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Paris Fashion Week FallWinter'13 | Menswear

The Menswear from Paris, is always pleasurable and desirable. We can start from Dries Van Noten, Vuitton or Lanvin, but the 'trashy-chic' is always present in Masculine pieces, and Paris is just the perfect example!

This season we have new trends, new must-have pieces and an elegance that we can never compare.

Here's my favourite shows from Paris...

Lanvin

Dries Van Noten

Dries is always impecable in easyness. But this time, we just went too far! In such a good way.

The pieces are easy to wear, very comfortable, including intense dark colors in amazing patterns that we can see in trousers, jackets or even shirts. This 'easy-chic' is so desirable and tempting in cold days, that we can always dress like this.

I just loved the simple looks with white shirt, a simple sweat or blazer, trending with patter trousers and comfy shoes. Are you in?

Dries Van Noten

Givenchy

So Riccardo Tisci just gave us a very dark lesson! And you should better learn.

He said that he wanted to do a much more couture collection for Menswear (because Givenchy's Couture line won't be presented) introducing something chic and elegant, with new cuts and luxury materials, like cashmere or velvet.

We can notice an involvence with America, in sportive american jackets and patterns, but what I liked the most were the involvence of zippers in such a good pieces like shirts, jackets and amazing coats. I really want them! So couture-ish and elegant.

Givenchy

Louis Vuitton

This was GREAT! I simply want e-ve-ry-thing.
The concept was amazing, the styling was amazing and pieces were amazing. Louis Vuitton's Mesnwear is really becoming an extraordinary influence and point of view as we never had seen before.
The luxury/sportive way that the pieces are created is really magnificent. And the mixing of both, in the way that they do it! Just Beautiful.
Can I start my order-list? Oh-Gosh!

Louis Vuitton

Hermés

Hermés is having a great evolution process in Menswear.
The last collection, was by far my favourite, with great colors and and amazing sportive cuts.
This season, the man is more serious and Parisian. I notice that in turtle-necks, navy coats, white trousers and leather jackets! We can see Hermés becoming more younger, but standing in the same luxury position as before! In this show we noticed the amazing whatches and accessories, so familiar and recognixable from the Maison.
My favourite look? Obviously the second one on the picture. Simple, elegant accomplished by the beautiful whatch !

Hermés

Valentino

This is by far, my favourite collection from this season!
It's sad that we don't have details in pictures, but we can sure notice the flawless looks, in great styling and attitude from the renovated House of Valentino Garavani!
Since last collection, Valentino just don't get out of my mind with THESE sneakers, but now we really step forward. The navy-blue is amazing. But the cuts and materials from each piece just blows me away!
I really want that cape with the large leather stripe! I really want that next coat, and the all look! And also the blue sweater with the clutch... yeah, I really want it badly!!

Valentino

Lanvin

The Men from Lanvin is always straight forward.
This time Lucas Ossendrijver and Alber Elbaz wanted to talk about propotion!
Usually the mens body don't have this aproach, but now they wanted to do it right but commercial.
This refresh was about large coats, oversized pants and new silhouettes. Also introducing technical fabrics in shirts, as we had seen before, creating transparencies and a new way of light, not so common in menswear.
And I really loved that mirror-clutch. So fresh and elegant!
Lanvin is never common, and thats why they always do what they believe even if it's extravagant.

Lanvin

Milan Fashion Week FallWinter'13 | Menswear

This month great Menswear collections were showed at Fashion weeks like London, Milan and Paris.

Italian designers are always looking for new perspectives and point on view. Tailoring as the masterpiece and the look of menswear is now re-viewd with high-tech fabrics and luxury fur, introduced in menswear like it has been here forever.

So, let's talk about my favourite shows in Milan...

Burberry Prorsum

Burberry Prorsum

Ok. I always love Christopher Bailey's work, and this is no exception. This collection was called 'I love Classics', and sure we do. 

I always love a beautiful coat in camel or militar green, and I never resist to the great fashion experiences that Bailey always do with great high-tech materials, like the latex coats. Burberry Prorsum, for me always means Outerwear. It's all about the trench, the coats and amazing tailoring. And I don't even need to talk about the great accessories and technological advances that this brand always show us so well.

The classic Burberry pattern were in bags, scarfs and accessories, but always mixed with leopard print, seen in those amazing shoes, fur coats and beautiful iPad cases.

Oh, I forgot, don't you love those leopard print sunglasses? I'm sooo ready!!

Burberry Prorsum

Gucci

This Gucci collection is very colorful, but in a dark way. I just see beautful colors in dark shades like burgundy, olive green, and almost '50 shades of grey' in that magnificent fur coat! Clear blues opened the collection and aguen Outerwear were the masterpiece of the show, like in so many others this season.
I loved the details, like silk scarfs inside polos or turtle-necks, the luxury fabrics, and also the bags. And the tuxedos at the end of the show... So beautiful.
Did you saw Clement Chabernaud with the last look of the collection, with that coat? Ugh-mazing!

Gucci

Kenzo 

Surprisingly Kenzo is becoming one of the best young brands by the hands of Humberto Leon and Carol Lim. They are creating new house-codes from the brand and with this "Above the sky & beyond" collection, we can notice that so well. Creating a romantic and sophisticated men, inspired by the sky in graphics and cuts, including 'Tiger Fever', that is already an icon of the brand.
It's a collection that makes you dream above the sky, create fantasis and see the difference between night and day.

Kenzo

Fendi

Fendi, just a few seasons ago created their menswear line. Like the ID of the brand, it's all about fur, luxury and creativity. We notice oversized coats, capes and beautiful colors, like the magnificent yellow in that coat. Many pieces had fusion materials like a coat from leather to whool, or the red shirt showed here. I would love be in one of these coats in the freezing days that we are living, so Silvia Fendi, if you hear me (or read...) I'm here! Waiting...

Fendi

Prada | FallWinter'2013 Menswear

In one of my favourite runway sets, a minimal house with Rem Khoolaas furniture produced by Knoll, that perfectly match one of the most 'normal' Prada shows. But we know this is Prada by Miuccia, so we know that this 'normality' is not what it seems...

She said about this collection that is "one of the most sophisticated I've ever done". But, How? You ask.

She explains it so much better:

"Simplicity is so difficult. To make perfect something that is normal and classic is much harder."

And what we see just here, is incredibly beautiful. I mean... You want to wear everything! I want it! And that is what Fashion is about. Those normal clothes with perfect 'shades' of blue, yellow and red, full of leather details, perfect fabrics and the perfect cut in jackets and shirts.

That is a collection that talks to me about innocence, in a creative way that explores perversity in some point... We can talk about these clothes as 'normality' but we shure know that it's not about 'banality'.
Those beautiful and amazing shoes that I want to wear right now, are just a new classic in such a different way.

We know that this is so 'normal', but 'different'.

It's controversial. So Miuccia and so Prada.

& Other Stories | Spring 2013

Spring sees the launch of new Swedish fashion brand '& Other Sories'.

It's a new brand from H&M and is offering ready-to-wear, shoes, bags, accessories and beauty, with make-up according to the collection, with the colours changing with the season to complement the clothes...

With ateliers in Paris and Stocholm, the idea behind the brand is to give women freedom of expression across one label - from cool modernism to a more romantic side.

With the clothing designed by two design duos, garments from different themes are encouraged to be mixed, creating personal edits of their looks.

So far so enigmatic.

Here's a video premier of 'Ocean Print' from their upcoming SS13 debut, featuring designer Behnaz Aram, ahed of the brands official channels.

You can also whatch two other isnpirational videos, named 'Rose Revival' from a more romantic collection and the 'Shoes & Other Sotries' with some of the collection pieces...

Please, visit '& Other Stories' tumblr with special atelier features, and the Facebook fan page.

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2012

Doutzen Kroes, Miranda Kerr and Alessandra Ambrosio by Kevin Tachman

We always know that this time of the year, means Victoria's Secret... Every year we saw the most beautiful Angels walk down the runway side-by-side with the most popular music artists of the season...

2012 was not an exception, and Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Doutzen Kroes, Candice Swanepoel and so many other Angels showed us what the world has the best! 

Here the intimate underware is exposed, being the X Factor of each look and shining at the most fabulous and epic Fashion Show on earth!

The Backstage mood is visible and is one of the thousand reasons of why I love this show. The pink robes, the party feeling and the beauty of the models just made this the most exciting Backstage of them all...

Here's some of the photos by Kevin Tachman for Vogue!

Miranda Kerr by Kevin Tachman

Joan Smalls, Doutzen Kroes and Miranda Kerr

Cara Delevigne and Joan Smalls by Kevin Tachman

This year during the Show we had three of the best performers... they were Rihanna, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber!

I must say that Rihanna just 'killed it' with her fresh new single 'Phresh Out The Runway'. She also performed her single 'Diamonds' from the new album 'Unapologetic'. Bruno Mars made thousands of girls fall in love with his 'Young Girls' performance in one of the best segments of the show, and 'shake-tha-thing' performing 'Locked Out Of Heaven'. Justin Bieber danced with the angels with 'Beauty And a Beat' and exploded the 'Bieber Fever' with a version of 'As Long As You Love Me' accapela.

Jourdan Dunn, Adriana Lima, Constance Jablonski and Karlie Kloss by Kevin Tachman

Behati Prinsloo and Constance Jablonski by Kevin Tachman

Rihanna, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber performing

Here's for me one of the best performances of the night... Rihanna's 'Phresh Out The Runway'.

Louis Vuitton | 'Small is beautiful!'

What about your bags in size MINI?
Please, take notes: Small is the new Big!

This is an adorable video by Louis Vuitton featuring some of my favourite girls around the Fashion world: Elin Kling, Hanneli Mustaparta and Miroslava Duma!
Just get ready to downsize and minimize... ;)

Haute-Couture Fall'2012 | Photographed by Kevin Tachman

Chanel show

Recently I discovered Kevin Tachman, a fenomenal photographer inspired by Fashion, Music and Art...

He always approach distinctive models at the exclusive universe of 'backstage', photographing history-in-the-making, like these ones during Couture Fashion Shows, in Paris.

Usually seen at Vogue.com, "Tachman's specialty is capturing essencial moments that express excitement, beauty, and drama. Shot in a naturalistic style, his photos make you feel like you're there, whether it's a Fashion Week, during a live performance, or on the set of a photo shoot."

Here with details and backstage footage he captured speechless moments during Couture Week meanwhile in Paris, attending some of the 'Fashion houses' like Chanel, Giambattista Valli, Buchra Jarrar or Versace...

Giambattista Valli models

Giambattista Valli model /  Giambattista Valli himself with models

Giambattista Valli models

Versace show / Donatella Versace

Shoes by Christian Louboutin for Buchra Jarrar

Photos by Kevin Tachman

Fashion Ilustration' | by Antonio Soares

Luis Buchinho SS'13 / Nuno Baltazar SS'13 / Nuno Baltazar SS'13

This powerwomen designed and ilustrated by Antonio Soares was inspired in the Portuguese runways.
Fearless and Powerfull. Two miserable words to describe this genious workmanship!
It's even speechless whatching this dresses walking straight the runway and then see them here... An amazing artistic work that expresses the spirit of a free and independent woman that lives and believes in Portuguese designs into her cosmopolitan life...

Esta mulher de poder desenhada e ilustrada por António Soares foi inspirada nas paseereles Portuguesas.
Ousada e Forte. Duas miseráveis palavras para descrever este trabalho de génio!
Fica-se sem palavras só de ver observar estes vestidos a percorrerem a passerele e depois os  pode ver aqui e assim... Um trabalho incrivel, que expressa o espirito de uma mulher livre e independente que vive e acredita no design Português inserido na sua vida cosmopolita...

Luis Buchinho SS'13 / Ricardo Dourado SS'13 / Felipe Oliveira Baptista'13

Alexandra Moura SS'13 / Alexandra Moura SS'13 / Miguel Vieira SS'13

I'm in love with how a Portuguese soul can actually do such an A-MA-ZING job with some of our best designers work...

I'm talking about Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Nuno Baltazar, Luis Buchinho, Ricardo Dourado or Alexandra Moura. Many of them with international success and bigger status at the runway, even adding shows to Paris Fashion Week schedule!

If you loved as much as I did this incredible talent, you can enjoy more of Antonio's work on his tumblr...

Congratulation, for the incredible work!

Amo o facto de como alguém português consegue mesmo concretizar este trabalho tão IN-CRÍ-VEL com alguns trabalhos dos nossos melhores designers...
Estou a falar de Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Nuno Baltazar, Luis Buchinho, Ricardo Dourado ou Alexandra Moura. Muitos deles com reconhecimento internacional e grande destaque em desfile, estando até inseridos no calendário da Paris Fashion Week!

Se amaram tanto como eu este talento incrivel, podem ver mais trabalhos do António no seu tumblr...
Parabéns, pelo incrível trabalho!

Filipe Faisca FW'13 / Felipe Oliveira Baptista FW'13 / Nuno Baltazar FW'13 / Luis Buchinho FW'13

Luis Buchinho SS'12 / Nuno Baltazar SS'12 / Ricardo Dourado SS'12 / Alexandra Moura SS'12

Images by Antonio Soares