Spring Sommer 2012 has some very strong colour trends, yellow, mangenta and cobalt blue, blocked with each other and black. (c) Zara, image linked from their website This insta-glow-ish yellow top from Zara is a good example of trendy yellow SS2012. 19.99 GBP Link (c) Louis Vuitton, image linked from their website The Louis Vuitton [...]
“You look like a radioactive tampon.” — Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell in Moon (2009) Anyone who’ve been to Moon’s Sundance screening in 2009 might remember the strange yellow suit writer/director Duncan Jones entered the stage in. And if you’ve seen his film Moon, wheather at Sundance or at home, you quite surely remember that [...]
The leggings trend has its first specialist: Costume Dept. from Los Angeles. Every time an upstart label manages to talk a celebrity into promoting a style (ex Black Eyed Peas Fergie wore CD’s “piano lesson”, via), it only takes minutes until blogs, shops and magazines have it on their radar. Costume Dept’s mission: to give [...]
From New York to Tokyo to provincial Germany: the classy Gucci Sofia pumps with tortoise shell heel are everywhere! In case you need to spend a little bit of your spare money, head over to Gucci and buy yourself a pair, fairly priced at $610. Done so, you can get in line with Kristen Steweart, [...]
1. BCBG Max Azria These gold leggings rock! (via, more) 2. Christian Lacroix We especially like the left one, the one Tilda Swinton chose for her appearance at the 2009 Cesar Film Awards. (via) 3. Behnaz Sarafpour Look out for the clean lines of Behnaz Sarafpour, the upper left is just gorgeous! (via) 4. Preen by [...]
Mattel, maker of the classic Barbie doll, celebreated the style-icon’s 50th birthday/ 50th anniversary with a celebrity-studded runway fashion show. As part of the Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, on February 14th, the event took place in the Bryant Park Tent. Both, a birthday party and kick-off event for an upcoming fashion brand (According to [...]
Hussein Chalayan is surely one of the most promising and innovative young fashion designers in the business. His runway shows overflow with ideas, edgy new concepts and an aire of techno-savvy contemporary designs. Chalayan was a strong and very early adopter of the wet look leggings trend (if not creating it altogether) in his 2007 [...]
A recent discovery is LF Markey, the UK fashion label founded by Louise Markey centering around the ideas of “minimalism, bold colours and shapes, comfort and natural fibres, understated luxury, high-quality manufacture”. Go and check out the SS09 catwalk collection or visit their homepage lfmarkey.com for the complete picture.
One of the fixed dates right at the start of a new year is the cpd in Düsseldorf, the”International Trade Fair for Womenswear & Accessoires” by the Igedo Company. So if you are in Germany: still some hours left to get an immediate glimps at the trends for Spring/Summer 2009. If you can’t attend personally, [...]