Cool runway looks from Valentino

VALENTINO’S NEW VISION After the retirement and 45 years of fashion

Now that Valentino is retired the company may turn toward another direction, a hipper, younger and yes, cheaper line. Not sure if this means more commercial and a bit less couture, I guess we shall see what the new management and design team rolls out.

They do have plans that include doubling sales, attracting many new clients and plenty of expansions.

VALENTINO is rolling with the momentum of last year’s changes - its takeover by private equity firm Permira in July, and the retirement of its founding father - to push the business onwards and upwards - and attract a younger, more trend-focused clientèle to the brand.

Sassi has announced broad-ranging expansion plans, which include doubling sales and tripling accessories sales over the next five years - but the most intriguing action point is its desire to attract a new kind of Valentino woman, under the leadership of the house’s new head of design, Alessandra Facchinetti.

“When Valentino was still around, everything was done to support the designer and his needs, and now we’re doing the same for the current design team and their new vision,” Sassi tells WWD. “The only way to woo a trendier and more price-conscious clientele is with younger looks with more accessible price points.” (May 12 2008, AM)

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If anyone missed the retirement, here is the New York Times article about the retirement of Valentino after an absolute lifetime in fashion and the tanning bed…

AS happens with most final acts, Valentino Garavani’s career was over before it Read more »

Posted: August 3rd, 2008 under Designers.
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Awsome boots from Miu Miu, these are really coll, I love the silvery aqua color and the scalop design. OK, they rook not too comfy, but for those boots, I can deal with a lack of comfort.

Posted: July 24th, 2008 under Designers.
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Here are some crazy fashion looks on some top models

Check out Lui Wen sport this very safe outfit. If you are gonna take a fall, you better hope you are wering something like this to give you lots of padding… built in air bags?

More crazy Margiela runway fashion from the 2008 show, Anna Tokarska for Margiela

 Margiela, Eugienia is the model

 Laura Kading on the runway for Margiela

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Posted: July 11th, 2008 under Anna Tokarska, Designers, Laura Kading, Lui Wen, crazy fashion, models.
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Calvin Klein is a household name and below are some of the fashions that make it so. This is the 2008 SS runway show in New York, I believe. Looks like shiny, satiny, simple dresses are in this year.

As always, the Calvin Klein color palettes are simple, light and white. The Calvin Klein shows tend to lean towards very natural looking models with barely any makeup and simple hair. For these dresses, that look definitely works, I like the hair pulled behind the ears.

Posted: June 9th, 2008 under Designers.
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What if your shirt would hug you every now at then? What if your purse told you you had forgotten your keys? What if your socks gave a foot massage? What if your bag kept you company?

It’s all possible and these e-fashion products may already be available

There is even a workshop called Hybrid Wearables Workshop, were  participants led by Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Dana Gordon. Not a keyboard for sending email from your pocket, but small solutions for everyday problems brought to you in the form of innovative wearable electronic fashion. The model below is wearing a dress that incorporates these stylish circuits within the dress.

The e-Pressed shirt has a series of switches which have embedded LEDS which light up when those pressure points need to be pressed. In the sleeve, the wearer can indicate which mood he is in by means of a hairpin. Later, the shirt should sense the wearer’s mood automatically.

Cat bag / cuddle bag

Are you lonely? Would you like a pet to comfort you, but would you like to avoid becoming a cat lady? Anouk Wipprecht, Nick Lesley, David Morgan and Hans-Gunter Lock made a cuddle bag for you- a functional handbag which doubles as a pet. Stroke it and it will purr, its eyes will light up, and it will warm you.

The cuddle bag has been implemented using soft fabric switches which activate the LED eyes, motors which emulate purring and sounds from encapsulated piezo speakers.

Made by Anouk Wipprecht, David Morgan (both Netherlands), Nick Lesley (New York) & Hans Gunter Lock (Estonia)

“We want to create a bag that can comfort you as a pet can do. The interaction is simple. You need to stroke the bag. The bag will then start breathing, it’s heart will start beating, it will give off warmth and make soothing sounds. The thing is, you can not feel the heart, breath and heat unless you hold the bag close to your body. Perhaps, when you hit your bag it give more aggressive sound.”

The model below demonstrates the cat bag / cuddle bag

We wanted to make a prototype with a love material: a product that interacts with you - would give you love, that are sweet, breath, change, non-regular, Just like a pet. So you can ‘bound’ with your clothing. An feel good product. Doing great at stress situations, when you are alergic to animals, when you have an depression or after an break up. Something that you can can love out of when you’re in need of it. That is alive, that makes a noise, that sqeeks, makes happy sounds, purr when you are stroking/petting it, let you know of it’s excistence, blinks to you and give warmth and strenght.

Posted: April 29th, 2008 under Designers, fashion.
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fashion week in china" target="_blank">China fashion week shows some great exotic attire. Asian models walk the runway as Chinese designers show their fashion collections. Some of these looks look awesome, but, not very wearable in the real world. Chinese fashion art? or Crazy Asian fashion?

Looks cool… but how exactly how do you see where you are going in this outfit? This is fashion of the future? Clothing for when we totally lose the ozone layer and need to be all covered up.

1980’s Devo comes to mind

 

Posted: March 27th, 2008 under Asian style, Designers, Fashion Shows.
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Prada known for hi fashion handbags and shoes may now be known for animated shorts as well.

The company, originally known in Italy as “Prada Brothers”, was founded in 1913 by Mario Prada in Milan. In 1978, Mario’s granddaughter Miuccia Prada inherited what was still a leather goods business from her grandfather, and led the company’s expansion into clothing with an overall more bohemian style. Miu Miu is a second line of clothing, often simpler and evoking a continual image of high-end vintage items. It was followed by the Prada Sport ‘Linea Rossa’

Currently Prada is considered one of the most influential clothing designers in the fashion industry.

Fashion house produces animated short

To advertise its Spring/Summer 08 collection, the fashion house has produced a short film. In it, a blank-eyed nymph both models and interacts with the product: a couple of scuttling crabs become shoes and a fish transmogrifies into a handbag. Further blurring the lines between advertising and product, the illustrator behind the short – James Jean – has also worked on Prada prints and bags for this season, as well producing the backdrop for catwalk shows and in-store decoration.

And whilst we have absolutely NO IDEA what the film means, it sure beats the usual grumpy-looking models staring out from the pages of Vogue.

Posted: March 19th, 2008 under Designers.
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Some indian inspiration from Dolce and Gabbana

Posted: March 18th, 2008 under Designers, Fashion Shows.
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This is a very cool looking fashion show. The middle of this video looks awesome. The holograms fill the stage and turn into all sorts of shapes and then the models walk out again followed by the blue spirals. As creative and stunning as this may be I wonder if it takes away from the fashion show itself since I doubt anyone even notices who is wearing what. I gotta say I’m watching the holograms and not the fashion models.

Fashion show of SS’08 Preview Collection at Pitti Uomo. Journey through time and liquid space to a futuristic world of bioluminescence, giant mechanic cephalopods, futuristic aquanauts and mysterious galactic polips. Witness the first catwalk show with real models showing with holographic models

Posted: March 18th, 2008 under Designers, Fashion Shows.
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