Batlak & Selvig - Spring/Summer 2011

Instead of having a regular fashion show with models walking down the catwalk, they opted for a fashion presentation. The guests were escorted into the venue in small groups. Inside the gallery the collection was displayed on mannequins. The atmosphere was more that of a vernissage than a fashion show. No models and no celebrities on the front row to steal the limelight – all focus was on the clothes. Blurring the line between fashion and art is not something which is new to the duo, as made evident by their previous work – for instance their Mondrian-inspired collection of cocktail dress a couple of years back.

Batlak & Selvig - Spring/Summer 2011

The collection consisted of classic 60’s style dresses. Simple and clean silhouettes and above-the-knee hemlines.

Batlak & Selvig - Spring/Summer 2011

Admir earned his graduate degree in Fashion Design from the Istituto Artistico dell’Abbigliamento Marangoni in Milan, while Charlie did her degree at Central Saint Martins in London. As students they did their internships at Proenza Schouler and Hussein Chalayan, and have since also worked as design consultants for Dolce & Gabanna and guest lecturers at the National College of Art in Oslo. Along with Kristian Aadnevik, Peter Dundas and Siv Støldal, the duo are undoubtedly amongst the most interesting contemporary Norwegian designers today.

Batlak & Selvig - Spring/Summer 2011

Photo sources: Stella Pictures

Hope - Spring/Summer 2011

Also make sure to check out Bryanboy’s post about the show with a video of the final walkthrough.

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Photo source: Stureplan.se

Louis Vuitton flagship store is under construction and it strikes about a 10 story height…

More pictures from Louis Vuitton, Loewe, Miu Miu and Tom Ford after the jump.

…’Object’ theme is continued at Loewe store here too with simple black and white poster and a standing lamp focusing on their key product…

…new Loewe tote is kind of a bit similar to Celine tote…

…from here you can see how tall the LV case is…

Dolce & Gabbana window is really boring…kind of quite cheap…and isn’t it ’super yesterday’ with Madanna holding a young male model’s arm in their campaign? She really should say no to that idea.

Miu Miu store is located right next to 5 star hotel Ritz & Carlton…looks like a fruit jelly sitting there…

also Tom Ford has opened his menswear shop around the area…

In the middle of sourcing among all the car horns, human noises, walked pass a man and I loved his back pack so much that I had to run after him to take this shaky photo. His double denim also looks very spot on. Guys who want to try ‘double-denim’ take note here – boxy waistcoat and roll-up above-knee denim shorts is such a good combo by avoid looking too much denim on you !!

Peter Jensen - Spring/Summer 2011

Peter Jensen - Resort 2011

Photosource: Copenhagenfashionweek.com

On the other side, I often believe shopping is like a fate, for if you are supposed to meet ’something’, then voila !… you meant to belong to each other! In this post I will present to you that one special dress, the one I thought would be impossible to find. To get it, however, I had to go on quite a journey.

asymmetric shoulder with one side like a vest, the other side with a cup sleeve

I first spotted ‘That Dress’ at London Liberty at the end of June, but didn’t get around to purchasing it.Three weeks later I went back to Liberty, on a mission to get the dress. However, I had to return home empty-handed and went into a great depression. The sort of depression you get when you can’t stop thinking about something and you’re kicking yourself for letting the chance pass when you had it. It might sound like an exaggeration, but trust me, it’s not – I felt like my heart was stabbed when the sales assistant told me that dress had sold out. The same night I searched for it online like a maniac and realised it had instantly sold out in most shops around the world. Then I somehow got stopped by the first glance of Liberty on-line website and found 1 in Medium left. I couldn’t believe my luck. Without a single hesitation I clicked and paid. And remember this was all happened on a Monday evening.

asymmetric shoulder detail self rouching on one side because the dress is a curved banana shape when laid flat

Then my patience of waiting was completely sabotaged until Thursday lunch time. ‘Where is my parcel?’ I repeated this question a thousand times in my head as my previous experience with Net-a-Porter was always with a fast delivery within 2 working days. (same as ASOS and Urban Outfitters on-line) I called Liberty on-line Web team but only repeated the same failure of finding someone at the other end of phone. Eventually I had to make a connection with a completely different department with Liberty customer service and asked the staff to physically find someone from Web Team. My next furious conversation with Liberty on-line team was about to begin …

‘Hello, Liberty web team, how can I help you?’

‘Thank bloody god, there’s finally someone from your team to pick up the phone?’ I nearly cried.

‘Well, our team member need to physically go around the store to hand pick up the orders. I’m sorry Ma’m.’ Wow…so that’s how their on-line team works?

‘So…I wonder…emm, where is my order please?’

‘Oh Ma’m, we’re fully aware of your order, however, it’s out of stock at the moment.’ The other voice still remained quite cold and calm.

‘But you guys need to inform me on that, shouldn’t you?!’ I was gobsmacked. How could they leave their customers just hanging there, waiting and dreaming for a never-coming-parcel?

The male ‘other voice’ reacted quickly on the other side of phone, ‘We have been contacting the Buying Department to see if any more stocks are coming, Ma’m.’

‘Shouldn’t you guys inform me ASAP too?!’

you can also roll up the 'cup sleeve' side, twist it and create an even more asymmetrical look

By that point, I was more upset with the fact that I had to find out all of these malarky by myself. I always love the authenticity and vintages of Liberty London, but just couldn’t believe from which decade of their on-line system and service is. And this was still the Thursday afternoon, I had to start searching like a maniac all over internet again. However, it didn’t seem to take me long this time before locating another one at Harvey Nichols on-line. After procedures of payment and confirmation email were all done, I couldn’t help but wonder, could I finish this nightmare of craving for this dress by physically popping into Harvey Nichols myself for the pick-up collection they offer? So I picked up the phone again and a lovely voice the other side sounded rather soothing answered…

‘Sorry Miss, we simply could not find your order on line.’ OMG !!! My heart sunk again.

‘But here is my order number, please double check!’

You can fold & rouch back up & create lots of amazing pleats and change it into a LBD. Because the fabric is ribbed jersey with 4% spandex, with its super stretchiness it will stay up without falling down.

All of my trying seemed pointless, naturally I turned my hands to Browns on-line where they have 1 left though one size smaller. And just before my departure to Browns I somehow found 1 of this dress on a Canadian on-line shopping website and quickly put through an order without thinking. Taking all the bad luck I had experienced with this dress, who knew whether this order would ever turn up?

The rest part of story was far too dramatic to believe. I arrived at Browns and tried the size small. I couldn’t get the size medium out of my head though – “everything needs to be perfect for this dress!”

Just as I was in the fitting room, my phone rang. It was the lovely voice from Harvey Nichols again, and believe it or not, they had not only found my order, they had also set aside the dress for me in size medium. I rushed to the London Tube at the speed of light. I got my dress from Harvey Nichols and was over the moon. Finally! And please remember, this all happened on the same Thursday afternoon.

A few days later, on the following Monday, a parcel from Canada arrived on my desk. Do you still remember the fate theory of shopping I mentioned earlier? I think I might just be twice as lucky with this designer…called ‘Alexander Wang’.

You can keep playing the length, from mini to midi and of course to its original length full maxi... This dress is just so versatile !

]]> http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/2010/08/21/journey-to-that-dress/feed/ 1 http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/2010/08/18/filippa-k-springsummer-2011-2/ http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/2010/08/18/filippa-k-springsummer-2011-2/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:28:49 +0000 awais http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/?p=2077 Fashion week season is well under the way in Scandinavia. Last week Copenhagen played host to the first of the Scandinavian fashion weeks, next up was Stockholm Fashion Week which started on Monday and ended yesterday, and right now Oslo is hosting its fashion week with its last show scheduled for tomorrow night. A lot of collections have been showed at these three fashion weeks, and we’ve decided to highlight a few of our favourites. We will post these reviews in the coming days.

Filippa K - Spring/Summer 2011

The collection we have decided to review first is from the Swedish clothing label Filippa K. The label was founded in 1993 by Swedish designer Filippa Knutson. Over the years Filippa K has become synonymous with simple, sophisticated silhouettes and minimalistic design – a Scandinavian Calvin Klein. Next season’s collection is no different. Simple, plain and wearable basics.

Filippa K - Spring/Summer 2011

The materials used are soft silks, cashmere, jersey and relaxed cottons. While last season’s palette was dominated by muted grays with accents of pastel pink and turquoise, this season’s colour palette is white, light grey and beige with warm orange, yellow and brown accents. The 90’s seems to be the biggest inspiration behind this collection, as indicated both by the colour palette, the silhouettes and design details such as the cargo style pockets on the trousers. The result is a simple and clean look, perfect staple pieces for the spring/summer 2011 wardrobe.

Photo source: Mathias Nordgren/Stureplan.se

With bottle shaped as a golden heel, some critics point out the bottle design is a little tacky and put doubt towards the campaign which is featuring a blurry black and white image of the editor. I think it’s a very fashion insider’s thing.

Anna is a true celebrity within fashion industry and the name of her perfume ’Beyond’ even resembles very well to her own character. Her style is truly beyond, who has the balls to wear a ‘Wowzer’ cocktail dress at 9am in the morning during Fashion Weeks?!

Fashion photographer and blogger Tommy Ton from Jak & Jil has a long-term admiration to Anna and was even invited to her spectacular apartment in Milan.

If you have a look of Anna’s apartment, you would then realize the gold shoe bottle actually is a reflection of her true Italian Renaissance style. Editorialista is BEYOND the fashionistas!

All images are sourced from Style.com, Jak & Jil and The Satorialist.

]]> http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/2010/08/17/editorialista-perfume/feed/ 1 http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/2010/08/16/%e2%80%9ci-love-you-back%e2%80%9d-13-dark-angel-to-be-continue%e2%80%a6/ http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/2010/08/16/%e2%80%9ci-love-you-back%e2%80%9d-13-dark-angel-to-be-continue%e2%80%a6/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:44 +0000 Qing http://fadeto.c5c5c5.com/?p=2044 This time the dark angel is blogger Susie Bubble. I’ve spotted her on the bus and was instantly drawn to her long line sheered shirt with long side splits. She played really well with different hem lengths by teaming the shirt with a pair of black cycling shorts. The black and navy colour blocking jacket was in a boxy shape, which is contrasted to the soft sheerness of the shirt. And to finish all a pair of chunky heel boots are essential additions! Gold studs and buckles were highlighted on the boots which gives a little touch of military. I tried very hard to hold myself back for not asking for a front shot.