Streetfashion Milan Womenswear FW2012 Day 1
February 23, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Milan, Streetwear, womenswear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Miu Miu-shoes, your latest Jil Sander-jacket or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: Milan Fashion Week.
Gucci Catwalk Fashion Show Milan FW2012
February 22, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Milan, womenswear
In a palette of purple, navy, forest green, dark brown and black Frida Giannini presented a dark, romantic Gucci collection. She called it modern day romanticism, wit a touch of military, dandy and elegance. There were flat heeled riding boots, wide cut, cropped jackets with gold buttons and softly belted velvet smoking jackets. There was more velvet in the appliqué flowers on translucent chiffon and lace blouses. Skirts had a split in the back, riding trousers flounced wide over each thigh and the full lengtht column dresses were shiny and glittering. Giannini focused on day clothes worn in texturally intense layerings. It sometimes reminded of good old Yves St. Laurent.
The evening-gowns were spectacular, and aimed at the coming next Oscar red-carpet moment.
Good Bye London!
February 21, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, London, Snapshots, Team, womenswear
It was just a short visit to London. And it all went too fast! The fashion-circus is moving today to Milan, where tomorrow Gucci will kick of a new series of fashionshows. We’ll keep you posted.
Streetfashion London Womenswear FW2012 Day 3
February 21, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, London, People, Streetwear, womenswear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Miu Miu-shoes, your latest Jil Sander-jacket or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: London Fashion Week.
Streetfashion London Womenswear FW2012 Day 2
February 20, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, London, People, Streetwear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Miu Miu-shoes, your latest Jil Sander-jacket or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: London Fashion Week.
Streetfashion London Womenswear FW2012 Day 1
February 19, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, London, People, Streetwear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Miu Miu-shoes, your latest Jil Sander-jacket or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: London Fashion Week.
Round Up New York Womenswear FW2012
February 19, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, New York, Stijlspot, Stylespot, Trends, womenswear
This was an interesting week in New York. This season seemed one big exercise. Testing shapes, volumes and proportions. Trying textures, various embellishments, prints and crafts from different origins and inspirations. Probing periods, from 20s, 30s, 70s to 80s. And the fun factor is that it is hard to guess what comes from whom. It seems ideas are exchanged, copied, re-edited and re-interpreted. Identities mixed, profiles and signatures blurred. Scatter collection snapshots and guess its origins. It will be a wild guess this time!
We spot a feel for the extreme and ECCENTRIC, iconic and humorous as Marc Jacobs showed it, reflecting on grand fashion divas. Altazurra and Libertine are two among others staging artful embellishment and intricate crafts.
Ports 1961 hit on a SCULTPURAL trend, showing a peplum silhouette, one of the favorites this season. But there is more; masterfully executed by the grand master of simplicity Calvin Klein but also Philip Lim, Peter Som and Alexander Wang showed bold rounded silhouettes.
OVERSIZED is an understatement when talking about the Proenza Schouler collection. Also both Donna Karan and Y3 super sized items within their range. Y3 is one of the few collections faithful to sportswear as we were so used to in The Big Apple.
NY was DRESSED UP this season, Donna Karan hat topped ladies dressed reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich. Victoria Beckham shows shapely contouring shifts and Diane von Furstenberg sensual draping.
Friendly and relaxed were the global travellers; modern NOMADS in multi cultural referenced cuddly warps and layers. Rag & Bone, showed city nomads, Y3 global hybrids and Proenza Schouler went east.
This fashion mash-up makes us curious about what comes next!
Stylespot is a collaboration with Stijlinstituut Amsterdam
First View New York FW2012: Sculptural
February 19, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, New York, Stijlspot, Stylespot, womenswear
Here we sure have a silhouet statement for the season. Sculptural minimalism in dense wool. Luxurious layers of wool, double face or bonded materials, cut, folded and wrapped. New volumes curved and cut away from the body. Rounded shoulders, peplum jackets with wrap, pleat or belted waists.
A novel boldness that shows precision in tailoring, luxurious fabrics and a love for architectonic constructions. Peter Som shows felt type wrap coats with linebacker shoulders, Thom Browne gloomy, monolithic sculptures with some intricate tailored details, Narcissi Rodriguez goes crisp and neat avoiding unnecessary details and concentrating on the perfect cut, where Ports 1961, shows a strong bold silhouette in interesting textured materials.
Stylespot is a collaboration with Stijlinstituut Amsterdam
First View New York FW2012: Oversized
February 18, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, New York, Stijlspot, Stylespot, Trends, womenswear
Contours are moving away from the body. Silhouettes rely heavily on the look of seventies American Sportswear. Belted trenches, wide-legged jersey trousers and midi-length dresses. Wide shouldered blouses and bold masculine dress coats with long lapels. Technical parkas and super size rounded sweaters. We recognize David Bowie reflections in broad padded shoulders and zipper closures in almost any garment. Pants are huge and chimney legged and skirts are full, flared, pleated or slitted.
Proenza Schouler translates this look into iconic statements: boyfriends’ jackets in massive volumes, which make the women inside ever so tiny, skinny and lovely. Donna Karan alternates her dressed-up Marlène looks with wide sports coats, Marc by Marc Jacobs shows flared full skirts where Philip Lim translates masculine parameters into sensual feminine sportswear.
Stylespot is a collaboration with Stijlinstituut Amsterdam
Ralph Lauren Catwalk Fashion Show New York FW2012
February 17, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, New York, womenswear
Who could work out a theme like the popular tv-show Downtown Abbey better than Ralph Lauren? The man who secretly seemt to be an Englishman living the countrylife.
The show opened with casually elegant men’s wear looks all in mixes of tweeds, plaids and checks. In a season where fabric-mixes play an important role his combinations felt natural. The styling was very Downtown Abbey, but the pieces were versatile. A leather motorcycle jacket felt as right in the mix as a spencer. Coats came in various forms, from herringbones and plaids to ocelot-printed shearling.
The rest of the show was all about the timeless elegance of black and gold.
