Cédric Charlier, the former creative director of Cacharel who was let go a year ago during that awful season of fashion bloodletting, was back on the fashion calendar in Paris for Fall 2012, with a tough skinned signature collection backed by the Italian manufacturing company Aeffe. Continue reading “Cédric Charlier: going solo” »
Milano is somehow squeezed in the middle of the season’s fashion calendar, it comes at the heels of New York and London fashion weeks. New York is generally dominated by mega brands such as Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan and Calvin Klein as well as being home to some of the best designer talents around. Marc Jacobs heads that list as he is the only one that right now headlines two fashion weeks the New York one and the Paris Week where his show for Loius Vuitton is the season’s hottest ticket. Continue reading “Milano Fashion Week: a look back” »
The Artist’ s success at the Academy Awards must have inspired Roberto Cavalli to hand out a prize of his own in Milan today. Continue reading “Roberto Cavalli’s Excesses” »
It is Oscars night once again in Hollywood, the time when all the movie stars, directors, producers, moguls, writers, hanger on and wanna be get together to congratulate one another on a job well done….Isn’t it amazing that we get paid for this….It is really! Continue reading “Oscars Fashion Parade” »
“This girl is a metropolitan heroine who has a fantasy of fusing herself with nature,” said Angela Missoni of her collection during a preview. “She’s rebirthing from the earth but sometimes she gets stuck.” The odds of that statement translating on the runway seemed slim, until Missoni proved it with a fantastic lineup that illustrated her dreamy vision with improbably wearable clothes. Continue reading “Natural Woman: Missoni fall 2012” »
I guess the ins and outs of fashion these days are more exciting and momentous than the fashion itself. The house that Jil Sander built back in 1968, yesterday announced that its creative director Raf Simons would step down from his post after the label’s autumn 2012 show in Milan this Saturday. Continue reading “Simons is out Jill maybe in; Sander looks like Dior…” »
Manuela Arcari’s manifesto—”casual and concise as the anti-uniform of a revolt” made up for a mission statement to one of the more unique collections to come out of Milano so far. Continue reading “Ter et Bantine: Western Goth in time of revolt” »
I guess if you where to encapsulate a brand like Etro the first thing that would come to mind are paisleys and their rich burnished palette of taupe, burgundy, and gray that generally occupy center stage. This season some how the works of Veronica Etro had a bit more resonance than usual. Continue reading “What’s so funny about peace, love and paisleys: Etro fall 2012” »
The signals where there with the showing of her Fall man’s collection. Last night in Milano, it was a reassessment of what had been in Miuccia’s mind all along: The rite of passage into the throngs of an Easter European wind of inspiration had been fulfilled. Continue reading “Pravda a Go-Go: Miuccia Prada gives us a 60′s Russia that never was for fall 2012” »
Direction and fine design have never been so intune with each other as they are when Alex Turvey combines them together in his stunning array of works. Continue reading “Ingenuity at work: Alex Turvey” »
The new Gucci woman this fall is enigmatic, combining rigor and romance in the same wisp of a body. Continue reading “The dark object of desire: Gucci fall 2012” »
Italy’s top luxury brands including Prada, Armani and Fendi take to the catwalks during Milan’s fashion week from Wednesday to show off hotly-awaited collections to global fashionistas….just had enough time to get from the airport to the first show, nursing a hangover for England…. Continue reading “If this is Milano it must be Wednesday: two aspirin and a macchiato thank you” »
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