DE-CONSTRUCTIONISM: JESSICA OGDEN

Jamaican birthplace, she moved to London looking for a freedom that she hadn't found in America were she was studying.
Her fashion idea is really artistic. She works out and on the body, trying to find a kind of balance between clothes that are for the body and clothes that are against. She develops a vision that gives a new shape to the body. She is a master de-constructionist and has a fascination with old and distressed fabrics which has been a salvage fashion, with a strong respect for craft. Among her favorite sources of salvage, old patchwork quilts.
"The nicest element of quilts and quilt making is the inherent history that is litterally sewn into the work".
Recycling, assembling..telling people stories through belonged and lived fabrics.

A LITTLE TRIBUTE TO DIANA VREELAND

Undoubtely Diana Vreeland is one of the most legendary figures of the fashion world. Born in Paris in 1903, she moved to the USA with her family after the First World War and in New York she started his journalistic career as author of  "Why don't you" section on Harper's Bazaar and in the 1962 she was at American Vogue direction until 1971.

Subversive, brilliant, avant-garde..Diana is an icon and still contemporary and innovative also after her death. More than 15 minutes of celebrity. She was (is) an eloquent proof of the controversial claim that style is innate and blind as love. She wasn't beautiful, but full of elegance.

STILL IN LOVE FOR JOHN GALLIANO

Paris menswear fashion week Fw11-12. No way, he's definitely different from all the others. Every time, every show, John Galliano still innovative and interesting. Same allure, his own allure. Indisputable styling, amazing pieces!
This menswear show is dedicate to the Russian ballet and it was opened with a harried horde of Russian emigrés in great big coats, tufty shearling, and military jackets; it was closed with a glittered and embroidered eveningwear. Below my favourites looks.
BRAVO JOHN!

ADELE MILDRED

Definitely a character, a potential icon. She looks like a young Elizabeth Taylor. Adele Mildred is head of atelier for Stephen Jones. Friend of Dita Von Teese who introduced her to Stephen Jones,  today Adele presides over a workroom of twenty-five milliners whom she lovingly describes as “a bunch of old ladies sitting around a table gossiping and making hats!” all busily executing his mad vision not just for his own label, but the host of fashion visionaries who rely on Jones each season (John Galliano, Gareth Pugh, Marc Jacobs...).

She grew up in a small suburb of Minneapolis, but she spent much time in France (because of her  mum). Her french background made her feel special and she spent a lot of time alone with her imagination, developing her unique visual sense. She studied fashion in New York, she use to design clothing and create costumes for indipendent films..but her real obsession was for the hats. 

"Like art, millinery is a process and you cannot churn the product out".

PAULINE BORCA'S FANTASTIC TRIP FOR SS011

Kinitted dresses with images of mountains landscapes, space inspired printed dresses and multicoloured jumpsuits... here the Pauline Borca's artuful work on SS011 menswear and womenswear collection.
She's a young french visual artist and designer recently graduated from the Higher Institute of Applied Arts in Paris (LISAA).
In her work art and fashion are all in one, the photos taken by Matthieu Delbreuve perfectly represents this line full of fantasy and imagination.
I really like the hats and the animal head-shaped knitted masks!! Gorgeous!!!

FROM FW11/12 MENSWEAR -MILAN- I LIKE...

BURBERRY PRORSUM

The final, under the rain... simply AMAZING!! I Love Chris Bailey's men style.. "avantgarde"...!

WINDOW WORLD: CHANEL SHORT MOVIE BY KARL LAGERFELD

Two women and a man who must choose. Dummies played by models...the fake and the real.
Lagerfeld is having fun with fashion, as always, in his unique way. Brilliant!!!Love it!