Roberto Cavalli © Copyright 2014
The Light of Summer
The hectic pace of the city evaporates into a salty ocean breeze as boats anchored at the dock inspire dreams of travel to distant places. The warmth of the sun and the power of color become intoxicating as the summer turns into an elegant adventure where comfort and lightness are synonymous of style.
The captivating Roberto Cavalli women flow onto the deck, encountering summertime and the desire for a carefree escape: for S/S 2015 the Florentine designer creates a collection in which shades of fire orange, cerulean blue, racing green and saffron yellow become the mirror of the summer.
Sensuality as a light breeze that moves across the silhouette of psychedelic floral prints on silk georgette; ribbons flutter lightly on the long dresses.
Bands of striped multicolored jacquard and tulle give volume and weight to the pleated dresses, while the transparencies of white and pastel embroidered tulle express the carefree spirit of the season.
Leather makes an entrance in high-gloss crocodile, reappears in polished python, and takes a turn as laminated quicksilver – techniques also applied to shoes and handbags.
Denim, a fabric that lies at the heart of the maison, is treated with a vintage effect and featured in combinations that are both surprising and effortless. Distressed and patched denim pieces are paired with pieces in guipure lace and yet other pieces of sheer white aristocratic beauty. Lace cut-outs lined with silver sequins give the black denim pantsuit their secret lustre.
Evening wear in fluid silhouettes enriched with lavish lace transparencies, the flutter of feathers, and the unexpected mix of animal print sequin beading with broderie anglaise. The new summer ocelot print is animated by slashes of cobalt blue lace, or simply seductive in its soft fluid shapes.
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Tags: Roberto Cavalli, ROBERTO CAVALLI SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Tue, September 23 2014 » Fashion Blog
Ports 1961 © Copyright 2014
This season, Ports 1961’s woman has two souls inspired by the spirit of the Greek goddess Artemis: one strong and warrior-like; one sensual and feminine. A combination that expresses the svelte power and stealth of the eternal huntress.
A sensual colour palette of crisp white combined with the creamiest ivory, recalling the nacre of a deep sea pearl. Nude tones balance pale rose pinks and whisper-soft taupe – all anchored by the precision of the purest black.
Artemis inspired A-line shapes and long, languid forms with geometric elements, balanced in turn by fluid, flyaway silks, cottons and knits, express a mood of total control and self-determination.
The bold and assertive spirit of the iconic No.10 blouse is reinvented in luxurious athletic fabrics and details, such as a sporty silk mesh and pique ‘plastron’.
Sexy, short kilt and wrap skirts have evolved from FW14. Wide trousers are rethought with a detachable peplum on the waistline, creating an elongated ‘lift’ effect. Cropped pants add variety with the latter in a sheer silk-cotton voile.
Twirled godets and gently billowing gussets stand out on ultra-light dresses in silk and cotton silk twill. Meanwhile, multi plissé dresses feature enriched panels and straps inspired by the huntress’s armour.
Fiona Cibani channels the warrior goddess and invites women to follow Artemis and her fleet-footed elegance with sculpted designs, divine details and a poise and attitude that demonstrates the apex of female empowerment.
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Tags: PORTS 1961, PORTS 1961 SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Mon, September 22 2014 » Fashion Blog
Versace © Copyright 2014
The new essentials of Versace: stripped back and bold, sexy and fresh. Lines are clean, colours are strong, details are playful.
Black tailoring is trimmed with oversized white stitching, while black long skirts are cut away at the side.
Colour-block dresses are cut across the body by an exploded Greek key, while wide bands of colour run diagonal across dresses, skirts and tops.
Knitwear is sporty, with symmetrical patterns on a sweater like racing jerseys, or cropped knit racer vests worn under tailoring.
Laser-cut tops and dresses bring lightness; leather has a punched-out pattern, while metal rings puncture dresses and leather jackets.
A new Versace print clashes images of metal rings with the Medusa and abstracted optics. Swarovski crystal mesh dresses are youthful and strong, with straps held by utilitarian buckles.
The Signature and Palazzo bags have been laser-cut, while evening clutches come in Swarovski crystal mesh.
Patent laser-cut boots, sandals and mules are all on a high transparent Perspex heel with the Medusa head cast inside.
The new collection of Versace pens is decorated with the icons of the house, while limited edition Versace watches are in vivid colour croc straps.
“This is about a fresh new Versace, one that is contemporary, clean and strong. It is the way women wear Versace now, and in the future.” DV
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Tags: SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015, VERSACE, VERSACE SS 2015
Mon, September 22 2014 » Fashion Blog
Mon, September 22 2014 » Fashion Blog
Ermanno Scervino © Copyright 2014
A GLAMOUROUS LIFE AND STYLE
Glamourous looks for both day- and eveningwear. From the parka, must have of the season, proposed in different lengths and materials to the combinations of cropped tops with high-waisted shorts and skirts. Strapless gowns caressing the body for a sinuous silhouette.
MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
Linen canvas panama structure, mélange raffia, chenille macramé, engraved, coupled and printed on chiffon and crepe, mat-effect macramé, laser-printed neoprene, denim, coupled tulle and lace, patchwork knitwear, faded points of light on lace and tulle.
PATTERNS
Python print, floral prints, laser-cut embroidery effect.
VOLUMES
Over-jacket, sinuous silhouette, soft lines, high waist.
COLOURS
Off-white, white, denim, black, turquoise, green.
ACCESSORIES
Mini-cubes in raffia and stones, python or satin sandals, patterns of overlapping jewels.
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Tags: ERMANNO SCERVINO, ERMANNO SCERVINO SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Sun, September 21 2014 » Fashion Blog
SUMMER 2015
CATCH THE WIND!
Airy, vaporous, featherweight forms move, open, twist and lift up, billowing like sails falling back fluidly over the body. Volumes shaped and reshaped at every step, define the energy of the Missoni Summer 2015 Woman and her “joie de vivre”.
- Light weight of the classic trench coat
- Oversized men’s shirts.
- Wide pant-skirts.
- Long dresses and high-waisted blouses.
- Foulards and scarves coiled up and knotted to adorn hair.
Lightweight knits, feature openwork, intarsia and embroidery, doubled with nylon tulle. Broad stripes, softly blended, interact with floating decoupé petals. All over prints on hammered silk, shantung and chiffon. Compositions of flowers in embroidered appliqués and intarsia knits. Polychrome palettes and graphic motifs evoke Pop Art silkscreens or Matisse-like collages.
Ecrù and shades of pink, from yellow to the different tones of green all the way to turquoise, ending with mauve and purple with silver and ruby. The bold primary colours of summery landscapes blend together in pastel hues and fluorescent accents to the multicolour and monochromatic palette of the collection. Mesh calfskin lace-up shoes with coloured rubber sole and zipper, or thong sandals in mesh and shiny patent leather.
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Tags: MISSONI, MISSONI SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Sun, September 21 2014 » Fashion Blog
Just Cavalli © Copyright 2014
“FREEDOM AND LOVE”
Spring / Summer 2015 Collection
The Just Cavalli woman dances to the rhythm of life, in a place where Roberto Cavalli invites young people to share his own fashion story.
Good vibrations and touches of romance charge the scene with energy, giving inspiring messages of love and peace on the clothes, using micro-patterns that reproduce the symbols of a timeless counterculture. We thus become enraptured by the desire to get on a plane and be transported to the island of happiness.
The elegance of dresses and jackets with an urban cut meets the lightness of shirts and mini-skirts with bold, feminine lines, transforming a woman’s silhouette into the star of an open-air concert, in which each frequency enhances the details.
Tiny daisies, hearts, lilies and small butterflies dominate the patterns on the clothes, in which the chromatism of vivid polka dots becomes brilliant movement, creating spots of light that allow space for bodies and materials combined with assonance.
The slim, linear shapes of the trousers dress the body in a feminine way, while in our imaginations, the musical counterbeats are provided by the transparency of the chiffon dresses and pleated skirts.
The high notes in this modern, dynamic score therefore become the studs on the biker jackets, reworked like bright pearls to keep in line with the harmonious soul of the collection.
The miniature textures of animal prints provide the lively beat with which the garments conquer the big stage where the brilliant symphony of colours comes to life: ivory, sky blue and pink alternate with white and black, accompanied by red, light blue, yellow, purple and emerald green.
Chiffon and jacquard cottons for the peaked collars and ruffle skirts, prints adorn jackets and knitwear, leather creates the trousers and inlays, bringing onto the stage a sensual melody combining stories of style and images of life from every corner of the world.
Inspirations and visions succeed in renewing volumes and graphic elements, engraving the dream of a collection that aims to speak about freedom and universal love.
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Tags: JUST CAVALLI, JUST CAVALLI SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Sat, September 20 2014 » Fashion Blog
Andrea Incontri © Copyright 2014
Stardust
Infinite galaxies, iridescent constellations that speak of distant worlds, psychedelic visions and kaleidoscopic explosions. In a word: light.
Light which, as if liberated by a myriad of planets like luminous points in space, becomes pure energy that transforms into motion when transposed to fluid, fresh, lightweight fabrics; when it falls on garments, defining their contours in a constant equilibrium of contrasts. Maxi lengths that leave the ankle exposed thus alternate with ultra minis in a subtle play of nude and clothed, of sky and earth.
Natural elements emanate their own glow in the form of evanescent halos, and the luminosity draws new energy from the hydrangeas immersed in the aurora borealis, taking life in the form of applications of irisé and diamond-cut stones with a thousand facets, and in the flowers that expand and extend across all-over graphics with a post-modern, futuristic attitude.
The spare, essential forms are the shell of a precious and unexpected content: along the perimeter of the rigorous and geometric lines that dress a woman like folded and profiled hankies, there is color, substance.
Colors which, in a fluid explosion of vitality, constitute a unique and original palette. Starting with the names, evocative expressions like Pandora, topaz, star, neon, sunrise, light and deep, chosen to describe all the nuances, which range from midnight blue and violet to total black, red and gold.
And like the colors, the textures are combined, overlapped and juxtaposed to create a harmonious contrast. Satin and charmeuse for sensual dresses, ultralight printed viscose for knit twin sets, lurex insets and fil coupé fabrics with polka-dots or silver lamé.
The protagonists and leitmotiv of the collection: neoprene and lacquer, alternated and combined in cylindrical heels enlivened by zig-zag profiles and playful pop music motifs, in super flat sandals dressed in leather with the rhythm of convex portholes, laying bare the magic dot motif thereby created.
The push toward constant research and experimentation is confirmed and renewed in the XS and XXL Nova and Supernova bags and the bucket and backpack models Cassiopea and Elysium.
Bags that embody the themes and principles that inspired the collection, as evidenced in the innovative choice of materials like neoprene and lacquer, in the unique workmanship with a hyper-contemporary flair thanks to the use of foam fabrics, in the original, compact forms and proportions, and in the use of light that reflects and refracts through the rows of stones and meteorites of gold of the Venus bag, the purest expression of femininity.
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Tags: ANDREA INCONTRI, ANDREA INCONTRI SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Sat, September 20 2014 » Fashion Blog
An obsession with Ancient Rome. Urbane prints on smooth cotton cady and cool crepe de chine are infused with the precise geometries of mosaics.
Hand-loomed jacquards transform shimmering skeins of thread into three-dimensional sculptures. The sixties, sweetened.
Fausto’s charm for the masters: Rudi Gernreich and André Courrèges. A tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars meets Barbarella.
A crisp palette of graphic black and soft white is spiked with pale gold and citrus hues.
Swarovski crystals illuminate daywear with lunar light. Couture made easy with crop tops and polos. The gladiator reimagined as a modern warrior princess. Punk construction.
A new obsession with holes and ripping: perforated cotton knits and metallic leathers; raw silk, torn and trimmed with rock crystals.
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Tags: FAUSTO PUGLISI, FAUSTO PUGLISI SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Fri, September 19 2014 » Fashion Blog
Bourgeois punk, bohemian DIY.
Alessandro Dell’Acqua pursues an experimental crossover path, subverting the rules and forever perfecting his own amazing fashion vision where wickedly provocative spirit and practical put-together mood surging with dissonant elements only on the surface translate into an easy spontaneous idea of elegance.
The force of character is in the open and blatant expressions of friction, the liveliness of mind in the disdain for conventional concepts and chains of command. All against the backdrop of an exquisitely Italian taste for luscious colors and materials, the pure pleasure of sensuous sophistication.
The collection puts a strong cut-up slant on construction, dovetailing pragmatic facets and luxurious effects, playing with and contradicting mere appearances. Army/couture, opulent/functional, daytime/evening, masculine/feminine, severe/sensual take turns setting a clear agenda, yet always complying with instinctive impulses, a free and fanciful aesthetic flair very much about natural desires, scarcely about thought processes.
Precious stones define pins on ladylike pullovers, trace utilitarian slings on mannish organza shirts, dot edgings on long skirts. Nothing is what it seems: little blouse & skirt combos are actually dresses, the military topcoat finds a smart new identity in dress form.
Everything has a special glow: bright sequins make a lavish statement on macramé skirts and jackets, embroidery designs capture all the fun of surrealistic art. High rise pants with a boyish appeal alternate with short top & lace skirt ensembles, tartan patterns come in multiples on organza.
The vertical silhouette’s fulcrum point is the waist, with sturdy stone-encrusted and cabochon-studded leather belts heightening the impact. Non-stretch fabrics (Mackintosh cotton, organza, cigaline, jute cloths) vary in weight while also capitalizing on a gorgeous palette of blush pink, vivid green, khaki, tan and black shades with hints of red.
Lastly, shoes throw the season’s image off balance and re-establish equlibriums, as in the surreal duchesse mules with big bows in rich wine, green and mustard hues.
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Tags: N°21, N°21 SS 2015, SPRING SUMMER WOMEN 2015
Fri, September 19 2014 » Fashion Blog
