Since my boyfriend works
here in Madrid I truly spend a lot of time here so during this visit I am
taking time to explore fabulous multi brand stores, hopefully another small vintage
shop like Templo
de Susu which I found the last time I was here and I am hoping to
discover talented local designers just like the Juan
Vidal whose work I absolutely adore!
As you could have seen from
some of my previous posts like: Wrap
it your way and So
many hats and only one head, I really love to buy and wear hats and head
wraps, in two just mentioned posts I also shared a tutorial on how to wrap it
if you are curious to try it.
My new discovery is Mimoki an original headdresses,
which also sells shoes and bags in the brand's signature style. Amazing
boutique, absolutely gorgeous hats, hat covers, head wraps and accessories to
match are just some of the reasons why you should visit Mimoki when visiting
Madrid. World famous fashionista and since recently fashion designer herself Victoria
Beckham loves and wears Mimoki hats, but Mimoki pieces are also regularly
featured in top fashion magazines including Spanish Vogue.
Here is how these amazing
little works of art look like; I am sure that when wearing Mimoki piece lady
simply cannot go unnoticed! I want them all! J
All photos from http://www.mimoki.es/tienda.html
Would you dare to wear one of these fabulous pieces lovelies?
"A hat is a flag, a shield, a bit of armor, and the badge of
femininity.
A hat is the difference between wearing clothes and wearing a costume;
it's the difference between being dressed and being dressed up;
it's the difference between looking adequate and looking your best.
A hat is to be stylish in, to glow under, to flirt beneath,
to make all others seem jealous over, and to make all men feel masculine
about.
A piece of magic is a hat."
Martha Sliter
Photo source: http://www.allvoices.com
Fall 2012. Collections
overall announced quite a serious season, darkly romantic. The common theme was
harder age look, a lot of layering as if layers were there to build up to a
protective shield, defending women from hard and unpredictable economic times
coming up. Renaissance inspired romantic darkness was contrasted with
excessive, escapist urge of more couture pieces showed – creative double
reality for women, the one we live and the luxury, dreamy one we strive for.
CAVALLI swapped last season
mink with crocodile, there were a lot of amazing 70’s inspired pants shown and
lovely animal print sweaters. Overall, he created rather rich, powerful,
excessive and sexy collection.
PRADA presented virtual
princesses army, girls looked powerful and otherworldly, a bit like robotic
avatars. Pieces were decorated waste upwards, skirts were styled over pants,
focus was on structure, ornament and print but romanticism was still coming out
as PRADA’s signature.
FENDI designed collection
with modern amazons in mind. I really loved the iPad bags, wild orchid motive,
spring bulk power women suits – truly fashion for digital age career women.
VERSACE. Donatella was facing
her demons as she said with this collection. For me, collection was very much
“girl with a dragon tattoo like”, prime motive was byzantine cross, very Goth,
rock & roll feel. My very favorite pieces were chain dresses.
BOTTEGA VENETA’s Tomas Maier
has showed the dark side of fashion. Collection is quite shaped; peplum bottoms
were added to soften up tailored pieces with the goal to enhance the body.
MARNI showed structured
perfectly tailored pieces, some great shoes and overall quite linear
collection.
MISSONI sang ode to mother
nature with amazing natural color shade and with its signature knits by fusing
different fabrications adding innovative crystals, metallic, marble stone,
latex, leather, suede and knits in layers of colors and textures.
D&G’s collection
was inspired by romantic baroque with respect to Italian tradition and
celebration of Italy featuring embroidery over lace, beautiful floral prints, and
marzipan like shoes in a spirit of shameless earthiness. This is a “money in
the bank” collection for sure.
ARMANI reinvented his style
with gorgeous evening wear shorts and girlish looks in forcefully strong
colors.
PUCCI designed strong women
dresses showing less skin, classic and sexy with graphics expressed through
fabrics and lovely pajama print suits.
All photo source: http://www.style.com
What will you remember FW
2012. Runway season by lovelies?
Photo by Matija Habljak
Last night I saw the FW
2012. of one of my two favorite Croatian brands – Envy Room. Designer duo Vjeko
and Nikica have yet again proved how well they know exactly what Envy Room
women wants to wear. Not only they are quite in touch with their clientele, but
I like them for knowing where to talk to their customer.
Copyright: STEFANO FIORENTIN
They are far the best
designers in Croatia when it comes to using social media and digital media
overall to scan the market and lead daily conversation with their customers.
They are personally engaged and replaying to their customer questions on their website, Twitter profile, Facebook page, blog, guest column on one portal and
they recently opened account on Pintrest
as well.
Here
you can see the interview I did with the boys couple of months back.
Envy Room designer team
followed their SS 2012. collection theme which was inspired by glamorous retro
40's transitioning into 50's with darker and bolder color pallet, where they
played with color blocking, floral prints and fabrications ranging from playful
and romantic floaty sheer maxi dresses to naughty pin-up inspired, tailored strict
lines Dominant colors were red wine, petroleum, cream and deep purple accessorized
with gold and silver details.
Photo by Matija Habljak
I really love the contrast
they did with mixing day wear pieces with glam maxi skirts. My very favorite
was a tight floral piece which I find day wear office appropriate and of course
gorgeously romantic floral dresses perfect for spring and summer nights for
tall girls like me J
What is your favorite Envy
Room piece for FW 2012?
LINK BY OGI and MRVOŠ are two Croatian fashion designers who joined to open a boutique together and to kick off the start of their collaboration they presented their colaborative collection last night.
Minimalism, neopunk, high tech and clean cuts were inspiration for both mens and womenswear pieces. Their collection featured many closet staple pieces such as little black dress and clean cut blazer and leather jackets but they were taken from day to night with layering, combining and playing with different fabrications such as leather, see through fabrics and heavier knits.
CLASH of 9 is a young designer group freshly came out or still in fashion school who joined forces to create one quite mature and compact collection, which I am sure was not easy having nine young creative minds working together. I loved how wearable and concrete their pieces came up to be, although quite hipster motived and contemporary.
IGOR GALAŠ is known to be a king of knits which he definitely proved once again working on his now third collection for Croatian fashion house Arena from Pula. I apsolutely love his chucky knits, amaying quality soft wool mixtures, and architectural shapes and volumes he is able to produce out of knits. I can wait for next winter to cozy up in one of these!
Last night I went to see Lei Lou FW 2012. collection and of course to support my friend Aleksandra Dojčinović who trully never fails to impress and satisfy her clients. This show was no different.
Alex opened the show with silver, floaty Charleston 20’s inspired dress over white tights worn with chunky
heel. The whole show was in the spirit or French romance, luxurious red carpet
fabrics, floaty gowns in fatal red, powder pink and my favorite royal green. Royal green open back one piece unitard with soft ruffles down the
side and buttoned up front was a total win for me.
Alex was quite conscience of her customer types, so she created a number of red carpet (I am sure limited edition) dresses for her celebrity customers which were glamorized with faux fur throw overs, also, she made a couple of black rockerish cocktail pieces – quarter sleeve dress with zip from under the arm all the way down the dress as well as a pencil skirt made of the same fabric with back zipper top to bottom down the middle which makes both pieces easy to undress. I was wondering if the shells the dress and the skirt were made of are soft leather – if so I want them both.
All photos: www.facebook.com/leiloubyalex
I am particularly glad she managed to combine the French elegance with evening glam look and rockerish day wear which can be combined with blouses, trench coat and stilettos for the work day and dressed down with simple T-shirt, biker boots or even converse for day look.
I am particularly glad she managed to combine the French elegance with evening glam look and rockerish day wear which can be combined with blouses, trench coat and stilettos for the work day and dressed down with simple T-shirt, biker boots or even converse for day look.
Overall, smart collection,
right on the money.
All photos from www.style.com
Coats: Mugler/Ellie Saab/Valentino/Oscar
de la Renta
One of the highlights of Fall 2012. Shows were definitely
wonderful coats and coatdresses we got a chance to see. Many designers really
got them right on the money!
I made a selection of my favorites bellow, taking into account
those I have noticed on London and Paris shows as I have already wrote about
selected trends from NY Fashion Week shows here.
Mugler show was one of my favorites with clean cuts and colors
which I will highlight in one of the upcoming posts; my favorite was the white,
perfectly tailored wool coat above. I love the color of Ellie Saab wool trench
and lady like appeal of Oscar de la Renta’s coat, although I was not to in-love
with the rest of his collection. Valentino did a number of gorgeous long coats
with lovely button detailing.
All photos from www.style.com
Coat dresses: Moschino Cheap
and chic/Jonathan Saunders/Mary Katrantzou/Valentino
Coat dresses are definitely
making a comeback in many different variants. These are basically coats which
you wear on…nothing ;) Joking..of course…you would totally freeze. But they
certainly look good enough that you wouldn’t need to. My favorite one the third
one - Mary Katrantzou coat dress, I enjoyed all of her collection where she
gorgeously combined graphic prints with amazing tailoring and fabric selection.
All photos from www.style.com
Coats: Burbery Prorsum/Ralph
Lauren/Burbery Prorsum
Burbery Prorsum and Ralph
Lauren played with plaid, while Ralph Lauren sticked to his signature menswear
inspired cuts and fabrication Burbery Prorsum fitted the hunter green plaid
coats in the waste with girly mustard colored belts and accentuated the hips
with large pockets.
All photos from www.style.com
Coats:JP Braganza/Temperly
London/Burbery Prorsum
Fashion critics said that JP Braganza was most improved designer
on London Fashion Week this year. I really liked the wool coat he did; it looks
soft and comfy just like a bathrobe.
Temperly London showed a rather interesting collection featuring many
eastern cultures inspired maxi dresses and couple of fitted coats, my favorite
one was the black one in the middle, pulled together with a belt looking
similar to the one McQ showed over their military coats.
The last one is a multicolored puffy coat from Burberry Prorsum
which I love cause it is fun and figure flattering in comparison to most
feather jackets.
All photos from www.style.com
Coats: Viviene Westwood Red
Label/Valentino/Vivien Westwood Red Label
Valentino’s long coat in the
middle has rather interesting pattern and Vivien Westwoods Red Label trenches
on the outer sides of the photo above I love due to untraditional tailoring yet
quite traditional color and fit.
What kind of jackets are you
looking to get for fall and winter months?
All photos are owned by www.style.com
As I stated in my last post,
I am running a bit behind on publishing my show reviews and fashion week posts.
I did see all the shows, but my daily work schedule, vacation and business
trips combined with my sisters weeding kind of ran over me in the last couple
of weeks.
So, there are the fashion
shows, presentations and then there is magical McQueen.
After watching the show,
observing the details and reading many positive show reviews my intention
was to pull the parallel in between Alexander McQueen mainline and the
McQ shows.
While creating the collection,
Sarah Burton had bright future ahead, positivity and optimism in mind which
obviously contradicts general feel of global economic recession and grayness present in the world at the moment.
The Alexander McQueen show
was set up in a way to slowly escalate, grow and explode in form, volume and
color. Models were styled with visors, fur pompons and knee length soft booties.
Show started with short, tailored, light colored graphic coat dresses where decoration was embroidered in the fabric, while other dresses were controlled in waist with bold shaped belts.
These pods made out of feather and fur in bold black and red colors exploded later into quite extravagant shapes which looked like they were floating in the air.
These pods made out of feather and fur in bold black and red colors exploded later into quite extravagant shapes which looked like they were floating in the air.
What a surreal show!
McQ brand is about 6 years old now and this was the first time it was showing on London Fashion Week.
McQ brand is about 6 years old now and this was the first time it was showing on London Fashion Week.
The
romance, the dark glamour and immaculate tailoring are what McQ brand is all
about, providing beautiful clothes under lower price than the main line without compromising the quality.
The collection was inspired by military menswear colored in hunter green and tan, quite luxurious and rich in details, exploding into evening wear towards the end with dresses having gothic inspired black lace combined with gorgeously tailored plaid or red wine color velvet with rich detailing.
I also loved shoes
and belts with a small chain very much so, there wasn’t a piece I wouldn’t
wear! Absolutely fantastic! What was your favorite show lovelies?
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