Saturday, February 16, 2013
Happy Chinese New Year ...
Happy New Year folks, a week long much needed Chinese New Year break...not quite ! However I am happy to be back at blogging despite a light week teaching yoga and enjoying my practice.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Color, Shine and Patterns dominate Spring/Summer 2013
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Moschino Menswear Spring/Summer 2013
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Burberry Prorsum Menswear Spring/Summer 2013
Gone are the days of earth tone soft palette menswear collection where black, white, and taupe colors rule the runway. In the next Spring/Summer 2013 collection, we see bright colors, shinny metallic fabrics and commercial patterns around the fashion capital, most notably in the most recent collections from Moschino and Burberry Prorsum in Milan.
In Moschino, supermarket products turned into prints and patterns all over shirts, jackets and pants. The combination of commercial-influence fashion pieces pair with super pop brights sweaters, pants and jackets all mixed together created a color-overdosed preppy look. It's fun, sexy and defintely very forward.
In Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey's boxy top and skinny bottom silhoutte created a very sexy look, filled with well designed car coats, boxy bomber and rain trench along with fitted suits. The twist came from super bright crispy metallic materials of pink, turquoise, fuchia red, yellow, orange and blue in outerwear and shirts. I especially love the touch of metallic shine water trek sandals and boxy satin shirts. The scarf inspired printed zip bomber has rounded shoulder pad and loose sleeves, finished with classic suiting bottom and metallic sandals. The Christian Bailey's Burberry men definitely has evolved along with lots of womenswear influence printed patterns and colors.
In the current age of economic downturn and uncertainty, the bold statement in recent menswear collection is almost a must to generate more buzz and interest, just not sure how well will men accept the changes there is to come, nevertheless, luxury fashion is not dead for sure, at the very least not in menswear in my opinion..
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sharp Tailoring and Sexy Proportion at Haider Ackermann SP/SU 2013
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I always love Haider Ackermann, the reason being he executes design proportion so well that always any form of shapes and lines look very sexy and lean. In this latest collection, he continues his signature design or wrapping and overlapping leather, shinny silks undernearth a sharp tailored jacket, using traditional Japanese kimono as inspiration, translated into a modern, architectural structure that is soft and elegant. There are mixed of wide and high-waisted, boyfriend style and skinny pants, along with tailored jackets that come in beautiful monochromatic silverish geometrical print. I really like those wide belts that translated into cummerband holding the shape of the collection really well. Just hope those pieces would come in men as well.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Matthew Williamson celebrate collection #15 in SP/SU 2013
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Matthew Williamson newest collection celebrate 15 years of the launch of his label, inspired by Indian holy festival as paint and inked dropped into paper, creating a cold and warm colors of mix match ombre prints and embroidery. It's what he does best. I really enjoy his collection.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Colorful Corsets and Cape at Burberry 2013
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Christopher Bailey does in again ! This time he sent models down the runway filled with colors in mainly the shape of "Corsets and Capes". The famous burberry trench coat were transformed into metallic color fabrics and come in different variety of length and width. We have seen a lot of colors going into next year from NY fashion week. It seems like the color does not stop at NY, more to come in London fashion week..