Jimmy Choo AW 2015 Women’s Collection Presentation in Milan

 

The Ballet takes centre stage as the inspiration for Sandra Choi’s Autumn Winter 2015 collection. Drawing on the powerful sense of emotion conveyed by the line of a dancer’s body, the palpable passion created by a single movement and the elegance of an arabesque, the collection explores a pas des deux relationship between ballet and bondage, the binding and tying of a dancer’s ankle with a simple ribbon that gives the confidence to release an emotionally charged performance.

Buckles harness, fine leather ribbon ties caress, minimal leather and brushed gold hardware cuff details bind evocatively and exaggerated organza bows tease the ankle and the foot. Decadent and sensuous velvet dominates lending a richness of texture contrasting with the softest nappa leather. The colour palette sees the innocence of ballet pink contrasted with moodier hues of teal, red, cinnamon, black and a degradé of ballet pink to black python.

Autumn Winter 2015 heralds the birth of a new rounded toe featured on different silhouettes from a classic stiletto heeled pump to a shoe bootie in leather finished with a delicate velvet trim and tantalising leather ribbon tied bow gracing the back of the ankle.  Velvet flats feature en pointe inspired toes.

“There is a perception that ballet is delicate and light – it is true there is beauty in the performance, but there is also an enormous sense of discipline involved. This led me to draw parallels with the theme of bondage. The dancers use delicate satin ribbons tied at the ankle like a harness, drawing the core in, focusing the mind, restraining the body. A knot gives the dancer strength to perform, but it’s also an art form. I was fascinated by how perfectly the two concepts of ballet and bondage intertwined.”

Sandra Choi, Creative Director

Emporio Armani FW 2015 Fashion Show in Milan

 

Sergio Rossi FW 2015 Women’s Collection Presentation in Milan

 

Sergio Rossi held a press presentation in Milan for showcasing Fall Winter 2015-16 Women’s Collection which embraces the natural elegance of Bianca Brandolini d’Adda. Internationally renowned editorials including Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Paris – Emmanuelle Alt, Editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia – Franca Sozzani, Editor-at-Large of Style.com – Tim Blanks had participated the presentation and explored the theme of feminine seduction given a contemporary twist.

Tod’s AW 2015 Women’s Collection Fashion Show in Milan

 

Performance was presented in the 18^th century rooms in Palazzo Litta where creative director Alessandra Facchinetti brings in a mix of sporty, luxurious and feminine attitude to the collection.

Hogan AW 2015 Women’s Presentation in Milan

This season Simon Holloway’s Collection for Hogan advances the brand’s heritage into a mood of pop sensuality.

Athluxury, mid 1990’s minimalist classics, Allen Jones’ pop-art subversion.

Luxurious tailoring fabrics are bonded and raw cut into athletic proportions mixed with ultra-feminine lingerie layers and cozy sweaters with punky detailing.

Leather, shearling and finn raccoon outerwear is luxe and sporty.

Julie Verhoeven’s sketchy drawings are delicately printed onto crepes, wools and chiffons.

Sneakers are wedged and logo’d; Allen Jones style boots are stretchy and sporty; Mary Janes are modernist patent wedges.

Duffle bags satchels and backpacks are neutral and chic in suede, soft patent and “H" quilted nappa.

Etro AW 2015 Womenswear Fashion Show in Milan

 

For this season, Veronica Etro creates a fashion collection that circles her family’s twin pursuit: the world of home interiors. Ornate wallpapers, rich tapestries and luxurious upholstery textiles provide a lush canvas and new creative playground for beautifully-made clothes. The opulence gets tamed with a new sense of precision and an intimacy that feels cozy and warm. A dose of eccentricity shoots down the bourgeois formality, as the colours of interiors get translated into a rigorous metropolitan style.

Jimmy Choo AW 2015 Women’s Presentation in Milan

 

 

The Ballet takes centre stage as the inspiration for Sandra Choi’s Autumn Winter 2015 collection. Drawing on the powerful sense of emotion conveyed by the line of a dancer’s body, the palpable passion created by a single movement and the elegance of an arabesque, the collection explores a pas des deux relationship between ballet and bondage, the binding and tying of a dancer’s ankle with a simple ribbon that gives the confidence to release an emotionally charged performance.

Buckles harness, fine leather ribbon ties caress, minimal leather and brushed gold hardware cuff details bind evocatively and exaggerated organza bows tease the ankle and the foot. Decadent and sensuous velvet dominates lending a richness of texture contrasting with the softest nappa leather. The colour palette sees the innocence of ballet pink contrasted with moodier hues of teal, red, cinnamon, black and a degradé of ballet pink to black python.

Autumn Winter 2015 heralds the birth of a new rounded toe featured on different silhouettes from a classic stiletto heeled pump to a shoe bootie in leather finished with a delicate velvet trim and tantalising leather ribbon tied bow gracing the back of the ankle.  Velvet flats feature en pointe inspired toes.

Vivienne Westwood AW 2015 Man Show in Milan

 

Vivienne Westwood AW15/16 Man Show has been held in Milan on 18th Jan 2015.

My favourite thing to design at the moment is Unisex- the idea that a teenage girl can wear her dad’s sweater and her boyfriend’s boxer shorts- favourite accessory an old leather belt. It’s a way to double up on our maxim “Buy less, choose well, make it last.” I love our unisex Prince/ Princess coat. The easiest thing to design is our unisex knitwear- you don’t have to think of anything fancy, you can stick to basics, a basic sweater is oversize for a woman and that makes it fashion- DIY fashion; a décolleté sweater is fashion for a man- theatrical. Also most theatrical clothes can be unisex.

We always care to make the world a better place and I want to pay tribute to Price Charles and the great job he’s doing. He’s on this season’s t-shirt which we always give to our backstage team. We have adopted Prince Charles as patron of our collection.

At the end of 2014 I posted photos of heroes on the Climate Revolution website. People who are fighting for a better world. They include Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning. I will also add Pope Francis and Arundati Roy.

One by one I will write texts for our heroes. So far I have done Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.

Today I will do Prince Charles by way of a press release for our MAN show.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, has used his royal status to help the human race. He has worked indefatigably to do only good. I am astonished by what he has achieved. He is a visionary.

Back in the 70s when I was a punk and fighting for human rights, the young Prince Charles was more interested in spiritual things and more aware of culture than I was and most importantly, planning his career as an organic farmer; he already realized that we must live in harmony with the earth. The rest of the world was instead swallowing the idea of Big Agriculture monopoly, which we now know turns the earth to sand.

Prince Charles has hundreds of charities which he funds by donating the profits from produce of his organic farming and he also uses his status to fundraise. They all put people first – in contrast to government policy, which always puts business first. According to government policy wealth ends up with monopolies and banks: According to Charles “What’s good for people is good for the economy is good for the planet.”

To sum up: If Prince Charles had ruled the world according to his priorities during the last 30 years, we would be alright and we would be tackling Climate Change.

This season’s collection grew from looking at English archive tailoring and heritage fabrics. The focus started with Vivienne’s Time Machine collection of 1988 and the Herbert George Wells novel of the same title. The protagonist is a scientist who travels through time. From this story comes the idea that fashion travels through time and styles can come back from the past and clash with ideas from the future, while garments and techniques are connected across the years.

This is a collection for our time travellers inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s “The Blue Boy”, Henry VIII’s armour, John Constable’s painting “Weymouth Bay”, Edwardian interiors, beautiful fabrics from Edwardian upholstry and night gowns etc. Besides heritage fabrics, the iconic Money Print is also included.

Vivienne Westwood SS 2015 Man Show in Milan

Etro AW 2015 Menswear Fashion Show in Milan

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Kean Etro creates a world of illusion next Autumn, where military drops the attitude and uniforms get issued their very own personal painters.

Etro’s “Never Ending Supper", iconic advertising imagery created 17 years ago, is as relevant as ever, informing a dreamy world of noble, marble-lined Italian palazzos that now crawl with exotic animals.

The collection is as rich and curated as a cabinet of curiosities. Treasures unfurl around every corner, with fabrics zealously transformed. Etro has revived a slumbering colony of artists in Como to rigorously hand-paint the surfaces of clothes, adding dreamy, tone-on-tone layers over horizontal grain corduroy or velvet suits. They look printed, but each of these garments has in fact been transformed one-by-one by a single painter’s carful brush strokes. Silk printed coats, needle-stitched with two types of wool, create a fuzzy 3-D plaid surface. Cotton plaid printed shirts are as beautiful and luminous as silk, while heat stamped velvet suits are scattered in gold dust, recalling the grandeur of Fortuny palazzo in Venice.

Pattern rises and falls, loosing its borders and confines while prints appear and disappear like an illusionistic trick. Trompe-l’oeil and ombre effects happily make you loose track of where you are and what you’re looking at (just like our zoo-filled palazzos!). Painted Paisley flowers and petals swirl around jacket shoulders and on pant legs, barely visible, before evaporating into thin air. Plaids and paisleys, checks and tweeds, meet in an alchemy on mannish wool coats, gently blending into one another. Checked plaids move from small to extra large, as if being viewed under a magnifying glass.

Blanketed in rugged tobacco and leather tones, the clothes possess the formality of uniforms but the comfort of sportswear. Draw-string pants are loosened, like breeches, around the hips and have elastic ankles. The boots have rugged rubber soles but possess the polish of a classics lace-up shoe. Corduroy sunglasses watch the swinging movement of patchwork weekend bags in laser cut velvet and pony. Jackets are elongated and worn with turtlenecks. Shearling lined frock coats and military jackets have luxurious silk linings and printed pony skin under collars. The pocket-front Safari jacket, a staple in the Etro archives, makes its way onto Kean Etro’s runway for the first time, creating a winter safari suit. The worlds of formal and informal collide and explode for evening where tuxedos are wrapped in immense velvet devore pois scarves, and where velvet gold-dusted puffer jackets offer a new dandy uniform after-dark. All of it comes together like a grand wunder-room.