BURBERRY PRORSUM

Mood/Style:

The precision of the contemporary tailoring combined with the touch of preciousness of the fur for an uptown woman collection.

This is Christopher Bailey’s latest reinterpretation of some of the cornerstones of the fashion brand – the trench coat, the tapered trousers – making them evergreen items in evolution.

While the palette of colors consists of dark tones or is brightened with satin, the most important note is the use of fur for skirts, shoulders, hems, borders and entire coats in degradé tones.

Lengths:
mini and knee-length, maxi

 

FASHION HANDBAGS: FENDI SPRING 2011

Can I get a standing ovation for Fendi?

 It wasn’t all that many seasons ago that the brand’s accessories department seemed to be in a bit of a post-Spy Bag aesthetic flux. There were too many logos, too many underdeveloped ideas and too little editing. From the looks of it, the brand has come out of its slump in fine form with Fendi Spring 2011, the brand’s third brilliant major accessories collection in a row. Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence but three times is a trend – get on the Fendi bus.

For spring, Fendi’s runway accessories are all about incorporating color in a classic way. No bag was graced with fewer than two different shades, and almost all of them incorporated the various colors on leathers of different textures.

VALENTINO FALL WINTER 2010 COLLECTION

Digital romanticism. Noir innocence. A refined women, who is also unpredictable, elusive, evasive, overflowing with mystery. Candid and dark.

Providing inspiration for Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli’s creative works for Valentino. A natural instinct of creatingm selecting, mixing and layering all different elements is emphasized and highlighted throughout the pret-a-porter Autumn Winter 2010 – 2011 collection.

Reconsideration and reinvention of elegance, altered into a contemporary mode. This new found quality is now regained and reconquered to exist in the Valentino woman’s wardrobe.

Fovoring unexpected liaisons between natural and technological weaving, ultra light and structured material, padded, doubled and treated fabric. Ensemble of researched pieces including shirts, knits, over the knee skirts and pants are never deprived of desinged lengths, constructions and proportions that harmoniously coexist.

BOTTEGA VENETA IPHONE AND IPAD CASES

Bottega Veneta has released as part of their Fall/Winter 2010 Collection iPhone and iPad cases. Of course the cases come in their signature woven leather looks. 

We just love how the Italian brand does not need to put any logo branding on their product, the simple use of their signature leather is enough.

Take a further look the iPhone and iPad cases after the jump.

DIOR MAKES VEGAN SHOES FOR NATALIE PORTMAN

I always think it's wonderful to see big name brands and talented designers rising to the challenge of working with animal-friendly materials, and support any attempts to break the myth that leather is the only 'quality' fabric for shoes.

As far as I'm concerned, Stella McCartney is a legend. So it was really heartening to see that Dior had responded to Natalie Portman's pleas for vegan footwear in her campaign for Miss Dior Cherie perfume.

The fashion house created a pair of vegan heels especially for Natalie, which she wears in promotional material for the scent.