Sporting a Fashion

Imagine that fashion is a sport, and Fashion Week is the main event, the Olympics, if you will. 


Every day fashion editors, stylists, designers, models and fashionistas are photographed going to and from the shows and the person who is photographed and blogged about the most is the winner!  


Sounds fun, right?  Sounds like a lot of pressure to me, but I guess they wouldn't dress up to be photographed if they didn't like the attention?

And so, my pick for first place for Autumn/Winter 2011 Fashion Week goes to the gold medal winning duo Taylor Tomasi Hill and her Cèline clutch pouch.  This little item has been photographed to death, and guess what? Everybody wants one now, go figure?  

In Second place, not far behind Taylor is Anna Dello Russo, for no other reason than because she is Anna.  

In third place is anything from the Prada Spring/Summer 2011 collection, the prettiest collection of colour, print and stripes ever!  As Anna was photographed wearing much of the Prada collection, I guess Anna has won silver and bronze?

The star accessory on the street was the clutch pouch, it was photographed time and again by street photographers, making it appear as the only bag we should be carrying.

  
While Cèline may hold the gold medal for most photographed accessory, the clutch appeared in all colours, textures and sizes, and thus, a new trend is born.  But what else is Fashion Week for?


H


Sources: Streetfsn.blogspot.com

Playing Favourites from Fall 2011 Paris Collections

Quite the concoction; texture and colour, python, fur and leather with a dash of bling thrown in for good measure. These are some of my favourites from the runway.  

Chloè

Dior

Dries Van Noten

Fendi (don't you just love the coloured woollen tights?)

John Paul Gaultier 

Haider Ackermann

Marni

This has been so much fun! I love that we have access to great images so quickly these days, rather than waiting on the edited and printed versions from the likes of ELLE and VOGUE.  Not that I am saying I shall ever stop buying my favourite magazines - heaven forbid!  


H

Sources: UK Telegraph, The Sartorialist, Garance Dorè.

Prada Fall 2011

This could get ugly... 


I'm sorry to tell you this, but Prada thinks that we'll be wearing bonnets this Autumn/Winter too.  What's worse, is that some of them will be furry, and some of them made from python.  Have no fear though, for I am certain that Anna Wintour and Emmanuelle Alt will do their best to make these little accessories look absolutely must-have when they appear in the pages of their respective issues of VOGUE.  

Miuccia's team at Prada are masters at interpreting her design direction and as we take our first look at the current collection, it is not until we see how the looks filter down from the runway and out onto the street, where they are photographed  by the likes of Garance or Tommy Ton that we truly see these clothes come into their own.  (But this could be true of most designers, I think).

Dropped waists, pleats and coat dresses. Flokati rugs, mermaids, aviator goggles, oversized buttons, belt buckles on low hanging, wide belts, and shoes that can't decide what they are - high heel or knee-high boot.  

But in the end, it really is lots of fun and we shouldn't take it too seriously, should we?


H


Sources: The Sartorialist, Garance Dorè.

I Love Paris in the Springtime...

It's Paris Fashion Week and the designers are showing their 2009 Haute Couture collections for Fall and Winter.
The city of blinding lights is well and truly abuzz with the glitterati, the oh-so-fabulous and without doubt, the seriously cashed-up!

Here are some highlights I just had to share for their beauty, their innovation and their exquisitness.

Enjoy! Hx



Giorgio Armani Privè

Ricardo Tisci for Givenchy.

Chanel

Colette Dinnigan

John Galliano for Christian Dior

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Christian Lacroix

Valentino

I'm in heaven... how about you?



Thank you to JakandJil for the Givenchy images and to Courtorture for the others.