Fashion Month #1. Beginning.

*Prada Mannequins are waiting for the new season's shows to start, sitting in the front row.

Our favourite time of the year has come. 4 weeks of new collections in the main fashion-capitals - New York, London, Paris and Milan. And a lot of fashion-related events.

Let's start the Spring/Summer 2012 season!

We are waiting not only for summer clothes made of light semi-transparent fabrics (on the runaway), but also for the editors, buyers and fashion-bloggers to rock the main fall trends (in the audience and in the streets).

And while we are forcing our way through hundreds of photos from the recent GQ awards party, Fashion's Night Out and first days of New York Fashion Week, you can watch half a dozen of new ad videos.

1. Ad campaign of Lanvin which was met with enthusiasm by all the critics (by Steven Meisel).

2. New video of Dior's perfume J'adore starring Charlize Theron (by Jean-Jacques Annaud).

3. A genuine film (the whole 105 seconds) which is promised to be continued - ad video of Trésor Midnight Rose (by Mario Testino).

4. Cheerful ad campaign of new Chanel nail polish.

5. Another work of Mario Testino (this time in collaboration with Christopher Bailey) that became a sensation long before its premiere (watch the video and you'll understand why) - an advertisement of a new Burberry fragrance - Burberry BODY. Starring Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.


See you soon!

D & P

Fashion MONTH! Part II

13/09
1. William Tempest - debutant of the week
2. Donna Karan New York - a very integral collection

3. Carolina Herrera - well thought-out collection (from the commercial point of view), crowned with amazing hats. An original idea of dresses-herbariums.

4. Marc Jacobs - there is everything in this collection: shining fabrics, bright colours, prints, hats, pants with high waist, mini-shorts, gold, seeming weightless sandals on platforms, semi-transparent maxi-skirts, thick midi-skirts etc. The one thing which is missing is... jeans. But we think it was left on purpose to Ralph Lauren! :)

14/09
1. Vera Wang - known for her snow-white wedding dresses Vera Wang prefers black on the ready-to-wear runaway, however, this year she couldn't resist adding some bright colours. Although, let's check out the black looks, shown by Irina Kulikova:

2. Herve Leger by Max Azria - a kingdom of geometry

3. Narciso Rodriguez - here one can easily observe two main tendencies: lots of white and minimalism

4. Marc by Marc Jacobs - insped by 70s Marc Jacobs has created a beautiful collection with vivid accesories. Pay attention to the hats-pots)))

15/09
1. Michael Kors - Michael Kors showed one more time why he's one of the permanent Project Runaway's judges, he's already a classic of Americain fashion.

2. Anna Sui - fresh and romantic collection from a designer who celebrates 20 years of her brand (and yes, the monopoly on jeans this season belongs to her).

3. Marchesa - chic-chic dresses.

16/09
1. Ralph Lauren - inspired by Wild West Ralph Lauren has created a beautiful collection. All fashion-critics predict a huge commercial success for it.

2. Calvin Klein - at first, it could seem that designer made clothes for chess-men... but actually no, in this collection there are some other colours))

3. Oscar de la Renta - dresses and ensembles of classic cut, a bit boring, however very beautiful and of the best quality. By having created this collection Oscar de la Renta proved once again that he is one of the elephants (excuse us, Oscar) holding American fashion.

Fasten your seat bealts! The next stop is London!

D & P

Fashion MONTH! UPDATED!

Hello! Hello!

We're very lucky - we live in the era when information spreads quicklier than it appears. Thanks to the Internet and the television we can stay at home, in comfort and cosiness, attend New York Fashion Week in the Lincoln Center, in London, Milan, Paris, remember Stockholm Fashion Week while reading Yvan Rodic's blog, admire young Tavi Gevinson who has collaborated with Style.com and POP magazine this year.

On the one hand, it's bad that designers didn't follow Natalie Massenet's advice and didn't skip a season. That could be a real strategic decision which would have brought lots of benefits in the future (let us remind you that during an interview with Business of Fashion Natalie Massenet - the founder of the biggest on-line luxury fashion retailer Net-a-porter - insisted that the only solution of the main problems of fashion market
[- millions of losses of fashion houses because of unexpected climate changes.
- imitations, counterfeits, fakes which have a whole half a year (from the designer fashion show to the actual start of selling) to fill the market all over the world.
- reduce of interest to the collection during the period between the show (seen on the Internet) and the appearing of clothes in shops.
- crisis of print-media, when it has to comment collections which have already been carefully studied by bloggers and on-line-media]
was to skip a season and to pass on to the system "In autumn we show Fall/Winter collections, in spring - Spring/Summer".

On the other hand, it's very cool! Because a) this solution is questionable, b) we can admire new, audacious (?), bright (like all the media promised in its fashion forecasts), interesting and not boring (that's for sure) collections of the best desighers.

So, we suggest you looking through our own timetable of the Fashion MONTH (NY + London + Milan + Paris)

New York Fashion Week
When: September 9-16

09/09
Project Runaway - 8th season finale of popular TV-show, we don't to spoiler the fun, so we won't name the winners.

10/09
1. BCBGMAXAZRIA
2. Alexander Berardi

3. Jason Wu
4. Peter Som
5. Rag & Bone

11/09
1. Lacoste - sporty chic of unbelievable colours by Christophe Lemaire
2. Prabal Gurung
3. Edun - organic creation of Ali Hewson and her husband Bono for the first time diverted public by the runaway show.

4. Z Spoke by Zac Posen - one more runaway debut - democratic line by Zac Posen
5. Altuzarra - one of the most discussed shows at the moment.
6. Alexander Wang


12/09
1. Derek Lam - also minimalism
2. DKNY

3. Max Azria
4. Preen - designers Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi presented their own version of minimalism

5. Y-3 - at first, admire blue lips of models and only after that - the clothes
6. Tommy Hilfiger

7. Diane von Furstenberg - first steps of new creative director - Yvan Mispelaere
8. Thakoon
9. Victoria Beckham - universally recognized sensation of the 4the day of the Week


Tendencies: minimalism, white, but also bright colours like neon colours, all kinds of length - mini-midi-maxi, generally loose-fitting

D & P