Blue Notes | Winter Styles 2012

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Definetely Blue!!! Midnight-blue is the only colour which might be able to compete to Black.

Midnight-blue emotions Japanese-inspired by ARMANI Privé Couture "Roses, cherry blossoms, and chrysanthemums ... ", Tom Ford's fabulous floral hand-painted Plissée-dress, the new Fall 2011 Blue Tie Collection by Dior with the new shades of nail varnish: Blue Denim and Tuxedo, and ANDREA JANKE's fabulous bicoloured Silver Fox-Chapkas ...

ARMANI Privé Couture Fall 2011/12

 Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2011/12

Adorables Furs-Chapkas by ANDREA JANKE

... New Obsessions for Winter 2012 by ANDREA JANKE

Fur-Chapkas' by ANDREA JANKE - To Fall in Love!

The new collection of handcrafted,exclusive Fur-Chapkas in Aviator-Look by ANDREA JANKE made in Germany - finest nappa-leather with fantastical trimmings in precious furs, such as in Silver-, Shadow- and Bluefrost Fox, Finn Raccoon, Canadian and Russian Barguzinsky Sable amongst others, refined with soft quilted black inner-linings.

Get yours fabulous Silver Fox-Chapka by ANDREA JANKE 

& Dior Vernis "Tuxedo" as shopping-gift!

'ANDREA JANKE Finest Accessories - The Shop!'

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Roses, cherry blossoms, and chrysanthemums

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Giorgio Armani Privé Couture Fall 2011/12

Giorgio Armani is clearly looking East. After a Resort collection that drew on imperial China, the Fall haute couture collection he showed today was an homage to Japan. While it's true that China represents and unprecedented business opportunity - meaning it's smart to market to it - Armani's connection to Japan is a deeper and more emotional on.

 ... Japanese visual icons - ranging from parasols to cherry blossoms - were predictably transmuted in prints, and, equally predictably, there were obilike belts and origamilike folds. But it felt like Armani had reflected on new Japan as much as old traditions, because there was a hint of Rei Kawakubo's original radicalism in the man-tailored pants, in the layered, elongated Edwardian line in odd details like the double cuff on a jacket sleeve, and especially in all the asymmetry.

... Witness a one-armed jacket, the single floral printed pannier that hung off a black bolero, or the diagonal slash that bisected a velvet dress to reveal a printed interior. And, seeing we're on the subject of the new, thze collections's major futuristic flourish - the stiffened bodices that stood up like shields over the torso - could potentially also be laid at Japan's door.

Giorgio Armani Privé Fall 2011/12 

Source: VOGUE 

Photography: Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway

Enjoy my post hereinafter 'Armani Privé Couture Fall 2011/12' 

with wonderful Backstage impressions! 

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Armani Privé Couture Fall 2011/12

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'Hommage au Japon'

Minutes before the Armani Privé show, hairdressers were teetering on chairs fixing sculptural origami swirls and multicolored ikebana flower arrangements onto the heads of models - making the already long-stemmed girls something like seven-and-a-half-feet tall, from their black lacquered heels to their Philip Treacy headdresses.

Giorgio Armani's Hommage au Japon collection was about to take to the runway, a fall couture essay dedicated to a country and culture he first drew on in 1991, and to which he feels a profound connection. "Japan has been a great fountain of inspiration to me - the designs, the colors, and the shape."

The fall collection is part of Mr. Armani's response to the terrible events which strucks Japan this year. Earlier in the day, he'd ade a donation to a UNESCO scholarship fund for Japanese children and students who have been affected by the disaster.

The East-West mix was filtered through familiar Armani templates. His rigorous pantsuits and strapless dresses all came with variations on patent-leather bustiers, obi-belts, and wrap-over closures, with prints and embroideries of roses, cherry blossoms, and chrysanthemums as decoration. The linearity of silhouette worked well, as did Armani's on-trend choice of peach and apricot shades to work against black and gray. The all-over print pantsuits, a point of style which has been surfacing in the past few weeks in resort. Even Italy's arch-minimalist can have his maximalist moments, it seems.

Giorgio Armani Privé Couture Fall 2011/12

Sources: VOGUE France, US

Stay-tuned for more Armani Privé Couture styles ....

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