Latest Fashion Shows For 2012

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Fre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Prada at Milan fashion show: Her latest presentation took the unusual (for Prada) step of mixing men’s and women’s clothes together, but after it was all over, Miuccia herself insisted there’d always been an umbilical connection between the collections, and, in this particular case, it had been so inescapable that it made perfect sense to show them together. (more…)

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Spring fashion 2010 collection of Antonio Berardi at London fashion show: “Berardi, English? I always had him down as an Italian,” remarked a high-flying American editor who trooped into a church on North Audley Street to watch the homecoming parade of a designer who was actually born to Sicilian parents 40 years ago in Britain and educated at Central Saint Martins. (more…)

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Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Miu Miu at Paris fashion show:  If you didn’t already know that Miuccia Prada thinks of Miu Miu as an expression of her inner girl, you’d probably be able to guess it from the label’s pre-fall collection. (more…)

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Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Roberto Cavalli at London fashion show: With high-necked lace blouses, jet beading, and funereal black capelets on one hand, and tight little tailored jackets, ribbed leggings, and knee-high boots on the other, Roberto Cavalli’s pre-fall collection felt like an unholy union of Queen Victoria and Pat Benatar. (more…)

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Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Alberta Ferretti at New York fashion show: Alberta Ferretti may be the go-to designer for pretty chiffon gowns, but she injected some edge into her signature feminine silhouettes in her new pre-fall collection. (more…)

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Resort fashion collection 2010 of Moschino at New York fashion show: There was not a trompe l’oeil conceit in sight at Moschino for Resort. Instead, the focus was on solid, salable clothes. In addition to a slew of drape-y dresses and structured coats, there were lots of chic pants looks for urbanites. (more…)

Roksanda-Ilincic-Resort-fashion-collection-2010

Resort fashion collection 2010 of Roksanda Ilincic at London fashion show: Roksanda Ilincic’s pre-spring collection is emblematic of the renewed effort London designers are putting into upping their appeal. Until this season, pre- and Resort were pretty much a foreign language to British designers, but now they’re figuring out what it all means and how to finesse their clothes in useful ways without dulling things down. (more…)

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Resort fashion collection 2010 of Basso & Brooke at Milan fashion show: With Michelle Obama as a new fan, Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke are about to get an attention boost. So it was good timing that their Resort collection offered an accessible introduction to their world. (more…)

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Resort fashion collection 2010 of Emilio Pucci at New york fashion show: Peter Dundas’ mission for Resort was twofold—to take the Emilio Pucci girl to the seaside and to firm up the new image that he began establishing at the house for Fall. (more…)

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Resort fashion 2010 of Giorgio Armani at New York fashion: Giorgio Armani continued the exploration of eighties style that he began in earnest with his Fall collection, except this time around he did it with bright colors and bold geometric prints instead of his accustomed shades of gray. (more…)

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Resort fashion 2010 of Vera Wang at New York fashion show: Vera Wang cheekily called Resort her “Calypso-meets-Intermix” collection. What the reference to those eclectic boutiques means is this: Not only are there more colors—safety orange, peacock blue, chartreuse (more…)

Versace-Spring-fashion-collection-2010

Spring fashion collection 2010 of Versace at Milan fashion show: Vivid pastels, geometric prints, baroque curlicues, short-short skirts, and slinky, sexy chain mail: Where else could this be but Versace? For Spring, Donatella Versace was telling everyone who went backstage that she’d been inspired by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (which comes out next March). (more…)

Victoria-Beckham-Spring-Fashion-Collection-2010

Spring fashion collection 2010 of Victoria Beckham at New York fashion show: Feeling her way toward a full-scale catwalk production sometime in the not-so-distant future, Victoria Beckham graduated from one-on-one appointments to a small, informal runway show that she narrated look by look. The collection itself has progressed, too. A girl, after all, cannot live in fits-like-a-glove sheaths alone.

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Spring fashion collection 2010 of Christian Dior at Paris fashion show: Double respect is due to John Galliano this season. First, it was he who entered the subject of lingerie at the top of fashion’s agenda. Back in July, he showed his tailoring-with-underwear Christian Dior couture collection, and since then swaths of designers have being going at it with the visible frillies. Second, for ready-to-wear, he seized his advantage, melding a soft, delightfully thought-out version of the idea into a show with a forties film noir theme. (more…)

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Fall Fashion Collection 2010 of Erdem at London fashion show: Erdem Moralioglu’s twin sister, Sara, makes TV documentaries about geography and natural history. He’s been looking at her films, watching the survival movie Alive, and thinking, he said, “about Picnic at Hanging Rock: girls surviving on the mountain. (more…)