Tuesday 24 July 2012

Paris Haute Couture | Atelier VERSACE Fall 2012 Couture

 


Donatella Versace's comeback to the Paris couture schedule was made official with the first public presentation of her Atelier Versace collection in January 2012. Take it as a sign that Donatella Versace’s got her mojo back. After nearly ten years’ abstinence from full-force runway presentations for the Atelier Versace Haute Couture FW 2012/13 collection, Gianni Versace’s little sister found the courage to take the show back to the original stomping ground of some of her late brother’s glitziest hits: the covered swimming pool of the Ritz Paris. Since Gianni’s death in 1997, Donatella has chosen to release the couture collection in a private manner, continuing seasonal updates of the house made-to-order enterprise by appointment only. 






For spring 2012 couture, she took the tentative step of presenting on a tableau of girls on a golden stage in the École des Beaux-Arts. But this time, yes: She was properly back, no-holds-barred, with a runway show opened by Lindsey Wixson, a 2012 descendent of the glamazonians who roamed Versace shows back in the day. Donatella has been buoyed up to this new level of confidence by the popular enthusiasm for last year’s H&M collaboration finally, she’s been saying, that push from the low end made her believe she can dare to reclaim the Versace high ground, too.








Couture, of course, is where a designer gets to show off the bravura skills and innovations of his or her atelier (and come to think of it, Donatella is the only “her” in couture, except for Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri). One of Versace’s signatures is complex piecing, micro-calculated to hug the contours of the body while exposing or appearing to expose as much skin as possible. In this collection, she deployed every technique in the arsenal to that effect, creating sinuous, patchworked dresses of crystal-beaded chiffon the best, in beige, slithering over every inch of the chameleon form of Karlie Kloss as well as minidresses in chain mail, latticework corsets constructed from strips of patent leather, and short coats pieced from variegated zones of perforated leather. As for innovation? Donatella likes to incorporate nontraditional materials into couture. Where last season that meant presenting her studios with the challenge of inserting shards of metal into dresses, this time the task was how to sew the finest hi-tech Japanese polyester into floating, shimmery skirts so lightweight that they seemed to flutter almost in slow motion, with a life of their own.








The overall concept, according to program notes, was taken from the design of tarot cards, but once the materials had been diced up and reconstructed, not much of that source was still visible, except perhaps, the roman numeral XIX on a belt although at first sight, that might equally be mistaken as the ideal age of a Versace wearer. What, though, of the judgment call Donatella may have been avoiding all these years the comparison between her work and her brother’s? Well, these are different times, and Donatella Versace’s touch is softer the color palette less strident, the accessorizing less fierce. Perhaps this time she was just putting a toe in the water, not wanting to risk too many references to the past. Yet perhaps that’s just the direction her audience, old and new, are willing her towards more bling, more sexiness, more fun and irony. All they’re waiting for her to do now is to let loose and take it to the max.
















Selections by ANDREA JANKE Finest Accessories 

Photo Credits/Source: © VOGUE
Photography for VOGUE: © Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway
Runway video via © Fatalefashion



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Spring/Summer 2012 Collection






Monday 23 July 2012

Beauty | Golden Jungle by Dior Fall 2012 Collection

 


Among her many other pursuits, Carine Roitfeld styled this striking campaign for the Dior Golden Jungle Fall 2012 beauty collection which debuts next month. Carine has infused the advertisements with a glamorous 1920s vibe, j'adore. Daria Strokous models the golden makeup beneath a leopard hat from the Fall 2008 couture collection; Steven Meisel photographed the glowing campaign. It seems everything Carine touches turns to gold …











In February 1947, Christian Dior presented his first collection to the international press in the Dior salons of Avenue Montaigne in Paris. Along with the Huit and Corolle lines that would inaugurate the era of “The New Look,” the couturier revealed another of his favourite themes: Leopard Print. Fashion editors were smitten, the room burst into applause and women rediscovered the mysterious allure of this iconic, timeless print.
At once avant-garde, sophisticated and sensual, the Jungle Motif has been a signature of the House of Dior from its debut. Actress Marlene Dietrich and the muse and friend of Mr. Dior, Mitzah Bircard, were its first fervent ambassadors. With each decade and runway show, variations of leopard print are cleverly reinterpreted by Dior Couture. In the Dior Autumn/Winter 2012 makeup collection, Tyen revamps the Jungle Motif with another hallmark of Dior, a touch of shimmering gold, embodying the luxury of the urban jungle and inspired by the deep, earthy tones of the jungle.



I’m a huge fan of the Dior palette compacts. The compact themselves are always classy looking and something you want to show and the products inside never disappoint. And for fall, who doesn’t want an animal print?! Dior's Golden Jungle palette - the animal “print” of eye shadows are a trio of nude, medium brown and deep brown in a trio of textures - iridescent, matte and satin.  Inside the compact is also a nude lip gloss which is smartly covered by a silver lid that goes directly over the lip gloss so not to mix with the eye shadows.  This would be a beautiful compact that is wearable by most skin tones and definitely a hit for women over 40. Important to know: This is a limited edition palette. When they’re gone – they’re gone!


Dior is going to make crackling-nuances presentable: Golden nail-polish and khaki topcoat merge to an elegant kroko-surface ...




"Golden Jungle Nail Art Duo' Fall/Winter 2012/13 





Golden Jungle Palette in Savannah




Golden Jungle Pallette in Golden Browns





Golden Jungle Palette in Khaki




Golden Jungle Pallette in Ivory Glow





Golden Jungle Palette in Nude Glow





'Golden Jungle by Dior' Fall 2012 Collection 
available from August 15th, 2012, in limited edition!


Selections by ANDREA JANKE Finest Accessories 

Photo Credits/Source: © Dior & © Carine Roitfeld


CR Fashion Book by Carine Roitfeld







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Carine Roitfeld cannot wait to release her new magazine CR Fashion Book so she has decided to share a first installment titled "Issue 0" as part of the July issue of V Magazine. Equally fabulous is this backstage video of the production of CR Fashion Book, watch as photographer Sebastian Faena works with Carine to shoot an editorial for her forthcoming magazine. "Issue 0" of CR Fashion Book available on Newsstands September 13th, 2012.






 Selections by ANDREA JANKE Finest Accessories

Photo Credits/Source: © crfashionbook.com



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