A few days ago Prada released their campaign images for the autumn/winter 2011 collection. I have to admit that when I first saw the collection during fashion week earlier this year, I wasn’t too crazy about it, but after seeing the campaign images I must admit I am starting to reconsider. The campaign was shot by Steven Meisel and feature Frida Gustavsson, Melly Mittendorf, Julia Zimmer, Ondria Hardin and Antonia Wesseloh.
Fashion month is over. For the past few seasons we have posted playlists with some of our favourite tracks from the catwalks, and this season is no different. In this post we present to you, 15 of our favourite tracks from the Spring/Summer 2011 shows. The songs are as different as the collections – some are edgy, some are classic and some are completely unexpected.
So when Prada’s collection came out, a big stir is created not only among the big high-up editors, but also in our own little office. My colleague Em and I had a heated debate on emails and I found it’s probably the best way to describe the show.
E: Is it just me or is the Prada collection a bit of a disappointment? Style.com must be run by Miuccia’s mum cos as per usual they love it…
Q: Sorry guys, I actually really really really love Prada!!! It’s very revolutionary. Nobody has ever done stripes without being look Nautical!
E: If you put that collection down a graduate fashion week catwalk you’d never get a job.
Q: The problem is ‘ that was not a graduate project’, it’s by Prada, she’s a communist and too thoughtful, she got the balls! She can foresee other people’s vision before people…. I think it’s a super break-through…tho it’s not up to normal standard of ‘beauty’. I felt the needs to adjust my own point of view of beauty. Whether next season high-street will follow or not, it is just a timing problem as it could take about more than 2 seasons for this vision to get around to a bigger audience base.
E: But if you take away the plush toy accessories and the monkeys and bananas you’ve got a bunch of Armani-esque unflatteringly cut suits and bold stripes that look a bit M&S swimwear. Love the stripy clutch bags though!
Q: The point is though ‘she has the monkey print and bananas’ and ‘she has the more daring colour-combo stripes than Armani’, but after all she is Prada, not Armani… There is no ‘if’….the monkey really does the tricks…
E: If this collection was Henry Holland I doubt you’d say the same. Also something being good because it’s ‘prada’ is a bit emporers new clothes. I doubt style.com would have been so flattering if they were missing that very expensive Prada ad on every page
Q: Ahahaha….E, there’s no IF. And IF Henry Holland really has this brain to do this, then I will salute him! I get the point of Prada Ad money injection though.
Right, so you could see from title when I set ‘vol.1′, you might sense that this would be/could be another regular feature. I had this idea many years ago when I read an article saying ‘handbag reflects women’s insecurity’. I think I sneered the topic then and it’s definitely difficult for me, an eleven year-old back then to understand how much women rely on their handbags. The article described a perfect example of a woman attending a dinner party (kind of more upper class social event type) carrying her hand bag with a book inside due to boredom may appear. And the second book in her bag is because she thought she might finish the first book at the Appetizer. Funny part is here, the third book she carried in her bag is due to —- ‘I might not enjoy the second one!!’
Now growing up I realize that I, like many female, without a handbag, feel absolutely naked! Still with the curiosity from childhood, I would like to dig in the scene of what handbag people would carry and their very own contents. Here I thank my colleague showing me her bag and to help me creating the very first entry of this topic.
I fell in love straight away with her bag since we first time met in January. She found her bag at Zara Sales on boxing day 2009 and had since held on it tight. It’s in a mid grey soft leather with wooden handle and a practical shoulder strap.
Most interesting thing caught my attention is a set of 3D playing card with different cats images. She’s a cat lover and enjoys playing card in the old man pub near where she lives. The cards are part of Christmas presents from her boyfriend (how sweet and thoughtful, all boyfriends take note here!)——-Rose Drops, random sweet given by BoyF for no reason because she loves rose.——-Prada Perfume No.3 Cuir Ambre 30ml——-Wallet by Amy Morris for Sara Berman.
Pink Mac Lipstick amplified / Elizabeth Arden 8 hours cream / Chanel Pressed Powder, she got from Selfridges because it was a shit day and needed something special to cheer up!
White 16G iPhone. She loves blogging and eBaying, but confessed to be a lazy iPhone user as only downloaded 1 App so far (which she hopes it’s growing slowly). But she got lots of music and currently listening to Florence + Machine and The History of Blues.
Luella CatsEye Sunglasses / Pens & 2GB USB Keys, she’s a designer as you could guess now / Turban for rainy day as she doesn’t like umbrella and hat. / Paracetamol, her quotes ‘need it’ just in case!!
Alexander McQueen Scarf, a birthday present from BoyF and surprisingly selected by himself after McQueen’s tragic news as he wants her to have something collectable of McQueen’s (all BoyF take note here again!!)——-’The Book of Other People’ edited by Zadie Smith——-Red Moleskine Notebook in which she got lots of random beads (a total designer thing)
And of course she got house keys plus bike lock keys, a little lucky cat from a Tokyo trip and this little metal house charm which turns out to be a tape measure!
–’How long do you intend to use this bag?’
‘I’m going to use it not until I’m bored of it, but until it breaks and falls apart!’
Powerful full lips, ginger red hair, dramatic body pose, that is Kristen McMenamy. I vividly remembered her from my early teenage time by flipping through Elle and my finger tips stopped at the Versace advert. There she stood and seemed shouting out—-’I am the 90s power women!!’
Even with the cutsey floral print in Prada’s campaign just before mid 90s, she still looks very powerful and womenly there. The young I used to think how perfect she looks there and dreamt about myself how I would want to look like her when grown up.
Lanvin invited her back last year for their campaign which is a real surprise to me as I couldn’t recognise her at all.
Until she had the offical catwalk return appreared on Viktor & Rolf AW2010 catwalk show just finished in Paris.
I know it’s absolutely crime to mention a lady’s age but being 43 and looking like this, she is a true Super Woman!
There’s no doubt that choosing the right music for a fashion show is important. I once read an interview with a designer who said that it can be compared to selecting the right soundtrack to a movie. It not only sets the mood, it also helps the spectators understand the designer’s vision and inspiration. I’ve compiled a list with some of the tracks used by designers for the spring/summer 2010 shows. Listening to some of these songs makes me wonder – what do these songs tell us about the collections? The inspiration? The person who buys them? Or even the label or designer?
The past three months have been insanely busy, so I haven’t had the opportunity to post much. However, I have been writing a few drafts in this period that I will try to wrap up and post in the coming few days. First one up – Fashionomics!
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Just overheard Hilary Alexander on Versace: 'the only show where the heels measured more than the skirts.' Very true.
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By SHOWstudio
on 25-9-2009 17:17:46
There’s an economic theory that says that hemlines rise in good economic times and drop in poor times. If one was to judge by the hemlines at some of the fashion show weeks this season, the economy is definitely skyrocketing next year and the recession will finally be over.
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