Showing posts with label fashion week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion week. Show all posts
Backstage On the Stage
This weekend at Paris Fashion Week, Rolf Snoeren and Viktor Horsting, the designers behind the label Vikotr & Rolf, put on a backwards show. They had their models dressed in their FW 2010/2011 collection on the runway, instead of dressing them backstage. The first model who came out had almost the entire collection on her, and then, layer by layer, what she was wearing was put on other models. All the models appeared in a regalia of black and leather before they were dressed. Check out the video of the show. Below are some snapshots from the runway:
royal rock
Carin Wester's FW 2010/2011 line from Stockholm fashion week. I love the grunge princess theme, pairing simple black pieces with velvet, floral prints, and turbans! A pretty and eclectic mess! Not so sure if I'm loving the nylon socks, but it looks great with Wester's feminine styling of the line. My favorite part about the styling though is the hair! Lately, pink to blue hair has been seen on runways, but here Wester has small traces of color in the models hair. I especially love the silver streak with the matted hair.
I would like all of these, please!
Great FW 2010/11 collection from Louise Amstrup at Copenhagen fashion week. I love the tie-dye mix with the sheer blacks and grays. Reminds me a little of what Prada was doing with the gaseous and colorful print work - but in Amstrup's collection, she calms down the crazy mix with the perfect amount of black. But honestly, can you ever have enough black?
Sucker for Trends
The eclectic trends of spring have again bursted out in all fashion magazines, and like always, I have fallen victim to loving several of them. The few I see now are pig-tails (the childish messy side-part from Prada's runway) and white eyeliner. But there are definitely a couple I will stray away from - the disappearing eyebrow and clogs! Mainly I was in love with Prada's shows, her sci-fi inspired line incorporates surreal prints and illusionistic cuts.
And of course the buttery leather trend is something to love. Below are examples of perfect spring outfits. The leather is all light weight, making it appropriate for spring's weather. From left to right: Celine dress, Alexander Wang AMAZING lamb skin shorts, and top by 3.1 Phillip Lim:
And I'm definitely into the double-demin look, chambray jumpsuits, and underwear as outerwear:
'Behind the Scenes o New York, Paris, and Milan'
This month's 'New York' magazine was PACKED full with everything "it" about Spring, and with Mad Men's red-haired vixen on front, readers were voluptuously teased into the pages. I love the spread of behind the scenes pictures from the New York, Paris, and Milan SS 2010 runway shows shot by Lauren Greenfield. The pictures capture more than the clothes from fashion week. Readers are given the raw imagery of twisted musculature from models falling of sky-rocketing heels, an Anna Wintour candid with her uniform sunglasses tucked into her bob, and then to classic shots of the models-off-duty. I definitely suggest picking up the issue, and their memorial piece about McQueen was a beautiful narrative, forcing me to be more nostalgic than I expected.
blackout
Rad Hourani's FW 2010 collection below. Beautiful and androgynous - these classic black pieces could go into anyone's wardrobe (and should especially be in mine). Black is always perfect, and here Hourani takes the challenge of using only one simple palette to create something very new. I especially love the cowl neck theme he has with the jackets, and also their cape-like qualities...
again?
From the NYC Fashion week so far I have seen good and bad. From looking at the Y-3 and A Detacher FW 2010/2011 lines - there is a lot of neon eye make-up, and again....the oversized coats, socks with heels, and balloon-like fits are coming back into play. First row is A Detacher, and second row is Y-3:
Last Catwalks in Bryant Park
Today marks the start of another week of fashion in NYC. But unfortunately, this will be the last time all the shows will be at Bryant Park. Next year, the whole event will be moving to Lincoln Center. Many designers are unhappy with this move because Bryant Park is the beacon of fashion in NYC, and this same effect will not be the same at Lincoln Center. Bryant Park has been known as the famous tents since 1993, and it sad to think the whole event will be moving. The event alone brings in 100,000 people to the tents each year, making, in visitor spending, at least $466 million. Looking forward to the results from all the shows today, and still down about McQueen.
The Final Countdown
Images via Style.com
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