Monday, December 19, 2005

Spring 06

Inspirations



Chloe


Photo: Marcio Madeira

Phoebe Philo on Chloe
"I love all the couture fabrics. You know, boucles and gazars. Its wonderful to work with them. They are really lush and expensive and rich. But they are not that versatile, you have to kind of respect them. You can't do things that you can do with other fabrics, so it was an interesting process."


Fendi


Photo: Don Ashby

Karl Lagerfeld on Fendi
"Sometimes it's leather, sometimes it's pique, sometimes it's plastic, but it's all done with laser. You know, you couldn't do that before."



Gucci


Photo: Marcio Madeira


Frida Giannini on Gucci
"The first step was to bring in a sense of joy, because I really feel that optimism is part of our lives, and of my personality, my vision. I felt we needed to play a little bit with prints. Some are from the archives, some were totally new, with a few very solid, very strong colors."


Luella Bartley


Photo: Greg Kessler


Luella Bartley on her collection:
"This collection has all the English traditional elements that I love those very aristo (riding, tennis, sailing) rich English sports, mixed with the London underground music scene. There is a contrast of uptown, uptight conservativeness, with this downtown attitude, taking inspiration from the Velvet Underground with the striped T-shirts and all that iconic New York history."

I must say her impression of modern London fashion was dead on with originality, funk, yet kept it girly.


Michael Kors



Photo: Greg Kessler


Michael Kors on his line:
"For this show I kept thinking, how do you look at the romantic and take the sweetness out of it? Make it viable for the world today? We used the west as sort of the starting point, and the whole idea of really beautiful textures, a lot of lace, a lot of embroideries, mixed with beautiful Michael tailoring."

Micheal, you will always be my favorite American Designer! Always effortless, beautiful, tailored, and wearable.


Proenza Schouler


Photo: Greg Kessler

Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough
Hernandez:
"We went to this big museum in Los Angeles after our last show and saw all these amazing Arts and Crafts pieces. The Arts and Crafts movement was basically a reaction against industrialization, and we find it so relevant to today, as a reaction to all this mass, mass everything. From afar it looks like nothing, but the closer you get, the more detail and things you see. Then you look on the inside of some of these garments, and it's insane whatÂ’s inside of them."
McCollough: "We have been saying it's kind of a minimal baroque."

As always, unique lines, attention to detail, and soft glowing glamour.

Marni




For spring, the Marni pieces we expect were there: the short, wide raglan-sleeve fifties jackets, the loosely fitted summer dresses, the duster coats pulled in with belts all made with that familiar air of happy accidents at the home sewing machine. -Sarah Mower.


Marc by Marc Jacobs


hmmm can we say bad flashback from the late '80s. Uni-suits, scrunchi socks, leggings with stirups, sweatshirts over leggings, even arm warmers! Yikes, Marc, please please go back to the sweet 70s. At least then most of your customers will never remember wearing those scary pieces!

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Celeb. Brands



Although J LO was one of the firsts, Celebrity fashion houses have been getting pretty cute I must say. The other day I was in Lisa Kline and picked up these fantastic jeans by Beyonce. Ofcourse, it wasn't until after I bought these "House of Dereon" jeans that they were infact the bootylicious superstar's. I've got some booty of myself and they do just the trick.


Another Celeb making waves is Mandy Moore. She is SO hot, I have a secret style crush on her.


Her Brand, Mblem is being sold everywhere, and has the cutest little tees and tanks. The fabric is soooo soft, and the cuts are simple but unique. Way to go Mandy. Oh,you can order those at Lisa Kline.

Go ahead and ignore Jessica's line of clothes, Princy. They are all copies of bad bad bad clothes, and will soon be available in the clearance section of Marshals.





"Like oh my gaaaa, I don't know how to design anything and my sister dresses out of garbage dumpster."


Oh Baby Baby



We can all thank the good lord for not letting our trailer trash princess Britney expand her empire into fashion. Can you imagine? Long skirts, no shoes, and wife beaters with sexually explicit content. BO scent comes with no extra charge.
Hair accessories come spring 2006.

Hot leggs

Check out the hottest thing since showing skin. SEXY Black tights under fierce mini dresses. You go go girls.







Jen gets Furry



Is it just me or is she starting to resemble a drag queen? Ahhh yes. The plastic surgery morphs one into a different species. Im sure you all have seen the plastic people? Soon to take over the world.




Another case... shes soon to take on the trannie look as well.

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