Miu Miu
October 7, 2008Miu Miu: Mosaic Mood, Marvelous Mode: But, even if Miu Miu was built on the past - using a series images culled from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics - it was far and away the most modern and innovative.
Like a genuine intellectual, designer Miuccia Prada thinks through the idea first before undertaking its elegant and extensive execution.
Take just one notion; the way Miuccia built columns into most looks, cutting her tops, low-waist skirts and sheaths with plisse vertical lines, mimicking fluted classical columns.
Even the models’ hair came with indented flutes, repeating the column motif. Beginning in mono-color, the designer gradually added the Pompey mosaics, heads of gods and devils or geometric patterns, all that tad ruined, before they all moved down to create a series of great new shoes in the same hues and prints easily the best footwear seen anywhere this season.
The execution was so perfect from the devore, holed and pitted fabrics to the craftily built in imperfections that our favorite look didnt even have any mosaics; just Russian model Natasha Poly in an ever so wrecked beige burlap cocktail with matching bags and pumps. Perfectly judged, decidedly new. (more…)
Into intelligent fashion
October 3, 2008Julieta Gayoso’s line of “intelligent” clothing acknowledges technology’s constant presence in the modern world and the annoyance caused by dead batteries.
“Today, technology is more and more mobile. It has the freedom of wireless connection, but when batteries run out you have to plug into the grid. So this is a way to have mobile energy and, of course, it’s clean,” Gayoso, 36, told Reuters Television earlier this week. Enter Gayoso’s innovative solar-panel jacket.
A cable runs from the panel to a battery in the inside pocket where up to eight electronic devices can be recharged at the same time whenever there is sunshine. (more…)
Breast Cancer Awareness
In this photo released by Hard Rock International, Dr. Drew Ordon, left, Dr. Lisa Masterson, center, and Dr. Jim Sears, of ‘The Doctors,
‘ a new daytime television show premiering this fall, pose for photographers on the pink carpet before attending a Melissa Etheridge performance at the Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood,
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, in Los Angeles. Etheridge performed at the Cafe to kick-off Hard Rock’s Pinktober Breast Cancer Awareness campaign as well as her new album ‘A New Thought for Christmas. (more…)
Stella McCartney
Silk jackets came long and loosely cut with mannish lapels, boyish shantung shirts appeared in combo with just knickers, as if each model had grabbed what they wanted out of their main squeeze’s closet as they headed out to a gallery opening.
And though the cut was large and roomy, Stella is also no slouch when it comes to tailoring, as one splendidly designed boiler suit meets men’s tuxedo amply underlined. But in a show brimming with Stella’s own brand of pop insouciance,
the best looks were McCartney’s dresses - either a series of mesh cocktails where summer scenes were applied with huge stencils or a flurry of nattily draped mini dresses with front petal folds. “I love what my little girl does, especially the dresses.
They were so cool,” opined Sir Paul McCartney, who sat front row, one block down from L’Wren Scott, stylist and gal pal of Mick Jagger, who was wearing her own clobber.
Ironically, though the show was staged before a mammoth, 12,000 square-foot children’s comic cloth backdrop by artist twins Jake and Dino Chapman, the collection was almost completely mono-color.
But its flesh, sand and dusty blush hues were just right. (more…)
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