Balenciaga Catwalk Fashion Show Paris ss2012
September 29, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Paris, womenswear
It must be so embarrassing when you invite the creme de la creme of the fashionworld at your show and the benches you arranged crash while they are seated. It happened at Balenciaga this morning. And for the first time even that fashion-elite had to stand during the show.Luckily for Balenciaga and designer Nicolas Ghesquiere the clothes mad the audience forget they were feel uncomfortable. The collection was about volume and structure. Oversize was Ghesquiere next big theme this season, trying to discover how body and ultra light fabric work together.
There were high-shine, round-shouldered jackets light as air, which came in graphic color plays over wide but otherwise tiny shorts. The dresses were impressive , whether in ottoman knits in simple T-shirt shapes or complicated fabric collages.
Gareth Pugh Catwalk Fashion Show Paris ss2012
September 29, 2011 by Jetty
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Again a film opened the show of Gareth Pugh in Paris. Ruth Hogben made a short movie with a naked Chrystal Renn, who appeared to be bound and completely ferocious. It set an angry tone for the collection. The first part of the show the clothes looked like cages, coats made of stiff horizontal strips. Was this about protection or defense? The cages were followed by tight dresses and cropped vests in black and white.
At the end the film screen burst into purple flames, and dark warriors appeared in shiny molded coats and matching helmets.
Streetfashion Paris Womenswear ss2012 Day 1
September 29, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, models, Paris, People, Streetwear, womenswear
What are you wearing during this fashionweek? Your Gucci-shoes, your latest Celine-dress or that vintage Givenchy? 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: Paris Fashion Week.
Dries van Noten Catwalk Fashion Show Paris ss2012
September 28, 2011 by Jetty
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The collection Dries van Noten sent out this afternoon was build around various themes. One seemed old couture, regarding the tailored trousers, peplum pleats and drop-waisted dresses & tunics with a frilled bottom. The strongest however were the photoprints of city’s by night, nature, leaves, trees and flowers, it looked as if the designer copy-pasted parts of images into one print. It gave a contemporary character to classics like mens shirts, dresses and skirts. It also added some color now and then, green, pastelshades, blue and green. White, black and sepia were also favorites.
Other key-elements were broderie anglaise and lace, used for skirts and short jackets.
Au revoir Paris
March 9, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Paris, Streetwear, womenswear
We say goodbye to a wonderful fashionseason full with new ideas. We also say goodbye to all those beautiful fashionlovers who dressed themselves up everyday to please us, you and of course because they enjoy it!
We leave Paris with some good memories. And here’s some atmosphere we want to share with you. We’ll take a short break to catch up some sleep 😉 And we’ll be back to you soon!
Miu Miu Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2011
March 9, 2011 by Jetty
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The Miu Miu show was about Modern Glamour according to Miucca Prada. The glamour of discreet dresses, with wide shoulders, sometimes bulked up with fur and decorated with glittering flora and fauna. The sparkle was matched by glittering shoes.
Louis Vuitton Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2011
March 9, 2011 by Jetty
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Well, that was quite a show at Louis Vuitton this morning. Marc Jacobs was in the mood for some strong mistresses. The inspiration seem to come from the movie Night Porter. But according to Marc Jacobs explanation the inspiration came form the obsession people have for Loui Vuitton-bags etc. “The definition is an unreasonable obsession with objects or things. Which is sometimes Vuitton bags” he told WWD.
So it was extravagance to the max, with an 18-karat gold handbag cuffed to a girl’s wrist. There was a retro, hotel-inspired elevator bank that rose from the floor below and were the models started out. Almost everyone carried bags, not all in gold, but in python, harlequin-cut shearling, embroidered monogram rubber.
Python came lacquered; fake fur, waxed; guipure lace, made to look like plastic. There was lots of see through, and also rubberized, plasticized and waxed fabrics with police-hats, silk-stockings, jodhpurs. But also more wearable clothes like tweed coats and jackets taken from men’s classics which were reshaped into hourglasses and sleek sweaters.
Streetfashion Paris FW2011 Day 7
March 9, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Paris, Streetwear, womenswear
What are you wearing during the coming fashionweeks? Your Prada-shoes, your latest Jil Sander-dress or that vintage Yves St. Laurent? 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: Paris Fashion Week.
Alexander McQueen Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2011
March 8, 2011 by Jetty
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The Alexander McQueen-collection was an ode to The Ice Queen and her Court. Sarah Burton – who’s talent and character keeps the McQueen-house alive and kicking – gave her heroines a colorless faces and small, metal-covered heads. She build the collection slowly, using white, black and lilac and a very McQueen silhouette. It was molded, strong, and sometimes fitted like a harness. To avoid a too tough and edgy impression Burton tempered it wit hand-made silk and wool tweeds with litlle pieces of mink and fox.
Other beautiful fabrics were checked and studded velvets and organza, and really stunning were two dresses with body’s made entirely from mosaics of broken bone china plates. The evening gowns were just breathtaking.
Valentino Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2011
March 8, 2011 by Jetty
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The new Valentino is not red anymore, but a variation on nudes and blushes, a fitted dress with flared skirt and long sleeves, sometimes short, sometimes longer.
The fall-collection looked pretty and ladylike, wearable, cleaner and also sportier. There was a Sixties cut in the dresses, jackets and swingy skirts but more casual. Designers Chiuri and Piccioli introduced also deeper colors, like navy and oxblood on fur coats and leather trench-coats. The sheer silk tops, pleated skirts and long, slim evening-gowns were done in lighter colors and fabrics.
