4th Apr. '08 • Category: Fashion & Beauty • Tags: menswear, purple, runway, womenswear
Authored by Kate Smith
The Spring 2008 collection from Swedish menswear and womenswear designer, Carin Wester caught my attention when she referred to a legend about the creation of color.
The Spring/Summer 2008 collection called ‘Purple of Mogador’, is inspired by an African legend about the black alchemist Amogador, who as legend goes, discovered how to create the color purple. (more…)
13th Feb. '08 • Category: Holidays & Occasions • Tags: fashion, flowers, runway
Authored by Julie Hoylen
I think my brain has finally gone into “fashion overload”. I’m not sure what finally set me over the edge- perhaps the gazillion photos of Spring ready-to- wear images I’ve been looking through recently or maybe it’s my nightly habit of watching hour after hour of Full Frontal Fashion’s coverage of New York’s Fall fashion week. What ever the cause- I’m ready to admit that I’m in need of a couture detox.
Case in point… when I woke up this morning and began researching floral bouquets for a post I was working on for Valentine’s Day I discovered every bouquet I liked had a fashion reference….have I gone completely mad… or do you see it too?
Lavender cool water bouquet from Eco Bouquet and Prada (more…)
12th Feb. '08 • Category: Fashion & Beauty • Tags: jewelry, runway, zac-posen
Authored by Kimberlin Brown
I have had a very exciting, challenging, crazy, wonderful whirlwind of a week!!
I woke up last week to the flu with teeth chattering, chills and sweats. You know when you feel so bad, that no matter what age you are, all you want is your mom and ginger ale? So when the phone rang, hoping it was her, I answered in a pathetic tone, “Hello…” [very weak and self pitying.]
On the other end was not my mom, but someone talking about rings, deadlines, and [did I hear correctly] Zac Posen’s runway show!? Zac needed 8 cocktail rings in less than a week. Could I make this happen? (more…)
22nd Jan. '08 • • Tags: color, color-trends, fashion, Project-Runway, runway, womenswear
Authored by Julie Hoylen
While making dinner the other night I caught the tail end of a Project Runway re-run on Bravo. To be exact it was episode #4 from Season 4, and yes I had seen the episode twice before- yet somehow I never tire of this show so I watched it yet again.
If you are equally smitten as I am with this gem of a show, you probably remember it as the “outdated trends” episode.
Jillian diligently working in her overalls- she shouldn’t have felt too ashamed though, as it appears Karl Lagerfeld is on her side of this “one minute your in, the next minute you are out” dilemma.
If you’ve never watched… a quick run down.
Nine designers, each assigned with a popular fashion trend from the last two decades, or so … trends that seem to warrant giggles, snickers and even some personal embarrassment for designer Jillian who discovers she is wearing one of these taboo outdated looks herself- denim overalls.
The designers are asked to divide themselves into teams of three ( each with a team leader) and reconfigure these “dated” once popular fashion trends into a cohesive collection of “looks” fit for a modern-day woman.
The first two times I watched the episode I was too caught up in the drama of the sewing room to really give the trends any thought but the third time around, as the designers were pleading their cases in front of the judges ( which this week included guest judge Donna Karan), I was taken aback by how many of these “dead” trends I had recently spotted while clicking through photos of the Spring 2008 collections on Style.com.
In or Out?
In the minds of the judges, Team Jillian took denim overalls to a whole new level and won the challenge…
…and for Spring 2008 Karl Lagerfeld put the “Chanel” spin on his own version of this “outdated” trend
Team Christan attempted to bring zoot suits and menswear as woman’s wear back…
…and Haider Ackermann seems to have had the same agenda.
Team Ricky was given the trends neon colors, cut-outs and underwear as outerwear- three trends I’ve just recently been writing about…
…in fact, I think Anna Sui could have been the fourth designer on their team.
And poor Chris March, his team was on the bottom this particular week and his personal attempt at breathing life back into the trend of larger than life “shoulder pad” sent him home…
…ironically Nicolas Ghesquiere’s vision of bringing fashion focus back on “shoulders” for Balenciaga has got to be the most talked about silhouette of the season.
So the questions is– “Who’s to say if a trend is in or out?” Are there any trends that you wish would stay “out” rather than come back “in”?
Resources:
Project Runway gallery photos from Bravo.com
All Spring 2008 collection photos from Style.com
1st Dec. '07 • Category: Fashion & Beauty • Tags: blue, color-trends, runway, womenswear
Authored by Kate Smith
The latest color trends forecast released by Pantone shows what they report to be the ten hottest colors for Spring 2008.
See the colors here…
Download a copy of the report here…
8th Apr. '07 • Category: Fashion & Beauty • Tags: color-trends, fashion, runway
Authored by Kate Smith
Dubai hosted its very first International Fashion Week in March 2007. Lovely colors, beads, and sparkle graced the catwalk alongside less glamorous, but still stylish, garments. Here are a couple of my favorites.
I love the unexpected combination of brown with the red-orange and fuschia.
This warm neutral with metallic sparkle also caught my eye.
