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Winter12 Fashion Season. New Insprations!

13 Friday Jul 2012

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Awaiting for a new season, new trends, new inspirations.

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BOSS Black, HUGO, Marc Jacobs, Longchamp, Burberry Prorsum, Miu Miu, Prada, Dolce&Gabanna, ETRO, Jason Wu, Jean Paul Gaultier, Mulberry, Jimmy Choo, Salvatore Ferregamo, Roberto Cavalli, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Givency,  Gucci, Alexander McQueen…

People who inspire, people we admire.. Karl Lagerfeld

07 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Karl Lagerfeld was born in Hamburg (Germany) in September 1933 (he claims 1938, however). In 2009 while giving an interview to a french television he said that in fact, he wasn’t born neither in 1933 nor in 1938.

Dropping off school way too early, he left Hamburg for good, moving to Paris with his mother. He started his career at the age of 16 (or may be 21) in a House of Pierre Balmain in1949, and the same year won his first design price for a self developed coat. While working for Balmain he also has finished a tailoring course. After 3 years he leaves his job and gets a new position as a creative director by Jean Patou. There is not much information about his life period then, the only thing known, he was good enough to be able to change to Chloe after five years and become there a creative director there in 1963 (being 30/35).

Ten years later Karl Lagerfeld was already wealthy and famous and started his own brand and first enterprise in Germany under a name “Karl Lagerfeld Impression”. By the time Mr. Lagerfeld turned 43 he knew enough about fashion to actually teach it, which he did for 4 years in the University of Arts in Vien. One of his most famous students is Jil Sander. In 1984 Karl Lagerfeld launched his first Prêt-à-Porter Collection for CHANEL House, the same year he was appointed a chief-designer of the traditional house. Jil Sander is, however, not the only one who became famous thanks to Karl, in 1990 he also discovered Claudia Schiffer, who became a main model of the CHANEL, which led to her world wide fame and success. Apart from CHANEL Herr Lagerfeld developed many additional lines for other houses and even costumes for theatre. One of the few a collections to mention: a collection for a german fashion house Quelle, a collection for US retail chain Macy’s, cooperation with H&M, Chloé collection in 2005, developing a collection for HOGAN, which was meant to be as a one time thing, but this SS12 will be already the 3rd collection created by Lagerfeld.Since 2005 he is also working on his own line, plus a new budget line KARL by Karl Lagerfeld was launched in Jan 2012.

As to his private life, he is single, even though he had a long relationship with a men, who died of aids few years ago. Lagerfeld lives in Paris and Monaco. He is a professional photographer and many of his campaigns shoots personally. Karl is known for his love to books, and has around 300.000 books in his private library. To the question of ‘what sense in life is?’ he says         ‘life istself’..and continues ‘a mission of my life is to keep size 48, everything else is not important. Perhaps it sounds primitive, but you should also care about primitive things, it helps you to understand complicated things better’.                           (Direct Quatation:“Mein Lebensziel ist es, Größe 48 zu halten. Größe 48, alles andere ist unwichtig. Das klingt vielleicht oberflächlich, aber man muss sich um die Oberfläche 

kümmern, dann kommt man besser an die Unterfläche heran”, macht er sein Kredo deutlich. “Sehen Sie, eine sehr primitive, aber handfeste Philosophie.“)

For me Karl Lagerfeld is a key figure in a fashion world, he is fashion himself.

LFW Highlites from runwayreportx

21 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Runway: Burberry Prorsum, Alexander McQueen

Have I already told you, that I  love Britain, London, British accent, english guys, tea and english fashion.. Anna Wintour, Christopher Bailey, Stella McCartney, Missoni, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Sarah Burton.. well yes, I am a bit obssesed with UK, everything and everyone who comes out there… So this is why I actually bother to comment LFW and havnt done that yet about NFW.. And in fact, I wont.. Not that I dont like american fashion but still.. So here are highlights which I fell in love with from the first sight and what I find quite awesome, is that you can define future winter trends.. Look here:

 Alexander McQueen, Burberry Prorsum, Missoni, Stella McCartney

Trend 1: Belt on a waist, together with a coat.. of waist line in Stella McCartney's case

Alexander McQueen and Burberry Prorsum

Trend 2: Dress with a wide skirt ballerina/pensil skirt, belt on a waits

 Missoni and Stella McCartney
Trend3:
Volume skirt dresses with a belt on a waist
All pictures taken from vogue.de

Remembering Hubert de Givenchy

21 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Givenchy founder of The Givenchy House in 1952, personal designer to Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy would turn 84 today.

I would like to remember him and his great creation, Givenchy label, with some favorite looks from Givenchy.

p.s. The Givenchy House had such designers as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen creating for it. Riccardo Tisci continues the great art of Givenchy at the moment. He brought some romantic gothic touch to the label, with a clear cut.

Givency SS12, from vogue.deGivency SS12, from vogue.de

Givency SS12, from vogue.de

Mine Must have outfit

19 Sunday Feb 2012

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 Looking through German Vogue I spotted a picture of beautiful Sarah Jessica Parker and my future must have outfit. I think it is just genius and fantastic. As any missy who thinks of herself as fashionista gotta have a cool black leather jacket, so it is already half of your outfit, and rocking maxi skirt, which I am looking for since ages, as well as short sexy gloves! So my version of this outfit is coming. x

 

p.s. talk about perfection ->>

Sarah Jessica Parker