Fall Review - Part 6

Louis Vuitton

If you haven't worked out from the pictures, this collection was sooo good. If you do not see this, then please stop reading this right now because my ranting will pretty much bore you to death. But then again if you do not like this collection, you may as well be dead anyway. So, to avoid death, please go directly to this website... www.get-a-better-aesthetic.com. Or text GET TASTE to 1900856492!!! Well now that's sorted out, I will get back to the clothes. They were all focused on womanhood and femininity. All emphasise was on the waist and bust which all worked extremely well (as always). Apart from the silhouette the thing that I loved most about the collection, were the prints and fabrics. They were so beautiful and so varied it was all just a feast for he eyes. My favourites probably would have been:

The swirly quilted florals - 

This kind of crinkly segmented patchwork-y soft plaid-ish thing - 

 

                                         

Some lovely shiny leathers - 

      

Fur spots -                The floatiest prettiest tulle evaaaa - 

                        

The plaid -

        

The only use of corduroy I've seen that looks really good - 

And finally a vintage paper looking kind of floral - 

                                                      

So yes after going through almost every fabric in the show I'd say that I loved all of them. Aaaah now you'd think it's time to relax your senses and enjoy a nice cold drink. But wait! there's more!

One word SHOES... a-ma-zing

                                          

                            O-M-G

Oh yes and the lace sunglasses - 

                                     

Ok I am too tired to do the gloves and the handbags (drool) so I will leave you with the show so you can see for yourself. Enjoy. (I know you will... Mwe-hehehehe)

Well actually I don't know how to do get the video on the blog so using your super sensitive intuition, go to Style.com and err... work it out yourself.                                  

                               

Fall Review - Part 5

Prada

Miuccia Prada is has been very nice person to me lately. Why you ask, because Her Majesty the Creative Director of Earth has given me this lovely collection to salivate over. It is so very very nice and tres tres cool. It looked, to me and err... everyone else in the world, that emphasise on the bust was most definitely back. At the Prada show, the feared deed was done with frills (picture. 8), a kind of novelty-ish folding on the chest (picture. 1), geooorgeous black piping (picture. 6) and belting with thin err.. belts. Which I think is all completely beautiful. 

The only thing that annoys me about this collection, (not the fact that the green paisley-ish tank and pants combo is not currently meeting and greeting with all its good pals in my wardrobe) is that almost every single reputable fashion publication, is using them (and other clothes from Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu) in an editorial most often entitled 60s Revival or Classics Revival or OMG I set my Prada pants on fire Revival. (I accidently wrote that last one and I was going to remove it but I will leave it there for it's comedic value, and YES I am insane) So yeah, not that I don't love the old "Revival" editorial, but really it's getting old. (1 month old to be precise) So when the clothes finally get to the stores, everyone will be bored with them and will have moved on to something else. (something insane like Comme des Garçons fire-men's hats... Actually that would be quite cool) I think that is what I love about fashion though. I mean my eyes say 'YES I do need to see more collections every few days after notifications from Style.com and Twitter!!!' but my brain says 'Oh God what has our word come to, needing to have new things every few minutes so that after a week you're bored and want something fresh to feast on like Edward Cullen on a big fat innocent bear. ect. ect. on and on' But usually my brain gives in and then I go on Style.com.

     

Fall Review - Part 4

Chanel

I have a kind of love hate relationship with this collection. It's weird but I think when I actually look at the clothes, I find them very beautiful. But when I look at them in the context of a show, I find the whole thing quite well, boring. I guess I have a problem with the whole gimmick of Antarctica in the show. I mean the set was amazing, but personally I found it quite excessive for a 15 minute ready to wear show. I love it but it's just so well... huge. I guess that is what fashion is about though, excess. But I think what really annoyed me about this particular presentation, was how everyone put a label on it as being a Climate Change awareness thing. I mean Karl may be a genius but if he is putting his name to this 'being green' thing I may have to smite him with his own knuckle duster-ed fist. I mean the 30 tonnes (although other sources said 265 tonnes) of ice that they/he trucked in from Sweden must have used that in diesel and petrol. In the interview after the show on the Chanel website, Karl says he "...[has] no idea how many trucks [were used to transport the ice in pieces, to the show]..." All I can gather is that the blocks that stood 28 metres high when fully assembled, has probably caused a small hole in the ozone, a family in some third world country left in poverty, a plague of rats and locusts and spread misery and disease throughout the world. And other bad stuff to do with the earth's magnetic field and misbehaving dishwashers. Ok maybe not but it sure hasn't helped the world with it's err... problems. I think the most annoying comment I've heard throughout this whole thing is a smug journalist commenting in one of the interviews "It's Karl's say on climate change." or now this is good, "With global warming, ice-bergs melting and global catastrophe looms. But for Chanel's Karl Largerfeld, that's no excuse not to look ones best." I mean WAT??? Your fashion blog (naming no names) just made fashion sound stupid, and like people think it is saving the world. Not an incredible art form that people invented to use for entertainment and ENJOYMENT. In fact I think that last statement confirmed for all sceptics on the fashion industry, the beliefs that ALL people interested in fashion think it's like a cure for cancer or something. But although I hate this stereotype of the fashion industry, I think for some unfortunate people it is true. I think there comes a point in the life of a person working in the rag trade, were the lines blur between what is important and what is frivolous fun. Maybe they need a government system where all people applying for a job in fashion, must wear some kind of ankle band like pigeons do. Then a small electric shock would be welcome from the band, after the sensor senses a rise in pretension levels in the brain. To do this though you would probably have to have it attached to the head... but then it would be really ugly... maybe Karl or Marc could make personalised one's... I wonder if they would make matching ones for pigeons... 

    

                 

SHUT UP BRAIN!!! anyway back to the clothes. In the collection, all the fur was surprisingly fake. (Although Karl insists that it should be called costume fur, because the term fake is derogative. I think this is actually quite true.) Which is quite a big deal for Chanel's luxury image. I think in the end, all those PETA activists got to Karl and he was somehow convinced by his advisors  or something that it would be better for his popularity bla bla bla. And now, prepare for the knowledge of your life. Stufflike this only comes round once a day!!!...

Interesting fact of the day - Pidgeons evolved millions of years ago in Asia!!!

Oh and most of Chanel's tweeds are embroidered on.

 

Fall Review - Part 3

Fendi

I think this was one of my favourites this season. Mostly because I love how easy to wear all of the clothes would be. Karl and 'whatever her name is' really put an emphasise on fur this time. (How did they know I adore fur??? considering I was obviously the inspiration for the collection and the world revolves around me MUhahahaha)Anyway all of it looked really kind of luxurious but also countrysideish(?) at the same time. I wonder if that's what he (oh wait  sorry, they) were going for. With all the wellington boot inspired shoes, muted colours and furs, it seems to kind of point to it. But considering this, the campaign was quite different. I think it was very cinematic and reminded me of that old Hitchcock film The Birds. 

In fact all of the pictures look like scenes from the film. (teen pretension points for me YAY!) 

The way they're shot is really similar to that of the campaign. They even have the same perfectly held hairstyle. The colour scheme is almost identical with all the pastels, especially in the 3rd photo. Anyway that is quite interesting so I'll get back to the clothes now. Ok well I pretty much loved every outfit from the collection and would wear it everywhere. Yes even at night. In my bed...