Valentino Couture Fall 2010

Nothing's like waking up to the fresh smell of new couture shows to examine. Except I've been pretty disappointed this time- Dior was better than expected I guess, but that's only comparing to the last few couture shows. Chanel was bad. Armani was underwhelming. And here I was thinking 'okay couture week has officially been ruined, there's Valentino and Elie Saab on the next day- good luck to them saving couture week'. And surprisingly, Valentino did kind of save couture week.

Their past few shows (ever since the actual Valentino retired) have been pretty awry and the new design team pretty much missed the mark every time. But I REALLY REALLY liked this collection. It's like they've been aiming on the dartboard for the past year and a half, and they've finally hit bullseye. One criticism though- I know they're targeting a younger market, but aren't the women who can usually afford these clothes pretty old? I recently watched the documentary 'The Secret World of Haute Couture' (link here, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) and most of the grand couture-cladded ladies don't seem like the type to buy dresses that would make them look like a peach puff. I, on the other hand, am perfectly fine with resembling a dessert, so more for me! (Not that I can actually afford couture, it just felt appropriate to say that.)






I'm in love with the colour palette and the drop-waist pieces and the excess of bows and that wonderful crinoline cage dress, and last but not least:


OH MY GOD ITS A GLOVE WITH A GIANT BOW ATTACHED TO IT, I know heaps of people have complained that it's tacky and whatnot but I think it's whimsical and quirky and hilarious. Hey you know how it's couture, do they custom-make those gloves to fit your fingers too??

Erin Fetherston + Marc Jacobs Resort 2011

Erin Fetherston:





Marc Jacobs:





All images from style.com

Jason Wu Resort

This is a pretty inadequate post seeing as its the first in like a month, but I've been super duper busy. I promise when the HSC is over in... around 24 weeks (HOLY CRAP) I'll post like three times a day to make up for it. Anywhos, I just saw this and thought I'd share it with someone:

Milan Fashion Week

Every weekend, if I don't have any assignments or exams, my internet screws up so I cant blog. And blogging on weekdays is kind of out of question now. Well actually no not exactly, I suppose I could blog on weekdays if I wasn't taking naps or baking macaroons, but macaroons and naps trump blogging at the moment, sorry. So you may have noticed, yes I did snob London Fashion Week again. It wasn't that great, even Burberry wasn't that great, so no London FW for you.

Yes so anyway, Milan Fashion Week wasn't that great either. Maybe I'm growing old fashioned already. Maybe my taste in fashion has already peaked and now I'm out of date and everything looks too hip and gross to me. Wait, I thought the recent Dior show was excellent, but that's Paris, which is a different story. Paris is always excellent. Okay I'm rambling, PICTURE TIME.

OH WAIT, I just thought I'd let you guys know, remember how last time the pictures were tiny? Well you may have not noticed but it annoyed me because you couldnt see all the detail that was important. So one day a lightbulb flicked on over my head and I realised, models are really skinny. Like, really really skinny. So skinny that they only take up a third of the images width-wise, and all that free space on the side was such a waste. So guess what, I cropped it all off and now you can see all the images humongously, yay.



Albino: yay bring on the peter pan collars and bow neck ties and fluffy skirts, I want one.


D&G: amazingly adorable collection, I liked the juxtaposition of the heavy, chunky knits with the flowy printed chiffon, and the reindeer jumper, and the pussybow blouses, and especially the stampede of models in sheer, frothy white chiffon gowns for the finale.


Dsquared: Always one of the highlights of Milan. This season they took the label's usual empowering, overtly sexy character, threw her back into old Hollywood, and ended up with the classic femme fatale. My favourite piece was the leather dress with the jewelled claws on the shoulders (top right), but I also loved the random splashes of red, the thigh high boots, the blood red lips and cat eyes.



Luisa Beccaria: I am soooooo in the coat-mood at the moment. The steely blue coats with huge collars and ruffles are delicious, so is that red velvet dress.



Salvatore Ferragamo: I can't get over the contrast between the feminine pussybow blouses and the masculine tailoring, I'm going to have to try that sometime. The evening dresses were also lovely.



Hmm I think I lost the photos for the Dolce & Gabbana and the Moschino shows somewhere in my overflowing fashion week folder. Whoops. They were really good, I remember Moschino had the iconic trimmed tweed jacket, except it was trimmed with a row of gold studs, IT WAS SO GOOD. Yeah head of to style.com and look at it.