The Place To Be

Seems like Tokyo is rising up the fashion thermometer for hot new cities to show a collection. It’s SO HOT, that Mrs. Prada has now started to show her covetable collections in the Japanese capital. So why is an established brand like Prada spending even more money on another fashion show every season? I can only think of one reason….boosting  sales! I say a fourth fashion week should be added to the overflowing events on fashionistas calenders and get those sales higher and higher for designers. A recession free fashion industry could be on the horizon. Anna Wintour; take note!

Prada Spring/Summer 2012

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Prada Fall/Winter 2011 Campaign

Miuccia has done it right, yet again. Here is the campaign shot by Steven Meisel, and like Louis Vuitton, Mrs. P has used up and coming models. Must be another trend, but I must say I love it. Say goodbye to all the supermodels for now, the new girls are in.

Fall Campaign

Fall Campaign

Fall Campaign

Fall Campaign

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The Way To Wear Your Bag Next Season

For next season designers have decided to concentrate on the bag. When Miuccia Prada showed her fascinating (as usual) collection in Milan, she had her models pout down the runway holding their bags up to their chest, as if it was a safety guard holding all their possesions. Isn’t that what a woman’s bag is anyway? This trend has spread through the streets and celebrity world already as I saw Alexa Chung carrying out the same thing at the Cannes Film Festival.

Prada Fall/Winter 2011

Alexa Chung in vintage Balenciaga

Louis Vuitton, Celine and Miu Miu had different visions for how a bag should be held. According to their shows, handles will not be needed next season. Of course a bag has to have a handle for the option, but why do we have to use it?

Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2011

Celine Fall/Winter 2011

Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2011

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The Fab Forties

From Donna Karan in New York, through Prada in Milan and to John Galliano in Paris, the 1940’s has been a clear trend for the Fall/Winter 2011 season. Starting in New York, Donna Karan’s show was full of Pearls, cinched waists and hair Bun’s, leading on with a neutral clean color palette. It felt like a fresh of breath air compared to all the other shows from NYC, it was needed. This season Karan has gone for a softer structure to the garment, opposed to her usual bold and defined shape. With Erickson Beamon designing the pearls which felt as the core of the collection, it came to no suprise that she named it ‘Pearls of Wisdom’.

Donna Karan Fall/Winter 2011

Miuccia Prada was giving a clear message this season…..it’s all about the coat. The Minute the first model landed her Mary-Jane styled Python boots onto the two floored runway, it was obvious she was a Forties girl. Almost like she had just stepped off an airplane. As the color palette grew to a wider variety, we started to see more and more different fabrics used. Faux fur, being a big trend this season, was brushed and brushed to give off a fun and flamboyant look. Sequins closed the show giving off a fish scale look. She always knows how to please her crowd!

Prada Fall/Winter 2011

John Galliano was not present at his Fall/Winter 2011 show, but his designs sure made you feel he was. With a collection of only twenty looks, he was still able to squeeze out a Forties feeling. Starting off with Karlie Kloss wearing a tailored jacket with a wool pencil skirt and egg shaped top hat, it may not have been as styled as his previous shows, but it still gave off the Galliano effect. The collection may have given you the forties vibe, but the fabrics certainly did not. Like Prada, John used fabrics that you would not consider to have been apart of the forties era, like look two when a simple fur collared jacket was paired with a cream latex skirt or chains wrapped around the waist as a belt. It’s just the John Galliano touch.

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John Galliano Fall/Winter 2011

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