Roger Vivier Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Accessories
Roger Vivier Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Accessories The crazy things that shoes are doing this season. Not a fan of the boot sandal style, but it is ambitious.
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Proenza Schouler Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Accessories
Proenza Schouler Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Accessories Not that big of a fan of the shoes.
Louis Vuitton Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Accessories
Louis Vuitton Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 images: style.com
Balenciaga Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Accessories
Balenciaga Ready to Wear – Spring 2009 Here is a better look at the shoes from the spring collection. images: style.com
Spring 2009 Accessory Report
I just read Style.com’s Spring 2009 accessory report so expect to see lots of posts about it in the next bunch of days.
Jay Ahr Personal Appearance Holt Renfrew
Jay Ahr came in from Paris for a personal appearance at Holt Renfrew where he showcased his Spring 2009 collection. Jonathan Riss, designer, makes some really beautiful and expensive gowns. Here are a couple of articles in style.com and conceptny.com for you to learn a bit more about Jonathan.
Top Ten Collections of Spring ’09 by style.com and WWD.com
Top Ten Collections of Spring ’09 WWD.com 1. Chanel 2. Dolce & Gabbana 3. Dries Van Noten 4. Giorgio Armani 5. Jil Sander 6. Koi Suwannagate 7. Lanvin 8. Louis Vuitton 9. Marc Jacobs 10.Rodarte Style.com’s Top Ten Spring Collections 1. Ann Demeulemeester 2. Balenciaga 3. Chanel 4. Dolce & Gabbana 5. Dries Van Noten 6. Givenchy 7. Lanvin 8. Louis Vuitton 9. Marc Jacobs 10. Ralph Lauren Discuss!
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – People watching
I look very little photos of friends and fashionable folk this season.
Greta Constantine Spring 2009
I reviewed the Greta Constantine Spring 2009 show on my Day 1 of LFW at blogTO. See the sidebar if you want to read the review.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Afshin Feiz
Afshin Feiz Vancouver born, London-based Afshin Feiz came back to Canada to present his collection in The Studio. The Studio was the smaller runway venue during fashion week. It gives you a great view if you are in the front row, but if you are in the 2nd row you don’t get to see much. Afshin combined hard and soft textures in a different way. The dresses that Julia Che of Lotusleaf and Mary Kitchen from FT were really cool and black. Most of his collection were pastels.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Denis Gagnon
I could have boxed up every piece of Denis Gagnon’s collection yesterday and taken it home. I loved everything. Well, everything but the gold lame stuff, not a fan of gold. It was a leather and jersey dream. The jewelry by Harakiri, stunning. The handbags designed by Denis and produced by Fullum & Holt are freaking amazing! I was worried when I heard there would be colour and jersey, but damn, it’s so drool worthy. It was a great show to finish off fashion week, and my favourite if you haven’t figured that out from the gushing yet. Everything was perfect for the show: the styling, models, music, accessories and clothing. I love Denis’s dark vision for the collection. This is draping done well. I have to find someway to own a piece of this collection, someway. I wouldn’t mind a handbag either. I wanted to meet Denis at his afterparty but I didn’t get a chance. This week has been pretty busy and I was damn tired and had an early Saturday morning to …
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Lucian Matis
Lucian Matis put on one of the more interesting shows at L’Oreal Fashion Week. I really enjoyed his pixelated print pieces. Some of the pearl encrusted pieces were very nice, especially the one with the back detail but a few felt a little over done. I wasn’t a big fan of the pieces with the face print and I’m not even too sure who the print is of. The runway music was very sweet and fit with the collection. Of course, Lucian being Lucian he had a bride finale. It was quite beautiful but it didn’t fit in with the themes already established. The bride thing is kinda over done, but I have to admit I kinda liked it. After all, I did miss Alfred Sung earlier in the week.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Damzels in this Dress/Play Dead Cult
Damzels in this Dress and Play Dead Cult always put on a fun show. Their models have energy and they play to the camera. Damzels went into the print business and their 50s rockabilly sensibilities got a new twist. They also rocked up the negligee. Play Dead stepped up the game and brought some really great dresses into the mix of tshirts and denim. I really, really loved the skull dress.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Mellinda-Mae Harlingten
I am not the target market for the Mellinda-Mae Harlingten collection. She wears headbands and probably reads Nylon. I wear headbands when playing squash only and they are of the terrycloth persuasion. Only standout items for me were the green tiered ruffle dress and a cropped hoodie. The dude who came out shirtless in gold lame leggings and heels was hilarious. Completely terrifying and disturbing but hilarious.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Evan & Dean
I don’t have much to say about Evan & Dean. I’ve reviewed the collection and said my piece on blogTO. You can view the slideshow without commentary here.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Morales
I really enjoyed the Morales show. It had shades of Rodarte. It was the collection I’ve been waiting for all week. I do hope she provided credit to Yoshitomo Nara for his designs, it would be horrible if he wasn’t properly credited. See the slideshow after the jump
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Carlie Wong
Wasn’t that enamoured with Carlie Wong’s show either.
Style.com Spring’s Top New Models – Hey a black girl on the top of this list
Wow, style has a great mix of models in their article, Style.com Calls Out Spring’s Top New Models. “Diversity” was the buzzword for Spring, and we’re happy to report that our top ten list is a multiculti mix—with just two new faces hailing from modeling’s most prolific breeding ground, Russia. The girls who caught our attention come from Senegal, China, India, and West Philly. As they say in Paris, vive la difference! If this is just buying into a trend, I hope it lasts indefinitely. The winner, Aminata Niaria pretty damn good.
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Rudsak
Rudsak listened to my advice and I think they edited the collection down, it’s usually a long death march of leather in every style and colour. I enjoyed this season. The cropped motorcycle jackets are damn cute. Please note, the leather pants and shorts are just styling props. The pants are very nice though. See the slideshow after the jump
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Zoran Dobric
Zoran Dobric is an amazing print maker. I love his prints and this season is no different. This season was based on the book Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I haven’t read it and didn’t have a frame of reference for the interpretation. Come to think of it, I haven’t read any Virginia Woolf. So I looked it up, it makes sense now and fits perfectly into Zoran’s aesthetic. Orlando tells the story of a young man named Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, who decides not to grow old. He does not, and he passes through the ages as a young man … until he wakes up one morning to find that he has metamorphosed into a woman — the same person, with the same personality and intellect, but in a woman’s body. The remaining centuries up to the time the book was written are seen through a woman’s eyes. Zoran partnered with accessory designer, Mirjana Scepanovic, who has already made her way onto this blog as an “i want”. His …
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Evan Biddell
Evan Biddell put on a great show at LFW. I definitely enjoyed it and saw some really cute pieces. The dhoti style pants are gorgeous. He’s taken a lesson from the Japanese masters and my favourite drop-crotch makers Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto. The eyelet jumper looked amazing on the runway. I didn’t like the gingham pieces. The skirt volume was clunky and didn’t fall in line with the rest of the collection. The short shorts were a little too American Apparel for me, especially after all the amazing pants. I can’t say anything bad about men in skirts (no, seriously) Overall great little streetwear collection; polished. Models were a lot of fun and it was an entertaining show. The rest of my awful pictures are here and you can see some here . On a side note, I’ve had discussions with some people about Biddell’s dhoti pant. While I think he’s done a great job producing them and he’s even got me eyeing a pair, the average woman is going to stay away from …
L’Oreal Fashion Week Spring 2009 – Pink Tartan
Pink Tartan Spring 2009 See the slideshow after the jump
L’Oreal Fashion Week – TFI Party at the Drake
On Monday, October 20th, 2008, The Drake Hotel will be celebrating young Canadian fashion. The party begins at 10pm in the Lounge where guests can enjoy music featuring a special TFI guest DJ and the chance to celebrate Canadian fashion with fashion designers, industry guests, and celebrities. Guest DJ Gail McInnes played our favourite fashion favourites.
It’s L’Oreal Fashion Week
You’ll see more coverage here than normal as I’m only blogging Day 1 and Day 4 for blogTO. The other days I’ll have posts here. I’ll Twitter reactions if you are interested. Follow me at twitter.com/geekigirl
Fashion Show Videos Spring 2009
Yves Saint Laurent Spring 2009 Very pretty and wearable collection, however it didn’t grab me like Fall Winter 2008. Proenza Schouler Spring 2009 Didn’t change my mind about the collection too much, but props for using Skinny Puppy Alexander Wang Spring 2009 Everyone was peeing themselves over this collection in NYC Christian Dior Spring 2009 Alessandro Dell’Acqua Spring 2009 I didn’t do a dedicated post to this collection but I quite liked it. Gianfranco Ferre Spring 2009 Very luxurious clothing, as always. Viktor & Rolf Spring 2009 I include this only because the presentation is great. I really like the side views. The clothing on the other hand….