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Fashion Windows: Dallas (Northpark) November 2010

awais — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:12:39 +0000

Kate Spade

The holiday season is over us and the designer boutiques and department stores have started rolling out their christmas and winter displays. Some are really subtle, some are really in your face, whilst some are so plain that you can’t really tell it’s a christmas window. More pictures after the jump.

Louis Vuitton

Burberry

Oscar de la Renta

Bottega Veneta

Versace

Gucci

Barney's

Hugo Boss

The Sound of Spring/Summer 2011

awais — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:47:13 +0000

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.

Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Gianfranco Ferré Uomo) [Spotify]
Crookers feat. Yelle – Cooler Couleur (Stella McCartney) [Spotify]
Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My baby shot me down) (Prada) [Spotify]
Alphaville – Big in Japan (Kenzo Homme) [Spotify]
Shirley Ellis – The clapping song (Mulberry) [Spotify]

Fashion windows: Dallas (NorthPark) June 2010

awais — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:33:51 +0000

Last post from this side of the Atlantic as I head back to the Old World stupidly early tomorrow morning. Anyhoo, here’s more fashion windows from Dallas. This time from the NorthPark mall.

Versace

More pictures after the jump…

Versace

Oscar de la Renta

It’s Father’s Day on Sunday, so a lot of the shops had special Father’s Day displays:

Neiman Marcus

Barney's

This window at Ralph Lauren reminded me a bit of the Ralph Lauren display at Ferner Jacobsen in Oslo in May:

Ralph Lauren

And no ‘Fashion windows’ update is complete without…

Louis Vuitton

I took some more pictures at Bottega Veneta, Roberto Cavalli and a few other shops, but the light was too bright and there was too much reflection in the windows…so the pictures didn’t turn out that well. Oh well…

Return of the Super Woman — Kristen McMenamy

Qing — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:31:27 +0000

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!

The sound of Spring/Summer 2010

awais — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:00:10 +0000

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?

New Order – Perfect Kiss (Dunhill, Paris Menswear Fashion Week)
Phoenix – Lisztomania (Yigal Azrouël, New York Fashion Week)
Deadmau5 – Ghosts n stuff (Versace, Milan Fashion Week)
Lil’ Mama – Lip Gloss (Prada, Milan Fashion Week)
The Beloved – Sweet Harmony (Jil Sander, Milan Menswear Fashion Week)
Metronomy – Hearthbreaker (Diskjokke remix) (Balenciaga, Paris Fashion Week)
Little Boots – Mathematics (DKNY, New York Fashion Week)
Gossip – Dimestore Diamond (Max Azria and Nicole Miller, New York Fashion Week)
The Kooks – Sofa Song (Burberry Prorsum, London Fashion Week)
Peaches – Downtown (Simian Mobile Disco Remix) (Etro, Milan Fashion Week)

I’m not sure, but judging from the sounds of it, spring/summer 2010 doesn’t only look good, it sounds good too!

Photo source: Style.com / Marcio Madeira

Fashionomics

awais — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:06:15 +0000

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!

SHOWstudio

(SHOWstudio)

Just overheard Hilary Alexander on Versace: 'the only show where the heels measured more than the skirts.' Very true.

On 25-9-2009 17:17:46 from fring

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.

Yulia Kharlaponova in Lanvin.

Anja Rubik in Chanel

Ginta Lapina in Proenza Schouler

Lisanne de Jong in Prada

Ginta Lapina in Versace

So, is there any truth to this theory? Only time will tell…

Photo sources: Style.com / Marcio Madeira / Monica Feudi