Category Archives: BREAKING MODE
BOTTEGA VENETA MILANO 2016
ETRO MILANO 2016
My work is an emotional endeavour. I observe everything, storing sensations and inspirations to share with my creative team. I keep a notebook in which to record things that strike me. Continue reading
LUISA BECCARIA MILANO 2016
Romantic, imaginative, feminine… Luisa Beccaria represents the contemporary female dreamer. Constant inspiration drawn from poetry, art and nature aids Luisa in creating a bespoke beauty, able to free the dreaming spirit of every woman. Since its debut during the ’80s, the Luisa Beccaria aesthetic and style has been taking shape through beautiful dresses shown among art galleries to enchanted gardens. Continue reading
GUCCI FALL WINTER MILANO 2016
AMANDA WAKELEY LONDON 2016
Amanda Wakeley is a luxury lifestyle brand that showcases and reflects the aesthetic of its Founder and Creative Director, Amanda Wakeley. Launched in 1990, the collection founded on Amanda’s distinct, timeless signature and sport-luxe details, includes ready to wear, handbags and leather goods,jewellery and scarves.
Raised in England and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, Amanda worked in New York before returning to London to launch her eponymous brand with the opening of a studio and boutique in the heart of Chelsea,London. Soon the entirely self-taught designer was a favourite of the world’s most stylish women, including Diana, Princess of Wales, arguably the most famous woman in the world at the time.
In the 2010 New Year Honours, Amanda was appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace Continue reading
ROKSANDA LONDON 2016
DAVID KOMA 2016 LONDON
DUCCIO VENTURI
Do you want to discover a new name in the shoemaking industry? Do you want to wear the most fashionable shoes of the moment at the Ready-to-Wear fashion week in Paris? Just read our article and go and buy them?
Born in Italy, Duccio Venturi Quattrini, is a descendant from a family with a long tradition of shoe production. Very young, he decided to go to Milan where he started a collaboration with “CADETTE” designed by FRANCO MOSCHINO. Then he moved to Paris to work with THIERRY MUGLER.
Back in Milan he met SERGIO ROSSI, the Master of Italian shoe design, and they began a collaboration for 20 years. Continue reading
JULIEN MACDONALD LONDON 2016
RALPH LAUREN WINTER 2016 N.Y
One of the highlights of New York Fashion Week, Ralph Lauren show presented diverse selections of chic and wearable clothing pieces with a luxurious and simplistic designs that we want to purchase right away.
Drenched in a soothing pastel color palette and featuring easy to mix and match clothing pieces with the focus placed on comfort and coziness, the new Ralph Lauren fashion line becomes the definitive guide to dressing effortlessly and fashionably this fall.
Best of all, for the first time ever, the top clothes from the collection will be available on the brand’s official website, RalphLauren.com. Therefore, you will not have to wait two seasons to be able to wear your favorite pieces from the collection! Continue reading
PROENZA SCHOULER N.Y 2016
NEW YORK FASHION CASH
Patience was required when queeing up last season for Givenchy’s Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear show in New-York.
Perhaps it was Givenchy who set the precedent for the democratization of fashion week, opening their Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear show to 820 members of the public via a lottery system. But then again, fashion shows around the world such as Melbourne Fashion Festival and Couture Fashion Week were founded with the consumer as top priority, charging anywhere from $50 to $220 for a ticket. Continue reading
OSCAR DE LA RENTA NEW YORK 2016
3.1 PHILLIP LIM N.Y 2016
CHRISTIAN SIRIANO NEW YORK 2016
SAINT LAURENT L.A 2016
THE FACE OF THE CITY
A few weeks before the International Women’s Day on 8th March, United Colors of Benetton is launching a new global campaign focusing on ethnic diversity called “The Face of the City”.
In english, there is a proverb which says “The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke”. Benetton in focusing on diversity and ethnic is using the codes which made the brand name famous in the 70’s. We are again digging in the history of the brand: Nothing new, nothing creative… Continue reading
BOWIE WONG
Bowie Wong has been travelling all around the world and chose to set up in Australia. He speaks several fluent languages; Continue reading
LUXURY A PARADOX !
The modern luxury industry rests on a paradox-but is thriving nonetheless. At the Trang Tien Ptaza shopping mall in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, some days you have couples in wedding dress and costume who come and pose for photos in front of the fashion brand shop windows like Salvator Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton and/or Gucci offering the sort of backdrop for romance more usually provided by the sea or the mountains. The women are not wearing Ferragamo Vara pumps’ with their distinctive bows, or toting Vuitton subtly monogrammed handbags. Continue reading
GENNY PRE FALL 2016
LA MALE
French couture house Jean Paul Gaultier is welcoming us to the factory for its new fragrance campaign. This short movie offers a fantastical tour of the fragrance factory filled with sailors and models in the iconic corsets.
Appearing in an image lensed by photographer Miles Aldridge, Chris dons a sailor hat and white pants with Gaultier’s striped t-shirt thrown over his shoulder. The shirtless model is joined by mini versions of blond bombshell Daphne Groenevel.
Created in 1995 by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, Jean Paul Gaultier “Le Male” boasts an attractive mix of Continue reading
KRISTEN STEWART
French fashion house Chanel has selected actress Kristen Stewart as the new face of its cosmetics. In the past, Ms. Stewart has worked with Chanel in both print and digital marketing, but for the atelier’s ready-to-wear lines and concepts exploring heritage. Selecting a familiar face for the cosmetics segment maintains brand consistency.
The upcoming campaign will debut next month and is called Collection Eyes 2016. Photographed by Mario Testino, the campaign will feature a serie of portraits that capture different facets of the contemporary woman.
ALEX’TRAORDINAIRY MABILLE
Alexis Mabille fights against the downgrading of Haute Couture by capturing the Haute Couture and claims to represent the vanguard. Alexis is in a radically stitching process.
Instead of increasing desire in artificially organising the rareness at a time where reproduction has become normal, Alexis chooses to inundate the market in manufacturing Haute Couture.
His freedom in creation is also due to his family team who avoids him to fight with internal conflicts and enables him to focus on his work. Each season, he goes higher and higher and touched our heart as his talent blows up.