MSN reports on Brad Pitt being the first male face of the legendary Chanel No.5 perfume here.
Fatou of 30Inspired shares photos taken at Saturday market here.
Citizen Couture on Tumblr shares on the Odin Fragrances & Home Fragrances x Snarkitecture Pop-Up here.
Guest of a Guest track 7 toe cap heels at a budget to suit you here.
Lucky Magazine features the new Miu Miu spring 2012 campaign video here.
Tommy Ton captures style down under at Sydney Fashion Week for Style.com here.
StyleLikeU explores the personal style of rapper Theophilus London here.
The Business of Fashion examines whether the Met Gala is becoming the biggest fashion pr platform here.
Giambattista Valli fall 2012 | Marchesa fall 2012 | Images in collage via Style.com
What would a fall winter season be without molten metallics? I frankly do not want to wait till the fall 2012-2013 collections are available for purchase.
The magpie within me would so much rather shine like new gold right now.
Business of Fashion interviews Tavi Gevinson in their Business of Blogging segment here.
Fashion Etc reports on the Jeff Koons and Lisa Perry collaboration here.
WeTheUrban shares Lana Del Rey’s ‘Carmen’ video here.
David Bailey on working for American Vogue here.
Bryan Boy features the Prada Parallel Universe animated GIF’s here.
Fashionista dishes on the new WAH Nails book here.
Into The Gloss shares the products on Leigh Lezark’s top shelf here.
Tamu captures flame haired Marianne here.
Style.com gets you ready for the Met’s Schiaparelli and Prada retrospective with this quiz here.
Dolce & Gabbana spring 2012 | Miu Miu resort 2012 | Moschino Cheap & Chic spring 2012 | Images in collage via Style.com
Seeing that the fruit trend was here, thereeverywhere during summer 2011, I guess it is only fair that vegetables get their turn in the limelight (or would that veggielight?…).
Chillies dotted crystal jewellery at Miu Miu resort while it was a complete veg out at Dolce & Gabbana. Onions, chillies, aubergines met their vava-voom super sultry Italian aesthetic.
On the menu at Moschino Cheap & Chic was a whimsical print serving of radishes, cauliflower, carrots and green beans.
I remember many deeming the fruit print gimmicky only to fall prey to its sweet allure with time. What are your thoughts on the burgeoning vegetable print spring 2012 trend?
Is it the case of never saying never as you just might be fall for its winsome charm before summer is out?
I like to think designers had me in mind (vain I know) when these looks debuted on the runway. A quick look at my personal outfits as documented in my style diary shows I am for the ‘usually-layered’ party. Dresses worn over trousers and I have long been happy bedfellows.
What stood out to me in particular with these catwalk looks was where the focus of the layering was. The actual layering gathers force waist down, taking shape in the form of the midi length (in the case of Chanel it was knee length) skirt/dress/coat over narrow cropped pants.
Layering is by no means new but the focus on the bottom half in conjunction with the particular proportions and length of the garments makes this feel fresh.
I’d oh so rather be wearing this new look!
What would you rather be wearing?
Chanel fall 2012 | Louis Vuitton fall 2012 | J.W. Anderson fall 2012 | Prada fall 2012 | Images in collage via Style.com
More looks I’d rather be wearing.
Prada | Louis Vuitton | Miu Miu | Images in collage via Style.com
Fashion’s love affair with the past has been an ongoing saga. This symbiotic relationship has seen current trends borrow elements from bygone eras and given modernist direction. In recent seasons, decades such as the 20′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s have taken an almost permanent mainstay on major catwalks.
For fall platforms (giving a nod to the 70′s) clumped their way down runways. Are you a platforms girl? What are your thoughts on fashion’s preoccupation with the past? Is it creating a sense of ‘deja-vu’ with certain trends stuck in on a wheel going round in a rut?
There is something rather grown up about the fall 2012 palette. The naive sugary easter egg pastel hues are replaced by berry hues, rust, ochre and etc. I particularly like the inclusion of navy blue. It can render rather somber but it is always put-together, always sophisticated.
What would you rather be wearing?
Carolina Herrera fall 2012 | Zac Posen fall 2012 | Images in collage via Style.com
More looks I’d rather be wearing.
Nicole Miller | Balmain | Gucci | Rebecca Taylor | Giorgio Armani | Burberry Prorsum | PPQ | Carven | Images in collage via Style.com
Be prepared to see velvet all over the high street as it cropped up across the fall 2012 runways. The palette was grownup and ran the gamut of rich dark blues, black, emerald and khaki greens, mustard, red, aubergine etc.
It can be a real crowd dividing fabric. With those pro, billing it as glamorous and decadent and those against relegating it as or old fashioned.
What is your stance?
CFDA announces the 2012 CFDA fashion award nominations (including a media award for blogger couple Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist & Garance Dore ) here.
Fashionista.com reports on the Chanel and Pamela Love crystal cuff issue.
Solange Knowles does the cover of Timeout New York and blogs about it here.
Man Repeller takes on the over the knee boot here.
The Sartorialist interviews intelligent style influencer Sam Lambert of Art Comes First here.
Art Comes First style the fall 2012 Ozwald Boateng show with behind the scenes shots here.
Phill Taylor shoots Leigh Lezark in Paris by night here.
Tommy Ton documents the fashion off the fall 2012 catwalks here.
Danielle Scutt spring 2012 | Christopher Kane spring 2012 | Meadham Kirchhoff spring 2012 | Louise Gray spring 2012 | Images via Style.com
Girl, on the cusp…
There is something that London has that sees her turn out a particular form of ‘energy’. It is an energy that is best described as though it were always on the cusp; on the cusp of blossoming, about to emerge, in the chrysalis about to undergo metamorphosis.
Stomping through the frontier grounds of that movement are labels such as Meadham Kirchhoff, Louise Gray, Christopher Kane and Danielle Scutt.
Every season their girl feels like she were on the brink of that cusp.
This spring is by no means different.
She was boisterous, 90′s gangster rap loving and seemingly just one of the boys at Danielle Scutt. Scutt’s girl evolves season to season but one thing stays the same; she is loudly individual. She’s almost kicking and screaming this, logo t-shirt wearing with placard in hand.
At Meadham Kirchhoff she was in the focus, the girl on the cake having that moment in the limelight. Far from stereotypical and fronting a plastic public veneer, she was real, just about the right bit of off to seem perfectly on. The Meadham Kirchhoff boys are so good at doing the sickly sweet saccharine with dark twisted undercurrents.
Over at Christopher Kane, she was a little bit of a bully and a lot of a dreamer. The mouthy school girl with grand dreams. One known to daydream in the surrounds of decrepit flower-papered walls. Kane’s genius is his canny ability to churn magic out of grim inspiration. You look closely at his shiny packaging, every season without fail, and you see the gritty dingy propelling force informing it.
I celebrate that girl. There is a rebellion about her that I cannot help but applaud. Rebellion not with violence or acts of anarchy but more one whose propaganda is an independent state of mind. It speaks of individualism, a desire to think for self, a yearning to find-one’s-own-way and map it out loudly and colorfully.
More trend spotting.
