Multi-Colored Fox Stoles By Prada

Spring-Look 2011 by Miuccia Prada

Sunny, funny, very South American. Miuccia Prada usually taken for one of fashion's most intense and complexe thinkers - was so far from feeling deep and intellectual for spring that she actually had a pair of bananas dangling from her ears. "I was interested in minimal and baroque. For me," she said, gesturing at the sombreros, bright horizontal stripes, multi-colored fox stoles, wedged espadrilles, and cotton sundresses which were about to take to the runway, "this is a musical."

PRADA SS 2011

Source: VOGUE
Photography by Olivier Claisse/firstView; Marcio Madeira/firstView

Christian Dior-Look in Rome

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Sunday, preparing some new posts 'MIFUR Remix 2011 Award', 'Multi-colored Fox Stoles by Miuccia Prada', and, and ... Suddenly I recognized a wonderful pictures made by Anna Dello Russo on February 6th, 2011, in Rome - the new Boutique Christian Dior at Via dei Condotti - opening soon!

Breathtaking Christian Dior window!!! - The most opulent evening-coat in somptuous jacquard fabric and embroideries refined with an 'gigantesque' fur collar and cuffs in Russian Barguzinsky Sable.

I must say - "This Is My Look Of The Day!"

Photography by Anna Dello Russo in Rome 
Dear Anna, Thank you for this wonderful picture!

Christian Dior Haute Couture FW 2008

Source: VOGUE; Photography by Alessandro Lucione

Copenhagen Fashion Week

Kopenhagen Fur opened Copenhagen Fashion Week

During Wednesday's February 2nd opening show of Kopenhagen Fur it ws obvious that fur become an important part of Copenhagen Fashion Week and fashion in general.

The fashion week set off with great success on February 2nd, when Kopenhagen Fur  - as one the main sponsors for the Copenhagen Fashion Week - had the pleasure of welcoming the audience at the Copenhagen City Hall.

Salvatore Ferragamo

Source: Kopenhagen Fur

To demonstrate that Danish fur is leading in international fur fashion, Kopenhagen Fur had invited nine designers from six different countries, who individually showed the potential of fur.

Designer Lars Wallin from Sweden has enjoyed working with Danish fur for his new collection, which is produced by the furriers at Kopenhagen Studio. 

 

Kopenhagen Fur

Weel-known personalities at the show

Among the large amount of guests, there were several well-known personalities. Kopenhagen Fur's international engagement has aroused the interest of Danish politicians, among them party leader of Radikale Venestre, Margrethe Vestager and Eva Kjer Hansen, MP for Venestre participated in the show.

Margrethe Vestager was very enthusiastic by the show: "It was very inspiring. I was especially impressed by, how the designers managed to use fur in their men's collections. Fur has a lot of potential, she said.

Furthermor, Margrethe Vestager said that Kopenhagen Fur is a pioneer for the Danish export market because of the company's long-term effort in China, where it has branded Denmarl postively.

Several Danish celebrities were attending the show as guest as well, among them international fashion expert Uffe Buchard and actor Iben Hjejle, who was been Kopenhagen Fur's public fashion image lately. She was very impressed by the show as well - "It was amazing! It is almost art. It was very inspiring and I can tell that fur is no longer reserved for American pimps".

Source and Photo Credit by  Kopenhagen Fur

Vogue Brasil?

These days I find that I have less and less time to scour the internet for Freja news. Luckily all you wonderful and amazing fellow fans out there never miss a beat and I'm so thankful for that. Today's news comes thanks to long time reader (since nearly the beginning!!) Rian via Vogue Brasil's blog and Google translate:

"In passing through the room of our editorial director Daniela Falcão, gave some of the pages ready March issue of the magazine and praised a lot to cover with the top Freja Beha."

If the translation and my interpretive skills are to be trusted, then Freja will be on the cover of the March issue, with an editorial inside to boot. Can any Portuguese readers out there confirm for sure?

All of this seems very plausible since Freja was only in Brazil for the first time back in December shooting the Santa Lolla campaign. Coverage and news from back then made it seem like she had quite the busy schedule. And if I recall correctly, Brazil's fashion flock caused a bit of fanfare over her. Seeing that she is one of today's top models, it only makes sense that they would take full advantage of her first visit.

So the land of Giselle, Raquel and Isabeli welcomes Freja with open arms. Proof that you don't have to have sexy curves and a sashaying runway walk to gain admirers down there. :)

Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture SS 2011

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British punk meets Paris cancan

Jean Paul Gaultier took mohawks, studs, and leather jackets, married them with the girls of the Moulin Rouge, and came out with a defining triumph, soaring from grimmy guttersnipe-style to a French level of sophistication which makes the rest of the world spit.

Narrative fashion shows can be annoying these days, especially when one's considering a designer like Gaultier, with a past that wends back the eighties. But this time, his revisitings of sailor stripes - brilliant horizontal organza ruffles on Lindsey Wixson - and corsetry, now merged into both a tailcoat jacket and a cancan costume, somehow seemed simpler, more relevant, and full of energy.

A huge moment of that confidence must come from the fact that it was Gaultier who ws a pioneer in the field - by thirty years - of diversity on the runway. Now that punk (springs's discovery), and the drive toward inclusive model casting have both risen to the top of the agenda, Gaultier must be laughing, for he was doing all that a generation ago. More vitally, his women - proud, strong-nosed, ethnically diverse, from any subculture, and of any age - have always been there. That they look so exceptionally chic and grown-up today in their towering, feathered mohawks is a kind of completion for Gaultier. 

Ever the witty quipper, he skipped out at the end with Farida Khelfa, one of his original models, a mohawk taped to his pate. He looked really happy.

  

Jena Paul Gaultier Haute Couture SS 2011

Source: VOGUE

Photography by Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway

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Dazzling In Its Craftmanship

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The Mood Of Handbag By ANDREA JANKE

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Photography by Andrea Janke

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