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

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

Furla...awesome!

Ijust came back from New Zealand. First of all, I'm so sorry that Ididn't comment all the past posts of the bloggers who follow me but Ifind quite complicated, right now, commenting two months of postingand in this period I'm kinda busy. I apologise not to write aboutfashion week as well but now Milan is almost ended and I find senselessspeaking just about Paris. So, I'm gonna basically continue with mywinter post and when summer will come I will post about thesecollections.I don't write anything about New Zealand but I just saythat is terrible for fashion and there isn't even vogue.

Now,I speak about this presentation because I was invited and I quitelike the collection. I also post some pics of an event sponsored byVogue Italia at Palazzo Morando in Via Sant'Andrea, MIlano, were someup-and-coming designers (also quite well-known like CamillaSkovgaard) I also met a sungasses designer (that makes amazingsunglasses) of which I will speak asap. I hope you enjoy yourholidays (even if now it's quite late to speak about them) and I missall of you so much. 

Now,two words about A-Lab Milano (last few pics). This new brand is allabout geometries and prints. This season looks very interestingespecially for the details and the realistic aesthethic of thedresses, the color are really amazing.

Furla,this is the second time that I went to their presentation and I lovethem. They make an affordable kind of fashion but that looks verysophisticated and never boring. The use of ostrich and crocodileprints is always interseting and the studds give that kind ofuniqueness to the bags. The shapes are pretty classic but the details(like I was saying the ostrich basis, the piton one, is just genial)or the simplicity (the fluo cotton bags are absolutely glamourus)make these bags so fresh. What I like of this brand is the practicalapproach to the bags (that is absolutely usefull, you notice it fromthe applied pockets on the bags or all the zips which caracterizedthis bag) and their young appearance. Sometimes I find that fashionis going to be old also the "young lines" (like Miu MIu)make colections for all the ages (from my point of view they loosethe “original purpose of the brand”) and it is really cool to seethat this brand is saving a "young soul". There are alsosome touches of pure creativity like the two bags with that "fur"that remind me last prada fur coats and a Comme des Garçonscollection of some years ago (just the fur, the bag is absolutelynew). The transparent totes with those glittering colors are verynice and they present in a new way the trend of transparence (beforewas showed Chanel, then Prada and in the end the Miss Sicily of Dolce& Gabbana).

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Posted in A-Lab , Furla , handbags , s/s 2012

Best looks...s/s 2012 menswear!

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Dolce & Gabbana

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Posted in Alexander Wang , Christian Lacroix , Commes des garçons , Costume National , Jean Paul Gaultier , Jil Sander , Lanvin , menswear , Mugler , Raf Simons , s/s 2012 , Thom Browne , Walter van Beirendonck