Posts Tagged ‘ Spring ’

Another season of Haute Couture has just closed and the fashion ultra-elite are placing their orders. The market for the highest form of fashion is smaller than ever these days, with a mere 200 women bestowed with the means and access to don the most honored vestments of the Fashion Cult. My how I...
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Pop superstar Rihanna ups her already soaring fashion cred with a cover for W February 2010. The singer is wearing a white dress from the Gucci S/S 2010 collection. This season designer Frida Giannini, who now owns the brand, has offered a line up of crisp silouettes with prints and embellishments that make me...
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Matthew Williamson is launching a menswear line in earnest now. The new pieces due out this Spring are casual, but luxe – the kind of thing a girl would borrow from her mate. February will see the debut at retail of Williamson’s first men’s capsule collection, featuring items such as cashmere sweaters in vivid green,...
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Clockwise from bottom left: Fendi, Givenchy, Pierre Hardy, Vera Wang, Fendi Although the weather is still frosty, Spring shopping is upon us and close to the top of any seasonal shopping list are shoes. This Spring many designers are wrapping the foot in high-style bandages. From velvet to leather to lyrca shoes are getting the...
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Last Wednesday shots of an H&M spring 2010 Garden collection hit the netwaves. The line is being billed as the store’s Organic and Sustainable line, and in a case of unbelievably bad timing, a story caught fire the same day that a Manhattan H&M store has been mutiliating unworn, unsold merchandise and dumping...
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1. Runway Photo Alexander Wang Ready-to-Wear Spring/Summer 2010 2. 1930’s Wilson leather football helmet 3. 1890’s football pants 4. Harvey Washington Wiley in Football Uniform ca. 1908 Young designer Alexander Wang united some unusual elements to create one of the most focused and singular collections of the season. He dressed fashion-waif models in early American football-reminiscent gear, then...
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We’ve caught a glimpse at some of Givenchy’s ads for Spring/Summer 2010. Their nice, but they don’t make me swoon like the runway presentation did. Model Mariacarla Boscono has made the leap from catwalk to campaign. She’s paiedr with Natalia Vodianova and a bevy of male models. The two women are an interesting combo:...
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In the dead of Winter, when many of us are trudging through feet of snows, fashion lovers flip through the pages of their favorite glossies to begin planning their Spring wardrobes. But this spring color and flowers aren’t on the wardrobe priority list for me. Instead, crisp solids in neutral colors are my favorites....
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Music – 3 stars. The song is fun and does make you want to dance, but I don’t hear a classic – especially not by Janet Jackson standards. Fashion – 5. Janet and her dancers put Todd Lynn’s Spring 2010 collection to perfect use. Few other collections combine the sharp-edged futuristic feel with that...
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Considering the media frenzy that is NYC’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, it’s easy to forget that the other US coast hosts a considerable week of fashion each season as well. Los Angeles fashion week is like the quiet, underdeveloped step-sister that many fashionophiles seem to forget about. The collections you see there tend to...
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