Sharp clean line, and bold houndstooth are some of the big lines of Giuliano Fujiwara’s woman for Spring 2012. Great city appropriate separates with a little mod feel that looks very good. Enjoy!
The Kanye West invites to his very first runway show have gone public. October 1st is date of the big event. Folks are guessing that the collection, called Dw, is named for his dear momma, Donda West. Can’t help but wonder why he chose Paris Fashion Week to debut his line. Months ago I would have guessed London would be the spot, as he has expressed an affinity for that city in his music.
Was it convenience, timing? Then again, Paris has an established history of providing a place of refuge to black American artists. Perhaps because of this West concluded it would be less of an inferno from a press-hype perspective. Whatever the reason, I’m excited and I will not lie–I’m rooting for a show that’s as controversial, amazing and awesome as West is. Can’t wait!
Here is the official video from the Mugler runway show, held during Paris Fashion Week a couple days back. It includes the Lady Gaga video that kicked off the show, plus some runway looks. According to press:
“The collection is about emotion and memory and something forming and abstract rather than complete…We concentrated on the idea of the silhouettes.” said Formichetti of the pieces. Seen in the garments were classic tailoring techniques spliced together or cut-away giving the garments a more abstract quality. The pieces looked like “second skin” some pieces were accented by Swarovski crystals.
The fashion itself showed really great progression from Nicola Formichetti’s first collection for the label, which I would never have thought based on the smattering of dismissive reviews I read after the show. It’s becoming clear that the fashion world for the moment is done with Lady Gaga (and we can’t exclude ourselves from that list of folks feeling fatigued by the constant exposure) and is reacting in borderline hostile ways to her mere presence at any event fashion related so one cannot help but wonder if at this point Mugler isn’t walking a fine line between alienating the fashion press versus gaining “Monster” amounts of publicity because of her large and dedicated fan base (though some of them are worn out by her, too!).
The question is who really is responsible for creating the conventional wisdom when it comes to a label’s collection? Are Prada or say Tory Burch seeing fantastic demand because editors have lately oohed and ahhed over their runway presentations? Perhaps that was the case in the past but it seems nowadays they’re an increasingly smaller and less relevant part of the puzzle and the days of dictation from one small, powerful group are fading quickly behind us. The truth is labels are now going direct to their consumers and what becomes of fashion critics and the good and bad of that formula will be is yet to be known.
Just spotted these on Melody Ehsani’s Tumblr. You see something like this and immediately you’re like, of course! Perfect! Genius! My only minor, small beef is that the image of Pep could have been a little more visually distinct, like showing her braids or at least not BOTH with the Afrrican hat. Anyway, little griping aside, what an awesome housewarming or holiday gift this would be…except that the Etsy woman who makes them is on a temporary break : (
Founded in 1976 mostly for dancers and gymnasts, Italian based Anniel is winning hearts all over major cities with their buttery soft incredibly comfy footwear. The leopard print derbies above are just the love. Available at Bird.
Vans reached out to Disney for a women’s collaboration and not surprisingly the young-at-heart (not to mention furry) Minnie Mouse was chosen to represent. Lord knows she deserves another pair of shoes in her closet besides those weird over-sized pink pumps she’s been wearing for basically ever. Now at least she’ll have something to change into after posing with tourists at the park all day. As for detailes, these are a Japan exclusive that will launch October 7th. Via Espionagekicks.
Lara Stone is an amazing beauty no matter what, still, don’t know what it is but somehow she always looks hottest dressed like she’s about to kick someone’s ass. This pic is from Vogue Japan, shot by Mario Sorrenti. See the rest of the shoot at Fashioncopious.
