Under the name of Wood, Clara and Irene, the designers behind Barcelona-based label name: present their proposals for this season. Subtle transparencies, buttons on the back, little ruffles here, little pleats there: details that have already become unavoidably part of their identity, season after season and that meet here, once again, to give shape...
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Designer Kris Van Assche joins Lee® this season to give shape to Lee® by KRISVANASSCHE a capsule collection that fuses the denim heritage of the American label with this Belgian designer’s subtleness. Van Assche gives a new twist to cotton twill and redesigns classical pieces from the Lee® archives such as the denim jacket...
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Last evening we had the chance of attending the presentation in the Jack Spade shop -in Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice – of the mini collection of jackets and bags result of the collaboration between the American brand and the iconic British label Barbour. The six pieces that are part of the collection -two jackets...
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I am not really sure when the weather will be kind of fine in here as to wear the latest collection by Iranian designer -based in Germany’s capital- Lala Berlin, although it seems easier not to be bothered about saying goodbye to nice weather when you have options as amazing as this one to...
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Natural materials and sandy colors rule Desertion, the new collaboration between the brand Eastpak and the designer-trio behind Danish label Wood Wood. Inspired by desert landscapes, their adventurous-spirited proposal of accessories takes shape in suede, tanned leather and waxed canvas -with little folk-like geometric motifs- and represents the new backpacker cool raised to the...
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The designs by Claudia Ligari -Italian designer based in London at the moment- represent a new studio of androginity wrapped in a particular halo of femininity and sensuality.
Her polished and futuristic lines for this summer -all in categorical shades of white- give shape to architectonic silhouettes that not always follow the rule of...
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Last week it took place a new edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion during which Catalan designer Josep Abril presented his latest menswear proposals for next winter.
Abril celebrated this season his fifteen years of career and that is why he confesses imposing to himself an introspection exercise, dedicating this collection to reflect with a trip...
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Inspiration comes from a Scandinavian romance, a nostalgic Nordic dream displayed in pastel shades with touches of cyan, ochre, mint green and black.
With delicate silks and ruffles, Fair Isle prints, trousers embroidered with paillettes, their already signature cut-out dresses, garments in fur and leather and prints with flowers or checks, among others, Rodarte sisters...
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During the last edition of Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week I had the chance of talking to Elena Martín, the designer behind Martin Lamothe, so she could tell me at first hand what her new collection for next summer, Pop Up the Volume! was about.
You can now read my full interview with her in...
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Russian model Anna Selezneva is the protagonist in the new images of Étoile, the second line by designer Isabel Marant, turned into the epitome of Parisian coolness in the last years.
With a proposal rich in ethnic-bohemian prints, feminine dresses and miniskirts, paired with more casual garments, Isabel displays once again an irresistible collection...
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3.1 Phillip Lim is discovering for next summer a more technical, sporty, clean and minimal style, escaping from the subtle romanticism he has been displaying till now. The accurate feminine and delicate details that I have always liked so much in his collections are substituted next summer by the coldness of bright white, straight...
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Macarena and Anna from El Delgado Buil are moving and, since they can’t take all their stuff with them they are selling off in their shop in Barcelona (C/Lledó, 4-6), with up to 80% discounts, garments from all their seasons. Only till next Saturday, August 6th.
The perfect chance to go and have a look,...
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It might have been the colour wave that has invaded us this season what has inspired the guys in Jan iú Més to venture into those chromatic fields not so explored by them in their previous collections. For next summer, Jan and Alfonso move away a little bit from that sober palette of them...
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On Wednesday Berlin-based label Reality Studio will present their latest collection for next Spring/Summer 12 in a new action on the streets of the German capital as they already did this time last year. Only two days before the presentation, the designer Svenja Specht talks to us about the label, their collection for this...
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Geronimo is the brand by Jenny Reyes, a designer based in sunny California with roots in Manila that, after an internship with Rodarte sisters and travelling the country designing the stage outfits for bands like Rilo Kiley o The Watson Twins, decided to start her own adventure a couple of years ago and is...
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I think, if I had to choose the show that left me speechless for the longest time I wouldn’t hesitate to mention Indian designer Manish Arora.I already knew his work and how eye-catching his designs were, real colour explosions full of prints, applications and bright shades, a truly vitamin supplement energy-loaded to face the...
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Three years has been the time Jun Takahashi creations have stayed out of the traditional presentation scenes, it might have been this significative comeback what favoured that, despite showing Undercover out of the offical schedule of Paris Fashion Week, people like Grace Coddington, Suzy Menkes or Franca Sozzani could be found in its front row....
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A kimono inspired coat with a tied belt in silver jacquard opens the collection by François Alary and Ophelie Klere, the Paris-based designers behind the label Devastée. Their proposal for next winter consists of a brief and concise palette: black and white mainly, with some incursions in grey or silver. Plenty of graphic motifs...
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There are some combinations that, regardless of seasons and trends, always work for me. I guess that happens to everybody, I guess that might be personal taste, immovable and untransferable, the one that knows nothing about temporary obsessions and the pollution of that trendy pendulum that dictates what you like now and what you...
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There is something in Rochas latest Pre Fall 11 that looks so attractive to me, I don’t really know if it is the kind of icy feminity or the fragile messy flair coming out of it but the more I look at this collection the more I like it; it can be the unkempt...
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