Menswear Trend Report SS2011: Printed (All Over)
While men are mostly careful when it comes to wearing prints, there’s no reason for them to hold back anymore. The all over printed look was a huge theme on the runway and the great thing about it: you can do no wrong.
Wanna go for a all over skull print? Commes des Garcons says that’s cool! Feeling more like some bright graphic print? According to Cavalli it’s pretty hot. And if leopard (Givenchy), army (Emporio Armani), ethnic (Etro), black & white (Versace) or 3D (Jean Paul Gaultier) is more your thing, go for it!
There are no rules and no limits. Even mixing different prints together in one look is perfectly fine. But if a checked blazer (Dries van Noten) is funky enough for you than that’s alright too.
Menswear Trend Report SS2011: Striking Stripes
June 27, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Menswear
Stripes are always popular in menswear and especially this season they were hard to miss. Many fashion houses sported stripes on the runway and not all in a navy (Iceberg, Junya Watanabe) kind of way.
Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Gianfranco Ferre and Galliano showed very diverse, multicolored stripy items. Whether faded, bright, horizontal or vertical; with some stripes in your outfit, you’ll sure make a striking appearance.
Check out our gallery for some inspiration.
Roberto Cavalli Catwalk Fashion Show Milan SS2012
June 18, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Menswear, Milan
It was the first time Roberto Cavalli’s son Daniele Cavalli had some influence on the menswear-collection. His father asked him to add some youthful juice to the line. He presented an almost clean collection, where blue-tones and white played a central role plus some bold colors. The show was a romantic take on Riviera summers with influences from all over the world. Instead of playboys in flirty clothes came men dressed smart casual in natty blazers, suits in vivid fuchsia, yellow or purple/blue, and jackets with inserts of python.It seemed the young designer wanted to do a very good job, not too cool and hip.
And somehow it worked out fine, to be honest: it was better than all the rock ‘ roll, Jim Morrison meets Mick Jagger inspired Cavalli-collections we’ve seen in the past seasons. Although it lacked a bit of irony.
Beauty Trend SS2011: All Wet
June 17, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under beauty, Fashion, Featured Items, womenswear
The times in which beach hair was cool, seem to be over. Your hair needs to be soaking wet. If you wanna follow this latest trend, that is.
Make it look short and sleek like the models’ hair at Gucci, Caroline Herrera and Kenzo. Or opt for messy like Rag & Bone and Bottega Veneta.
Throw some paint in your hair like Alexander Wang did with his girls or create the perfect (wet) bun. Whatever you do; put a lot of product in your hair to make it look Wowing-Wet!
Fashionclash: Graduationshow ABKM 2011
June 13, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Graduationshows
During the Fashionclash-event in Maastricht the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht (ABKM) also presents her graduation-show. This year, nine students presented their final collection. A few of them really stood out, like Janny Kloszynski, Anne-Katrin Bannier, Anna Liesnik and Eva Bellengé. Hopefully we will meet some of them again in the future.
Fashionclash Maastricht Exhibition
June 12, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Fashion, Featured Items, Presentations
The third edition of Fashionclash Maastricht is a fact. This year the event presents more than 100 emerging talents from 11 countries. It’s three days of fashion in the broadest sense of the word. Presented in the raw industrial surroundings of the old Mosa factory, the first Dutch porcelain factory known for working with talented designers.
Fashionclash creates a clash with fashion, a cultural and creative encounter of designers, disciplines and culture around the overarching theme – fashion. It’s also a unique platform for young and talented designers.They not only show their collections, there are also designers and photographers who present their work in an exhibition.
Fashionclas Maastricht 2011 Fashionprocession
June 10, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, Presentations, Snapshots
Fashionclash Maastricht 2011 was officially opened last night with a fashion procession. Fashion meets religious icons and objects which made an interesting mix.
Graduation Shows 2011 – ArtEZ Arnhem
June 10, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Arnhem, Fashion, Featured Items, Graduationshows
On thursday night, right after Topshop was opened in Amsterdam, Arnhem became the fashion hotspot again. There the fashion crowd (and many moms, dads, brothers, sisters and friends) gathered for the graduation show (one of a total of 5 shows!!) of 22 ArtEZ students. In a warm, sold out and fully packed show area, which is part of the Arnhem Mode Biënnale, we witnessed one and a half hour of some great ArtEZ fashion.
The collections of all 22 students couldn’t be more diverse. From childrenswear (Cleome Clements) to minimalistic (Sanne Schepers)- and survival (Jarwo Gibson) wear, from skinhead styles (Tom Nijhuis) to asymmetric items (AnneMarie Keizers) and from on trend fashion (Zonia van Uden) to over the top, structured designs (Annie Bosman); a perfect mix of signatures and styles.
ArtEZ seemed especially proud of talents like Linda de Jong, Anne Bosman (structured menswear), Mattia Akkermans (bright designs, crazy styling), Magnus Dekker (a collection made out of flags) and Sanne Schepers.
Linda de Jong presented some extraordinary selfmade fabrics. She showed a lot of knitwear and even used plastic in some of her Chanel-inspired designs.
Another great collection was made by Sanna Schepers. Sanne showed skirts and tops, which were scecretly attached to each other. Her designs looked simple, but in fact were made out of some difficult constructions.
A graduation student who really stood out too is William Tan. His designs (he showed so many looks) were perfectly tailored and his prints were stunning.
All these students proved they have a clear vision of their own style and potential. They also know how to turn 6 or 7 looks into a collection, which not everyone can.
ArtEZ received a Grand Seigneur this month; a corpus award for people/companies in the fashion industry and judging from some of the great collections we saw this award was well deserved.
Check out the gallery below.
Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011: Dutch Design
June 4, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Arnhem, Events, Fashion, Featured Items
During the Arnhem Mode Biënnale Dutch Design is well represented. You can, for instance, take a look at some of the designs Klavers van Engelen and Iris van Herpen made.
A design made by Iris van Herpen is placed within the exposition as a fountain. The design (A/W 2011) already told a great story on water and now this story is visualized even better.
Klavers van Engelen showed their airy designs, brought to live by small windmills, making the dresses dance with the wind. Their question: “Wanna Dance Amber?”
Arnhem Mode Biennale: on the street
June 3, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Arnhem, Events, Featured Items, People, Streetwear
Team Peter Stigter went on the streets of Arnhem to teach thirteen photographers the tricks of good streetfashion photography. After a short lecture at cafe Dudok in Arnhem they left with one of our photographers to catch some fashionable and interesting dressed people. It wasn’t easy – Dutch like their casual style – but the result was promising.
