December 2011
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russian fashion week: studio nk
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the more time i spend wading through the fashion industry, the more i become infuriated by it. true, there’s plenty of things to like—and i think we go into these regularly when discussing the various collections—but a point that has been cropping up increasingly for me, like an annoying little fruit fly that manages to buzz into and out of one’s...
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toronto fashion week: adrian wu
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if i’m not particularly a fan of crippling—and this turn around, i do mean crippling—shoes, i forever am more theatrical designs, so at first blush i will admit i was transfixed (as i expect many were) by the extremely young canadian designer adrian wu on his first outing at toronto fashion week for s/s 2012. however—and this...
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fashion week zagreb: karim bonnet
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like the lovely ada zanditon, designer karim bonnet—and his impasse de la defense line—were guests bringing lavish colour and bold style to the fashion week zagreb s/s 2012 event, though this time from paris instead of london. according to the dfwz site, for his second presentation in croatia, the designer was inspired by (trans.) “Hergé, a Belgian writer...
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lodz fashion week: teresa kopias
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although don’t get me wrong—there was plenty of pretty—the s/s 2012 teresa kopias show presented at lodz fashion week was one of those offerings the viewer immediately understands after just a few looks in. glamourous dresses for ladies who maybe aren’t as attached to the genre, as say, those hardcore fashionies that collection those...
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lviv fashion week: vera piloyan
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a more mysterious designer exhibiting at lviv fashion week in ukraine was vera piloyan (uk: Вера Пілоян), whose brief s/s 2012 appeared to be her debut at the event. although the lfw site allows that the designer hails from ternopil, i wasn’t able to score much else in the way of information on our subject, save for the fact of ukrainian site lviv beauty commenting that...
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riga fashion week: katya shehurina
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we’ll get into specific analysis in a moment, but first i (and you) need to be a bit smug. upon researching latvian designer katya shehurina’s latest range—for s/s 2012—i came across an article in grazia proclaiming themselves practically the first to discover homegirl’s wares, though we’ve indeed been discussing her work for the...
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russian fashion week: anna direchina
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so i was on the fence about including anna direchina’s (rus: Анна Диречина) s/s 2012 russian fashion week show in the opt lineup until i caught sight of that face homegirl (above) was making. if ever there was a smug ‘yeah, bitch, i made it to the runway (even if i am walking barefoot on fake grass)’ look shot to an ex-boyfriend somewhere, i think this...
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erdem pre-fall 2012
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if i were going to be completely honest, i’d tell you that there are things about the pre-collections that can be a bit of a bore. with resort, it’s generally that the pieces are delivered in december or january, yet sunnier than anything we see for spring, largely because the fashionies still have the conception that it’s 1924 and we any of us who like...
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moscow fashion week: nina donis
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opt has heartily admired the work of russian label nina donis in the past (see f/w 2010 & s/s 2011), respecting it as, if not quite commercial, then certainly creative, distinctive, cheerful, and utterly unique. thus, imagine my surprise when for their s/s 2012 outing—presented at, as depesha puts, it the “ArtPlay Design Center, the gallery-studio-restaurant...
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lodz fashion week: karolina gleguła
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it’s rather beyond my comprehension that some designers receive loads of free press while others—and seemingly just as talented, if sometimes not more so—are left twisting about, all but discounted. and frankly, it seems like quite a few i’ve been writing about lately are facing just such a problem. yet another example was polish designer...
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toronto fashion week: anu raina
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although there was plenty i did like about designer anu raina’s debut show (for f/w 2011) at toronto fashion week last season, i also found myself critiquing what at times reeked too heavily of a new age-y bent, all wide-legged layers and the models with their puffy hair (that begged to be streaked with the gray of the aging hippies scolding one for buying too much...
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riga fashion week: natalija jansone
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according to the latvian site work ‘n life, designer natalija jansone has been exhibiting her work at riga fashion weeks since the event’s inception back in 2004, which i’ll frankly profess is a bit baffling to me, as opt has never paid her work more mind than a flash glimpse for s/s 2011 about a year ago. and yet…for all that, upon first...
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russian fashion week: dasha gauser
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the interesting thing about russian designer dasha gauser (rus: Дашу Гаузер), or so i rather think, is that even though opt hadn’t covered her work since the f/w 2010 show, upon looking at her latest presentation—for s/s 2012—i instantly linked it in my head to that other collection of some eighteen months ago. homegirl’s strong lines are rather...
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vera wang pre-fall 2012
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although opt hasn’t been following the work of vera wang as religiously as some other designers, all the same, it has been rather interesting to follow the progression of her brooding schoolgirl (at times alternately a bit more ladylike) plumbing the depths of her melancholy to sometimes experience a burst of more joyful youthful exuberance (see pre-fall 2011, f/w...
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lviv fashion week: anna didukh
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i don’t really have enough information on designer anna didukh (uk: Анна Дідух) to write a proper sort of review, but i nevertheless thought we could take a moment out to verbally appreciate her looks in lieu of a wordless study. she presented her brief s/s 2012 range as a part of lviv (or lvov) fashion week’s avant garde exhibition, which is described by the site...
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fashion week zagreb: artiđana
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as the seasons change over, it also seems that the name of the label does as well, remaining for the s/s 2012 presentation at zagreb fashion week simply artiđana (see s/s 2011 & a/w 2011). but no matter. the house, fronted by designer ana cavar and which regularly presents its wares at the zagreb puppet theatre, has been growing to be one of my favourites in the croatian...
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j. mendel pre-fall 2012
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a year or so ago, j. mendel was one of those brands i tended to nod at without really noticing (something i’m increasingly beginning to learn probably isn’t the savviest of actions whilst pretending to be something of a fashion journalist), but over the past couple of seasons (see f/w 2011, a stunning dress for resort 2012, & s/s 2012), have begun to pay more...
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lviv fashion week: ruslana verlas & anastasia...
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participating in lviv (or lvov) fashion week’s sabotage young designer competition with 16 other contestants, ruslana verlas (uk: Верлас Руслана) and anastasia troshkina (uk: Трошкіна Настя), hailing from the eastern city of donetsk, presented their s/s 2012 range, titled, according to the ukrainian stud-times (do you wonder how often our names translate rather strangely...