This is maybe one of the most captivating collections of Fashion Week season 2012/2013. The Belgian designer and agent provocateur Walter Van Beirendonck used exclusively faceless models to present his new collection. Usually when you watch a runway show your perception of the models is not really one of human beings. However, Walter took this concept to a new level
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Dries Van Noten manages to put a multi-media installation down on a pair of trousers or a coat. During the presentation of his latest collection I couldn’t help but think if the colors and prints are too much, and if they don’t start to remind me too much of the crazy patchwork clothes by Desigual. However, unlike the commercial company
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Only one word can describe Jean Paul Gaultier’s next season collection: patterns. And I’m not talking some lousy boring ones. Look at this whole palette of patterns – from brick over to crazy cartoons, classic romanticism, sometimes military and even shaped materials bring the collection of otherwise rather dark and disillusioned garments to live. The color accents – orange, lemon,
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There was something disturbing in Yohji Yamamoto’s collection for Autumn Winter 2012 2013. This something wasn’t necessarily a positive assumption – the idea that by fall 2012 we’ll all be dressing up like hobos and Russian war prisoners isn’t that calming. Nevertheless, the collection used, like in past runway shows, unconventional models, which made it also oneof my personal favorites
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Yesterday evening French designer Romain Kremer and Thierry Mugler creative director resurrected the Mugler Men with a strong and elegant, somewhat darker image during their presentation of Autumn Winter 2012-2013 collection at Paris Fashion Week. The collection started with 2 models coming out with cameras (the videos will be available later) and going on with models you would expect to
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In 1994, Consuelo and Gianni Castiglioni launched Marni, the iconic luxury, eclectic women’s clothing and accessories collection. In addition to the women’s collection, Marni men’s launched in Spring Summer 2002 followed by Eyewear for Fall Winter 2005–06 and Summer and Winter Editions in 2009. 3 years later, the label offers their vision for the season Autumn Winter 2012 2013 in
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When I heard that Sarah Burton was about to present a Victorian inspired collection, all associations I had were “stuffy”, “preposterous”, “simply too much”. Thus, Ms. Burton surprises with an elegant spin on her initial idea for Alexander McQueen‘s Autumn Winter 2012 2013 collection. Modelled at the presentation on a boy who resembles Basquiat, the whole collection thrives on artistry.
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Vivienne Westwood is famous for her inimitable designs and concepts as well as her deep honesty when it comes to climate change and environmental awareness. The British designer kicks off her collection with the philosophy behind the BBC movie The Frozen Planet and embeds the esthetics in her Autumn Winter Collection for 2012 2013. She shows off her Green Up
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Watching the Prada Autumn Winter 2012 2013 runway show doesn’t give me the feeling of just watching expressionless models walk down an isle. Miuccia Prada brings out an onslaught of high profile actors in her stunning new menswear line including the likes of Adrien Brody, Gary Oldman, Jamie Bell and Emile Hirsch. After watching the show, didn’t you get the
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Burberry showed their Autumn Winter 2012 Burberry Prosum collection during Milan fashion week. Some of the silhouettes included heritage trench coats, oversize college stripe trench coats, slim single breasted heritage trench coats, luggage lock duffle coats, slim sartorial tailoring, sartorial double breasted top coats as well as sartorial tailored Chesterfields. What caught my attention were the quilted shearling field jackets,
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Right in the middle of fashion week season, we’re kicking off the image-heavy post series of runway shows with a rather elegant and smooth collection for Fall/Winter 2012/2013 brought to us by Dirk Bikkembergs. The silhouettes are clean and sleek, focusing on bold color and fabric accents. I definitely want one of the hats. In size 62 please.
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Giuseppe Virgone produces maybe the second best export Belgium has to offer after chocolate. Giuseppe is a young fashion designer from Brussels who studied fashion at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre. The designer previewed his Fall/Winter 2012-13 collection inspired by Girolamo Savonarola, a monk from the 15th century. photos: ASVOF
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