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Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Paris Fashion Week: Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2013

Paris Fashion Week: Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2013 in pictures

Louis Vuitton's hotel corridor setting revealed a host of lace-embellished silk and sequined sirens, including Kate Moss, for autumn/winter 2013.

Kate Moss Closes the Lousis Vuitton Show.

Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2013 in pictures.

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Chanel Lego Bag -Spring/Summer 2013

Chanel Lego Bag on the Spring/Summer 2013 runway.

Garance Dore.

Street style New York Fashion Week.

As featured in the Feb issue of British Vogue.

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Dolce Gabbana Women,s shoes Collection 2014

Dolce Gabbana Women,s shoes Collection 2014

Friday, 22 February 2013

Mens,s Footwear Trends 2013

The Chelsea Boot: AW12 Runways

If we look at the AW12 Fashion Weeks and collections from high fashion designers, the Chelsea Boot continues to remain an extremely popular choice. This season alone, designers such as Grenson, Paul Smith, Jimmy Choo and Ralph Lauren Black Label have all featured Chelsea boots in their collections.

Focusing our attention on the AW12 Fashion Weeks, Balenciaga illustrated the Chelsea boot as their key footwear silhouette, showcasing versions in striking white leather and oxidized silver snakeskin. Pringle of Scotland followed suit in a slightly more subtle fashion, with two-tone Chelsea boots featured in unlikely colour combinations such as teal/baby pink and oxblood/blue:

Fashion Trends of the season 2013

THE spring/summer 2013 shows might be over, but they've left a whole lot of trends and fashion talking points behind - and come next year, you'll be spoilt for choice when it comes to planning your wardrobe.

Do you prefer pastels or neons? Will you go graphic in squares and plaid? Or will you dare to bare in the new cropped proportions? Before you make those all-important decisions, let us guide you through the season's sartorial ways with our A to Z trend guide - as well as elaborate on those talking points.

For it was a season of change and new beginnings - Jil Sander returned to the house she founded in 1973; Hedi Slimane returned to YSL but now it's called Saint Laurent and this time he is creative director of womenswear not menswear; and Raf Simons made his Dior ready-to-wear debut.

And just as much as it was a season of lateral thinking (squares and stripes make for the new prints and patterns), it was one of fun too: just take a look at Prada's wooden tower shoes, Celine's red fur Birkenstock sandal styles, the Lego colours and plastic chain bags at Versus and the wind turbines that propelled the models down the catwalk at Chanel. Enjoy.

Louis Vuitton.

Loewe.B is for Bombers: They were thejacket style of choice this season – who didn't have at least one in their collection? The most beautiful and elegant came courtesy of Loewe (all embossed with roses or bejewelled with giant flowers), while Jonathan Saunders made them metallic, Erdem kept them sweet, and Chanel, Stella McCartney, Antipodium and Zoe Jordan kept them sporty and simple.

Alexander McQueen.C is for Cropped: Come spring/summer 2013, it's time to think short. Balenciaga and Chanel were among those that showed us how to do cropped jackets (with a ruffled skirt at the former and a neat little shift beneath at the latter), while Alexander McQueen showed us why cropped trousers are the way forward: to show off those scythe shoes.

Prada.D is for Daria Strokous: The new model name to know, she opened the Dior show, as well as Lanvin, and closed Prada, Alberta Ferretti and Donna Karan.

Philip Treacy.E is for Eighties Icons: Jean Paul Gaultier went back to the Eighties for a collection that celebrated all of the Eighties icons that inspired him and his clothes over the years – Sade, Boy George, Madonna and more. Olivier Rousteing at Balmain also found inspiration in Sade for a collection that drew on her look, all powerful shoulders and slicked back hair (we saw those power shoulders at Lanvin and Roland Mouret too). Elsewhere Philip Treacy paid tribute to Michael Jackson by showing his hat creations alongside a special Michael Jackson-themed wardrobe.

Holly Fulton.F is for Flower Power: In both the Sixties hippy sense and in the floral decorative sense. At Prada and Holly Fulton we saw huge blooms decorate every surface (on furs slung over the shoulder at the former and as big 3D blooms on the latter), while at Moschino and Versus it was the fun Austen Powers-style spirit of the decade we saw rubbing off.

Alberta Ferretti.I is for Iridescence: Get ready to shine next summer thanks to Alberta Ferretti, Peter Pilotto, Mary Katrantzou, Antonio Berardi, Giles, Roksanda Ilincic, Bottega Veneta, Anne Valerie Hash, Balmain, Viktor & Rolf (who were inspired by mirrors for their collection), and Louis Vuitton (where the smallest sequins ever produced were used). Embellishment isn't just a party-season thing.

Antonio Marras.L is for Laduree Colours: It was one of the sweetest seasons we've seen and designers in London especially were appealing to our sweet sartorial tooth with spearmint, fondant pink, violet, lemon and baby-blue shades. We saw them at Erdem, Christopher Kane, Michael Van Der Ham, Corrie Neilsen, Meadham Kirchhoff, Emilia Wickstead, Mulberry, and later Antonio Marras, Fendi, Ports 1961, Prada, Sonia Rykiel, Viktor & Rolf and Valentino.

Moschino Autumn/Winter 2013-14 RTW

IF any Brits were beginning to feel homesick half way through Milan Fashion Week and the third capital into Fashion Month's four, then Moschino's Rossella Jardini had the answer: her autumn/winter 2013-14 collection, a true ode to the United Kingdom.

"I love everything that is British, I have from the beginning. I always do, anytime," said the designer backstage, who had started with Scotland and its fabrics as her main reference point for the rich and regal tartan opening looks that were distinctly dressage in their appeal: sleek red or green blazers were worn with huge and oversized riding hats and blingy gold earrings - the perfect styling touch. These were Moschino show ponies, and they came with the perfect pony tails tied in black ribbon just so; lean black riding trousers embroidered up the leg in gold; and badge or crest-emblazoned jumpers, jackets and pleat skirts.

There were frill-fronted shirts and a couple of cowgirls spotted too ("Because I love to mix my textures, embroideries and references," said Jardini), in rose-embroidered fringe suedes, but for the most part it was natty blazers and serious coats complete with gold piping all the way.

And to further compound her British love came one of the best play lists we've heard all Fashion Month - a Brit pop hit list of The Verve, Oasis and Blur. Nobody could possible even entertain the thought of being homesick now.

There were a couple of Jardini's punk girls who had obviously escaped from her Cheap & Chic collection in London and there was some masculine Charlie Chaplin tailoring going on for two looks as well.

Bagpipes led the finale procession out: a heightened almost caricatured version of Britian but one we were very pleased to see - just add gold jewellery.

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

RIHANNA unveil her River Island campaign

Rihanna has unveiled her River Island campaign for the first time, hiring Jourdan Dunn and Charlotte Free to showcase her debut collection. Other featured models include Tao Okamoto, Ataui Deng and Bambi Northwood Blyth.

RIHANNA unveil her River Island campaign.

Photographed by Mario Sorrenti, the shoot - as with the clothing itself - is inspired by the Nineties. Models lounge on a car - against a backdrop of vibrant colour - wearing a mixture of pieces from the collection, including a black floor-length dress with daring side split, a navy jumpsuit which is unbuttoned to the navel and a striped bra top and high-waisted shorts.