With Paris and Milan Men’s Fashion Week come and gone, it’s the perfect time to take a step back and review this season’s trends on the menswear runways. Overall, the economic gloom took European designers back to safe haven – traditional looks with classic tailoring and business suits, overcoats and leather...
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Fashionistas the world over all know that Haute Couture is all about creating a dream, with designs shown during couture week being capable of transporting both showgoers and those watching from afar to another world, where sequins and tulle are uniform and Lagerfeld is king. This time, it was the Valentino show that swept us up in...
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King Karl has done it again. Throughout the Chanel haute couture show in Paris, he reminded us why he has the Midas touch with fashion, successfully created a fashion wonderland to showcase his latest designs. Nothing is too much for Karl Lagerfeld, and this time, he ordered the construction of a jet, which took five days to...
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Hot on the heels of Versace’s return to Paris was the Christian Dior Haute Couture show, with the French fashion house giving a nod to fashion of decades past with a 1950s inspired collection. It was designer Bill Gaytten’s second Couture collection for the House while they search for a replacement for John Galliano....
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Haute Couture week kicked off in Paris on Monday, and what better way to start the festivities than by welcoming back one of fashion’s favourite houses to the City of Lights. In the first Atelier Versace couture collection in eight years, Donatella sent models down the golden staircase runway dripping in colour, sparkles,...
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It’s a love affair that has lasted a few seasons now – Abbey Lee Kershaw for Portmans. The Australian fashion chain recently shot a new ad campaign with the peroxide blonde model. Styled again by Christine Centenera and photographed by Matt Jones, the photoshoot shows off the bold inject of red in the new campaign. It was a...
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Ever the tease, Campari have just released behind the scenes images from the Milla Jovovich 2012 calendar shoot. Set to be officially launched next week, these behind the scenes images have been release early for us all to dissect and analyse until our hearts content. Though they don’t reveal much, Jovovich sports an afro in...
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In a show that rivalled Karl Largerfeld’s for Chanel, Marc Jacobs presented a féerique Spring/Summer offering for Louis Vutton, complete with a merry-go-round and Kate Moss. Models wore tiaras perched on their heads or thin white Alice bands as they either rode the mery-go-round or strutted down the catwalk in a collection...
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Stefano Pilatis’s designs for Yves Saint Laurent‘s Spring/Summer collection played homage to Bunuel’s 1960′s film Belle de Jour. Silk and duchess satin were in abundance used on halter neck tops tucked into slim leg pants and organza blouses had bouffant sleeves which were matched with sharp pencil skirts....
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Without a doubt, Chanel‘s Spring/Summer show was THE show to be at this week in Paris. With a performance by Florence and the Machine set against a mythical underwater opalescent backdrop compleete with seahorses, and with Uma Thurman and Clémence Poésy in attendance at the Grand Palais, you almost forgot about the clothes....
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