feeling YELLOW

I like to analyze the trends when we need them, physicaly due to the weather. I think doing that six months ahead (when the fashion shows are) is useless.  Fashion lasts for a very short period of time. Then, is over. The too much talking of these trends blows away the emotion we have to feel, after those six months, when the season finally arrives.

But in this post, I can´t help myself, I haven´t finished talking about the keys for this autumn/winter, and here I am about to tell you one of the colours for next summer, shame on me.... ;)

Carolina Herrera

Bill Blass

Felipe Oliviera Batista

Jill Stuart

Julien Macdonald

Moschino

Mulberry

Oscar de la Renta

Osman

Versace

"L'énvol"

Air france advertising, which was first reproduced couple of weeks ago.
As tomorrow I´ll be flying to Paris I wanted to somehow transmit you that and share my mood with you. I founf this video in one word: unique. It is peacefully quiet, but dream-seeker at the same time.

KASIA by TOM CRAIG

See through top and Pencil skirt

 Fur overgarment and flower pattern dress

 White cloak with a bow

 Open half calf tweed skirt

 Red lady like, pleated volumes

 Feminine Gangster look

 Baby Collar and Over knee socks

 Red and Tartan

 Yellow, and purple

 two colours present this winter, and that are about to become stars for next season.

I have found this fashion-shoot that contains most of the fashion trends for this winter. An elegant and ladylike 60's mood, in a rustic big house  in the middle of nowhere, this photo-shoot was photographed by Tom Craig. 
The model Kasia Struss look grandiosely gorgeous with a Grace Kelly´s look, (also Betty Draper´s look if you are a Mad men fan like me).

Grace Kelly

Betty draper, Mad men

 The fashion editor and stylist is no other than Ekaterina Mukhina (the fashion director of Vogue Russia).

Ekaterina Mukhina

ART DECO

Art deco is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s as a reaction to the purely functional and practical spirit of the Industrial Revolution. It flourished internationally throughout the 30s, into the World War II era, influencing all areas of design.

Its characteristics departure from the flowing asymmetrical organic curves inspired by the nature of its predecessor style art nouveau; it embraced influences from many different styles of the early twentieth century, including neoclassical, contrusctivism, cubism, modernism and futurism.
Although many design movements have political or philosophical beginnings or intentions, art deco was purely decorative.

Alberta Ferreti

Miu Miu

Charles Anastase

Etro

Proenza Schouler

Loewe

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Jean Paul Gaultier

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator."
Antonio Gaudi

JUANJO OLIVA Madrid SS 12

A quick glance at Madrid primavera/verano (that means spring/summer) 2012 fashion week, I have been following all the catwalks but when I saw the 'diva' collection Juanjo Oliva did, I though it was deep-felt and among (if not) the best, and I am glad to say I was not the only one thinking that as he has won the l'oreal award for the best collection.

His line: simple, clean and greatly feminine. Recalling the muses from the golden age of Hollywood, like for example Lauren Bacall he has designed and built amazing evening dresses, full of movement due to the flowing lightweight silks, and early 40's sophistication.

 It´s just contagious elegance!

 Below, the designer Juanjo Oliva with Nieves Alvarez (one of the most important spanish models who is now retired and also a close friend of his), who opened and closed this magnificient show.

CONGRATS

BUTTONS

Heritage is one of the key words in today´s fashion, the world asks for more quality and less fashion non-sense. Rediscovering the old methods to produce garments, the eldest fashion utensil have claimed its place, that is surely the button.

This little item insignificant apparently, was first used over 3,000 years ago (easy to say, hard to imgine) in the bronze age, they were not used for fasten but as a mere decoration... In 1200 with the crusaders, We (europeans), borrowed this idea from further cultures which this time used them to fasten the garments. A century later, buttons provoked a fashion revolution, it was a huge bussiness. By the XV century the button returned to its origin: it was used as a fashion decoration, among the nobility in the courts. They were a symbol of the value of the garment, and therefore of the person who wore it aswell.

It was not until 1930's when the button was finally beaten by the zip (which was marketed with that name after eight decades from when Elias Howe invented the predecessor of the it, named "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure".

and this year buttons have re-come back.

Burberry Prorsum

Diesel

Versace

Dsquared2

Fendi

Gucci

Loewe

Louis Vuitton

Miu Miu

Moschino

Prada

Mulberry