ALBERTA FERRETTI SPRING SUMMER 2018 FASHION SHOW LIVE STREAMING – MILAN 20TH SEPTEMBER 2017 05.00 PM (CET)
Watch the Alberta Ferretti Spring Summer 2018 Fashion Show in Live Streaming – Milan 20th September 2017 at 05.00 PM. Stay Tuned…!!!
Wed, September 20 2017 » Fashion Blog
CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC SPRING 2018 COLLECTION – NEW YORK FASHION WEEK
The Spring 2018 CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC collection takes its inspiration from cinema, from the dream-factory of Hollywood and its depictions of both an American nightmare, and the all-powerful American dream. Thriller heroines, heroes and antiheroes. The aesthetic codes of movie protagonists are endlessly remixed, their meanings given new interpretation and celebration.
Drawn from the same source material, but created separately, artist Sterling Ruby’s site-specific installation for the Spring runway show underscores these themes. The work uses as its base the installation from the Fall 2017 show, just as the collection builds on the foundation established by its predecessor – a new wardrobe, of American archetypes.
The “clues” of horror, but also of dreams, inspire the collection. Here, there is never any horror without beauty. Cinema’s distinct visual vocabulary of symbols and signs, is cut-up, recontextualized and reassembled, to create a plurality of dress. Multiple signifiers of the tropes of thrillers are combined in single outfits, creating new assemblages. They are ‘edited’ – like a movie – to define a fresh narrative.
“It’s about American horror and American beauty,” says Raf Simons. “Fashion tries to hide the horror and embrace only beauty. But they are both a part of life. This collection is a celebration of that: a celebration of American life.”
Mid-century American couture silhouettes are rendered industrial, reiterated in nylon, rubber specially-molded in Ohio and hand-painted leather. Lumberjack checks are used for tailored men’s suits. Pom-poms are reappropriated for fringed dresses, handbags or keyrings, and nightgowns become evening-gowns. Material surfaces are disturbed, distressed, rubber-stamped, faded and splattered. The collection’s dominant colors are safety orange, yellow, black, overwhelmingly red.
Fishnet, silk slips, rubber against skin. These reference a corporeality that speaks of both sexuality and mortality. The lineage of these movies can be traced back to urban myths, to puritan cautionary tales warning adolescents of the perils of moral transgression and the dangers of youthful sexuality – and the history of CALVIN KLEIN is tied up with transgressive sexuality.
The quintessence of CALVIN KLEIN’s identity can be discovered, again and again. Like these movies, CALVIN KLEIN is also an American institution, a symbol in and of itself. It reflects one facet of that always-inspiring American Dream. A pair of the brand’s iconic perfume bottles – ETERNITY and OBSESSED – become totemic charms, hanging from belts and handbags like tools, weapons or trophies.
In exploring America, Raf Simons found Andy Warhol – an artist whose work has helped define both the contemporary identity of American culture, and also the world’s perceptions of it. In a unique collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, this collection incorporates a selection of Warhol artworks as placement screen-prints.
The pieces feature portraits of Warhol intimate and art collector Sandra Brant (1971) and the movie star Dennis Hopper (1971). The latter wrote, directed and starred in the film Easy Rider (1969), which has come to define contemporary notions of American machismo.
The curation also includes Knives (1981-2), Electric Chair (1964-65) and Ambulance Disaster (1963-64) from Warhol’s Death and Disaster Series. This body of work depicts real-life horror and trauma, but transforms them into images that resemble film stills – here, they are laid alongside Brant and Hopper, the muses of the collection. Horror is juxtaposed, always, with dreams. It always becomes beautiful. Good always triumphs.
Sat, September 16 2017 » Fashion Blog
DAMIR DOMA SPRING SUMMER 2018 COLLECTION – MILAN FASHION WEEK
Musings on collecting and the path of a millennial wanderer inflect the Spring Summer 2018 collection by Damir Doma with a radical democracy, as an abstract narrative of pattern and textures defines doma’s cast of characters. Grounded in the familiar, their garments border convention through dynamic gestures of cut and craft, as the patina of time intersects with latent athleticism.
Drawstrings, dissected panels, and asymmetric corset ties create new volumes for an ample silhouette: unexpected draping alters archetypal pieces from the trenchcoat to blousons, blazers, and masculine shirting. Surface effects abound as bleach spots, swirling embroideries, pointillist dot corrosion prints, self-striped jacquards and overpainted fil coupé florals create moments of mixed media in light, fluid layers of cotton silk and linen blends, patchwork denim, silk georgette, crisp poplin, and a mosaic jacquard. The palette diverges from summer neutrals to cold shots of grass green, marigold, violet and lavender.
In partnership with historical Italian label Lotto, a jersey capsule distills the brand’s geometric logo as a bold stamp wound around sportswear separates, whilst their white tennis shoes are finished with a pale terracotta veneer. Artisanal derbies and clogs by officine creative feature grosgrain ankle ties and are crafted in smooth leather and the season’s floral prints.
The new nita sunglasses by Mykita / Damir Doma are constructed in lightweight stainless steel and featured the controlled chaos of a scribble-effect wire frame. Beaten bronze jewellery by slim barrett bears accents of sterling silver in bold wheel motifs and fine fob chain details that hang as earrings, pendants, and brooches.
Sat, July 1 2017 » Fashion Blog
DSQUARED2 SPRING SUMMER 2018 COLLECTION – MILAN FASHION WEEK
#D2gether
Louche and loose, the guys and dolls of next summer have a penchant for leather, 50s silhouettes and making trouble on summer vacay. Hair gelled back and dressed in black with jaunty leather caps, neck scarves and pointy winkle picker boots loaded with Western buckles, their goth style gets a sunny injection when they roll into Hawaii. Their signature bad boy and girl looks garner new layers picked up from the tropical surrounds.
Biker leather pants and calf hair leopard-spotted jackets are mixed up with Hawaiian prints on shorts, shirts and denim jackets. Slick black 50s pieces are contrasted with denim and pastel in their holiday wardrobe. An oversized leather cardigan is worn on top of a bonded double-face leather polo with stripes, gossamer fine tulle sleeveless T-shirts are trimmed with ruffles. A satin bomber jacket shimmers, from its colorful floral design defined in tonal sequins – the sleeves profiled in a row of the same Western buckles on the boots. Sweatshirts feature soft leather sleeves. The K-Way and Dsquared2 collaboration continues with waterproof covered K-Way denim shorts constructed with side zips. A series of pastel shade 50s style prom tuxedos feature ruffles on the shirt and coordinating bow ties and lapels.
A bad scout theme is woven into the looks courtesy of cotton drill shirts appliquéd with special badges for wayward adventurers, one is for pitching a tent on mountain top, the other, hard liquor drinking games. Accessories for camping in the great outdoors, include a frypan and metal cup are tethered to an oversized patch-decorated backpack.
Dsquared2’s cropped narrow pant silhouette is mixed with a feminine retro shape for the women’s lineup. Hawaiian prints appear on soft leather pants, jackets and miniskirts, worn with slouchy biker jacket in leopard print calf hair. Short and flirty full tulle skirts and dresses are layered with K-Way hooded jackets covered in transparent plastic. The Western style buckles from the men’s boots trim a zip-up bodice dress, appear in rows on jackets and sweatshirts and at the top of a hybrid bootie that melds a bukled goth boot with a flip flop. Floaty long tulle skirts are swathed in ruffles. Multi-dimensional flowers are attached to black ribbons for chokers and bracelets.
Fri, June 30 2017 » Fashion Blog
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD SPRING SUMMER 2018 COLLECTION – LONDON FASHION WEEK
Vivienne Westwood © Copyright 2017
We are Motherfucker
My pack of playing cards, we’re releasing one a week, we started with the ace of spades. Everything’s connected, you can collect them like football cards; it is also a plan of action, a survey map. If we connect the dots, we can win the fight for the free world, first step: Switch to Green Energy Supplier.
- We have a print using all four symbols.
We will begin with natural white covered with rainforest print – small black circles looking like a spotty animal print but which are really meant to be the noughts which endlessly multiply money by 10 over and over. We only need a few to Save the Rainforest but billions disappear every day in global inflation. Other graphics will be in the form of texts – black on natural white.
We will add separate pieces to these basic looks: No fashion theme – just half dressed. Perhaps a shirt which in one go shows you the most shirtlikeshirt: Platonic! Silly? You will see the jacket which says jacket, the most dynamic jacket, a joke of jeans, the universal shortest trouser, a gesture of as weater; the most sexy dress, should it be worn on the oldest person in the world on top of a net t-shirt. The dress has a cave print of hunter gatherers, moving across the land, following the reindeer. Will we survive our evolution. Don’t panic.
‘Buy Less Choose Well, Make it Last’
Vivienne Westwood
Mon, June 19 2017 » Fashion Blog
MOSCHINO SPRING SUMMER 2018 MENSWEAR + WOMEN’S RESORT COLLECTION FASHION SHOW LIVE STREAMING – LOS ANGELES 8TH JUNE 2017 7.30 PM PDT
Watch the Moschino Spring Summer 2018 Menswear and Women’s Resort Collection Fashion Show in Live Streaming – Los Angeles 8th June 2017 7.30 PM PDT. Stay Tuned…!!!
Wed, June 7 2017 » Fashion Blog
