NOR A RUMOUR NOR AN HUMOUR

LANVINBouchra Jarrar has been named artistic director of women’s collections at Lanvin. She starts on Monday and is expected to unveil her first collection here this fall for the spring 2017 season.

Bouchra Jarrar succeeding Alber Elbaz at the storied fashion house and start her fashion new career.

Bouchra Jarrar (born November 14, 1970 in Cannes) is a French haute couture fashion designer of Moroccan ancestry. She was a student at the École Duperré at age 21 and graduated three years later. She has worked for lingerie brand Capucine Puerari as well as for the jewelry department of Jean Paul Gaultier.

In 1996, she started working with Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga.This lasted ten years. She then worked for Scherrer for a short time, before becoming Continue reading

TOLENADO GO TO SYDNEY

TOLENA“How can a collection like the one you’ve just seen be delivered to the shops tomorrow?,” said Sidney Toledano, Chief Executive after the Dior’s show.

“That would mean we’d manufactured it six months ago and put it in the fridge … When you put a collection in the shops the following day, that means that the selection from the runway has already been made — you’re taking a risk.”

This is concerning the ‘See now and buy after the show’. Mr Toledano is right because for a large company like Dior “impossible” is probably a bad word, but for luxury company miracle is possible. It is surprising that such a group like Dior that the “just in time” process does not exist. Continue reading

A JOURNEY WITH GHESQUIERE 2016

vuitton5Louis Vuitton, the flagship luxury brand of LVMH, just put an end to almost one month of catwalk shows that began in New York and moved on to London and Milan before ending in Paris this week.

French luxury label Louis Vuitton show in Paris Fashion Week presented for next Winter, plenty of leather for outerwear, trousers and dresses. On a catwalk embarrassed with mirror columns, designer Nicolas Ghesquiere opened the Autumn/Winter 2016 show with a black coat adorned with golden buttons and cinched at the waist over shiny red leather trousers and military-style boots.

Ghesquiere, who has led a renaissance of the brand known for its monogrammed leather bags like Chanel 2.55, also presented T-shirt like dresses in bold geometric patterns – blue, red, white and black. Continue reading

SHIATZY CHEN PARIS 2016

canal2Shiatzy Chen is a Taiwanese fashion house, founded in 1978 by Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia, who is often referred to as the Chanel of Taiwan.

They describe their style as “neo-Chinese chic”, where the aesthetics of Chinese clothing and handicraft are combined with Western styles, using design features drawn from Chinese culture such as mandarin collars and Chinese patterns.

Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia was born in 1951 in Changhua, Taiwan.

She was not formally educated in the industry, learning her trade by working at her uncle’s factory. Very talented she probably is my favorite designer for this Paris Fashion Week.

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NINA RICCI BY HENRY

canaml-luxeGuillaume Henry born in France in 1978, studied art at Beaux-Arts de Troyes before moving to Paris to enroll in the Ecole Duperré School of Design, Fashion and Creation, and then IFM, the Institut Français de la Mode.

In 2003, he decided to stop his own label and, convinced that he still had much to learn, dedicated himself entirely to studio work at a French couture house.

This was a quiet collection, but with a sexual pulse and an emotional tug a step forward for Henry, now getting into the routine after three seasons at the house.

A variety of glossy textures trying to mind the romantic streets of Paris like the ‘rue St Denis’. It’s everything other than creative Continue reading

ALEXIS MABILLE PARIS 2016

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Life is a catwalk!” proclaimed Alexis Mabille. His positive attitude fights the current Winter blues and he explains in the backtage “It’s the parallel between the catwalk and a cat’s prowl, because all women are cats to some degree: seductive, power girl, sporty, masculine-feminine,”. Continue reading

ALBERTO ZAMBELLI MILANO 2016

canalAlberto Zambelli lives and works between Milan, Tokyo and Shanghai. He graduates at the Fortuny Professional Institute for designers in Brescia in 1986 and later he attends with a further graduation the Istituto Marangoni in Milan. From 1994 and 1996 he works as knitwear assistant at the ITTIERRE Group in Isernia.

After several and successful co-operations with Italian and international companies, in 2007 he wins the Fashion Incubator award arranged by the Camera Nazionale della Moda and lays the foundation of his own brand “Archivio Privato.”

Other than his own collection, Alberto Zambelli also designs for the Japanese and Corean market focusing on a sophisticated and elegant Continue reading

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

CANALRomantic, 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

AMANDA WAKELEY LONDON 2016

CANALAmanda 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