June 10, 2010
The collection offers a focused selection of both separates and dresses, and even Fetherston’s first foray into denim.
“For resort, I was inspired by the French film, L’Amant. I wanted to capture an effortless, chic sensibility in an offering with lots of mix and matchability,” Erin Fetherston said.
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March 5, 2010
Sunday February 28th, 2010 – Piazza Vetra, 1 – Milano
Versus has always been a fresher softer and younger oriented Versace version. The second collection codesigned by Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane showed this younger, fresher look, with a sexy vibe but not as much as on Versace Collection, where the sex appeal is the center of attention. Christopher and Donatella selected some Bruce Weber 90′s ad campaign shots for Versace to be features on the tee shirts and bags. Dresses are constructed bustier with pleated stiff skirt, youngfull satin and velvet are draped. The designer duo have been successfull to maintain the Versus spirit created by Gianni Versace for the younger crowd.
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February 22, 2010
Wednesday February 17th, 2010 – Chelsea Art Museum
With all the focus on the clothes, bags and shoes this New York Fashion Week, most people often overlook two key accessories that can leave editors either loving or hating a collection: hair and makeup. But with the fashion bar set so high at the latest Marchesa Fall Winter 2010 show, it would take legendary coiffeur Frédéric Fekkai to deliver the “cirque chic” style that Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig had in mind when they created their latest collection.
Backstage at the Marchesa show, we met up with Lead HairStylist Renato Campora from the Fekkai group and watched as he and his team worked on teasing, brushing and dry shampoing a bevy of models. By the 7th day of fashion week, many of these models‘ don’t even remember what their original hair looked like much less be able to tame it after all the abuse it’s gone through. But little by little, we watched Renato Campora as he took some of the most disheveled sets of hair we’ve seen and transform it into an effortlessly tousled, bouclé, and courtesan coiffure.
As he explained it to us, the technique is somewhat simple but the result is pure glamour. He first used the Frederic Fekkai Coiff Extra Control Styling Gel to restore manageability to the model’s hair, which he then followed with a simple wash and blow dry process. Then he added the secret ingredient necessary to get that hay-like, matte feel to the hair - Frederic Fekkai Au Naturel Dry Shampoo
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Now I know that you’re probably thinking to yourself “I don’t want to seem stupid here but what the heck is dry shampoo and how do you even use it?” Well, that’s at least what I thought at first, until I saw it being used on the model and understood what it can do. Using the Frederic Fekkai Au Naturel Dry Shampoo, Renato peppered the model’s hair, brushing it into the strands, helping to build hair volume but yet give it a matte finish as well. He then teased the hair, wrapped back the middle strands around pencil-shaped tin foils that were later bent to hold everything in place. He then repeated this process 4-5 times around the entire head, checking to see that everything looked semi-symmetrical. His assistant then took to using a flat iron on the curls, for 30 seconds each, to give it that final curly dimension.
After adding the Frederic Fekkai Sheer Hold Hairspray to the top ensemble, a loose back braid was created & tied with a black bow to compliment the Marchesa look. But the Fekkai hair styling technique wouldn’t be complete without final attention to the proportion of the hair to the face. Renato looked at the model’s faces from every which way to make sure the hair was ‘just right’, sometimes even redoing 30 minutes worth of curls just to make sure it was balanced.
If you just stepped into the backstage room right before show time, you’d think the building was on fire and the exits were all sealed. But amidst the chaos, you saw two camps take strands of hair and thread to form one cohesive oeuvre d’art. Curious to see the result? Check below for images on how the looks turned out (and you’re curious and have no plans this weekend, well…you now have something to try out).
Get the Look – Hair: All products by Frederic Fekkai. Renato Campora used Frederic Fekkai Au Naturel Dry Shampoo to make hair full and dry, and add texture. He also used Frederic Fekkai Coiff Extra Control Styling Gel for hold. Then Renato used the Frederic Fekkai Sheer Hold Hairspray to the top ensemble, a loose back braid was created & tied with a black bow
Get the Look – Makeup: All products by Le Métier de Beauté. On lips, Talia Shobrook used Miami Lipstick under Bali-Or-Kona lipstick, which was blotted in the center. On eyes, she used a bluish-green shadow called Blue Steel and then mixed it with a new product called Magic, which was used all over the face.
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January 22, 2010
Thursday January 21th – Paris
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December 21, 2009
September 10, 2009 – Museum of Arts and Design
“We want to offer taylored clothes, the best fit at a competitive price” said Sam Fayed, Bespoken’s creative director. The Fayed brothers decided to show their Made in England collection at the top of Museum of Arts and Design in nyc. Black & White projections on the walls, central park view to present the Bespoken Spring Summer 2010 man. The Fayed brothers are familliar to the traditional English aesthetic and european elegance, their familly own Harrods in London and the Ritz in Paris. . Bespoken was Originally offering shirts only, with this new collection the label introduces suits and fitted jackets. The new textures such as the wax cotton called “Midnight Wax”, some stretch here and there tend to target the young generation.
Sam Fayed think that there is no special occasion to wear a taylored suit. The lines are simple, classic, the fit shape gives this modern touch . The jackets and pant turn-ups are lined with shirting material. The label Bespoken reminds of a private club of men from another era even though we are looking at comtempory modern looking clothes. In term of prices you can expect to pay around $300 for a perfect fitted shirt, jackets floats around $500 and a suit is $1,100. Bespoken, which is sold at Harrods and Bloomingdale’s.
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November 1, 2009
Saturday October 3, 2009 – Ritz Bar
Dice Kayek presented his Spring Summer 2010 Collection “Istanbul Contrast” at the Ritz Bar, as part of a preview of the Turkish season in Franceand the exhibit at the Grand Palais “From Byzantium to Istanbul”.
Istanbul the magnificent, the most oriental of European cities and the most western city of Asia. An intersection of cultures and traditions, the city was the theatre of cultural upheaval and change from Byzantium to Constantinople. Today Istanbul is the emblem of modern Turkey, a creative hotbed defined by its diversity, history and architecture.
Inspired by its symbloic edifices, Dice Kayek’s Spring Summer 2010 collection transcribes the city’s mix of modernity and tradition.
Through translating the city’s life, each dressis inspired by spices, sweet delights, tastes, scents, and the fascinating lights if the Bosphorus embracing the city at night.
One feels in the rich lace embroidery the magical beauty of the winter garden at the Dolmabahce Palace, while metallic embroidery suggests the Galata Bridge, a symbol of contrast that links the Egyptioan Spice Bazaar in the old city with modernity, luxury and opulence.
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September 20, 2009
Thursday September 10th, 2009
Though the collection was shown in New York last week, its spirit is in Capri, Italy. We easily pictured these men with shirts open, the sun beating down on their chests. This season’s inspiration? “Vintage Helmut Newton photographs” an emphatic Simon Spurr told us.
Unlike for women, men’s clothing often seems mundane, never straying too far from a set of styles. To shake up the status quo, Spurr took classic denim and reinvented it, using it not only for sportswear pieces but on trenches and vests as well. The color palette is soft but masculine, with mustard, salmon and cream hues. With a flower pinned to some model’s suits (perhaps a cheeky nod to prom suits for the Spring?), the Spurr man is easily a romantic.
We were especially delighted to see a selection of colored pipe leg jeans in mustard, cream, vintage denim, worn rolled up with espadrilles and cashmere v neck. Double-breasted jackets, linen salmon suits are accessorized with over-sized deerskin leather weekend bags.
A key piece in the presentation that certainly stood out (if nothing because model Garrett Neff was making a few in the audience feel self conscious about their “big-bonedness”) was a tan suede “military jacket” matched with a pair of medium blue selvage denim pipe leg jeans. Chic, simple and elegant, the pieces embodied the spirit of the collection.
Spurr isn’t going anywhere but up. Bergdorf Goodman’s Mens fashion director, Tommy Fazio, will be joining the brand as its first president and Simon Spurr is one of the 10 finalists for the 2009 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. The young designer trained at Ralph Lauren’s Purple and Black Labels as well as under Yves Saint Laurent’s Hedi Slimane. Spurr is an American brand that’s designed by a UK designer and made in Italy; you get that classic Americana style but with European tailoring.
The presentation was styled by Andreas Kokkino
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June 5, 2009
The Marc Jacobs Resort 2010 girl will travel to a weathered hot destination and she looks happy. Floral dresses, marin stripe breton shirts, assimetric bustier party dresses, military tweed jackets, pijamas satin pants, kimono shaped blouse. Some of the looks could represent a relaxed little sister of the Marc Jacobs Spring Summer 2009 girl. The collection even features the MET Kate Moss’s Marc Jacobs Gold Lame Dress.
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April 6, 2009
Thursday April 2nd – 60th Street and Fifth Avenue
On Thursday night, Bergdorf & Goodman hosted a special event with Lanvin’s Albert Elbaz.
“I have many loyal customer in the US, some couldn’t come to the show in Paris, I brought them the show!” said Elbaz about the event.
The show was held on 60th Street and Fifth Avenue held in a majestic room with soaring frescoed ceilings and ballroom chairs, just like if it was in a parisian salon.
“The idea was to have all of you in this beautiful room that is a little bit of Paris. But you open the window and the door and it’s New York. And it’s the best location because Bergdorf Goodman is just behind us” With the intention of re-creating “the magic of a fashion show but in a more intimate way” Elbaz plucked 38 runway looks, some styled with commercial pieces, as well as the rose-covered door frame from his Paris show.
Smart move from Lanvin, bring the show to the costumer isn’t it the best way to promote the new collection. Albert Elbaz travelled especially for the event.
“It’s great that the press is here but the event is for my clients, I want them to see, to feel, to touch the clothes.” said Elbaz.
One client confessed: “I wasn’t impressed with the collection from the images I saw, now that I see it in real it’s a whole different thing, I loved it and want everything”.
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March 30, 2009
Creative director Simon Kneen Fall Winter 2009 Collection is about “being prepared for anything and everything in the face of adversity.”
Chunky knits, tailored military jackets, skinny leather pants and silk dresses.
In men’s, Banana is planning to cozy up to its customer. Chunky sweaters, soft scarves and plush outerwear were designed to “make people feel like they’re in a cocoon” said Kneen.
Can you tell the DVF Fall Winter 2009 inspiration in the pictured look?
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