Show Cruise 2015

Welcome aboard! I’m so glad that I finally can tell you about the Cruise collections of designers for 2015!

Lets clarify right away, WHY it’s Cruise or Resort collection. Well-known fashion brands, such as Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Prada, Zegna, Etro, Gucci, Burberry and others, present an inter-season or pre-season line of ready-to-wear clothing in addition to the main semi-annual seasonal collections.  Well, originally wealthy customers for whom these designs were meant are going on cruise or vacations during the winter months in the warm Mediterranean.

Lifestory of Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham - Presented by Vogue

Victoria Beckham is a fashion designer, style icon and Vogue cover girl. Having first hit the headlines as part of British girl band the Spice Girls in the Nineties and then as the wife of footballer David Beckham, in recent years she has emerged as a fashion industry force to be reckoned with. Beckham's designs are known for their confident simplicity and artful use of color. "She takes conventional dresses and makes them stand out," British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman said in 2010. Here's how it all began:

AH Coachella! Find out more about festival and discover top summer "Coachella" looks!

Time to tell you more about Coachella Festival. If you are following celebrities on Instagram, you have probably noticed zillion of snaps from the hipster Coachella Festival, that was hold at Palm Spring, California, and have been dreaming of being parting all day and night at the grass of Coachella.

The festival itself is much about music, partying and fun, but it's about style and fashion as well. After every every festivals celebrities' photographs started to appear all over fashion blogs, they started to plan their outfits in advance: it based on the careful selection of cloth and hair style.

"What people wears at Coachella really sets the pace of the summer - a gauge of what stores should order more",- Cher Coulter, the designer who works with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Bosworth.

Most of the fashion designers create "inspired by Coachella" looks. The agents of celebrities might buy the whole line of "Coachella" designs and use it along the whole festival weekend.ouvl

Get inspired! Summer is coming soon. Check out the best looks below and select your "Coachella" style for summer 2014.

Fashion Forward Season 3 in Dubai | ESSA | 2014

Have you heard about Fashion Forward S3? I won’t be surprised if you did not. It is a brand new fashion event launched in Dubai. The purpose of new 4-days fashion show is to promote the growth of the fashion industry in the Middle East.

By going through the schedules and list of designers, I was amazed by the collection of Essa Bhagoorwala, more known in the fashion industry as Essa, which was presented on April 13, 2014. 

 Bright colors, high heels, unusual designs, feathers! His new designs cannot be left without attention.

  

Essa Bhagoorwala is a home-grown talent to be proud of (Essa is of Indian origin but born and bred in the United Arab Emirates).
 
After graduating with an MBA in marketing management and economics, Essa took a hands-on approach to learning the art of fashion design from the traditional pattern cutters and tailors of Dubai. 

Without formal training, Essa pushes creativity and innovation to the forefront of his designs.

Essa seamlessly works together vintage fabrics and trims with edgy tailoring, neon brights and futuristic textiles in his pioneering designs. He excels in the art of weaving the traditional and the modern together to create iconic designs that are universally flattering.

 

Miu Miu at Runway for Fall 2014 RTW

  

For a woman spectator, there’s a difference—an ever-widening gulf, actually—between observing and appreciating fashion as part of the far-off arts-and-entertainment industry, and actively needing the damn stuff. Thus it’s no dis on Miuccia Prada to laud her for putting fashionable rain boots and extra-big raincoats into her Miu Miu collection. 

 

 

Both are what the foot-sore, weather-weary women of the editorial–slash–store buyer–slash–worker corps have wished they’d had to wear as they’ve tramped through the fall shows. Ditto all the kids who’ve been standing at bus stops and traveling on subways, enduring the never-ending winter of 2014.

 

 Put it this way: Is there anything wrong with being populist, practical, and fun in fashion? Should a brainy intellectual such as Mrs. Prada not be concerning herself with commercial clothes that reflect the cheapy-flashy, colorful clothes schoolgirls are wearing on the streets (in non-uptown areas) of London, New York, and Paris? Baby-pastel, “bad-taste” anoraks, glittery things, short plastic skirts and all? It would surely be an indictment on a whole system to say so.

Anyway, let’s just say that Miuccia Prada broadcasts on all channels with Miu Miu. She had the Best Supportings of the Academy Awards (Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto) facing each other across the runway (shame they had to wait, today with ordinary mortals, for the far bigger star of hip-hop, Rihanna, to make her entrance, but apparently that’s the way the totem pole of entertainment stacks these days). 

On the other hand, it can be detrimental to fashion designers to allow the content of their work to be overridden by photos, selfies, and all the kerfuffle of “who’s in the front row?” Kudos to Mrs. P that she can enable all that, but dodge it at the same time. It’s to be hoped she didn’t have a convoluted art reference up her sleeve to explain the frankly girl-friendly contents of her show (ahh, the pointy, weird, screwy-heeled shoes!), either. Too much has gotten in the way of fashion’s ability to talk directly to female wants and needs. Artists and gallerists, actors and actresses, pop stars and athletes can all take care of themselves. It’s fashion that needs to skip free of all that—happy, smart, and relevant. Ok, Mrs. Prada, you did it.

5 Australian Labels You Should Know | Inspired by Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia

     New York, London, Milan, and Paris may be the capitals of the fashion world, but you can be sure that young talent isn't limited to these four geographical entities. The start of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia inspired to look into new designers from Down Under, and what we found came as a pleasant surprise. Rather than the neon hues and busy prints of their contemporaries, the labels we found most compelling focused on high-end fabrics, refined tailoring, and androgynous shapes. Here, five new Australian lines we have our eyes on right now.

Dion Lee Line II

As perhaps the most successful designer coming out of Australia, Dion Lee is best known for those body-con dresses and graphic prints. His diffusion label—Line II, which he started in 2011—however, zeros in on tailored elements, muted colors, and clean lines. It feels more wearable—and not least because it's nearly half the price of his main collection.

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Photo: Courtesy of Dion Lee 

Michael Lo Sordo

Founded in 2008, Lo Sordo is the most senior member in this roundup, and often cited as a good indication of where Australian fashion is headed. His elegant shapes and wool work landed him a spot as finalist in the International Woolmark Prize for 2013/2014—and his perfectly tailored trousers have secured a spot for him in our hearts.

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Strateas Carlucci

At a little over two years old, Strateas.Carlucci has already racked up an impressive number of accolades: regional finalists in the 2013/2014 edition of the International Woolmark Prize; finalists in the 2014 BT Emerging Designer Awards; and winner of the Tiffany & Co. National Designer Award in March. Designers Mario-Luca Carlucci and Peter Strateas were able to quickly hone in on their aesthetic (sculptural knitwear, black and white tailored separates) in part because they've worked together before, on the equally avant-garde label Trimapee. And though the duo shows in Paris, the collections are able to maintain an Australian vibe—their signature jackets are made of kangaroo leather.

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Photo: Courtesy of Strateas Carlucci 

Christopher Esber

Esber made his Australian Fashion Week debut at age 23, but even then he exhibited a keen understanding of what women want to wear. His clothes are relaxed and pared-back, with a focus on texture rather than loud prints (he works directly with textile weaving specialists to make his one-of-a-kind fabrics). Four years later, the industry has taken notice of his talent: He won the BT Financial Emerging Fashion Designer Award in 2013 and was a finalist at the 2013/2014 International Woolmark Prize.

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Photo: Courtesy of Christopher Esber 

 

 

Kahlo

Inspired by a certain Frida for their label's name, friends Rachelle Sinclair and Fay Ogunbadejo cite female artists like her as well as Marina Abramovic and Del Kathryn Barton as inspiration for their line, which they founded in 2011. Fabrics sourced from Australia, Italy, and the U.S. lend a luxurious touch to their pared back aesthetic and androgynous silhouettes. But more than anything, these clothes seem utterly effortless.

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Photo: Courtesy of Kahlo  

Ukrainian Fashion Week: Frontline Style

From the Euromaidan to the spectacular catwalks in Mystetskiy Arsenal: Kiev’s designers are doing what they can to stand for their country and Ukrainian Fashion Industry.

Political crisis couldn’t leave anyone indifferent and was reflected in most of the presented collections. Ukrainian fashion Week was practically filled with patriotic anxiety and excitement.

"Ukrainian designers are very courageous," says Inga Vyshnevska, founder of Ukraine fashion week. "Most of them were actively taking part in the Maidan protests. They were producing bullet-proof vests and helping in the kitchens, bringing food, water and medication. Naturally, they were not able to forget these experiences when it came to their collections."

Designer Aleksey Zalevskiy incorporates fences into his show during the Ukrainian fashion week, during which models fell to the floor as if they had been shot Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

At Poustovit – the most anticipated show of the UFW – colors of the Ukrainian flag interpreted in sweet pastels, were the main palette of both the collection and make-up. The innocence and the sweetness of the dresses contrasted with gilets and heavy belts that appeared at one point in the collection and looked like body armour.

Victoria Gres introduced collection in the “Post-War” Romanticism style. Her dresses sent amazing 1950’s vibes, and the use of lace detailing added romance.

STRUCTURAL EXCELLENCE

Special attention should be paid to designers who are considered masters of cut and structure. BEVZA explored her recognizable approach to geometric intricacy in dresses and clean-cut coats and detailing.  ELENAREVA also played with cut using folding, drapping and asymmetry. At Litkovskaya – one of the fastest growing labels in Ukraine – the recognizable textual contrast was completed with powerful rounded shoulders, generous fringing, and quilted leather.

Some designers’ themes were not affected by political situation in the country. Valery Kovalska was inspired by the dynamic NYC lifestyle and showed a successful sporty take on gothic prints, hunting coats, and classic dress silhouettes.