Top five Red Riding Hood inspired capes and dresses for SS 2011
By Andrea Petrou on April 11th, 2011
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ShinyStyle Loves: Primark’s Spring/Summer 2011 collection
By Andrea Petrou on January 21st, 2011
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Designers of the year: Erdem
By Andrea Petrou on December 21st, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
When it came to brilliant, inspired collections this year, no one and absolutely no one did it quite as well as Canadian-bred fashion house Erdem. When you think of the iconic dresses to have emerged this year, one of the first to pop into your head will absolutely be his floor length digital-printed gown from his Autumn/Winter collection, which was startlingly pretty in an unusual mix of deep browns, inky blacks, teal and colour-bursts of red. It’s been worn by A-listers to countless red carpet events since. Add into the mix a gorgeous blend of sheer chiffon, swallow-prints and dark leather, and you’ve got one of the most original approaches to Autumn/Winter dressing for a long time.
This year Erdem were also at the root of this year’s lace trend, which continues to go strong into the new year. For their A/W collections their dresses and blouses came in wintery colours -soft blue-grey ruffles and pleats were the Erdem way to wear lace this winter. They then showed us how to carry the fabric from winter to next Spring, sending frothy white Victorian-esque lace down the runway with bold crimson embroidery creeping up the hemline. A very pretty way to wear lace indeed.
We can’t wait for next spring when the sun starts to peep out behind the clouds, just for our Spring wardrobes alone. We may not be able to afford the real thing, but Erdem’s white lace and cool green floral prints have given us some food for thought.
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Designers of the year: House of Holland
By Andrea Petrou on December 21st, 2010
The trademark tights made an AW appearance
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First Look: Tom Ford lets us have a peep at his first womenswear collection for six years
By Andrea Petrou on November 19th, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
The words “Tom Ford” and “womenswear” are enough to have any fashion-lover worth their salt quivering and shuddering with excitement these days – move over, Mr. Lagerfeld, there’s a new Don of fashion and his aesthetic is much more modern, much less “fashion-bitch on an ego trip”, much more now. (Not to put Karl Lagerfeld down – I still love him obviously.) You know that you’ve got a ridiculous level of fashion influence when you can bossily insist that Victoria Beckham gets out of those sloppy clothes and into something more haute, pronto – which is exactly what Mr. Ford did when he met VB on an international flight recently. Amazingly, she complied. It’s the stuff legends are made of.
Graduating from creative director at both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent to becoming the head of his own brand, Mr. Ford has been primarily known for his impeccably tailored menswear and his directorial debut in last year’s A Single Man, which received Academy Award nominations and is worth seeing for the clothes alone. (Frankly, Colin Firth has never looked better.) But now Ford is set to return to what he has spent most of his professional life doing for other fashion houses – womenswear.
The Spring/Summer collection for 2011 has been very hush-hushed and kept under wraps, but he’s finally relented enough to let the public see the first four official photos of what is his first venture into womenswear for the past six years. And the man doesn’t disappoint. It’s a super-glamorous collection manages to be both sexy and masculine at the same time – he doesn’t have an understanding of tailoring for nothing! The clothes are modelled by some of his muses, which feature Beyonce, supermodel Karen Elson and Stella Tennant. We love, we love, we love.
Check out the gallery above for the first official images of his SS2011 womenswear collection.
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Leonard
By Andrea Petrou on October 7th, 2010
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Paul & Joe
By Andrea Petrou on October 7th, 2010
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Hermes
By Andrea Petrou on October 7th, 2010
The Paris Fashion Week whirlwind came to an end last night, with fatigued fashionistas giving out their final air kisses before packing their designer bags and heading back home.
However, that was after they had watched the last PFW show, which was of course Hermes. Not only did this close the event but also marked the end of Jean Paul Gaultier’s seven year designer stint at the house.
And what a finale it was. JPG gave us a stunning collection with a strong nod at the equestrian theme and the brand’s leather saddle making past by marching horses up the catwalk.
Leather made an appearance in tailored jackets, trousers and of course trousers. As you would expect with such a theme there were also jodhpurs and, quite originally jumpsuits, which were wound into the theme thanks to suede patches.
There were waistcoats and thick leather corsets as well as chiffon dresses for the evening.
It’s a show we’ll definitely remember..until next season at least.
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Elie Saab
By Andrea Petrou on October 6th, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
Fashion house Elie Saab has been a firm favourite with fashion pack-leaders such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Blake Lively at pretty much every red-carpet event that’s happened over the past year, so the standard expected for their SS2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week was always going to be high. But they outdid themselves with what they presented on the runway.
The label is getting well-known for their sugary, sparkle-encrusted candy-coloured dresses that have been coveted on the red carpet a lot recently, and the beginning of the collection promised to be much of the same, as a model walked out in a pair of lilac tapered trousers, tied in a sash-bow at the front, and matching blazer worn over an embellished lilac vest. Good enough to eat. Following suit was a candyfloss-looking pleated chiffon gown in a matching pale purple, and stunning coral embellished minidress bow detailing around the navel area that I’ll probably be seeing in my dreams for years. Very, very girly, yes, but the collection avoided being nauseating by having a few more modern, understated basics thrown into the mix – notable was the fitted cream dress with very Balmain-style padded shoulders, and the sky-blue fitted maxi. It’s colour was so dreamy, it didn’t need any fussiness or detailing – and so it didn’t have any. Perfect.
Other designers have surprised and shocked us with drastic changes in their collections’ aesthetics this week, but Elie Saab has stuck to what it knows: beautiful, girly cocktail dresses and separates. You can look at it two ways: you can say that it’s unadventurous and more of the same, or you can say that they’re just on to a Very Good Thing. Maybe sometimes sticking to what you know isn’t so bad at all.
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Sonia Rykiel
By Andrea Petrou on October 6th, 2010
Like many designers at our own LFW, Sonia Rykiel took inspiration from the 70s for her SS2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week (if we’re honest we weren’t expecting anything different from the kooky brand.)
Dungarees in orange and pink, spotted and striped and with tapered and baggy legs, thumped down the catwalk.
Alongside these were knitted striped dresses, tops and shorts, as well as the must-have platforms, which of course were trademarks of this era.
Bur the brand also gave a smarter look sending out evening clad models in loose dresses with
kimono sleeves, or a bare-armed, low-cut knitted dress.
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Valentino
By Andrea Petrou on October 6th, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
As soon as the first dress came down the runway yesterday at Paris Fashion Week, it was immediately clear that the RTW collection wasn’t going to be lacking in romance. Oozing Frenchness, it was a gorgeous, nude over-the-knee dress with a sheer layer patterned with flowers with a slip underneath, and a pleated black waistband tied in a bow at the front. Departing entirely from their trademark scarlet evening glamour (though of course, there was a bit of that – it is Valentino) for a more understated femininity, it’s the kind of dress that makes me glad that I was born a girl.
Along with the Left Banke-style party dresses that were of the collection, there were also some more understated dresses, tied at the neck, in similar nude tones in simple shift shapes that I for one am coveting. When it came to evening wear, sheer polka-dot blouses and dresses in black and cream were present, as well as floaty chiffon gowns in champagne and nude fabrics.
As for outerwear, there were some beautiful (if not entirely practical) jackets made out of panelled black leather, velvet and ribbon – the one made with the high velvet collar was especially gorgeous – with sheer chiffon sleeves, as well as one classic cream skirt-suit with the teeniest wasp-waist imaginable. Check the gallery above to see Shiny Style’s favourites from the collection.
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Kenzo
By Andrea Petrou on October 6th, 2010
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: McQueen
By Andrea Petrou on October 6th, 2010
It was the show the fashion world had been waiting for, McQueen’s collection, without the brilliant designer himself.
Sarah Burton who took the reigns as creative director of the brand following the tragic death of McQueen, made her debut collection last night at the Parisian show with a gentle contradiciton to McQueen’s wild side.
Beautiful dresses with feathers and butterflies flowed down the runway, however Burton also gave a sympathetic nod to McQueen’s statement styles with narrow tailcoats and low-rise trousers, which followed the McQueen silhouette as well as the use of prints and ribbon embroideries, which were trademarks of the style of the last few years.
Giving a nod to her theme of decaying nature Burton also incorporated long, off-the-shoulder dresses in an abstract leaf print , a long white halter dress with a wide gold leaf belt and a gray shadow print at the hem into the collection.
We think the soft, yet striking collection is a great start of things to come from the young designer and friend or the late Lee Alexander McQueen.
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: Chanel
By Andrea Petrou on October 5th, 2010
By Emily Borrett.
When we think of Paris Fashion Week, the first designer that instantly comes to mind is Chanel, the timeless French fashion label that every girl covets and admires. Creative director Karl Lagerfeld always puts on a good show (recent memorable shows have featured a giant barn with models cheekily rolling in the hay, and last season, models in yeti-like furs stomping around a melting iceberg), so everyone was waiting with baited breath today for what they knew would be a spectacular show.
And yes, as you can see from the photos above, it was classic Chanel grandeur and flamboyance all the way. In typical Lagerfeld style, the floor space was decorated like a French garden complete with fountains, with what seemed like every supermodel ever working in the show. It was hard to believe that this was the ready-to-wear show and not couture, as the lines between the two became blurred in the beauty of the collection.
There was breathtaking detail in the clothes; tiny beaded embellishments that gave the collection’s box jackets an iridescent appearance, rich-looking classic tweeds in silvers and pale ice-cream colours, fringing and feathering, sheer lace midi-skirts and some of the most fantastic looking costume jewellery that I’ve probably ever seen. Any French woman would kill for this level of Parisian style.
Best show of Paris Fashion Week so far? In fact, best show in all of the past month’s fashion shows, full stop? Yeah, I think so..
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Paris Fashion Week highlights: YSL
By Andrea Petrou on October 5th, 2010
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