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Vogue Festival 2012 – day 1

Christopher Bailey, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Stella McCartney, Kate Hudson and Alexandra Shulman @ vogue festival, 20 April 2012

more info: http://www.vogue.co.uk/voguefestival/

- a very late LFW aw2012 recommendation -vol.3 -

bags and accessories _Ra installation by Niels Peeraer/ jacket _ Wolf. By Sofie Claes/ origami birds sweater _ A. Knackfuss

origami birds sweater _ A. Knackfuss

jewellery_ Erickson Beamon

footwear_ Kat Maconie/ fruits jewellery_ Les Néréides

* images above are taken from LFW AW2012-13 exhibition

- a very late LFW aw2012 recommendation -vol.2 -

backstage at Michael van der Ham Autumn/Winter 2012

The model I helped dressed with is So Young, she appears in a lot of pop brands in this season.

Check out these Christian Louboutin for Michael van der Ham heels!! They are sooo lovely most of the ladies at the backstage would love to have one..

Totally in love with the total looks of this season, beautiful dresses with hollywood hair and gold eye blows..

amazing embroidery from the collection!

* images are taken from backstage at Michael van der Ham Autumn/Winter 2012

some images from google.com

- a very late LFW aw2012 recommendation -vol.1 -

James Long_

James Long completed his MA in menswear and accessories at the Royal College of Art. His signature style is ‘Leather, knits and accessories. Strong, bold, directional menswear.’ He debuted his womenswear in the season of autumn/winter 2011-12, and the piece above is from his second womenswear collection- Spring/ Summer 2012 collection. This amazing beaded piece is now available for sale at LN-CC.

more info: http://www.jameslonguk.com/

Simone Rocha_

Simone Rocha graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2010. After debuting at London Fashion Week and showing her S/S and A/W 11 collections on schedule with Fashion East, her collections have generated great press recognition and gained her some of the most prestigious stockists in the world including Colette, Dover Street Market and Opening Ceremony. The pieces from above pictures are from her latest A/W 2012 collection, which has been shown during LFW with BFC NEWGEN sponsored by Topshop. Compares to her previous S/S2012 collection, she gave a great development to her new collection by continuing to her combination in lace, plastic and sleek, simple silhouettes with her modern, strong and yet romantic style. Love her new added element of wool yarn knitting.

more info: http://simonerocha.com/

Thomas Tait_

Thomas Tait debet his Spring/ Summer womenswear collection in September, 2011. His signature style is ‘Clean, understated structure with a focus on curve-linear silhouettes. ’ The pieces above are from his previous Spring/ Summer 2012 collection. Love his choosing of fabrics and colours! They give me a cutting edge technologic feeling…

more info: http://www.thomastait.com/

to be continued…

* images above are taken from LFW AW2012-13 exhibition

思索/ think

Here I recommend to read an article by Karen Hodkinson from Not Just A Lebel.com:

Click to view: ‘THE FUTURE OF THE FASHION SHOW …Presentation is Everything‘

Good points of view, good consideration, good quoting… these are actually what I have been thinking these days after visiting london fashion week.

Azzedine Alaïa

(Azzedine Alaïa fits a model in his studio. image from: the new york times)

Good quoting from Azzedine Alaïa in the article:

(from The Ground magazine): “As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing. The system imposed Galliano, and others, to make four collections for him, four collections for the house, four for men, and four for women. When you have one idea per year, it’s already a miracle! Now, it has become crafty fiddling at a breakneck pace. That’s not the essence of fashion. How can you really be creative under these circumstances? For the young designers it’s very hard, and for the more mature, they drink more, take more drugs… what I am saying is that the system is not right. We have to see the work from another angle. The system is too stressful: too many collections, too much pressure. As in other fields, if you want to do a good creative job, it takes time. What’s the point? I’m working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings….”

what do you think?

memory of three seconds

‘I found staffs who use iPhone, some of them could not even remember a phone number, their memory is really … … worrying. Modern mind seems to have less notes. They are like goldfish, only have the memory of three seconds.’

From Karl Lagerfeld’s interview/ Kerstin Holzer, Suddeutsche Zeitung / The Interview People / 10th Feb 2011

PS: As I read this interview in chinese translation version first, since I post this I still cannot find the original article , so I am afraid that I can’t have a check before I post it… there might be a little bit different from what Karl originally said.

here are several version of different language of this interview：

english ver. http://www.cloudyled.com:8080/showItem/showDetail/12824129.html

chinese ver. http://www.ccdy.cn/yishu/jiaoyu/201202/t20120208_233590.htm

greek ver. http://www.imerisia.gr/article.asp?catid=14050&subid=2&pubid=111047454

image from: cloudyled

little gossips of ss’12 colour trends

gossip 1: iridescence

As early as SS12 Paris Fashion Week in September, Balenciaga and Chanel introduced iridescent, pearlescent ideas in their collections; then in early December Gareth Pugh launched his M.A.C collaboration collection with iridescent nail polishes; more recently, which is these days, Net-a-porter started to sell their new arrival COMME des GARÇONS iridescent metallic wallet, and then totally sold out in just few days! These results show that fashion world can no longer resist the charm of iridescence!

(images from: style.com, flickr, temptalia, fake the moment)

gossip 2: mint green, lime, tangerine, coral, pale blue, turquoise, pale yellow, lilac…

These days either in boutiques or online stores, SS12 new arrivals are almost in these colours.

(images from: dazed digital, Net-a-porter, style.com, sheermag via catwalking.com)

gossip 3: carry on metallic

metallic elements will be continued from last season.

(images from: sogetlucky, style.com, Net-a-Porter)

> Hope theses gossips will be helpful for your massive shopping during Christmas sales!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Daphne Guinness

‘You can’t be objective about your life, can you? Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on. I have to look forward, you see, not back. There lies madness.’

From: article_ ‘Daphne Guinness, golden girl’ by LUCY CAVENDISH (22 AUGUST 2009/ telegraph.co.uk )

image from: susantabak Photographs by Noël Sutherland

What about Chinese fashion designers? And fashion in China?

such a good question and consideration to Chinese designers and Chinese fashion industry..

‘In the current Chinese generation, awaiting for the stroke of genius from one of the emerging fashion designers, no signs of radical changes are perceived. For most of them the Western style, a bit sexy, a bit minimal, a little baroque and a little decorative is the example to follow. A little of everything without making an individual choice. ’

Article: What about Chinese fashion designers? And fashion in China? by Franca Sozzani

http://www.vogue.it/en/magazine/editor-s-blog/2011/04/april-1st

view chinese translation version: M Blogzine

关于中国时装设计师，关于中国时尚 by IPENCIL

http://mouzazhi.wg83.delldns.com/?p=143

source from: 戴莫利Stylist @weibo.com

image from: Vogue.it