Versace Atelier...f/w 2011!

Versace is often worn by the celebs on the red carpet and I think that its "couture line" Versace Atelier shows how good is Donatella in making dreams true. This collection is amazing apart from the first dress worn by Katy Perry which was horrible in that dress, but the other dresses are gorgeus. The geometries and the shapes of the dresses are very interesting, the sophisticated the aesthetic is perfectly matched with Versace DNA which is characterized by huge slits and some architectural shapes which underline the waist and highlight the body. The mix between young fashion and classical elegance is very cool and Donatella is one of the few designers which is able to mix these two style in the same collection. For example, the one with all those letters of the brand Versace it's absolutely modern and so perfect for  teenagers but the long dresses are so perfect for mature women so this collection is a couture one that is right for every kind of woman. 

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Posted in Donatella Versace , dresses , f/w 2011 , Gianni Versace , Versace , Versace Atelier

Fall trends...floreal prints!

In these days in Milan there is a very sunny weather and it's like we are still in summer (even if fall started yet). In Paris the designers are showing their s/s 2012 collection (as it happened in NY, London and MiIlan), so everywhere we see summer clothes and most of us are still wearing them. By the way, in the shops there are the f/w winter collections and now we should focus and think about this winter. For this reason I decided to write about this trend that is a fall one (I chose just pics from f/w 2011) but that is a MUST for the spring (I think that everyone thinks to flower speaking about summer even if I'm so bored when I see flower in s/s shows!).

Images via:
Vogue
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , dresses , Emilio Pucci , Erdem , Erdem Moralioglu , f/w 2011 , Giambattista Valli , Givenchy , just cavalli , Lanvin , Peter Dundas , prints , Riccardo Tisci , Roberto Cavalli , see by chloè

Mary Katrantzou...s/s 2011!

Mary Katrantzou is a designer that is conquering the fashion world with her wonderful prints and her absolutely new and fresh style. 

I find on Net-a-Porter this amazing long dress, which close the s/s 2011 show, with a classic print of Mary and  two black sheer silk-chiffon ruched drapes at side. 

As you know, fringes are one of the trends of this s/s and a lot of brands such as Gucci, Balmain.... use this decoration. Those two chiffon pieces give to the dress a movement that is like the movement given by fringes but in a more "legant" and innovative way. Katrantzou styel is strange and sometimes could appear a bit exaggerate but I think that with this dress, or in general with her last shows, she is really improving her style and moving to a more elgant one. I hope that she will never abandon these amazing tridimensional prints which make her so unique and different from the other designers. 

 The dress is all realized in silk and, of course silk-chiffon.

Images and shop on-line:
Net-a-Porter

Complete collection:
Vogue Italia 

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Posted in dresses , Mary Katrantzou , Net-a-Porter , prints , s/s 2011

John Galliano...feathers dress!

John Galliano has a unique style that gives the best of it in the dresses and tailleurs designed for Dior and Dior Couture. In his collection for his line (John Galliano and Galliano, only the first one is on the runway) we see a lot of extravagant and edgy clothes but not so many "elegant", chic and feminine dresses as we see in Dior's lines. So, every show of Gallaino is a surprise that, the most of the times, remained only an amazing show but unwearable in the real life, also for the most strange stars (think to Lady Gaga).
However, with this white dress and with the last two collections of the Galliano's line I saw a difference, a development of hsi style: a lot of wearable, elegant evening dresses and...chic!
In this case the dress is made by chiffon and by feathers on theskirt, the price is crazy (8000 $...) but the dress is so beautiful. Especially interesting is the volume and the ethereal mood of the dress. Also new the romantic and feminine taste of the dress that made it so right for a special event or a Red-Carpet.
I saw it on LuisaViaRoma  and I decided to post it because I find it really gorgeus, amazing and  with a very personal "soul" that is something a bit different to find in the evening dresses that so many times have all the same style and appearance!

Images and shop on-line:
Vogue (complete s/s 2011 of Galliano)
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in dresses , feathers , John Galliano , LuisaViaRoma , parigi , s/s 2011

Lanvin....greek goddess!

This dress is an amazing gabardine and satin washed minidress from the s/s 2011 of Lanvin. Lanvin takes a lot of inspirations from the ancient goddess (obviously, I'm referring not to the "divinities" but to their sculptures...). The drapes, the silhouette, the absence of big volumes or the exagerations of volumes, strong women: this is  a summary of the main features of the "Lanvin woman". So this dress is a bit strange for its colors and initially it could seem a bit strange, unconventional, maybe ugly...But then it is addictive. You want it, you need it, all yur attention is captured by the leather belt, then by the satin asimmetrical detail and then by the minidress for its aestethic. So, I can say that this is the most representatvie dress of the Lanvin essence, Elbaz vision of fashion.

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , dresses , Lanvin , LuisaViaRoma , s/s 2011

Gareth Pugh...futuristic PVC!

Gareth Pugh is one fo the most innovative and futuristic designers. This dress that he realized for the s/s 2011 collection is something amazing. The collection looks forward and this dress shows exactly this thing: fashion, and maybe also us, needs to look forward and to have a new conception of itself. A fashion that's not only based on the simple creativity and quality but that takes people to go in another world, in another epoque.

So I beleive that this PVC dress, also worn by Anna dello Russo (the fashion editor of Vogue Japan and my principal "style muse") is the slogan of that collection, for me, because it contains all the meanings and the design concepts that were presented in the show. I love this dress, if it is still not clear...

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in dresses , Gareth Pugh , LuisaViaRoma , Paris fashion week , s/s 2011

Versace....fringe white dress!

The main trend for the followign season is: fringes! Franca Sozzani (in her"christmas blog spoke of fringes) and I believe taht it's amazign that designer such as versace but also Kane, Gucci and so on use so much fringes. Fringes are somethign trulyw odnerful for the movement that give to the dress and for the shapes that they coudlc reate.

This dress made in crepe cady and sold on LuisaViaRoma for 13000$ expresses the Versace style (I mean the style of Donatella, of course) and the essence of the fringes. The use of them here is gorgeus and the sex appeal of it is really cool! I love the dresses that Versace is making and this is one of my faovurite ones of the s/s 2011 collection.

[A little note: I find the dress almost "ugly" on the runway, but on the model of LuisaViaRoma shop everything is different...]

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in Donatella Versace , dresses , fringes , Gianni Versace , LuisaViaRoma , s/s 2011

Giambattista Valli...mousseline!

You remember, surely, this dress from the s/s 2011 collection of Giambattista Valli. The dress is purposed to the public with a difference: is transformed into a  mini-dress. I like this idea because the dress on the runway (beautiful too) is a bit much "heavy" and the "mini version" is more wearable and chic. I love especially the elegant contrast of the mousseline of the top of the dress and the colorfull and full of energy print of the skirt....amazing! I also must say that this is the most beautiful collection that I've ever seen from him. I'm dying to see what he'll purpose for the f/w 2012 and to see his future projects....!

Images and shop on-line: 
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in dresses , Giambattista Valli , LuisaViaRoma , Paris fashion week , s/s 2011

RED Valentino....jersey dress!

RED Valentino is the "young" line of valentino that has also a "charity" aim. It's amazing (for me) how today the second lines of the designer are acquiring more importance in the fashion system. I can think to McQ (young line of McQueen) that was the subject of an article on Vogue Italia just about this thing, But also the low cost lines of the designers, designed for chains like H&M (recently Lanvin, but also Rykiel, Choo...), Gap (recently Valentino) or Mango (Zuhair Murad). We can see that the past division between riches and poors at least in the fahsion sistem is not so present. I'm not saying that today there aren't social classes in the fashion system (that's not true!) but maybe there's not the past clichè that the "rich" people wear expensive dress and the poor ones "cheap" dresses. So, all this paragraph to say that this dress designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, for RED Valentino, is amazing for the price (just 280 euros), the design (I love the clepsydra silhouette), the match of materials: tulle and jersey, together, create a lovely light effect that makes this mini-dress right for parties or chic evenings.

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma (Florence)

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Posted in dresses , LuisaViaRoma , Maria Grazia Chiuri e Pier-Paolo Piccioli , RED Valentino , s/s 2011

Jil sander s/s 2011 dress...that shape!

This shiny nylon popeline dress is made by Raf Simons for Jil Sander. The dress draws a new silhouette on the women and its unique shape remind me a bit the "square" dresses of Margiela for the s/s 2011: in fact, both the dresses change completely the women body (Sander is a bit more wearable...) and the result is strange, particular but not so bad....I say conceptual, someone else could say "only stupid fashion", but these are only opinions. I love the dress for the color ,a light pink ,but especially because Simons show that he is more interesting in eveningwear: too much often in his collection is only present the, elegant and chic, daywear with a totally absence (or almost...) of the evening dresses.

I believe, also, that this dress is the summary of the minimalism vision, of fashion of course, of Simons that his one of the most important representants of "contemporary minimalism" and it's boring that everyone when we say "Minimalism" answers "Armani".

Please avoid the clichè, as Madonna say in "  Die another day".

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in dresses , Jil Sander , LuisaViaRoma , Raf Simons , s/s 2011

David Koma...wonderful shapes with zipper!

David Koma is a georgian designer that for this winter made very classic dresses and jackets characterized  by the addition of some zippers. In fact he products very hard shapes and big shoulder with the zippers and it's very interesting the use of zippers: that are so often used by a  lot of designer as Les Hommes, Burberry, Margiela... Also amazing the mix leather-cotton.

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in David Koma , dresses , f/w 2010 , LuisaViaRoma

McQueen's winter...on Net-a-Porter

I've posted about the f/w 2010 of McQueen but I'd like now to speak more in details about the single pieces of the show.I desire to put in evidence the contemporary design of this clothes. In fact, the taste of medieval style and baroccan style is perfectly mixed with one of the most important trend of the f/w 2010: the Kimonos. The big sleeves and the "3d" appearance of the dresses give a sense of contemporary that every designer should look for... But in the evening the things change completely: a very sweet dress (with a pair of flies on the back...) mixed the "regality of its shapes" with the very contemporary embroidery that makes the dress perfect for the most elegant events in the world!!

I don't like the shoes: lovely heel and platform but the mix of printed crocodile leather and suede is truly horrible. The kneeboot are the only one "good" of the shoes of the f/w made by McQueen.

P.s.: the only bad detail is the price: the shoes are almost 2000$ and the dresses are from 6000$...

Images and shop on-line:
Net-a-Porter

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Posted in Alexander McQueen , dresses , f/w 2010 , Net-a-Porter , sarah burton , shoes