Catching up on Christian Dior: Fall 2010
Just three picks from the Dior Fall 2010 show…
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Tagged: 2010, Christian Dior, fall, John Galliano
Dior Goes Back in Time for Pre-Fall 2010
The Christian Dior Pre-Fall 2010 collection was all WWII French Resistance and 1930s bias cut gowns straight off the silver screen. Check out the pincurls on the model too! Can you believe that silver lamé number? If I could wear that onstage, I swear I’d learn to sing better! I like the model too, Heloise Guerin. Ahh, Galliano, how do I love thee…
Tagged: 1930s, 1940s, 2010, Christian Dior, forties, John Galliano, pre-fall, thirties, wwii
Atomic Cherry Bombs Fashion Show
My drop-dead gorgeous friend Nikki Marvin and the Atomic Cherry Bombs from Orange County’s Atomic Ballroom, hosted a vintage fashion show a little while ago, and Nikki just sent me this video – how FABULOUS!! The show featured Adrienne Weidert’s vintage collection, modeled by the members of the Atomic Cherry Bombs, which is an all-girl dance group based out of southern California.
Check out www.atomiccherrybombs.com for more info about the gals!
Enjoy the video (Nikki is the tiny, cute blonde):
Categories: Clothing, On CatwalksTagged: atomic cherry bombs, fashion, Nikki Marvin, vintage
Chanel Resort 2010
The 350 guests reclining on sun beds in the famous white tented cabanas certainly felt privileged to be witnessing the extreme glamour of the designer’s learned-but-light invocation of an important part of Coco Chanel’s biography, one that was overlaid with passing allusions to Visconti, Fellini, the Venice carnival, and the city’s art treasures.
“I wanted to reinvent the mystique,” said Karl Lagerfeld, talking about locating the collection in one of Coco Chanel’s favorite summer haunts—she visited Venice for almost ten years beginning in 1919 and met Diaghilev here.
“Coco on the Lido,” as Lagerfeld called it, started with a tableau of figures in tricorne hats and cloaks—cover-ups for a play on girdles and bras as bathing suits. Next came Tatjana Patitz promenading in creamy lace as the picture-hatted Edwardian mother in Death in Venice, her sailor-suited son Tadzio and his two sisters in ingenue fan-pleated dresses trailing behind. From there, the sequence took off into matelot- and gondolier-inspired stripes, interpreted in long-line fine-knit cardigans and playful beachwear with funny red and white striped wedge booties. The references kept streaming out—a halterneck dress fashioned in plissé knit to suggest Fortuny, the deep Doge red and the golden lion motif of the city flag, shimmery sequins and glass embroidery made to imitate the light of Venice glancing off water.
Pictures and Blurb from Style.
Categories: Clothing, On CatwalksTagged: 1910, 1920s, 2010, chanel, lace, nautical, navy, resort, sailor
Bibhu Mohapatra Fall 2010
Classic elegance in the Bibhu Mohapatra Fall 2010 collection. Real art deco feel with the bold lines and shapes, and I’m a sucker for a mixture of textures – furs, tweeds, chiffon, satin, velvet, leather. Beautifully shot as well…
Tagged: 1920s, art deco, bibhu mohapatra, Fall 2010, twenties
John Galliano for Christian Dior Spring 2008 RTW Collection
John Galliano delivers for me every time. This collection is pure elegance – look at those evening gowns! *swoon*
Tagged: Dior, Galliano, John Galliano, Spring 2008
John Galliano’s Spring 2008 Ready-to-Wear Show
One of my favourite shows of all time, it was pure fantasy…
Categories: On Catwalks
Tagged: Dior, John Galliano, Ready to Wear, RTW, Spring 2008
Retrospective: Miu Miu Fall 2003
Taking a peek back at Miu Miu in Fall 2003…
Tagged: 2003, belt, cinched waist, fall, fur, miu miu
Moschino Cheap & Chic Resort 2010
Love love love the resort 2010 collection from Moschino Cheap & Chic. Just plain cool. I desperately want that tuxedo-backed dress, and love the shoes too…
Tagged: 2010, cheap & chic, moschino, resort
Collette Dinnigan Spring 2010
A few very simple looks I liked from the Collette Dinnigan Spring 2010 ready-to-wear show:
Tagged: collette, dinnigan
Chanel Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear
My top picks from the Chanel Spring 2010 show narrowed down to only three! C’mon Chanel, bring the vintage-y goodness back!
Tagged: chanel, Spring 2010
Burberry Prorsum Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear
My top picks from the Burberry Prorsum spring 2010 ready-to-wear show. Those puff-shouldered trenches have been mighty popular with the celebs…
Tagged: burberry, classic, jacket, prorsum, Ready to Wear, RTW, Spring 2010, trench, trench coat, trenchcoat
Dior’s Cruise Collection 2010
Tagged: 1950s, 1960s, 2010, christian, cruise, Dior, fifties, leopard print, sixties
Alexander McQueen Retrospective Part 11: Spring 2007
In tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, I have been posting a retrospective of past collections, from a SwingFashionista perspective. The best of Alexander McQueen for retro-loving folk. May he rest in peace. In part 11, my top picks from the Spring 2007 ready-to-wear show.
Tagged: 2007, Alexander McQueen, catwalk, collection, fashion, show, spring
Alexander McQueen Retrospective Part 10: Spring 2006
In tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, I have been posting a retrospective of past collections, from a SwingFashionista perspective. The best of Alexander McQueen for retro-loving folk. May he rest in peace. In part 10, my top picks from the Spring 2006 ready-to-wear show. More to come…
Tagged: 2006, Alexander McQueen, catwalk, collection, fashion, mcqueen, retrospective, RTW, show, spring
Alexander McQueen Retrospective Part 9: Fall 2006
In tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, I have been posting a retrospective of past collections, from a SwingFashionista perspective. The best of Alexander McQueen for retro-loving folk. May he rest in peace. In part 9, my top picks from the Fall 2006 ready-to-wear show. More to come…
Tagged: 2006, Alexander McQueen, catwalk, collection, fall, fashion, show
Alexander McQueen Retrospective Part 8: Spring 2005
In tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, I have been posting a retrospective of past collections, from a SwingFashionista perspective. The best of Alexander McQueen for retro-loving folk. May he rest in peace. In part 8, my top picks from the Spring 2005 ready-to-wear show. More to come…
Tagged: 2005, Alexander McQueen, catwalk, collection, fashion, show, spring
Alexander McQueen Retrospective Part 7: Fall 2005
In tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, I have been posting a retrospective of past collections, from a SwingFashionista perspective. The best of Alexander McQueen for retro-loving folk. May he rest in peace. In part 7, my top picks from the Fall 2005 ready-to-wear show. More to come…
Tagged: 1950s, 2005, Alexander McQueen, catwalk, collection, fall, fashion, fifties, leopard, pencil, print, retrospective, show, skirt
Alexander McQueen Retrospective Part 6: Spring 2004
In tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen, I have been posting a retrospective of past collections, from a SwingFashionista perspective. The best of Alexander McQueen for retro-loving folk. May he rest in peace. In part 6, my top picks from the Spring 2004 ready-to-wear show. This show was quite the spectacle:
The show – staged in the Salle Wagram, a nineteenth-century Parisian dance hall – was an exuberantly hilarious reenactment of Sydney Pollack’s Depression-era film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Choreographed by Michael Clark over two weeks of intensive rehearsals in London, the narrative involved dancers, models, and audience in a visceral celebration of exquisitely glamorous clothes.
Tagged: 2004, Alexander McQueen, catwalk, collection, costume, dance, fashion, Paris, show, spring, sydney pollack, they shoot horses don't they