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Shoe Rack // Proenza Schouler Fall 2012

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

The Proenza Schouler boys are really good at the whole craft versus machine thing. You see it come through in their shoes for fall. Repping for craft is that focal weave, sometimes two tone.  The tron like boot feels like it would fit into a present day making of some Sigourney Weaver sci-fi movie.

The sneaker like velcro straps, ankle and tongue features lend a strong athletic feel to proceedings. These are perhaps what a pair of shoes would look like if it was the result of cross mating the woven, a pair of high top trainers and footwear that would not have look out of place in a Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator update.

On the shoe rack.

Images in collage via Style.com

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Haider Ackermann Fall 2012

Thursday, April 19th, 2012


Video via Style.com on YouTube

Ackermann knows color period. His ability to employ hues one would not initially think of is his genius.

His color palette is always incredibly elegant, there is ever present sophisticated feel (which is interestingly the same mood of his aesthetic).

This is color for a woman who is confident, a woman who knows what she wants. This is grown-up color.

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Shoe Rack // LD Tuttle X Helmut Lang

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

“I strove to design footwear for the Helmut Lang collection that was powerful but understated, allowing the materials to create beautiful shapes on their own” – LD Tuttle

Tiffany Tuttle, the designer behind the LD Tuttle footwear brand, has designed footwear for runway collections by Suno, Doo.ri, VPL etc. With the above designs marking the first for Helmut Lang.
 
The narrow streamlined wedge, super slim silhouette and rubbed suede lent further fantasy to a collection (by Nicole and Michael Colovos) that took inspiration from HBO series “Game of Thrones”.
 
 

On the shoe rack.

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I’d Rather Be Wearing // Otherworldly Disco

Monday, March 19th, 2012

To me these plastic-metallic-fringe skirts are like the garment equivalent of a happy pill. Happiness being the encapsulation of what an otherworldly disco would feel like, all stitched up into a sheeny shiny skirt.

Bright, shiny, most definitely happy.

Balenciaga spring 2012 | Meadham Kirchhoff fall 2012 |  Images in collage via Style.com
 
More looks I’d rather be wearing.
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In Detail // J.W. Anderson Spring 2012

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Images by The Coveteur x Aldo Rise

An ode to texture…

There is something ‘off’ about J.W. Anderson’s work that is strangely compelling.
 
The designer who begun designing purely menswear, showed his first womenswear collection at London Fashion Week autumn winter 2011.
 
There is a mishmash mood to his designs that feel simultaneously intentional and unconsidered.
 
His spring 2012 collection was a patchwork collage of hyper amoeba prints, riveted leather with lace detail, mesh, candy pastel stripes, crystal panels, perforated leather etc. This melting pot of texture is carried through to the footwear, part of the Aldo Rise talent supporting collaborative initiative. Just as with the garments, textures collide with fabric set against leather and feather detail.
 
What is interesting about the collection is the juxtaposition of craft and artisan (macrame like knit panels, raffia fringe edge details, embroidery) with proportion that was clean, streamlined and architectural.
 
There is an uncanny beauty about his work. It is almost folkloric in being, with punk undertones in a way that provokes a guttural response.
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Inspiration // Miu Miu Fall 2012

Sunday, March 11th, 2012


Images in collage via Style.com

Like a trouser suit wearing rainbow color nation by way of the 1970′s.

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Currently Crushing On // Gown By Marco Zanini For Rochas

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Apparently it was the work of twentieth century Swedish artist Wilhelm Kåge that provoked Marco Zanini’s exploration of Scandinavian pottery which in turn inspired his fall 2012 offering for Rochas.

The texture and print (channeling Kåge’s work) are interesting but I particularly like how Zanini uses volume in these gowns from the collection. Despite being fairly clean in silhouette, his proportion play which seems to be informed by the material adds faceted depth to each gown.

My past crushes.

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Viktor & Rolf Fall 2012

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

There was a lot of fur at the Viktor & Rolf’s fall 2012 show. Those garments however, were not what held court for me. What I found more memorable was the surreal illusion of furry texture in the high collared, non fur garments.

The print of the fluid silk pajamas give the clever effect of a fur like surface.

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Balenciaga Fall 2012

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Prada fall 2012 | Images via Style.com

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Currently Crushing On // Elie Tahari Fall 2012

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

This collection was luxury through and through. Brocade set with fur, thrown against exotic skins.

This message of fine luxury was driven home in bold unadulterated shots of color. The true azure blues and rich plums are my favorite.

I want to be the Elie Tahari fall 2012 girl right now.

My past crushes.

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