Duckie Brown’s autumn/winter 2010 collection is probably the one I like the most so far from the New York shows. The collection has punk and military influences – wool fabrics, tweed, chunky knits, tartans, cropped skinny trousers and combat boots.
GQ describes the collection as “young skinhead rebels crash an English department faculty party” – couldn’t have said it better myself.
Note to self: Don’t check your RSS-reader and you will end up missing out on gems like this video from SHOWstudio – the video was filmed by Mr. Nick Knight himself, featuring the amazing Raquel Zimmermann dancing around in a Gareth Pugh dress to Lady Gaga’s Pokerface.
SHOWstudio has also posted a video on their site of Gareth Pugh making the dress. Very interesting to watch and it made me think about being back in the studio at fashion school! Thanks to Ashluxe for writing about it and that way bringing it to my attention. Read more about it >> here.
I really love how more and more fashion houses are now starting to stream their fashion shows online. The Dolce & Gabbana Menswear show in Milan is about to start in a few minutes and fashion lovers can follow it online at this site.
Right now they are showing what’s going on backstage on the live feed. The models lining up, Domenico Dolce putting on the last touches.
The label is celebrating their 20th anniversary with menswear and apparently the show will feature 100 looks on 100 models. Emporio Armani, Burberry Prorsum, Prada and Alexander McQueen are other houses that will stream their A/W mens shows this season. Go watch it now!
Update: A video from the show can now be watched by following the same link. Also make sure to check out Alex Fury’s brilliant review over at SHOWstudio.
Photo source: Screenshots from dolceandgabbana.com
Swedish label Tiger of Sweden has posted a video on YouTube where they show how their suits are made. On their blog they explain that the process from cutting the fabric to a final suit involves over 300 phases – that’s 19 times longer than what it takes to make a pair of jeans!
Maybe it’s because of all the recent hype surrounding The September Issue, Valentino: The Last Emperror and The Day Before, but as of lately I have a new addiction – watching fashion documentaries. What I love about documentaries like the ones listed below is that you get to see what things are really like behind the scenes. You get an insight into how the designers work and what inspires them. Here’s a few of my favourites from YouTube:
BBC: The Secret World of Haute Couture 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07
CNN: Carine Roitfeld Revealed 01 | 02 | 03
BBC: The Secret World of Haute Couture >> Playlist
Yves Saint Laurent >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06
Although I do like to watch fashion reality shows and find them entertaining, I find it kind of sad that a lot of people seem to think that reality shows like Project Runway is what fashion is really all about. As Loïc Prigent told Maya Singer in a recent interview:
I’ve seen a little bit of these reality shows, and whatever they’re about, they’re not about fashion. Competition, making fun of people, but not fashion. It’s very hard to convince people to do a real fashion show— there’s a prejudice against fashion people in TV, even in France.
I really hope that the recent popularity of the fashion documentary genre will help change this and that people realise that there’s more to fashion than creating dresses out of chocolate wrappers (heads up to Hershey’s for the great PR effort though!).
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