New York Fashion Week | Fall Winter 2011 »Part II«

The continuation of the 'best' from New York Fashion Week!

A selection of my favourites shows are here... Including Phillip Lim, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte!!

I hope you like it!


Michael Kors
Michael Kors celebrate's this year, 30 years in the Fashion Business!!! Congratulations...! =D
And for celebrate, this collection came in a perfect timing!
As always, simple cuts, long dresses, fur and transparency... Camel, black and red are the colors for this Kors season! I like Kors, and his show at New York is always a pleasure to see!

3.1 Phillip Lim
3.1 Phillip Lim, was a shocking surprise! In a good way...! The accessories, are just perfects! I love the coats, and their collar's. I love the colors, the materials... but the green in some pants and skirts were just a fabulous detail! I loove it...

Proenza Schouler
Proenza Schouler was soo great! I love the first looks, so simple but colorfull. The coats are awesome and the mix of prints in the most part of the looks are just the perfect way to Jack and Lazaro express their love for Fashion, designing their own prints! I think they'r perfect...

Rodarte
Rodarte is a peace of heaven... The inspiration (the movie 'Days of Heaven' by Terrence Malick) and the result of that is extremely well done! The dresses with the sky and the wheat field are so inspiring! The colors, the cut of each piece the embroydery or the polka dots! Everything is soo romantic and just like candys for the eyes! Je t'aime! :)

Victoria Beckam
I think that Victoria Beckam is a case of extremely good taste. Dot! The collection is a bit colorfull but also with a taste of earth-tones. I love the bags, the accessories, the dresses, shoes... everything. Everytime i see a new collection of her, i have always a bigger surprise! Just loving her work.


Rachel Zoe
Rachel Zoe. Pregnant and Fashion Designer! =D Ok. No kidding! Ahahah
This collection don't have a Fashion Show! Yet. But, I think is extremely wearable, as expected, but the opposite of Rachel Zoe style. Don't you think? She said it, and now we prove it! Elegant, Chic and Modern... this is the 'Rachel Zoe' woman!



(Photos by Style.com and Vogue.com)

New York Fashion Week | Fall Winter 2011 »Part I«

Here it is... My 'expected' coverage of the best shows from New York Fashion Week... I hope you'll like it!

Leave a comment and tell what's your favourite show...!
That's the same as mine? We'll see...

Enjoy!


Alexander Wang
Alexander Wang, for me, was the suprise of the entire Fashion Week. The perfect way that he matche's different types of textiles is absolutely fabulous. The colors are very Wang and the silhuette respects her name too! I love this collection, like i love the different 'mood' of his collection for this Spring Summer2011. Love it!

Altuzarra
Many people liked very much this Altuzarra show... Here ladies are really dressed for Fall! And like Garance Doré said: is "like the girls were all movie stars escaped from the Oscars, simply tossing on an overcoat over their red-carpet dresses."
The dresses are very simple, but with gorgeous colors. Also knit-sweaters are all around, like fur and, of corse, the overcoats!!

Donna Karan
Donna Karan, was a beautifull and glamorous show. I did not like the Spring Summer 2011 Collection that much, but I think, this collection is the perfect way to I forget that fact! A 'Dior-inspired-silhuette", was the way of celebrate the women's curves, and I just love that! Also the soft pink on the lips and the very romantic details all over the looks is just 'over-the-top'!! Love the shoes too! Magnificent...

Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs, inspired on the 70's, shows us soo many polka dots! Yes, this is absolutely 'the' trend for next Fall, and why? Marc Jacobs explains himself that this "new collection was a reaction against the loose, fluid feeling of his Spring outing." "I wanted something strict and severe," he said. Funny is the certain way to define that... i think!

Marc by Marc Jacobs
Marc by Marc Jacobs gave me soo hapiness! The male bags are just awesome! The principal colors of this collection are orange and browns. Also great patterns with 'bambis' (or something like that!), in bags and dresses! Is really great see these collection on the runway, cause this is one of the collections that i can see personally in stores... in Lisbon!

Jason Wu
Jason Wu have always a great collection. The gorgeous dresses embroydered with swarovski crystals, amazing feathers dresses and beautifull pumps! I just love all the styling and all the ambience of this runwayshow! It's soo chic!



(Photos by Style.com and Vogue.com)

London Fashion Week «FW2011»

London Fall Winter 2011 Fashion Week Schedule


Friday, February 18th

09:00 - Paul Costelloe
09:30 - Preen by Thornton Bregazzi
10:00 - Maria Grachvogel
11:00 - 19:00 Orla Kiely
11:00 - Jena.Theo
12:00 - Caroline Charles
13:00 - 16:00 Saloni
13:15 - Corrie Nielsen
13:45 - Irwin & Jordan
14:30 - Jean-Pierre Braganza
15:30 - Eun Jeong
15:45 - Aminaka Wilmont BFC
16:45 - Sass & bide
17:00 - The Rodnik Band
17:30 - Krystof Strozyna
17:45 - Felder Felder
18:30 - bSTORE
19:00 - Bora Aksu
20:30 - PPQ

Saturday, February 19th

09:00 - Daks
09:00 - Craig Lawrence
10:00 - Charles Anastase
11:00 - Betty Jackson
12:00 - Kinder Aggugini
12:30 - J. JS Lee
13:00 - Jaeger London
14:15 - Louise Gray
15:15 - John Rocha
15:45 - J.W.Anderson Women
16:15 - Issa London
17:15 - House of Holland
18:15 - Clements Ribeiro
18:30 - 20:30 Christopher Raeburn
19:15 - Jonathan Saunders
20:30 - Central Saint Martins

Sunday, February 20th

09:30 - Margaret Howell
10:00 - Designers Remix
10:15 - Mulberry
11:00 - Acne
12:00 - Jasper Conran
13:00 - Antonio Berardi
13:30 - Ann-Sofie Back Atelje
14:00 - Nicole Farhi
15:00 - Unique
15:30 - Cooperative Designs
16:00 - Osman
17:00 - Matthew Williamson
18:00 - Vivienne Westwood Red Label
19:00 - Richard Nicoll
19:15 - Nasir Mazhar
20:00 - Temperley London

Monday, February 21st

09:00 - Peter Pilotto
09:30 - Basso and Brooke
09:45 - David Koma
09:45 - Holly Fulton
10:45 - Pringle of Scotland
11:45 - Christopher Kane
13:00 - Michael van der Ham
14:00 - Erdem
15:00 - Todd Lynn
15:00 - Les Chiffoniers
16:00 - Burberry Prorsum
17:00 - Paul Smith
18:00 - Mark Fast
19:30 - Giles
20:30 - Julien Macdonald

Tuesday, February 22nd

09:30 - Christian Blanken
09:45 - Mary Katrantzou
10:00 - Anya Hindmarch
10:45 - Marios Schwab
11:00 - MariaFrancescaPepe
11:45 - Aquascutum
12:45 - Roksanda Ilincic
13:45 - Meadham Kirchhoff
14:45 - Emilio de la Morena
15:00 - Tata-Naka
15:15 - BodyAmr
15:45 - Fashion East
16:45 - Amanda Wakeley
18:45 - Ashish
20:00 - Alfred Dunhill

Wednesday, February 23rd

09:00 - J.W.Anderson
10:15 - Topman Design
10:30 - Sibling
11:00 - Christopher Shannon
11:00 - Mr Start
11:45 - Omar Kashoura
12:30 - MAN
13:00 - NEWGEN MEN & Fashion East Men Installations
13:15 - James Long
13:30 - Horace
13:45 - E. Tautz
14:15 - Katie Eary
14:45 - Lou Dalton
15:00 - Bally & Central Saint Martins Collaboration 2011
15:15 - Cassette Playa
16:15 - Tim Soar
17:00 - KTZ
17:30 - Oliver Spencer
18:30 - Hardy Amies
18:30 - Rake
20:00 - Tween

Paris | Haute Couture SS2011 »Part II«

This is the second and the last part of the Couture Week in Paris for Spring Summer 2011!

With:
*Elie Saab, and his 'Oscar' dresses! All women love this guy, and i love him too, because of the fantastic and amazing job that he do in each collection of each season! Just loove!

*Armani Privé, became in a very futuristic way, in a dark mood but with shiny clothes for shiny people!

*Givenchy, by Ricardo Tisci comes with an absolutely brilliant collection, that is one of the best collections for this season (in Couture!). The way that the collection is structured, and the color is worked, make realistic the way that 'Tisci' is think in the fashion industry. His a genius and this collections is part of it!


Elie Saab
There was plenty of décolleté, and sinuous limbs slipping out from skirts that were, at times, almost too split, but what today's show really evoked was the up-to-the-neck missy-ness of Norma Shearer, an Oscar winner from centuries ago. One long tulle and organza gown, piled with flowers at the shoulder and tied with grosgrain at the waist, would surely have driven La Shearer into a paroxysm of desire. Coupled with the exceptionally sweet hair and makeup, this peculiar sense of propriety took Saab's collection into territory that was new for him. It was certainly a world away from the sparks struck by his last Couture show. Just look at the bride—last time, she shimmered with hints of gold. Here, her gown drooped with organza flowers and tatters of mousseline, and her veil was almost shroudlike.

Armani Privé
When Giorgio Armani presented his made-to-order Armani Privé collection near Place Vendôme Monday evening to the likes of Sophia Loren, Jodie Foster, and Olivia Wilde, he was thinking of, Lady Gaga. Clearly, Armani is gaga for Gaga. How else does one explain that shiny molded techno-fabric that looked like it was specially created for Tron (it is, in fact, a silk-nylon blend)? Or the crystal-strung dresses that looked like three-dimensionally rendered animation (and had a touch of the gown he designed for the one-woman multimedia sensation of last year’s Grammy Awards)? Or, indeed, the sleek dome of an ovoid hat, or a glistening cage mask that would be great for the likes of Gaga on the red carpet because, really, who else would be wearing it, while perhaps not so effective for the A-list types Armani has dressed for years.

Givenchy
As you’ll gather at first glance by looking at these photographs, Givenchy did not have a couture show for spring—at least not in the conventional sense. The pictures here show front and back views of each of the long, Japanese-inflected designs Riccardo Tisci made this season—ten dresses which were expressly designed never to be exposed to the roar of the runway. Instead, he hung these clothes suspended in light, in a kind of exhibition, so that both reviewers and clients could take time to view them at inches-range, and reach out and touch, if we wished.
This way of presenting gave Tisci both the opportunity to describe the derivation of his ideas—an abstract homage to the Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, who recently died at the age of 103, (with added reference to Japanese robot-toys: the horned hats)—to prove just what goes into the work of couture, and to answer the questions it raised, such as: Why no daywear?

(Photos by Style.com)

(the text's are from Vogue.com, and Style.com [Elie Saab])

Paris | Haute Couture SS2011 »Part I«

As i promise, now i'm comming with the coverage of the entire Paris | Haute Couture Week!

This is »Part I«, and in this post i'll show you:
*Christian Dior by John Galliano, doing what he nows at his best! Amazing dresses inspired at the 'New Look', with soft colors in dégrade, that puts our eyes crying like there's no tomorrow!

*Valentino, now in the hands of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. They show us magnific dresses in great soft colors, some of them in a quite transparency but all of them soo lovely.

*Jean Paul Gaultier, gave us a incredible show, as always. But this time he mixed the punk look with 'can-can' dolls!! Are you curious? Just read this post 'till the end...

Christian Dior
Shape-wise, there was no deviation from the nipped-waist bar jacket, the pencil-line skirts, the swirling fan-pleat circle skirts, and the grand ball gowns with which Christian Dior dictated postwar fashion. Camp and extravagant as it was, though, in close-up, this wasn’t quite vintage reconstruction to the letter. Galliano’s obsession with the way Gruau caught the fall of light on color was mimicked in fine graduations of tulle minutely collaged in increasing densities to shade in folds of peplum and bubble jackets, the highlights picked out in streaks of sequin, the collar lapels visually blurred with raw-edged trims.

Valentino
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli chose the house specialty, pleating, as a central motif—a good choice, since it's around this spring, and no one can achieve it (with minutely narrow ribbons of lace, or hundreds of fan-like ripples of chiffon, hand-pressed with an iron) like the Valentino seamstresses in Rome. Technique alone, however, can't lift a collection unless it has some connection or contribution to the way fashion is thinking. This one gently hit the mark with its contradictions between long lengths, high collars, and wrist-length sleeves, and the fact that so much was semitransparent (though never blatant). In this curious transitional moment when body-con feels incredibly old, yet girls are reluctant to sacrifice a show of leg, these Valentino dresses—and the quiet eroticism beneath their innocent prettiness—seem poised in exactly the right place.

Jean Paul Gaultier
British punk meets Paris cancan: Oh, it takes genius to make such an appalling-sounding fashion trope even the slightest bit forgiveable. On this occasion, though—barely credible as it may seem—Jean Paul Gaultier took mohawks, studs, and leather jackets, married them with the girls of the Moulin Rouge, and came out with a defining triumph, soaring from grimy guttersnipe-style to a French level of sophistication which makes the rest of the world spit.

Narrative fashion shows can be annoying these days, especially when one’s considering a designer like Gaultier, with a past that wends back to the eighties. But this time, his revisitings of sailor stripes—brilliant horizontal organza ruffles on Lindsey Wixson—and corsetry, now merged into both a tailcoat jacket and a cancan costume, somehow seemed simpler, more relevant, and full of energy.


Photos from Style.com

(the text's are from Vogue.com)

Chanel | Haute Couture »SS2011«

Chanel | Haute Couture
Spring Summer 2011
Tuesday, January 2011, 25th
Paris.


The Fashion Week of Haute Couture was recently in Paris, by the end of January.
My lack of time just delay this and the other posts about this Fashion Week, but I promise that they will be right here in a couple of days!

For me Chanel Haute Couture is always a pleasure to admire, and the many things, like backstage and rehearsals images, that Chanel puts into their web-site Chanel News, are just hours of my life, trying to understand this world, and the wonderfull thing that Haute Couture is nowadays...


With this post I will quote a magnific text, writen by Elisabeth Quin "Haute Couture, Haute Culture..." that are from Chanel News.

Enjoy!


The Chanel Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture collection has created a dazzling bridge between the 1920s and the 21st century.
Low waists, slender busts and delicate feet encased in ballerina shoes with transparent ribbons have been combined with the colors of clouds or pearls and waves of shimmering spangles, while embroidered shirts have been paired with Couture jeans that lengthen the legs to infinity… It is a younger look that is lighter than ever, rejecting any kind of bourgeois heaviness. The collection is characterized by total grace and luxurious materials that make their mark with skilled understatement, recapturing a style that came as second nature to Coco Chanel…
Haute Couture is a French national treasure, yet it was invented by an Englishman, Charles Worth, at the time of Napoleon III. Barely a century after it had beheaded its king, France quickly understood that luxury could act as an inimitable ambassador for French expertise.
At that moment, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, known as Coco, arrived on the scene with her hands in her pockets and a cigarette between her lips. She was surrounded by an air of nonchalance, eternal allure and insane elegance in her wonderfully fluid jersey suits and dresses, which went on to represent a real liberation for women. It seemed a natural step but someone had to invent it, someone had to have the confidence and the talent to understand what women wanted, longed for, even before they knew it themselves. Was Chanel a revolutionary, a prophet? Absolutely!



Photos by Style.com and Chanel News


(the text was writen by Elisabeth Quin at Chanel News in "Haute Couture, Haute Culture...")

New York Fashion Week «FW2011»

New York Fall Winter 2011 Fashion Week Schedule

Thursday, February 10th

9:00 - Nicholas K
09:30 - Porter Grey
10:00 - BCBG MaxAzria
11:00 - Richard Chai
13:00 - Duckie Brown
15:00 - Luca Luca
15:30 - Mara Hoffman
16:00 - Tadashi Shoji
18:00 - Eva Minge
19:00 - Christian Siriano
9:00 - Irina Shabayeva

Friday, February 11th

09:00 - Ruffian
09:30 - Tess Giberson
11:00 - Perry Ellis
12:00 - Farah Angsana
13:30 - Norman Ambrose
14:00 - Rebecca Taylor
15:00 - Rebecca Minkoff
17:30 - Tommy Hilfiger Men's
18:00 - Nicole Miller
18:30 - Joy Cioci
19:00 - Cynthia Rowle
20:00 - Academy of Art University
21:00 - Venexiana

Saturday, February 12th

09:00 - General Idea
10:30 - Binetti
11:00 - Jill Stuart
12:00 - Prabal Gurung
14:00 - ADAM
14:30 - MANDY COON
15:00 - Vivienne Tam
16:00 - Mik Cire
18:00 - Charlotte Ronson
18:30 - Maisonette 1977
19:00 - G-STAR RAW
21:00 - Toni Francesc

Sunday, February 13th

10:00 - Derek Lam
10:30 - Timo Weiland
11:00 - Lela Rose
13:00 - DKNY
14:00 - Calvin Klein Collection Men's
14:15 - Tory Burch
14:30 - Yoana Baraschi
15:00 - Max Azria
16:00 - Diane von Furstenberg
17:00 - Cynthia Steffe
17:00 - Y-3
18:00 - Carmen Marc Valvo
19:00 - Custo Barcelona
19:30 - Behnaz Sarafpour
20:00 - Tommy Hilfiger
21:00 - Zang Toi

Monday, February 14th

09:00 - Jenny Packham
09:30 - Callula Lillibelle
10:00 - Carolina Herrera
11:00 - Carlos Miele
13:00 - Tracy Reese
14:00 - Donna Karan New York
14:30 - Sachin +Babi
15:00 - Monique Lhullier
17:00 - Pamella Roland
18:00 - Betsey Johnson
18:00 - Chado Ralph Rucci
18:30 - GUiSHEM
20:00 - MarcJacobs

Tuesday, February 15th

09:00 - Sergio Davil
09:30 - Trias
10:00 - Badgley Mischka
11:00 - Vera Wang
13:00 - Diesel Black Gold
13:00 - Jen Kao
13:30 - Bibhu Mohapatra
14:00 - Hervé Léger by Max Azria
15:00 - Dennis Basso
16:00 - Marc by Marc Jacobs
18:00 - J. Mendel
19:00 - Tibi
19:30 - Frank Tell
20:00 - Narciso Rodriguez
21:00 - Mackage

Wednesday, February 16th

09:00 - Yigal Azrouël
09:30 - VACCA
10:00 - Michael Kors
11:00 - Nanette Lepore
13:00 - Alexandre Herchcovitch
13:30 - Adrienne Vittadini
15:00 - Milly by Michelle Smith
16:00 - ALLEGRI
16:00 - Helen Yarmak
17:00 - CHRISTIAN COTA
18:00 - Anna Sui
18:30 - Odd Molly
19:00 - Elie Tahari
20:00 - Michael America
20:00 - Proenza Schouler

Thursday, February 17th

10:00 - Ralph Lauren
12:00 - Son Jung Wan
14:00 - Calvin Klein Collection Women's
18:00 - Elene Cassis
19:00 - Naeem Khan
19:30 - LUBLU Kira Plastinina
20:00 - L.A.M.B.
21:00 - Ivana Helsinki