One more time Alexander McQueen
February 11, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, London, People
No more dark, romantic fairytales.
No more beautiful tailored clothes.
No more amazing runway productions.
No more fighting for invitations.
No more stunning strong women on ultra high heels.
No more imagination without limits.
Alexander McQueen (1969-2010)
Milan Catwalk Fashion Show fw2010: Alexander McQueen
January 19, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Menswear, Milan
The Alexander McQueen-collection for fall 2010 was an entirely printed collection—of suits, leather coats, ski masks, even shoes. Some of the prints were on the dark side (like a pile of human skulls and bones), some simply puzzling (smeared paint, fur, knits, drops of rain). The silhouet was pretty stiff and straight, with ski-like trousers, shorter jackets and 3/4 coats sometimes half patent/half wool.
Catwalktrends ss2010: showstopping shoes
January 14, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under accessories, Fashion, Milan, New York, Paris, womenswear
The designers gave the models a hard time walking the runway to show the spring/summer collections. The shoes they had to wear often had eye-catching shapes and heights.
The shoes in the Jil Sander show had iron pins for heels. Donatella Versace used platform shoes. John Galliano’s shoes were extremely high and his stiletto heels seemed to be made of colored pearls. Chanel introduced a few clogs.
Some models in the Dsquared show had spikes all over their shoes. Viktor & Rolf embellished theirs with pink flowers, Vivienne Westwood decorated hers with wings. Matthew Williamson’s shoes had bows.
Next to the ultra high shoes we saw ultra-flat sandals (Issey Miyake, Anna Sui, Valentino, Lacoste, Etro, Armani, Chloe). Those sandals, snake leather and wearing socks in open shoes seem to become the trends for this spring.
Of course the Alexander McQueen shoes were real showstoppers. His shoes were high, had crazy alienated shapes and had reptile prints all over them. Gaga oehlala…
Backstage atmosphere ss2010
November 19, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Backstage, Featured Items, Paris
We will have our backstage-material online soon. It’s always a pleasure to flip through those images, because the give a totally different view of the collections, models and sometimes designers. We’ll be back with more asap!
Trends ss2010: step by step
For some models walking the runway was a tough job in the past fashion weeks. Of course the shoes were to blame. Not only were they high as ever, they also had the craziest shapes. They seemd somewhat inspired by clogs and that made them look rather clumsy. The most outstanding examples of this ‘clog-shoe’ were those of Alexander McQueen. He showed some great fashion forward ones, which were no less than twelve inches high. With reptile prints they looked futuristic and animalistic at the same time. Passing by to the beat of Lady Gaga’s new song they indeed looked rather Gaga to us. Yet they might become a huge hit. At least McQueen wasn’t the only designer with clog-shoes in his show. Celine, Dior, DSquared, Givenchy, Bottega Veneta and Ferré showed some clog-variations as well. And not to forget Louis Vuitton and Chanel. Their Swedish clog-like shoes will probably become the most copied of all next spring. (Tess van Daelen)
Paris Fashion Week ss2010 Impressions #27
October 7, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Paris, womenswear
Paris Fashion Week ss2010 Impressions #26
October 7, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Paris, womenswear
Alexander McQueen Catwalk Fashion Show ss2010
October 7, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Paris, womenswear
It was an extra-ordinairy Alexander McQueenshow, streamed live onto the Internet. Nick Knight was the director of this presenation – called Plato’s Atlantis – and did a great job. The staging was impressive: two cameras mounted on rolling cranes in the middle of a sparkling white, bio-lab runway. On a screen in the backround, the models were projected, with the cranes being part of the image. It looked like another planet.
Inspiriation for this dazzling collection came from Darwin, the natural world, underwater aliens and technology. In a pressrelease the designer explained he was casting an apocalyptic forecast of the future ecological meltdwon of the world. We may be heading back to an underwater future as the ice cap dissolves. McQueens fantasy goes beyond borders . The dresses were molded and shaped, had engineered (reptile)prints and jacquards and came in breathtaking whorls of colors (greens, browns, aqua and blue). The platform-shoes were alienating. In a section in which it looked as if McQueen was envisaging a biological hybridization of women with sea mammals, there were trousers whose bulbous flanks mimicked the skin of sharks or dolphins. Some dresses and tops looked like large bubbles of water.
The way McQueen is embracing new computer technologies and the drama of the moving image puts him at the leading edge of change.
