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Cropped: the English word seems poised to define the regulation length of many of the clothes of the season. Pants, jackets, hoodies and tops are indeed called upon to be cut so as to acquire a neo-volume or to disclose to the ankle or the navel. And if among them, cropped T-shirt has already attracted some fashionistas since last summer, they should soon be much more likely to adopt it….

However much the death knell of revival 80’s / 90’s, one of the strengths of these two decades is no less now sit comfortably in the summer dressing. Very typical of this period, the cropped lengths have indeed managed to convince fashionistas. However, judging by the collections for next winter (recently submitted), this attraction is likely to grow in the coming months…

That said, cropped jackets currently being rare on the market and cut short pants that have only little difficulty in the matter of dress code, it is the t-shirts that currently focusing our attention. Before turning on the modus operandi was to apply, go back to the origins of these tops called upon to scroll through the streets en masse…

The phenomenon has cropped us in fact the United States. In early 1980, players of American football has started off their T-shirts above the navel, so as to better distribute the heat of their bodies. Gradually, the athletes were more and more new length that a plebiscite giving them comfort.

That was when New Balance decided to test this by running DIY T-shirts cropped for athletes. Very quickly, the street took it, so much so that the tops – judge fornicators, because sometimes pausing just below the chest – were banned in some public places. The trend then disappeared gradually…

Not until the late 1990s, when singers such as Madonna, Shakira and Fergie took it that cropped reappeared, causing the stylistic disasters that we know. It must be said that the ultra short cropped top molding has never really been carrying chic…

It was not until 2009 that the format of t-shirt eventually make their way among the fashionistas pointed. It is, however, that when spread on the outskirts of recent fashion weeks that cropped became truly hype. Read the rest of this entry »

If Kate Moss does not ultimately benefit from his fifteen minutes of fame cultural museum of Decorative Arts, fans will nevertheless take comfort with the latest exhibition of 107 rue de Rivoli. Entitled History ideal of contemporary fashion, it highlights the strengths was the original patterns and icons of today….

Originally this kaleidoscope of images and models gathering chronological archive is the home of Toronto Press, who has commanded Olivier Saillard – head of exhibitions for Art Deco – a book on the history of fashion. It then has the idea of starting from parades to highlight the influence of certain creators over the past 40 years.

Of the book appeared, Olivier Saillard feels the urge to offer him a three-dimensional size in the intricacies of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Thus, since 1 April, the first part of the retrospective – for the year 70/80 – offered to the gaze of the curious and fans of fashion, delivering a vision of the past and fascinating.

The exhibition opens on 40 Years parade of Yves Saint Laurent, who, by creating a scandal, revolutionized both the ready-to-wear (which takes precedence over the high fashion) that the status of creator (which begins to emerge from the shadows). Throughout the seventies, fashion and will constantly smells of freedom and recklessness: the models are smiling, the parades are endless…

The decade also saw hatched a ready-to-wear aspiring to go to the essentials. Hence the birth of creative movement and Industrial Didier Grumbach and Andree Putman, including Issey Miyake (with its principle of simplification to the extreme of clothing) proves to be the spearhead. Not to mention Kenzo, Dorothee Bis, Chantal Thomass Cacharel and others who benefit from the industrialization of fashion to develop and offer a young and mobile user. The ready-to-wear seems to have then steals the show at the haute couture, so much so that the houses are now putting emphasis on it.

Visionary, a creator announces the end of the decade what will be done next. His name is Thierry Mugler and placed on creativity and excesses of all kinds. Very quickly, the facts give him reason…

The creators have indeed become demi-gods, while the defiles are conspicuous by their extravagance and patterns are constantly being updated. It is these years that will have the honor Jean Paul Gaultier and his impertinence, and the technocouture Audibet of Alaia and Christian Lacroix and his baroque inclinations. Read the rest of this entry »

Not content to dream the fashionistas of the arrival of the first frost, the brand Moncler has recently offered an advertising campaign OFFSET stoking the curiosity. Bruce Weber photographed leaving a pack of Golden Retrievers dressed all Moncler, the brand has created the surprise, giving a whole sphere of fashion want to discover his new collection….

If the jacket is also more likely than in previous seasons, it is nevertheless still a classic massively adopted. Indeed, once the temperature dropped below 5 degrees Celsius, the flagship clothing Moncler has arguments that few are able to offer. With both lightweight cushioning and ultra Warmy, it allows to combine aesthetics and comfort, which, in the month of December, is not always obvious…

Moreover, if the Max Mara coats or jackets Max Missoni signs are currently more popular, can be found at Moncler few models displaying interesting cuts are conducive to warm up nicely kept our seasons. Aficionados will find the Savoy label in the collection and 09/10 products cleverly flirting with the strengths of the moment: taking their denomination to the cities of France, some parts such as Arles Orleans or batteries are in tune with the times.

Boasting a large middle, short sleeves and a brown tint ice easy going, the first put to the nails quaint vision of the slightly shorter jacket extruder, while the second revisits the concept of giving him a cloak Degaine of sporty neo most up-to-date. Read the rest of this entry »

Yves Saint Laurent Fall 2011 Collection Ready to Wear Video Read the rest of this entry »

She who had won the Award in 2000 Britain’s Young Designer of the Year has just received the second time one of the best designer of the year. The loop is closed: Luella Bartley final entry into the seraglio of essential British designers, Vivienne Westwood to ratings and Stella McCartney….

Even if his style punk acidulous and terribly british has attracted almost immediately sphere fashion, Luella Bartley was not intended to come and greet at the end of the show. She was born in Stratford-upon-Avon (like Shakespeare) in 1974. Away from London, she leads a girl child of divorce, with a mother making do as best they could to make ends meet. His father was about him living in Devon, owns horses and evolved into a world far removed from that of his daughter. This time last attempt to gain acceptance by the father far away, or later the title of his fashion shows: Daddy, I want a pony or Daddy, Who Were the Clash?

College Girl, Luella is not a stupid fashion, nor a model student. The boys also of interest to more than textbooks, but it is not cool and girls trapped. His coming to London to take courses in fashion journalism at the St. Martins School will radically change his life. It becomes a real night owl and remade the world of ratings for Katie Grand, Giles Deacon, Kate Moss and Sadie Frost.

When the Evening Standard newspaper offered him a job as a journalist, she seized her chance to leave the flight and benches of the St. Martins School. She then refine his pen in Dazed and Confused and The Face, before landing at Vogue UK.

During an evening watered, her friend Katie Grand puts the challenge of creating his own line of clothing. Luella then decided to take it literally, and begins to work immediately. Surprised if some of this rapid transition and risky, it will always Luella replica designer a bit apart, lying still writing the plot of his collection before touching the material, while others start out tissue and then draw a story.

Having hardly afford a place on the catwalks of fashion week, she chose to present his first collection (Daddy, I want a pony) in the apartment of a friend. This does not prevent his brit punk style to raise the interest of the fashion world, so that the next season Luella gets its place on the London catwalk

This time, all the elements are there for burns Bartley boards. Her friends were indeed rounded up the All-London has its parade Daddy, Who Are The Clash? That propels Luella atop the coolness hype. She can then pick up the award for Britain’s Young Designer of the Year, then flew to Milan in 2001 to break confidentiality Londoner. It does not, however, found its mark on Italian soil, so she decided to try their luck on the other side of the Atlantic and puts his suitcases in New York.

The New York fashion week, so the hosts had open arms when Gisele Bundchen opened her first fashion show with a bag Luella for Mulberry, the impact is immense. The combination of the most coveted top model and a bag with all of it bag focus international attention on the young British designer. Read the rest of this entry »

The Brogues sparkly Jimmy Choo collection for H & M would they start a trend? Acclaimed by the fashionistas, these last seem to have had some makes you want to develop the concept….

Men’s shoe if any, the Brogue for several seasons seduced young women in search of tomboy look. Most often worn with trousers 7 / 8, it can make to the figure a little of that famous Michael Jackson spirit coupled with a true preppy twist, ideal for holding a boost uneventful. Yet it seems that his classic Degaine does not fully satisfy the fashionista accustomed to a little more fancy…

It suffices to imagine that Christian Louboutin studded version or Tamara Mellon put forward a model snakeskin / Rhinestones for H & M for that success is to go immediately. In other words, if women are prepared to swap their stilettos for a pair of Oxford at the Dan Draper, they do not like the less fancy models proposed by the claw Church.

The male equation ergonomics + zest of humor seems to have more than ever on a roll. Some designers – has, like Marc Jacobs and Miuccia Prada – in fact most are quick to inject a healthy dose of glitter to their derbies and other Brogues… Read the rest of this entry »