An ode to summer contaminated by cosmopolitan notes. Joie de vivre and creative freedom as the quintessence of an eclectic style. A kaleidoscope of intertwined colors features prints and embroideries underlining a light and fresh moving silhouette.
Large and sinuous volumes outline cotton blouses and crop tops that reveal shoulders with ruches, maxi ounces and asymmetric necklines, while paired with oversize skirts and trousers. Airy fabrics convey the elegance of uidity with pleats that create dramatic shapes throughout the body.
Thread embroideries portraying owers, leaves and botanical patterns create decorative effects on tulle weaves, broderie anglaise and lace with sporty accents on blazer jackets and high-tech fabric overcoats. The distinctive ora of Mediterranean islands gives life to pictorial suggestions on chiffon all-over prints and optical plays alongside stripes.
Light cotton knitwear is decorated by ounces, stripes and multicolor jacquard patterns with ethno-chic beads. Dégradé roses and thread embroidered white and red buds constellate dramatic organza, habotai and silk chiffon dresses.
Striped fabric tote bags, felt hats and leather sandals featuring raf a and nappa fringes – a recurrent style pattern also seen in stone necklaces – define a personal attitude that enhances the codes of the summer season.
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Tags: BLUGIRL, BLUGIRL SS 2017, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2017
Thu, September 22 2016 » Fashion Blog
Watch the N°21 Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Show in Live Streaming – Milan 21th September 2016 5.30 PM. Stay Tuned…!!!
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Wed, September 21 2016 » Fashion Blog
Watch the Alberta Ferretti Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Show in Live Streaming – Milan 21th September 2016 4.30 PM. Stay Tuned…!!!
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Wed, September 21 2016 » Fashion Blog
Watch the Blugirl Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Show in Live Streaming – Milan 21th September 2016 10.30 AM. Stay Tuned…!!!
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Wed, September 21 2016 » Fashion Blog
Tue, September 20 2016 » Fashion Blog
In 1642, during troubled times in an unstable England, a fleet of twelve ships set sail for The Netherlands to deliver Princess Mary to her husband William of Orange. It was the eve of the English Civil War. On one of the boats was Jean Kerr, Duchess of Roxburgh and lady—in—waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of King Charles I of England. Kerr had a covert mission to sell England’s crown jewels in order to raise money for the Royalist cause. Her boat sank off the Dutch coast before she could complete her mission.
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300 years later we find Erdem’s woman at the moment she lands on the shores of 1930s Deauville in northern France. She is part of an army of women that has landed here with the sense of a mission. There is an urgency and a tension in her promenade across the boardwalk at Les Planches. She has survived and been revived, with a fragile but determined spirit of strength: her mission today is a different kind of liberation.
Her wardrobe hints at her belonging to another time in history, with cuts, materials, colours and motifs that remember 1650s England. They have been tempered with the louche, flowing freedom of 1930s Deauville fashions. The juxtaposition of formality and informality is striking. She is almost dishevelled, but powerful still. Elements of 1650s English fashion become something different in 1930s Deauville: undergarments become sundresses, bustier cuts feel like bikinis, distressed tweeds, brocades and fill coupé necklines, with ripped organza details sewn—in, feel regal with a hint of impropriety.
Across the collection there is delicacy and tension of structure unravelling. Her clothes swing from floating shipwrecked dresses in tulle and chiffon, to weightier more structured outfits cut to fall from her shoulders. Effervescent chiffon dresses, made up of strips that unravel as they reach the ground, feel ethereal alongside frothy printed voile shirt—dresses with spiralling, asymmetric hems. Bolder red, blue and yellow lace tulle dresses appear like military banners from forgotten times. Ottoman with distorted effects, patchwork dresses, mille—feuille ruffles and frayed tweeds add layers of deconstructed texture.
Cropped army jackets and taffeta jacquard dresses with hand—embroidered motifs are a subtle suggestion of her bygone role. Crowns, bows, and cross insignia appear across the embroideries, together with the Roman numeral XII, in reference to the twelve ships that set out to sea. She is wearingjewels that might have been rescued or stolen, heavy mismatched earrings and hat pins that become brooches. Haunting hand—moulded black panama sunhats, with irregular pie crust edges, shield her identity as much as the sun.
The shoes she wears to stalk the boardwalk are a combination of 16505 shapes with a modern edge, in silk jacquard, snakeskin and suede. Platforms from the 17th Century and historic court slippers feel oddly contemporary. She has landed at a time when war is once again on the horizon. The days of high summer here are tinged with tension, but for now she has survived and she feels courageous, whatever tomorrow may hold.
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Tags: ERDEM, ERDEM SS 2017, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2017
Tue, September 20 2016 » Fashion Blog
TOPSHOP Unique’s girl continues her art school mix from last season, taking inspiration from daring visual artist Linder Sterling and the heyday of London’s fashion markets in the eighties. A time when individualism roared through the city to the soundtrack of punk and New Wave at the iconic venues Camden Palace and Blitz. From the black hole of the recessionary seventies, an age of rocketing unemployment burst a passionately tribal youth culture that was to create an era of hedonistic good times and a flair for exhibitionism. Think clubbing not reserved for Saturday night – the club was a scene, with individual style and way of life. Anybody could be a somebody.
The refined presence of the demure 1950s takes prominence with rounded shapes; seductive off-the-shoulder silhouettes and fuchsia cocoon coats, offset with edgy lingerie references that dance between ladylike underpinnings and Camden Ballroom anarchy in the eighties. Black sheer gauze separates provoke with strategically placed floral embroideries, and delicate bra-tops sit with high-waisted cigarette trousers. The palette bounces from couture-pretty dandelions and primrose, to hardcore scarlets and hothouse fuchsia. All grounded by hearty salt and pepper tweed – playing to the tomboyish sensibility and a love of heritage, all united by his insouciant Brit girl.
The grandeur of bygone clothes, that could have been discovered on a lucky vintage trawl, take subversive new meaning with the cool girls’ armoury – oversized western and utility shirts and boilers suits tied low over the hips. By evening, a feminist and proud take on the LBD arrests. Body-con and spliced to the thigh, or in ballerina length tulle, dresses are banded by slick bondage tape. She can’t be censored, even on the red carpet. The gloss patent accents are nothing short of ‘atomic’.
Music inspires this stylish magpie; vinyl or Spotify, New Wave black vinyl pencil skirts and arrestingly bright punky knits prevail. Decked in a bouquet of surrealist flowers, this English rose is never precious – by day her roses are silk prints, but as night falls appliqué and exquisite flowers bring seductive glamour.
The thrill of the new has never come so fast, spirited and cool.
Key pieces will be available to purchase online immediately and at the Unique pop-up shop in the TOPSHOP Showspace.
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Tue, September 20 2016 » Fashion Blog
The origins of the new men’s and women’s collections, which were shown together for the first time, are found in the spirit of Nancy Lancaster’s interior and garden designs and Virginia Woolf’s novel ‘Orlando’.
Inspired by a reflection on the way a house changes its character over the centuries driven by the people, clothes and cultures that inhabit it, the collection combines noble and authentic fabrics, blending denim and sweatshirting with cashmere and pyjama silks. It blurs masculine and feminine, casual and formal, night and day, all mixed together to create a new reality born of all the moments that have gone before.
Highlights from the collection include deconstructed trench coats, regimental capes, coats and jackets (including The Cavalry Jacket, The Military Tailcoat and The Parade Jacket), waisted field jackets (including The Floral Field Jacket), pea coats, pyjama-style trousers, shirts and shorts, and ruffle-neck shirts. Also previewed today was The Bridle Bag, a new runway design for men and women, which takes its inspiration from classic British equestrian designs and Burberry’s outdoor heritage.
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Tue, September 20 2016 » Fashion Blog
A new manifesto for Versus Versace – real attitude and a real wardrobe for a fresh generation. The tough authenticity of leather jackets is contrasted with the fresh femininity of pleat miniskirts, while a leather mini has its belt left provocatively loose.
Cutaway dresses expose the shoulder and stomach with daring sexuality, heightened by its silver zip that runs defiantly down the back. Zip-up bombers are cropped, some with exaggerated collar, or oversized and belted, worn almost like a dress.
Parachutes nylon coats with panels of scuba have fluidity and a utilitarian toughness, especially worn with a wide belt at the chest and scuba pants. Iconic metal mesh has been reborn, bonded over the hips of sporty scuba dresses, then shredded and destroyed for an uncompromising new mood.
Metal mesh is used in innovative new ways, such as the metal mesh base of a double-layer tank, its nylon layer decorated with laminated metal mesh. A brand new Versus print is collaged from hand-drawn takes on animal prints, the vertical stripes intercut with random flashes of vivid color.
Knits are essential: in jacquards of the new Versus print; as sleek takes on army ribbed sweaters, or with a layer of metal mesh to show through fringing.
Night-time is about destroyed denim in slouchy boyfriend cuts, lined with metal or crystal mesh to show through the rips and tears. Minimalist heels are held at the ankle by a broad leather strap like a belt, the same detail that toughens up a leather box handbag.
Menswear mirrors and expands on women’s, especially the leather jackets, bombers and utilitarian silhouettes, and the use of bonded metal mesh. Watches add extra energy, like the Fire Island with its strap decorated with 3D lion heads and studs, or the urban spirit of the Tokyo Rubber.
“This is about everything real. It’s about how the Versus Versace generation live their lives, and the wardrobe that gives them power.” Donatella Versace
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Tags: SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2017, VERSUS VERSACE, VERSUS VERSACE SS 2017
Tue, September 20 2016 » Fashion Blog
A modernist interpretation of early 20th century Russian court dress, Spring/Summer 2017 marks David Koma’s first far-reaching foray into period costume. Through his typical 1960s lens, the designer – who was raised in Saint Petersburg not far from the Winter Palace – explores the grace and grandeur of the Romanov family, from the dramatic glamour of the tsarinas’ wardrobes to the graphic opulence of the imperial family’s beloved Fabergé eggs.
Uniform elements set a regal tone for the collection in hussar rope braid and loop closures, which appear throughout, evoking the image of women in military-inspired garments. The volume of the royal dress code of the time is introduced in capacious gigot sleeves, sliced across the shoulders to reveal the décolletage and applied to David Koma’s distinct strict structuring in dresses and tailoring.
Garments take on a princely air, such as a top sculpted like a tailed waistcoat. Majesty and modernism are further fused in the collection’s vast embellishment, which imitates the delicate ornamentation of Fabergé eggs. Intricate diamond patterns in crystal cover the surface of fabrics and fade into cut-outs at the hem.
Elaborate embroidery of white ceramic and neon stones bejewel garments like they were armour, while the Romanov’s signature sumptuousness meets futurism in Plexiglass and chain macramé constructions. In a final royal synthesis, court dress meets contemporary sportswear in shocks of acid green amongst black, white, and beige.
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Tags: DAVID KOMA, DAVID KOMA SS 2017, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2017
Tue, September 20 2016 » Fashion Blog
