domingo, 28 de março de 2010

London Fall 2010



Burberry Prorsum by Christopher Bailey


Vast aviator collars.
Ample, fluffy and round jackets.

Updated sheepskin flying jackets, 
bristling with buckles and zips.

Jackets un-zippering at the waist.
Gold buttons galore on a naval epauletted reefer jacket.

 
Military jackets over little lacy dresses.


A cranberry palette for the ruched velvet evening dress.

The banana-shaped studded handbag in bubble gum pink.

 
Thigh-high boots in leather and snakeskin.


Basso & Brooke
The duo's signature 
a graphic maze of engineered prints.

Solids such as a collarless camel coat 
and a shawl-collared jacket in maroon gabardine.

Christopher Kane
 
Black leather shifts and sheaths 
embroidered with flowers. 

High-necked, cap-sleeved sheath dress.

Collared blouse

A dress paneled in patent leather 
studded with multicolored jewels. 
Erdem 

A yellow silk number with puffed sleeves 
patterned with autumn leaves.
An abstract print button-down shirt 
paired with a short patchwork skirt.  
Hakaan 

PEPLUM 
protrusions flaring from the hip 

House of Holland by Henry Holland

The slogan T-shirts   The jokey T-shirts 

  The knee-high socks topped with gold-chain prints.



Jonathan Saunders

 
Unstructured knee-length skirt 
printed with a pattern of irregular polkadots.


Julien Macdonald

A chunky Aran / popcorn sweater.

 
Louise Goldin

3-D sculpted skirts over sparkling cuffed shorts. 


Marios Schwab

The corset-laced bodice.
Bodices crisscrossed with lacing.
 

  Mary Katrantzou
          Frothy frill-front shirt.       
A skirt edged with an antique lace frill.


Matthew Williamson

A tweed short jacket over a matching dress, 
with ruffles going diagonally up the front.

This jacket looked like two, one on top of the other, 
but was a trompe l’oeil effect.

 Signature feminine, jewel-colored draped dress


 
Paul Smith Women

The riding / hacking jacket.
A metallic tailcoat with the plus fours / knickers.


Peter Pilotto & Christopher De Vos

Clashing extremes between leather and Harris tweed.

Fitted dresses featured a collage-effect of prints,
based on an enlarged Liberty paisley and hexagonals.


Pringle of Scotland  by Clare Waight Keller

Huge, slouchy pants with deep, standout pockets.
Uneven argyle knit.
Fur gloves.

Roksanda Ilincic

Draped dresses, with a couture attitude 
and a hint of 1940s Hollywood.

Vivienne Westwood Red Label

Pink tartan kilts.
Tailored plaids.

A blanket cape.
A micro-mini suit.
in the designer's beloved tartan. 

  A heart-shaped tartan sash.
A heart-shaped lapel trimmed in pink.

sábado, 27 de março de 2010

Red Carpet Fashion 2010

Marchesa Fall 2010 
 The lace-patterned beading on the bodice
turned into allover beading and looked like liquid metal. 



Kathryn Bigelow in a titanium silk satin gown 
with embroidered bodice by YSL.

Alexander McQueen
 cowl neck gown & V-shaped waistband
 

Couture Spring 2010  
 Iridescent icy-pink, sci-fi gown, 
from Armani’s collection inspired by the moon.

Chanel Couture Spring 2010 
A halter dress suspended from a molten metal choker.


 Givenchy Couture Spring 2010 
A frothy-hemmed gown,
shadow-dyed, from palest lilac down to deep violet.


Mo'Nique, draped in cobalt-blue Tadashi Shoji.

Atelier Versace Spring 2009
Dramatic ruffles cascading down the skirt.
 
Penélope Cruz in a slightly flamenco
Donna Karan burgundy gown.

Vera Farmiga in a strapless fuchsia Marchesa,
with sculpted pleated cascade of ruffles.

Carey Mulligan, in a strapless black satin Prada,
its bodice encrusted with chunks of black Swarovski crystal.

Kristen Stewart, in a midnight blue 
strapless Monique Lhuillier gown.

sexta-feira, 19 de março de 2010

Pedro Lourenço Paris Fall 2010

 

The remarkable level of technical accomplishment
in the color-blocked collection.



Paneled leather dresses had high necks, long sleeves,
and rows of stiff horizontal plastic slats and buttons.


The same plastics—this time cut into triangles
and vertically lodged, finlike,around the skirt of a dress.


A well-cut, tan leather coat
completely encased in a “cage” of gilt chains.


A rounded-shoulder style, in black velvet
was stamped with leather.


Leather dresses featuring peekaboo
paneling in flesh-colored tulle.


 
Pumps and knee-high boots with stiff fins sticking out of them,
and heels in primary colors.