Market bags: chic or..cheap?

This is surely one of the most discussed trend of the last spring... We started to see "plastic bags" on the runway with Louis Vuitton s/s 2010, where Marc Jacobs decided to purpose two version of a really expensive bag (2000 dollars). I think that everyone agree that the Vuitton bags were the worst example of this new kind of bag and showed what it means "pay only for the brand name". 

However, this year Jil Sander (for 100 dollars) purposes some acetate bags that could be an interesting innovative solution for make a look funnier or younger. Furthermore, the bag has an aesthethic that is so right for the spirit of the show and its style, so Raf Simons made a wonderful product where the relation between price and quality is good.
But, I see another version of the Jil Sander "bag". The shape of that bag is really with the shopper that you find at the supermarket. So, Margiela presented (not on the runway, only in the shops) a bag (available in brown and black) that has the same shape of the Sander's one but that is realized in leather and that cost more or less 400 dollars. Also in this case the bag reflects perfectly the style of the maison. However, I have to say that I don't like the Margiela bag becuase I think that here the "famous minimalism" of the maison appear a bit "old" and sad. So, I believe that only Simons, for Sander, understood the real "power" (and the limits, too) of this trend, or better of these accesories. In fact the only use of this kind of materials/kind of bags, is to make a look funny and not cheap/sad/ boring. Vuitton, absolutely crazy (the price) and so cheap the appearance. Margiela could make every look sad, not funny: I'm almost annoyed by those bags.

Simons, amazing...I love his style and the style that he is giving to Jil Sander: like Prada a new kind of "minimalism" where the shapes and the cuts are minimalistic but the colors are funny...not the "dark" minimalism of Armani, for example.

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Posted in Jil Sander , Louis Vuitton , LuisaViaRoma , Maison Martin Margiela , Marc Jacobs , Net-a-Porter , Raf Simons

Jacobs and Vuitton...two shoes, one heel!

In the f/w 2009 Louis Vuitton purposes ana amzing pairs of shoes with a clepsydra heel that was decorated by two pearls in the middle of the heel. For the following sprins, s/s 2011, Marc Jacobs repurposed this heel with some differences. The heel is more similar to a stiletto and in the middle there is only one glittered, silver, pearl that "substains" all the heel. I believe that the two shoes represents two differents kind of girl: the Vuitton one is somehting more strong for women who known perfectly their fashion preference, their style; the second one, Jacobs one, is for the girls who are still understanding their fashion style, like a meatamorphosis. In fact, I belive that Jacobs in his two principal lines (Marc Jacobs and Vuitton, forget, at least now, his young line Marc by Marc Jacobs) thinks to two different kind of woman (like the most old one and the most young one, but not in age, in knowledge of their own style). It is very confused what I wrote but I'm sure that you'll understand the concept, at least.

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Posted in f/w 2009 , Louis Vuitton , LuisaViaRoma , Marc Jacobs , s/s 2011

Louis Vuitton...fur boots!

I saw these boots on the Vuitton shop on-line and I fell in love with them instantly. I found interesting the elegance and the gold details. The match between suede and the fur is new in this season where everyone from Louboutin to Jimmy Choo, also the faux of Chanel, match fur and leather or only fur: no one used suede near fur, on the boots. The second thing that's interesting is that often Jacobs designs amazing models for the runway collections but for the products that are not presented on the runway he only uses them as an "advertisement on the feet" and I don't like it. But in this case he didn't do it and I appreciated it a lot.

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Posted in Louis Vuitton , Marc Jacobs , shoes

Maxi skirts...trendy!

For this f/w 2010 we can see a lot of maxi skirts. They are of all kinds: from the "gothic" one made by Demeulemeester, to the printed of Erdem and Cavalli and in the end the metallic of Jacobs and Karan. In a period, like our is, where the designers purpose almost every time mini skirts and mini dresses, especially in winter is interesting, from my point of view, seeing more "textile" on the women's bodies. I believe that the long skirts are not "old" clothes or vintage but are very contemporary. Furthermore the different purposes of designer allow the customers to choose between a lot of skirts that are right for almost  every style...(except the "streetwalkers" style...).

Especially the details make this skirts contemporary as a mini-skirt could be.

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Posted in Ann Demeulemeester , Donna Karan , Erdem , Erdem Moralioglu , f/w 2010 , Haider Ackermann , Marc Jacobs , Roberto Cavalli , skirts