MaryMe JimmyPaul Fashion Week Amsterdam FW2014

As fog appeared from the sides of the runway and plastic bags whirled all over it the first MaryMe Jimmy Paul a white and gold winter princess (Valentijn de Hingh) made her way onto it. She wore a structured, quilted golden dress, a white furry coat and sneakers. In each of her hands she carried a plastic bag filled with what looked like boiling nitrogen. The idea behind the smoke everywhere? E-cigarette brand Jiksu was the sponsor of the whole event. They made it possible for MaryMe Jimmy Paul to introduce their sporty, stiff sweaters and bring on their fluffy, fur skirts. Their colorful hooded coats, their full on printed and very colorful ensembles, their ripped leather pants and their short haired motor jackets. Not to mention the leather gloves, the black wigs and the sheer backpacks that completed the party. Who the two geniuses behind this all are, we will never really know. Like at their previous fashion show the label’s founders decided not to make an appearance or take a simple bow at the end of the show. Instead their PR ladies walked the runway and gladly took the big applause on their behalf.

David Laport Fashion Week Amsterdam FW2014

David Laport made his debut at the catwalk of FashionWeek Nederland with a strong, beautiful and fragile collection based on the different sides of flowers – from full bloom to withered. Colors were bright and sunny, with lots of white, organge and yellow. His signature pleats adding a young elegance and contemporary character to the clothes.

FashionWeek Amsterdam FW2914 Fashion LAB: Franzel & Duran Lantink

Eric Franzel, the designer of Franzel Amsterdam, took a current subject like the loss of our privacy due to activities on the internet and Edward Snowden as an inspiration for his FW2014 collection. The vibe was sportswear/streetwear based, with bomberjacks, tracksuits and nylon raincoats wit velcro-details as the heart of his collection. Big logo’s were attached to the (black, gray, khaki) nylon and jersey garments screaming Privacy, Sell, Google and SaFeSex.

The second designer that showed during this Vodafone FashionLab show was Duran Lantink. This time he took the audience to what seemed a Mongolian culture. Silhouettes were stiff and angular, with lots of white, silver and neon-green. Cropped tops, wide pants and layers made an intriguing collection.

Hermes Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

Christophe Lemaire took Hermès into the jungle for Spring. Lemaire’s big influence was Henri Rousseau, the Frenchman who painted jungles without ever having seen them. The pendulous flora of Rousseau’s work were duplicated in the print that opened the show, with boots to match. The artist’s dark jungle green colored tops, shifts, crocodile culottes, and a wrapped leather coat. It was, in fact, color that marched this collection on: mulberry, teal, sky blue, sunset orange.
The collection looked generic viagra price easy, with voluminous shirts over a suede skirt, a generously cut linen suit, a blanket-weave wrap skirt.

Miu Miu Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

For her Miu Miu collection Miucca Prada buy paxil online explored  the clichés and classics of the feminine and presented it as perverse. “Anything that is classic, a repeat in history, a genre of woman or clothes that always comes about,” said the designer to the fashion-press after her show. “Classics, classics of trash, classics of chic, classics of the good girl, classics of the bad girl.”

These classics ran from the children’s coat scaled for the grown woman to the bugle-beaded bustier of the showgirl.  Pretty and perverse happened simultaneously, with immaculate wool coats and thick vinyl skirts in off-pastel shades against vivid thick wool tights, the kind that children wear, and boiled sweet Mary Janes.

Louis Vuitton Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

After months of speculation about the status of Marc Jacobs’ contract at Louis Vuitton, the writing was on the wall. The staging of the show re-created many of the sets from his sixteen-year at the house: the elevators, the escalators, the carousel, the fountain, last season’s hotel corridors—they were all there only rendered this time in shades of black.
So it was good-bye on the runway. But despite the all-black clothes, it didn’t feel like a sad affair. Jacobs dedicated the collection to the many cheap viagra‎ women who’ve touched or influenced him during his time in Paris, including designer muses Coco Chanel, Rei Kawakubo, and Miuccia Prada. You saw bits and pieces of their work in this collection, in addition to callbacks to his own greatest hits. “To the showgirl in all of us,” was how he signed off his program notes.

Alexander McQueen Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

Visually the collection of Aklexander McQueen had a clear message of “a powerful woman”. The models looked like warriors in their leather harness bras and knife-pleated red-and-black, laser-cut kilts that evolved into discount diflucan incredible, fierce feathered gowns evoking African tribal garb. The silver and gold helmets were a modern streamlined take on gladiator headgear.Sarah Burton was not only thinking of gladiators, but also of ladies in the Twenties, and Mondrian and Picasso in the early 20th century.

Chanel Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

The set Lagerfeld built for the Chanel show mimicked an art-gallery opening whose white walls were dominated by paintings and sculptures inspired by the iconography of Chanel. An oversize quilted handbag was installed on a wall with its chain-link strap trailing down onto the floor. An impressionistic painting of a two-tone Chanel pump hung on one wall; and, a little farther down the way, there were paintings of camellias.
Among the multitude of characters and story lines fueling Lagerfeld’s runway show were: the starving artist, the artistic life, and art itself. Gray, square-collared dresses suggested the faded smocks of a romanticized artist living in a garret; paint-“splattered” dresses recalled the working artist; tidy suits made one think of the unabashed wealth of the art patron. And graffiti backpacks and offbeat styling – such as Technicolor eyeshadow — called to mind the arty gamine.
Lagerfeld made his clothes as diverse, and as thrilling to look at, as his ‘art’. cialis canada pharmacy The ideas came at a rapid-fire pace.There were some motifs to be extracted: two-paneled skirts with side zippers; wide-cut, paper-thin leather pants; shrunken sweaters worn as multiples, including as a neck scarf; shoes with attached ribbed socks, and endless surface revelry. This included painterly ombré grays, lavish tweeds (and embroideries masquerading as tweeds), plastic-painted lace, raffia braiding etc.

Saint Laurent Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

Hedi Slimane’s collection for Saint Laurent felt like an impeccably detailed capsule of a young rocker chick’s wardrobe: a little bit of Debbie Harry, a Chelsea girl and some punky elegance. Grunge is out, the eighties party-girl are in. cialis 10 mg There was even some YSL in Saint Laurent: the lip print, the trench or the army jacket, the smoking and see-through blouses or the one-shouldered evening wear.

 

Stella McCartney Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Womenswear SS2014

The Stella McCartney ss2014 collection is one of understated seduction. It came in two variations, both reliant on degrees of transparency. Dresses played satin on top against organza skirts, the halves tacked together at intervals, providing discreet glimpses of skin. One was a navy strapless, the other, a wide, white egg shape flamboyant in its simplicity. Then there were beautifully engineered lingerie dresses in combinations of lace and silks.
As for the tailoring, the designer reigned in the proportions of her signature slouchy looks, while keeping other silhouettes overtly sleek — short, trim jackets and slim trousers with zipper details — for a mood of refined cialis no percription raciness. Alongside this slouchy style she proposed a popover top and high-waisted, full-through-the-thigh pants in a dense knit that keyed into her sporty Adidas affiliations. In monochrome black or rosy nude, they’ll do the pulled-together work of a suit.

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