Bowling Lanvin JL

Lanvin is famous for its wonderful dresses and the iconic sneakers. Alber Elbaz shows every season very awesome pieces and he is really good in making accessories. I believe that Lanvin shoes are always one of the most desirable accessory that women want. Speaking about bags, Lanvin makes nice ones that, however, are not so good to be classified as "it-bags" or must have: these bags, with the same prices of other brands, are cool but you know are different from like a CLASSIC Prada, YSL or Bottega Veneta handbag. BTW, Alber Elbaz and so Lanvin decided to change this thing. For this spring Lanvin made a daybag called Bowling JL that will surely be a must have. The bag is available in three sizes and in luxurious material such as python and smooth calf. 

What I love of this bag is its couture detail (The JL initial embroidered on the leather) and the fact that finally even Lanvin is going to have its own it-bag which can really be in competition with other bags such as PS1 or maybe even Kelly. 

The bag is already available on LuisaViaRoma.

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , bags , Bowling Jl , handbags , Lanvin , s/s 2012

New year, new life. Happy New Year!

I hope that 2012 will be a wonderful year for fashion and in particular I would like to see someone really good at Dior, so I chose to post my favourite Dior collection (f/w 07/08 couture) just to remind how beautiful it was when there was the great John Galliano .

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Posted in Bill Gayten , Christian Dior , f/w 2007 , John Galliano

Merry Christmas!

I hope that you are having very nice time and that you will enjoy these holidays. So, I wish you a very merry Christmas with a song that I really love from the last episode of Glee.

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Tom Ford...s/s 2012!

Tom Ford has been the creative director of Gucci since 1994 to fall 2004, then Alessandra Facchinetti and later Frida Giannini became creative directors. So, we all remind his provocative style and unmistakable features such has the great attention for sex appeal and the huge use of luxurious fabrics. Then, when Ford left Gucci, he created his own label and his men line was and still is a great success. It was and is due to the patterns, prints and the fabrics but also to the creative idea, innovative conception, of the classic menstyle. The oxymoron between classical style and innovation is the main feature of Tom Ford's men collections.

Since f/w 2011 he decided to start showing a female collection and in the last days was available on YouTube Ford's s/s 2012 collection. I have to say that I'm a big fan of Tom Ford and I love his sunglasses and men pieces. However in my last post about Tom Ford's women collection I wasn't very satisfied from his creations and I'm not again. I mean, I don't want to discuss about fabrics or quality tthat is obviously extraordinary... I want to discuss about innovation. We all agree, I think, that designers must be innovative or otherwise they are just boring as everyone. If we look at Tom Ford collections they look like a pathetic and extremely expensive copy of his old collections for Gucci. This is his style but I want to see something new. Lace dresses, lots of fur..all these things which could seem sophisticated look just "old" for everyone who really follows Tom Ford and fashion world. So, I love Tom Ford but I would like that he will start to show something innovative and interesting, not just clothes which the only utility is to show how money someone owns....

Designers must make fashion clothes not status symbols!

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Posted in Gucci , London fashion week , s/s 2012 , shows , Tom Ford

Marni...H&M and its last collections!

Here is the video of the official announce of the Marni collaboration with H&M for s/s 2012. 

After the Versace for H&M in march there will be another great designer such as Consuelo Catiglioni which will make a limited collection for the Swedish fast fashion company. Jimmy Choo, Stella McCartney, Roberto Cavalli, Viktor & Rolf, Comme des Garçons, Matthew Williamson, Sonia Rykiel, Lanvin and Versace. These brand are the ones which have collaborate with H&M and sometimes they make amazing collection like Verscae of CdG, sometimes they didn't like V&R. However the amazing thing about Marni is that this brand is maybe one of the brand which makes the rgeatest prints. If we want to think about amazing prints we must think about Pucci, Prada, Proenza Schouler, Burberry, Dries Van Noten, Diane Von Furstenberg and Marni. Marni makes also wonderful bag and shes. Consuelo Castiglioni said that she wants to show again her collection in a cheaper way...If she will really make this I'm sure that this will be the most appreciated collection, even more than Versace.

I posted also some pictures of the s/s and f/w 2012 collections to show you some of the amazing prints which are the main feature of Marni. I love its flowers, its bags but I can't understand the shoes. However, I love Marni and I'm looking forward for seeing this collaboration.

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Posted in Commes des garçons , Consuelo Castiglioni , HM , Karl Lagerfeld , Lanvin , Marni , Matthew Williamson , Roberto Cavalli , s/s 2012 , Sonya Rykiel , Stella McCartney , Versace , Viktor-Rolf

Givenchy handbags...f/w 2011!

Thanks to Riccardo Tisci Givenchy became one of the favourite brands of the celebs and its accessories are really appreciated. In the last seasons Givenchy made some amazing bags and so I decided to show you the models for this winter (even if some boutiques are starting to think about s/s). 

These bags are characterized by the typical prints of Givenchy and its colors. Black blue and green are the distinctive signs of this brand and the "cougar pattern" on the transparent tote makes that nice but not so cool bag (the shape is pretty boring) one of the most interesting bags of this period.  The main features of this bags are the simplicity of the shapes and  the richness of details and particulars such as the prints, the materials and the new geometries that are developed on the fronts. I know that these bags are not charming as Bottega Veneta's ones or Balenciaga or the ones of many other brands but apart from this very famous brands Givenchy's accessories owns a gorgeous energy and potential that make them very chic.

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Posted in bags , f/w 2011 , Givenchy , handbags , pre-f/w 2011 , Riccardo Tisci

Nicholas Kirkwood....f/w 2011!

Nicholas Kirkwood is famous for his asymmetric platform which he improves with new features every season. He adds pearls, wood, cork, leather ...he used every material for his plateau and this season he also showed a more "soft" version of it that make the shoes quite new. The feathers and the mongolian fur   creates a nice effect that was never obtains on shoes (mongolian fur is more often used for coats). He also created exaggerate wedges and triangular heels, as well as "crooked" ones so the shoes get a new identity, The shoes that he created for the f/w 2011 of Rodarte are influenced by the Mulleavy's collection which took inspiration from Amish communities and Kansas. So we can see classic shoes with new pattern, for Erdem he just uses the print of the brand and put it on the shoes. In the end we can see a lcd shoes which is characteristic for the heel that reminds the "prickle heel" of Roger Vivier he just "moved" the prickle.

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Posted in f/w 2011 , Nicholas Kirkwood , shoes