Valemtino Garavani’s Asian Isnpired chateau
Château de Wideville celebrates the haute couturier’s passion for all things Chinese, from Qing-dynasty ancestor portraits to European chinoiserie.
Boucheron’s L’Artisan du Rêve collection, Harry Winston ‘s Signature Label, Bulgari’s Serpenti, Chaumet’s Joséphine Aigrette line, Piaget ‘s Couture Précieuse line,Victoire de Castellane ‘s My Dior, Van Cleef & Arpels Palais de la Chance , La Bonne Etoile, La Nature Porte-Bonheur and Les Légendes de la Chance, Chanel’s diamond sautoir and the first Asian Jeweler Wallace Chan are the stars of Karl Lagerfeld scenario at the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires.
The collection was the fashion equivalent of a souvenir shop, so stocked with kitschy local clichés that one wondered if it were done in partnership with the Sicilian bureau of tourism. There were two main looks: First, colorful puppet prints, a too-literal depiction of street theater, that were garishly splashed across tunics, skirts and dresses, done in a variety of Dolce & Gabbana stock silhouettes.
During her fifty year reign as the “Empress of Fashion,” she launched Twiggy , advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs such as “the bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb.” She was the fashion editor of HARPER’S BAZAAR where she worked for 25 years before becoming editor in chief of VOGUE followed by a remarkable stint at the Met’s Costume Institute where she helped popularize its historical collections.
An Oriental flair blended with a typical Milanese architectural style is the secret of the charming project by the sister’s friend Giancarlo Montebello who was from 1060 to 1980 a renowned jewelry editor and who also worked with artists such as Fontana Niki de Saint Phalle and Sonia Delaunai among others.
Mostly monochromatic, this collection had a languid, laid-back glamour telegraphed by luxe fabrics and embellishments. The label’s designers, Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke, said they took their design elements both from the “energy” of Peru and of Buenos Aires, following a jaunt there earlier this year, and from elements of masculine and feminine dressing.
After the giant egg performance at the Guggenheim Museum Lady gaga took her performance art talents across the pond, hitting the catwalk for famous hat maker Philip Treacy’s Michael Jackson-themed London Fashion Week show. (It’s the designer’s first in 13 years, though his hats are worn by countless celebs.)
I have selected the best street style shots from London Fashion Week Spring 2013. Among the photographers:
Vogue ‘s Phil Oh, The Cut’s Victoria Adamson from The Cut, Fashionista’s Street Walker.
Are you looking to rest on a new kind of beautiful British luxury after theLondon Fashion Show? Look no further: you’ve arrived at Bulgari Hotel & Residences London.
It’s no secret that where luxury brands are concerned, Bulgari is a tough one to beat. So, it goes without saying that lovers of luxury – as well as lovers of spending time in London – must make it a priority to sample the city’s newest luxury hotel.
Antony Burakowski and Alison Roberts celebrated 25 years in the business by opening London fashion week with a collection called…
For the finale of Alexander Wang’s spring show, held Saturday evening at Pier 94, nine models, all…
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Street Style is a fashion that is considered to have emerged not from studios, but from the grassroots. Street fashion is generally associated with youth culture or individual mix& mach style. From Paris to New York , London or Stockholm, street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion trends and expressions at any given time. Mainstream fashion often appropriates street fashion trends as influences.
Ending March 30, a craft festival brought a silk screened scarf exhibit, leather workers, diamond setters, watch makers, tie makers and other artisans together who demonstrated their skills for the public.
Envisioned as a virtual labyrinth of fantasy and reality, Prada‘s Fall Winter campaign is work of the legendary…
“I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.” Diego Rivera Viennese fashion designer Susanne Bisovsky‘s…
The SCAD Museum of Art is pleased to present Little Black Dress, the premier exhibition of the Fall 2012 season. The exhibition curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue Contributing Editor André Leon Talley, will open to the public on September 28th and is sponsored by M·A·C Cosmetics.