Dancing Chanel

Quentin Jones directed this delightful, Dada-esque mixed media fashion film for VogueTV, featuring ballet dancer Emma Chadwick in Chanel SS11. It’s very refreshing to see a cheerful fashion film that incorporates animation and collage video techniques and still shows off the clothes in a creative way. Watch “Dancing Chanel” below;

 

Chanel SS11 Couture

Uncle Karl presents a collection about softness and light, with models in ballet flats (who look like real teenagers), a pink macarons palette and millions of beads and sequins.

Jean Paul Gaultier SS11 Couture

Photos: Imaxtree

Afternoon of a Faun

I love Toga‘s concept for SS11; leopard-on-leopard, little collars, colourful belts and lots of sheer. Their collection “Afternoon of a Faun” has definitely got me in the mood for Spring (err, Spring shopping more than anything).

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Collect ‘em All

My friend has been obsessing over these Fendi SS11 glasses for weeks, she’s starting to rub off on me…I love the green ones!

Also, is it just me or does that last model look EXACTLY like Demi Moore?

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McQueen SS11

Possibly the most anticipated show of Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week was Alexander McQueen, as it was their first womenswear show designed in the late Lee McQueen’s absence. It was all eyes on Sarah Burton, the new head designer, yet she somehow managed to deliver under the pressure. It couldn’t have been an easy to job to stick to the house trademarks of meticulous tailoring, dark influences and edgy, otherworldly designs, without simply regurgitating Lee Alexander’s previous designs…but the critics have weighed in and it looks like she pulled it off, all while adding her own flair.

“In an extraordinarily beautiful show, Burton succeeded in both being faithful to the late designer’s distinctive design ethos while taking the label into a new era.” -The Guardian “A tour-de-force that channeled McQueen’s darkly surreal style, remodeling his signature elements into strange and beautiful confections that managed to be at the same time new and reassuringly familiar.” -Associated Press

“A show laden with emotion that was made even more remarkable because of how right she got it.” – Vogue.com UK

“Inspired, this time, by the anatomy of the woman who chooses to wear it and by the flora and fauna of the natural world, it was both technically and artistically perfect.” -The Independent

“Sarah Burton … revived the late designer’s challenging legacy with a brilliant first collection imbued with a pagan, bohemian spirit and featuring spectacular hand-crafted detail.” -The Daily Telegraph

Photos by Sonny Vandevelde via A Shaded View on Fashion

Nicole Farhi Part 2

As promised, here are my thoughts on the Nicole Farhi SS11 show. But first! Check out my final walkthrough video from the show;

I’m really happy I caught Nicole at the end! Read on for runway review;

Rebel Trash Barbeque

I’m not going to obsess over how much I love Jeremy Scott because I have devoted way too many blog posts to that subject. Instead I will let you feast your eyes on the deliciously trashy, fleshy, NYC-repping, punk rock, clever tongue-in-chic fiesta of an SS11 collection!

I want a garbage bag skirt! I’m completely serious, I think its adorable…the only problem is off the runway it might just look like, well, a garbage bag. Ah, the illusion of fashion! The soda can getup is genius as well;

What do you guys think, ridiculous, awesome, or ridiculously awesome?

Pugh SS11

SHOWstudio + Gareth Pugh SS11

Another black and white/creepy dancing/edgy electro music/mirror effect/wind machine/boobs/slow-motion video lookbook for you. I have to admit, this one is pretty sick though…and I can’t help but love Gareth Pugh and pretty much everything that comes out of SHOWstudio.

It’s a much longer fashion film than we are used to seeing…did you watch the whole thing or lose interest? Any thoughts? I’m dead curious about that crazy pillow cape/dress at around 8 minutes…and the Givenchy-esque geometric prints.

Nicole Farhi Experience

As I recently mentioned, I unexpectedly got to go to the Nicole Farhi SS11 show this London Fashion Week! A photographer who is in the same master’s course as me had extra invitations so she gave me a pile. Ah, the perks of being a London College of Fashion student! She offered the tickets to the whole class and I was expected everyone to attack her like wild dogs, but nobody wanted them. Weirdos.

Cool invites;

My friend Anastasia and I went to the show, and its a good thing she was there because The Sartorialist was an inch away from me and I didn’t even notice. She also managed to snatch his seat marker after the show.

People filing in, view from our seats;

Our seats were super close to the photographers’ pit, I loved the sound of a thousand shutters snapping at once, like a giant hoard of butterflies. One day I would love to try shooting from there.

To further prove how much of a space case I am, I somehow failed to notice that Carine Roitfeld was there with her daughter, not ten feet from me.  I get very distracted by clothes and am completely incapable of celebrity scouting, apparently. Again, Anastasia came to the rescue with crazed pointing motions in her direction. I managed to get a couple photos, undercover paparazzi-style, of the pair waiting for their car afterwards.

Apparantly Anna Wintour was there as well but she snuck in and then left so fast we didn’t even catch a glimpse of her. She didn’t escape the dozens of bloggers and fashionistas who twitpic-ed her though!

Anyway it was so much fun going to the show and feeling like a part of the craziness that is London Fashion Week. I’ll do a separate post on the actual show soon.

All photos Drooling Isn’t Photogenic.

Fifth is the New Frow

Fifth row is the new front row :P

I’m much to tired and frazzle-brained to explain right now, but I got to go to Nicole Farhi‘s SS11 London Fashion Week show this morning! It was amazing, I feel so lucky to have been there. I will do a proper post tomorrow with a video and the photos I took.

I’m at the center bottom with the dark red hair, holding up a camera, fifth row. My journalist friend Anastasia is with me.

Photo via Nothing Bad Magazine, click to enlarge.

By the way I look like a spaz being the only one with a camera in that direction, but in reality it was a sort of donut-shaped catwalk so I was filming the model that was ahead.

Cross-Eyed

Jeremy Scott SS10 cross glasses=Amazing.

Nightmares & Cowboys

I know, I know, I’m obsessed…but I just love his designs! Daniel Palillo SS11 “Nightmares & Cowboys” lookbook…what a cool name! This time around I HAVE to get my hands on one of these pieces. Check his blog here.

Eyeballs, skulls, oversized, black and white, polka dots, bones…all of the above please :) My favorites are the big ruffly black and white top, the purple jacket, the eyeball skirt, and the red eyeball leggings.

Kenzooooo

Today I went to my first ever fashion show, Kenzo menswear in Paris. It was such an amazing experience…I’ll post more about the collection later because right now I’m a bit starstruck. I got to meet the amazing fashion blogger BryanBoy, who we interviewed for our new Cohesive TV show, Chic Equipe. Check out my blog for Chic Equipe here for more about Kenzo and what I’ve been working on lately!

My dress is by Cop-Copine and the jacket is H&M.