Tuesday, April 23, 2013

London's Never Looked This Good!



Burberry Prorsum Fall/Winter 2013

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London fashion week was blessed by Burberry when the male models walked down the runway with the Fall 2013 Burberry Prorsum Men's shoes. Something far from their Spring/Summer 2013 Men's Splash Sole Shoes and Patent Leather Ceremonial Shoes. This coming winter men will continue to wear oxfords and unlike many of the competitor designers that showed in New York, Burberry continues to stay away from the Wing-Tipped Dress shoes and remains very British with there simple but elegant Oxfords. For example, to the left we see the black leather dress shoes with the metallic embellishments (Embellishments being an upcoming trend). While on the right we see the ever popular animal print that Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey showed will dominate the Fall 2013 collection for Men's and Womenswear. These shoes will coordinate wonderfully with the Men's animal print shirts. While the Embellishments will give a modern feel to this late 1950's styled collection.

Meadham Kirchhoff Fall/Winter 2013

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Well here it goes public, Meadham Kirchhoff Fall/Wall 2013 Ready To Wear collection. In my opinion I found the overall collection not one bit appealing. But even bad publicity is good publicity.  What Women's Wear Daily considers a spin off the popes wardrobe for these two designers, I find too unwearable. But nevertheless there were some key images that really stood out. For example, this A-line skirt with ruffles Topped with a a PVC material shiny black biker jacket, long sleeved, with a white ruffled sleeve blouse underneath. Also a bull fighter, cape like jacket due to the over sized collars covering a sheer white dress. Honestly the embroidery on the jacket really make this piece of the collection my only favorite. Overall this collection is very far from the designers prior collections. But Meadham Kirchhoff have always been know for pushing the envelop. 

Roksanda Ilincic Fall/Winter 2013

Roksanda Ilincic Fall 2013 Ready-to-Wear
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Roksanda Ilincic had one of my favorite color palettes for this coming season from the 5 designer featured in this blog post. They had the most feminine colors of the entire Fashion London Fall 2013 Fashion Week. The choice of Pinks, Plums, and Greens really helped the collection keep spring alive for yet another season without sacrificing being cold. Roksada Ilincic was yet another designer to us PVC materials in there designs. Pink PVC was popular while Taffeta was the material used in the back. The overall collection was vastly dominated by midi-length skirts and dresses. Every dressed very well structured due to Ilincic's appreciation for architecture. But the most appealing thing would have to be the colors used.

Mary Katrantzou Fall/Winter 2013

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Although Mary Katrantzou continued to used her recognized prints, this season colors were back seated and more attention to detail was placed on shapes and the silhouettes. Some of these experimentation to attention to the shapes and silhouettes included stiff, jutting sleeves, and origami wrapping and even a symmetrical cape and dress. This was a contract to prior color charged collections but still the uses of colors was not necessary for the art work presented in the clothing making. She really wanted to focus on that and succeed. The collection really stunned the public with its artisanal handiwork.


Peter Pilotto Fall/Winter 2013

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The matador jacket has never looked so good. Showing a bold rough look into the collection this key item used through the collection really did it for this designer. It really helped bring the collection together. The cuts, the sowing, the patterns being shown on it really had this be the key item.