Chiffon of Vera Wang Fall 2011

Закрываю глаза, и все вижу ее наряды.  Настолько сильное впечатление произвела нынешняя коллекция Vera Wang.   Тонкий шифон, аккуратно сложенный в архитектурные лабиринты простых прямых углов с легкостью описал образ современной женственности.  Воздушные материалы, свободные линии покроя, абстрактные, ассиметричные пропорции и беспредельно многочисленные детали - все было настолько эстетично подобранно, что результатом стал неоспоримый букет совершенства.   Вера не побоялась отступиться от привычных форм, и сделала это мастерски, и даже возможно повела моду в новом направлении.   Не зря Анна Винтур присутсвовала среди гостей на показе коллекции.  Не зря столькие так стремились на этот показ.  

High fashion, yet functional

FEBRUARY 9, New York - Fashion Heart Truth Red Dress Fall 2011

FEBRUARY 9, New York - Fashion Heart Truth Red Dress Fall 2011

они протанцевали на ковре лепестками роз, улыбаясь.  и счастью не было предела.  апплодисметы, вздохи, поздравления и, не обманывает ли меня память.. свист?  нет, скорее обманывает.  Ведь дамам не свистят.  А на поддиуме были именно они.  Красавицы в красных нарядах, предоставили удивительную коллекцию  лучших мировых дизаинеров в лучшем свете.

  

Julianne Hough, SWAROVSKI

Audrina Patridge, BADGLEY MISCHKA

EVE, DAVID MEISTER SIGNATURE

Dania Ramirez, MALANDRINO

Linda Gray, PAMELLA ROLAND

Katrina Bowden, Oscar de la Renta

Taraji Henson, NAEEM KHAN

Archie Penjabi, J. MENDEL

Eva Amurri, CHRIS BENZ

Dita Von Tesse, ZAC POSEN

Camila Alves, KAUFMANFRANCO

Denise Richards, MATHHEW WILLIAMSON

Garcelle Beauvais, MONIQUE LHUILLIER

Suzanne Somers, INA SOLTANI

Laila Ali, A PEA IN THE POD

Cat Delley, ALBERTA FERRETTI

Patti LaBelle

Natasha Bedingfield, Nicole Miller

The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection

В Нью Йорке холодно, и серо, с редкими проблесками солнца.  Количество людей кишащих на улицах уму не постижимо.  Откуда они все беруться?  от аистов.  От каких аистов.  Вот от тех то и аистов.  Большинство одето в черный цвет.  Или в серый.  Это наверно непредотвратимая реакция на асфальтовские и бетонные тона городов и улиц.   Мы все маскируемся, но конечно это не так называется.   А как?  А вот так и называется.  Цивилизация, мода.  Нет конечно же не так.  Но все же как радуют глаза краски!  И как они не уместны на городских узлах, в серых домах, в серых панелях, в серых стенах.  И мы все носим черно-серо-коричневую палитру улиц, с чертежами двух, трех этажных домов, новостроек и небоскребов, с проблесками офисно белой бумаги, белой разметки дорог, воротничками рубашки и выделяющимися швами.  Иногда исписанной синей или же черной ручкой, в форме узора черточка-тире-черточка.  черт-черт-черт.  Слава богу сегодня день красного платья, первый день недели Моды в Нью Йорке.  И если тяжело угадать, в честь чего выбран этот красный цвет, то ответ в самом названии коллекции.  Правда Сердца, Коллекция Красного Платья.   Мы кажеться больны. Но нет, не совсем так. А как же? А вот так.  Мы не больны, но мы и не здоровы. Проблемы с сердцем возникли в последнее время у многих женщин, и разговор не о сердечной боли любящих или же нелюбимых.   А речь о болезни, и о том, как важно вдруг стало следить за сердцем женщинам.  Ведь когда мы узнаем причины, почему так резко бозрасло количество заболеваний, для многих может быть уже слишком поздно.  Так пусть же украшают красные наряды поддиум усыпанный звездами.  И пусть каждая женщина обратит внимание и запомнит причину.  Эта коллекция организованна не только для красоты, но и для здоровья.  Для вашего здоровья.  




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The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection
New York is cold and gray, with occasional glimpses of sun. The number of people swarming in the streets is incomprehensible. Where did they all come from? from storks. Which storks. Those very storks. Most people are dressed in black. Or gray. This is probably some unavoidable biological response to blend into the tar and concrete shades of cities and streets. We all camouflaging, but of course we don‘t call it so. So what what do we call it? Civilization, fashion. No of course not. Yet how pleasing are colors to the eye ! And they are not relevant to the urban sites, gray buildings and gray panels, the gray walls. ! And how inappropriate they are in the city’s jam, in gray buildings, on gray streets, in gray cubicles. And so we all wear the dark black-gray-brown street palette, designs following the blueprints of two, three story buildings, of new constructions and skyscrapers, with complimentary add-ons of white office paper in form of shirt collars and obvious stitches. At times, the whites are written on with blue or black ink, in patterns of dash-dot-dash. Shad-shad-shad. Thankfully today is the day the of red dress, the first day of Fashion Week in New York. And if it’s hard to guess what honors this red color, then the answer is in the title of the collection. The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection. It seems we are all ill. But no, not really. Well, no, not quite. Well, then how? Well, so. We are not sick, but we're not healthy. Women are battling heartache, and not the pain of wanting to love or to be loved. Heart disease in women has risen in recent years and this is a matter of awareness. After all, when we learn the reasons why the sharply case has risen, it may be too late for too many. So let the red dresses decorate the star-studded catwalk. And let every woman know the reason. This collection is brought together not only to encourage women to stay beautiful, but also to stay healthy.

Sobriety twist

LARA STONE

Karlie Kloss for French Vogue

Mackage _SS2011

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Art Institute of Philadelphia

Upon returning home from Thursday, October 8, 2010 shows I recall looking through the various posts on Facebook, discussing the student contest that took place during Philadelphia fashion week.   One of the posts caught my eye, it said “Art Institute of Philadelphia should have won”, while Drexel was named the winner of the night.  I tried to find the reasons for the post, as it did not come from either a student designer or a show participant, and the confident tone of the writer made me curious.  I did too think that Drexel presented the stronger collection overall, however while glimpsing back through the photos of Art Institute’s collection I caught a surprising find.  When photographing the many runways of SS2011 collections in New York, I realized how uniform most of the designs were, there was so much beauty, but not everyone dared to experiment outside of the safe zone.  One of the collections that caught my eye for its fresh feel, perhaps, because it was different from the safe norm of the rest.  It was presented by Odd Molly and attempted to outline a new trend, where a hip urban youngster  either rebels or finds beauty in grandmother’s clothes, a definitive modern, yet vintage look that shimmers through urban teenagers, a look that is claimed to be an international sensation.   Interestingly, a similar, quite fashionable silhouette was presented by the Art Institute of Philadelphia.  The designer presented vintage lace in a modern form of a hoodie, the shiny silks reminiscent of the elegance of 1920s in a relaxed, modern, loose fitting cuts and crinkled cropped, non-conforming pants and it caught the feel of the bright and colorful 70s that’s dominating the runways in an abstract pattern of the jacket so, naturally, I was pleasantly surprised and somewhere, in the back of my mind, felt that this particular student designer defined the style better than the rest.  Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was not.  The following two looks, presumably, by the same designer fell slightly short of expectation, as they were a little simple and the attempt to introduce feather accents seemed to repeat the style created by Anna Sui in her SS2011 collection inspired by American prairie.  Nonetheless, a most trendy surprise of the night for me, indeed ,was found in the collection of Art Institute of Philadelphia.  Hopefully my quest for the name of the designer will bring results and the puzzle can be solved to satisfaction.

1st Photo from the left is the mentioned look, part of the collection presented by the Art Institute of Philadelphia.  The following photos are the looks from Odd Molly SS 2011 collection

Feather Accessories: two top looks belong to Art Institute of Philadelphia colleciton.

Remaining looks below are part of Anna Sui SS 2011 collection  

PFW - Great effort by everyone making this beautiful event possible!

Philadelphia Fashion Week - Great effort by everyone making this beautiful event possible!

PHILADELPHIA Oct. 9 - Model backstage at Marina Makaron Moscow, SS2011. 

Lead stylist Kevin Gatto of Verde, Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA Oct. 9 - Model backstage at Marina Makaron Moscow SS2011

Lead stylist Kevin Gatto of Verde, Philadelphia

 PHILADELPHIA Oct. 9 - Model backstage at Allegri/D-Exterior
Lead stylist Kevin Gatto of Verde, Philadelphia

 Kevin Gatto,  the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Verde, one of nation's most fashionable salons, lead the team of backstage make up artists and hair stylists to deliver impeccable looks to the runways

 Men behind the scenes: Charlie Smith, Executive Production Director, 
 and Kevin Gatto, lead stylist of Verde, Philadelphia

 Allegri/D-Exterior - a taste of Italy on Philadelphia runway

Autumlin of Philadelphia astonishes the audience with structured fashion architecture collection of  ethereal garments made from silks, exotic leathers and zipper