Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2012 Schedule
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
16.00 CET / 10:00am EST / 12:00am JST (January 19) - Y. Project by Yohan Serfati, Maison des Metallos
17.00 CET / 11:00am EST / 1:00am JST (January 19) - John Lawrence Sullivan, Maison des…
The 15th and the 16th are going to be the exciting days I do believe. But my goodness, I wish they could’ve just figured out the dates, so that they didn’t overlap and stuff.
CHANEL Spring/Summer 2012 | Paris Fashion Week
What is air?! Currently choking over Karl Lagerfeld’s latest work! The CHANEL S/S 2012 show has to rank as the best quality show (with a live performance by Florence Welche of Florence + the Machine) of all of Paris Fashion Week 2012. The show was an ocean of delights. Props to Karl for not falling back on the overdone modern day mermaid references). Offsetting light, nearly iridescent colors, ruffles, and a tad big of play with transparency were all apart of the collection this year. CHANEL get’s a AAA+!
Love the outfit. Love the hair.
But omg, Rose McGowan what have you done to your face?
She steals designs.
Apparently the infamous pom-pom dress that I expressed deep intense hatred for not 5 minutes ago was a stolen idea.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Who would steal an idea like that? It’s not revolutionary, it’s not fashionable and it doesn’t make sense.” But that’s not the point. The point here, is that up and comer Jessica Rogers had a dream, a dream to be a fashion designer. She had a vision and she was building her vision, pursuing her dreams and Miss Minaj crushed them with her giant, fake, bee-hive weave.
The story here is that, Rogers has been making these “Puffball” dresses for 3 years now. She’s producing them under the name, “SomedayNewYorker”. They’re her life. She has been chasing down contacts, chasing down celebrities and trying to make it in the fashion world for the past three years with these dresses. The worst part about the story, is she had even approached Minaj about wearing her dresses, and eagerly sent her stylists pictures of the designs and never heard back.
You know, until she saw a picture of Minaj’s dress on the internet.
She contacted Minaj’s people and told them the situation, offering to send them one of her own creations to make up for the infamous “Puffball” dress.
The icing on the cake for Rogers was when she saw Minaj describing her outfit as a “Puffball” dress, when Rogers claims to have coined the term.
Ugh.
Rogers has been put down, and beaten down by Minaj’s people, even experiencing a verbal berating from one of Minaj’s ex-stylists. She was told, “that it’s a small community and I better watch what I say.” (DAILYMAIL)
I’m disgusted at everything to do with this story, except the young designer herself.
Now correct me if I’m wrong but I feel as though there are certain etiquette rules that you abide by when you’re invited to sit FRONT ROW at a show during Fashion Week.
One of them (and this is my opinion) is that you wear the designer’s work. If you’re not going to wear the designer’s work, then you wear something low key, that at least LOOKS like it.
This is NOT ok.
Not only is she front row at a Carolina Herrara fashion show during Fashion Week, but she is also sitting next to one of the most influential voices in the fashion industry (who is being a respectful guest and WEARING THE DESIGNS).
Honestly, I look at this and see Nicki Minaj not making an effort. You were invited to sit in one of the most visible seats in the house and you wore a pom-pom dress. A pom-pom dress to a CAROLINA HERRARA show. Someone who’s designs embody elegance and class.
This makes me angry. I know that celebrities are entitled to wear what they want and are in fact encouraged to show off their style when they attend shows. But I believe that you can show off your style in a more subdued and respectful manner.
This get-up is ok at a Betsey Johnson show, because Johnson’s aesthetic MATCHES Minaj’s.
This is a disgrace.
I officially hate Nicki Minaj.
Ohne Titel Spring 2012
Photo: Marcio Madeira/firstVIEW
Visit Vogue.com for the full collection and review.
Kate Moss is arguably one of the strongest forces of fashion that has graced the catwalks and editorial pages in over a decade. She single handedly changed the face of fashion, making grunge, chic.
Moss not only changed the face of fashion, but she changed the silhouette. Designers moved away from curvy models like Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer, in search of Kate’s more waifish figure.
She was the anti-supermodel. She was everything that was not a model, but was still launched to super stardom. Kate’s weight astonished the fashion community and sparked rumors of an eating disorder, but she opened doors for size 0 modelling all around the world.
She’s easily one of the most recognized models in the world and her style is always on everyone’s mind. Her trade mark jacket and tank, over a pair of jeans has been her staple for almost her whole career. In fact, if you look through any random assortment of paparazzi photos of Kate’s day to day life, the majority will probably feature her in a combination of the aforementioned outfit.
Kate’s casual, carefree style doesn’t carry over to her more refined outfits however. When Moss goes to a fashion show, she dresses the way one would imagine a supermodel would if she were seated front row. Lately, Moss has been sporting leather skirts paired with fur, a trend that will transition into the fall superbly and allows her to look trendy and toned down as usual.
She kick starts trends (like high-waisted jeans) simply by wearing a certain outfit and being photographed in said outfit. Moss is a style icon, pushing boundaries constantly. Moss even wore a tuxedo to the Costume Institute Gala, where gowns and glitter usually litter the red carpet.
As far as I’m concerned, there will never be another Kate Moss and no one will ever affect the fashion world on such a large scale in such a small amount of time. At least not in our lifetimes. Kate Moss is a style icon, but largely under appreciated due to a rather controversial past.
The general public needs to look past whatever mistakes she’s made (or the scumbags she’s dated, here’s looking at you Doherty) and admire her for what she’s done.
There’s only one Kate in London.
Remember your first car? The old clunker you bought from the old guy down the street? It could barely get to 60 and when it finally got there it shook like a leaf, but you sure were proud of that thing. Or how about your first kiss? The combination of awkward and awful made the whole experience something that you would never forget.
Nostalgic moments that you look back on and smile about. Moments that happen in your youth, back in the days when you didn’t have to worry about your tuition payment, graduating with your pre-med degree, paying back your student loan, paying your mortgage on time. Back when things were simple, when your life was carefree.
Fashion remembers those moments too, harking back to times when life was simpler and let’s face it; when the economy wasn’t so awful.
This year, high fashion houses like Prada, Miu Miu and Dolce&Gabbana are embracing the drama of the 40’s, the romance of the 60’s and the fun-loving carefree festival days of the 70’s.
Fashion is repeating itself, but with more contemporary and modern spins on classics that you could keep in your closet for years to come. High fashion is focusing on investment pieces for the 2011 fall/autumn season because you probably already have something like it what’s walking down the catwalk in a box somewhere in your attic, it just needs to be updated.
Brands like Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger have trademarked preppy nostalgia throughout the entire history of their brand, making it a hallmark style that has carried these influential designers throughout each different fashion era. Yet, because preppy nostalgia is simply so classic, it becomes less nostalgic and more timeless. I don’t know about you, but when I think of Tommy Hilfiger, I think about my first pair of designer running shoes. When I think about Ralph Lauren I think about the first polo that I ever bought that was more expensive than the rest of my outfit.
Only warm and fuzzy thoughts over here.
Whether it’s “preppy nostalgia” or simply plain old nostalgia. Nostalgia that reminds you of your old car or nostalgia that let’s you wear your old bell-bottoms and the bohemian style wrap dress that you wore on your way to Woodstock, fashion is trying to remind you of more carefree times.
Missoni is trying to get you back into your flared trousers and Roberto Cavalli wants you to put those old boho crochet cardigans back on, because fashion is getting ready to embrace your previous youthful, carefree lifestyle.
