains me about fashion is the way the mood of the city, the country, shows through, regardless of the themes of the collections. they often have the strong undertone of place which can be in sharp contrast to that which they are presenting.
thus, after the convivial, languishing, and breezy collections of rio de janeiro, the...
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amsterdam fashion week: jan taminiau (demi...
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we’ve seen the slightly self-impressed jan taminiau’s work before (then at sarajevo fashion week), but the dutch designer was back in his home country for the launch of his demi couture collection for the a/w 2011 season.
anyway, although homes launched his namesake label back in 2003 (to “glowing reviews”, he informs us, no less), this is...
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fashion rio: andrea marques
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the lovely, bright, speckled, and textured a/w 2011 show presented by andrea marques at fashion rio was inspired by the surprising-until-you-hear-it (then wonder why you hadn’t guessed) idea of bugs.
beetle’s wings were, more specifically, the theme here, with the colour palette including black, green, orange, and blue with occasional transparencies cropping...
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berlin fashion week: bllack noir
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bllack noir titled their a/w 2011 collection “natura obscura”, taking inspiration from an enigmatic-if-sexxxy lady who wanders through a forest, lit only by the night sky. (do you fill chilled & charged? they’re hoping you do!) berlin fashion week’s website describes it thusly, “She moves valiantly between the trees, with the soft...
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couture week: christian dior
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for the s/s 2011 couture show at the house of christian dior, creative director john galliano once again toured the label’s roots, going back to the voluminous silhouettes that made the “new look” in the post-war era of the forties/fifties.
he found his inspiration in the work of fashion illustrator rené gruau, with suzy menkes noting of his work,...
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