Tag: Fashion Week
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NYFW Day 4 Pt 1. Boy meets Girl, Pret á Couture, 90s throwback and Samba
Sunday is always a good day at NYFW, for some reason the going always gets good on the Sunday in any season its a given and this Sunday did not disappoint. Victoria Beckham As you should know by now, I am a HUGE fan of La Beckham (I feel like I say this every time…
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NYFW Day 3- Basics Elevated, Marilyn Deconstructed and French Mlles
Lets get right to it because it was another day of safe to be fair I didn’t get to see much of the shows so here’s what I liked from what I saw. Monique Lhuillier Much of this season has been peppered by a sense of realness, a thing that says designers have emerged from…
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NYFW- Day 2; Utility, Femininity and Mayhem On the Grounds of the Versailles.
Day Two was weird, there was a lot of fashion, some noise and confusion. At times it was WTF and other times it took your breath away. Sometimes emotions ran high and other times, they just mellowed you out. It was a mix. Carmen Marc Valvo Carmen Marc Valvo is one designer that never ceases…
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NYFW; Day 1; Lashings of Lace, Girls in Dresses, Cool Creatures and Mens’ Shirts
New York continues in its usual commercially savvy form. In day two there was lace, puffy things, cheese overload and the usual scramble. For best in show; Tadashi Shoji. I don’t know what made this collection so damn sweet but this was as Shoji said it was, a “sweet liberation”. Lace! Lace on lace, lace…
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NYFW; Best in Show. Day 0. Layering, topknots and Frida Khalo.
Its that time of the year again, when the world’s most fashionable traipse continents in the name of fashion to see what’t to be had for the coming season. As always New York gives us clothes we can wear, for the everyday wardrobe and steeps us in reality. I love fashion week, its the single…
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The Bags of AW’13
Every season brings a wave of handbag frenzy; the shapes, the sizes, the colour for the season, textures, straps, buckles, pockets…the works. Accessories are bread and butter to the designer, a handbag is possibly the most essential piece in a woman’s wardrobe. It is essential; at least its what I say to justify spending £500…
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Post Fashion Month detox…
Okay. Breathe in. Breathe out. Fashion month is O-V-E-R. and boy oh boy what a bunch of malarkey and shenanigans amidst all the fashionables… 1. Old traditions. New traditions; SMASH! Commotion. The thing about this new internet age is that EVERYBODY has an opinion. Its the law of human nature; we are all critics of…
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MFW- Prada; Romping around and Rolling off…
This was the best in show, and even on the last day of Milan, Prada- despite being so early on in the schedule- was still very much on the mind. It was divine. Sexual and Sensual. A definitive show that had it all; ruggedness, romance, sex appeal, demure, right down to the ugly, clumpy shoes.…
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LFW; The Unexpected Mr Williamson
Matthew Williamson’s woman is all partied out and ready to be a grown up. This was one of the most surprising moments in London fashion week, and a very good one at that. This collection had me doing a double take. Right? Finally! Mr Williamson emerges. Look after look, girl after girl…Clean. GASP. Cool. GASP.…