When you look at the sultry womanly stride of the women on Brazilian runways you wonder what happened to stateside runway coaching because really,  that hardcore stomping we tend to see after season baffles.The Movimento swimwear with themes of colors and paintings makes us want to let out hair down and sway to some Antonio Carlos Jobim tunes, enjoy!

 Enjoy a look at a video in which we get a peak into Jonny Johansson’s mindset and the thought process behind Acne’s resort collection, whose influences aim to blend a sense of contrast. In his words, “Things that do not necessarily belong together.” Take a look at the full collection on the next page. Via Style.

We showed some images from Chloe Sevigny’s Resort 2012 collection for Opening Ceremony yesterday, and here is a video of the show. I read somewhere that the a.c. where the show took place wasn’t functioning properly, which total poor timing since it was about a billion degrees in New York when this show took place. As such, a lot of the entertainment value is watching everyone sweating their asses off and doing their best to contain nerves frayed by the heat. Watch Chloe especially as her normally deadpan way of dealing with the world rachets up ten notches.

Presented exclusively in flats the Cantão Collection for Spring 2011 features clothes that sway and move with wearer highliting comfort while inspiring the nonchalance of summer days. The opening look pretty much stole our hearts.Interesting to know that the company has been in existence for 40 years, Enjoy!

A beautiful juxtaposition of prints that makes Têca one of our favorites from Brazil. Although it’s very forward to be looking at next spring, we have to take the time to admire the prints, the color orange and the presence of the midi lenght skit which seems to be existing calmly net to the ever present mini. Enjoy!

Enjoy a look at longtime fave Barbara Bui’s Spring/Summer 2011 runway .

Great image of those super decadent, open-toe Alexander Wang boots (plus the mink fur-adorned clutch) from his Autumn 2011 runway, lifted from the visual treat that is accesory designer Melody Ehsani’s Tumblr.

Great tailoring , cut-out details and a beautiful use of color are just a few elements we admire from the Adolfo Dominguez Spring/Summer 2011 runway. Enjoy!

Chanel showed its Resort 2011/2012 collection yesterday and the attendees of course included plenty of beauties, highlighted by Chanel handbag rep, Blake Lively. Karl Lagerfeld has received a lot of criticism for choosing the young actress to front Chanel, but the truth is, since the signing she is looking a lot slicker and has clearly benefited from Lagerfeld’s magic touch (though it looks like her red hair dye job was temporary ’cause it’s fading fast!). Still, if she doesn’t bring anything of substance to the plate beyond “Gossip Girl,” her days are going to be numbered as a starlette.

On the next page, Alexa Chung debuts two-tone hair, plus Clemence Poesy, Anna Mouglalis, Rachel Bilson, Karl Lagerfeld, Laura Bailey, Vanessa Paradis and Poppy Delevingne.

Fashioning today recalled a dust-up over its posting of Lisa Blue’s Summer 2011 collection of swimsuits for Australian Fashion Week. The one piece shown above is the site’s most viewed photo. Editor Daniel Dykes explains:

“The swimsuit, as you can see, features a print representation of Lakshmi, a Hindu goddess. Visual representations of deities are nothing new, when applied to swimwear though, they can certainly provoke an emotional reaction.  And provoke this one-piece did. Since the image ran on Fashionising.com our editors have been filtering out hundreds of comments about the piece, none of them pleasant. Largely aimed at the label and its designer Lisa Burke, they’ve ranged from statements of concern to mild slurs, and at the other end of the spectrum have also included curses and all out death threats.”

Since the show, Lisa Blue has apologized and removed the offending print from the collection. Controversy aside, the designer clearly has a gift for choosing graphics and striking color and pattern combinations, not to mentioning styling a runway show to perfection. To see a few more suits from the collection, click through to the next page. More at Fashionising.