Vogue Turkey launch cover
Hot on the heels of Hearst Publications’ newly published Harper’s Bazaar Dubai edition earlier this year, Conde Nast is adding yet another international addition to their portfolio with a Turkish edition of Vogue magazine which will release it’s inaugural issue on March of 2010.
Here is the launch front cover – it doesn’t say 2010 to me – or?
Irving Penn
This week has been absolutely fashion/style manic here in London – London Fashion Week, The Baftas and Elle Style Awards. And on top of that the fantastic photography exhibition, Irving Penn Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.
London has yet again proved to be one of the most important players in the world of fashion. Talented designers such as Christopher Kane, Erdem, Christopher Bailey from Burberry and Peter Pilotto certainly proved their importance.
Over the past few seasons, Peter Pilotto and his partner, Christopher De Vos, have become known for digitally printing, cutting, and draping a steady series of subtly patterned dresses engineered so flatteringly to so many women’s physiques that retailers just can’t keep them in stock, and there’s only one problem with the jackets from Burberry Prorsum’s aw10 collection – which one to choose? The outerwear was available to pre-order during the show on the Burberry site, and every hybrid thereof, in all their variations of volume, shape, shagginess, and leather strap and buckle detail – was absolutely desirable. Bailey nailed it from the point of view of proportion—oversize and cropped—and practicality!
Peter Pilotto
I have yet to become a fan of Christopher Kane’s collections however I must admit he always captures tomorrow’s trends. As Style.com’s Sarah Mower put it, “Fashion needs brains like his to move things on.” This season, it was black leather embroidered with flowers patterned after parochial Women’s Institute craftwork that did the queasy job.
Erdem’s success consistency won him a British Designer of the Year award at the Elle Style Award – well deserved in my opinion, as I’ve loved his designs since I became acquainted with him during my bachelor studying years.
Erdem
Other winners worth mentioning was Christopher Bailey (International Designer), Alexa Chung (Editor’s Choice), Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (Elle Style Icons 2010) and the Accessories Designer of the Year award went to our very own and extremely talented Camilla Skovgaard.
Camilla Skowgaard sandals
Carey Mulligan
With London Fashion Week and the BAFTA ceremony held last night at the Royal Opera House, London is in full style/fashion/party/champagne alert – even Tom Ford is here!
In keeping with tradition London Fashion Week launched at Somerset where British Fashion Council chairman Harold Tillman opened LFW with a speech where he also spoke of Alexander McQueen’s “extraordinary impact” on the international fashion industry, before inviting attendees to hold a minute’s silence to remember “this great talent”.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah Brown was there as well (dressed in Erdem) she spoke of her admiration and awe at the designers due to exhibit their collections at the event. She said: “I have no doubt this will be a creative and inspiring London Fashion Week and also a reflective time with the passing of Lee (Alexander) McQueen.”
Betty Jackson aw10
So far designers such as House of Holland, Ann Sofie Back, PPQ, Betty Jackson and Margaret Howell has shown their collections on the catwalk and Holly Fulton (who is hotter than hot here in London), Clements Ribeiro, Eley Kishimoto and Mulberry have shown their collections at a so-called LFW Presentation – a more flexible way of presenting the new collections with several timeslots or ‘open entrance’ invitations to fit into any busy schedule.
Margaret Howell aw10
On top of London Fashion Week the British Academy Film Awards (equivalent to the American Oscars) was held yesterday at an exclusive event at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. As I hoped for the award for Leading Actress went to Carey Mulligan (An Education by Danish Lone Scherfig) of whom I have high future expectations. Winner of Best film was The Hurt Locker and the Leading Actor award went Colin Firth (A Single Man) who fulsomely praised Tom Ford (Director of the film) for his direction, style and personality.
Well, off to more show – I’m especially looking forward to Erdem at 2.30pm and Hussein Chalayan’s presentation. Watch this space!
Love Magazine is consistently on the forefront of the fashion industry. On the 14 February (Valentines Day) they released a short film Starring among others; Agyness Deyn, Dree Hemingway and Pixie Geldof and with creative direction by Love’s Editor in Chief Katie Grand.
The models occupy the futuristic streets of a digitally-enhanced NYC dressed (and undressed) head-to-toe in Prada past, present and indeed future in the case of the editorial debut of the pre-Fall 2010 collection, fresh from the Milan menswear catwalk.
Minimarket
Manish Arora collection aw08
The shows Friday (day three) and Saturday (day four) were slightly more colourful than the previous. Minimarket’s quirky dramatic styling draw references to the London’s colourful Manish Arora and added that little glimpse of illuminating light in a somewhat black, grey, brown and navy round of fashion shows.
By Malene Birger
By Malene Birger delivered, as always, a top professional show with numerous celebrities on front row and this time with less party wear and more wearable every day clothes. Next up was the Henrik Vibskov show held in the cool and trendy Kødbyen. He yet again proved he belongs among the trendiest designers with his innovative, quirky yet wearable collection.
Henrik Vibskov
The highlight of day four was the Wood Wood show – beautiful red haired girls and hip boys wearing cool street-style clothes with a relaxed and stress-free attitude.
Wood Wood
For more Copenhagen fashion Week images click here
Wackerhaus
Yet another day has passed of CFW – and what a day!
It started with Wackerhaus – winner of The Max factor New Talent Award – who presented a beautiful collection with tailored men’s trousers and jackets in neutral colours with splashes of cobber. All models had an elf cobber ear decoration, which was truly an exquisite little fine styling finesse.
Next up was Noblesse, held at the exclusive hotel Nimb – and they also delivered a well-designed collection and had a beautiful aristocratic black models along their model line-up.
Noblesse
Next up was Bruuns Bazaar , then bARBARA I gONGINI, Munthe Plus Simonsen and lovely Designers Remix presenting a beautiful collection yet with last-season details such as the over exposed ‘Balmain’ shoulders.
Designers Remix Collection
However, the joys of the day were sadly overshadowed by the tragic news of Alexander McQueen’s dead in central London. A truly designer icon who will be missed and remembered for his unique talent and innovative catwalk presentations. May he rest in peace.
Alexander McQueen 1969 - 2010
Rützou set design at the City Hall
First day of CFW had its peeks at the Louise Amstrup and Spon Diogo shows. Two fairly new brands – Louise Amstrup reasonably ‘commercial’ with fine details, cuts and silhouettes, Spon Diogo more conceptual but definitely with wearable styles, this season kept in a strict colour code of black, grey and red, and produced only in the most exclusive qualities.
Louise P @ Louise Amstrup
Spon Diogo
However, the day started out quit differently with a trend talk and trend show at the BC (described in an earlier blog) – the largest fair during CFW, then off to Pureheart held at the stunning Hotel Nimb, then Ivana Helsinki follow by the other fair show CPH Vision, this year held at the Opera – one of the most astonishing backdrops for a fashion show.
CPH Vision show at the Opera
The next show was Louise Amstrup’s who, as mentioned above, was one of the highlights of this first day at CFW. Rützou held in keeping with tradition the show at the City Hall – but this season the scene was wrapped in red carpet and decorated with large disco balls – I guess inspired by the silver ball-crowned fountain of Pol Bury at the Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris.
After Rützou it was just a short walk back to Hotel Nimb where Spon Diogo held their show and the day ended with a very late BZR show at a building site in central Copenhagen.
All in all a rather commercial day, but with heart warming glimpse of talented, innovative and interesting design pieces one could only look forward to.
For all show pix clic here
In keeping with the tradition CFW was kicked off this morning by a trend talk and show at the fashion fair BC – this year provided by the French trend agency Nelly Rodi.
We have entered a new decade and according to Nelly Rodi the future will consist of four different tribes – the Fix-its, the Emo-techno, the Activists and the Sophistocrats – four themes that were also reflected in the fashion show following the trend talk.
In short:
The Fix-its
It’s about values and attitude and recreating the tribes/families values. It’s about “the comeback of the new modesty” as Karl Lagerfeld said it recently.
The Emo-techno
Emo-tech (Emotional Technology) a tribe who wants to benefit fro the science and technology. It’s about round / curved / organic shapes and creating a bubble – a second skin – around you – it’s about joy!
The Activist
Are bored and don’t not feel free. They embrace the future with powerful extravagance and praises women like Lady Gaga and Beth Ditto. They are provocative and into art installations like the Belgian Arne Quinze’s wood sculpture at the L’eclaireur shop in Paris.
The Sophistocrats
Are the 2.0 generation – Michael Jackson is dead it’s time to wake up! They have little money and challenge the materialism. They play with kitsch/chic/sophistication, dandy – playing with classical values. Twisted, trompe l’oeil and most of all they want to have fun!
It’s like being a child waiting for Christmas Eve – tomorrow the biannual fashion weeks kicks off with Copenhagen Fashion Week – 36 shows and a vast number of events in just 4 days.
So what to do while waiting for the madness to start? I’m a big fan of street art and love to browse around big cities keeping my eyes open for these unique and often temporary artworks.
This weekend I fell over this series of a little creature in London’s Soho.
Do you have any unique pictures of street art you would like to share – please email photos with info on where and when they were taken – and later on I will post a selection of the best on the blog. Can’t wait to receive your contributions.
Liberty Ross by Nick Knight
Today I’ll be having lunch with iconic British model Liberty Ross – online that is!
At 12.30 (GMT+1) SHOWstudio.com’s Fashion Director Alexander Fury will interview Ms Ross as part of SHOWstudio’s In Fashion interview sessions. These sessions have also included interviews with photographer Tim Walker, designer Richard Nicoll and PR’s grand old lady Mandi Lennard.
I’ve actually met lovely Liberty Ross in 2005 when I was an intern at SHOWstudio, and she was the star of their project Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down – reaching its climate in a three days photo shoot shot by Nick Knight and styled by Jonathan Kaye and ‘virtual stylists’ via a live chat room.
Liberty Ross shot her first print advertisement when she was just seven years old for Tiffany & Co, and since 1992 she has been one of model agency Storm’s most successful models. She now lives in L.A. with her husband, advertising director Rupert Saunders, and their two children.
To watch the live interview clic here
For more info on the Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down project clic here
