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My trend report for spring/summer 2011

Posted on September 27, 2010

Ladies and their amazing Technicolour dream clothes

Be rainbow Technicolour bright in 2011 with your new Spring/Summer wardrobe. It’s time to be bold and be colourful.

The crisp chilling cold air brings a shivering freeze. The unwelcoming arrival of the winter season is enough to make you hibernate through the New Year till a new, warmer welcoming season. If only the Spring/Summer season would come back and give us that sunny glow, the warmth from the sun on our skin. The endless blue skies and the endless days of lounging around on the beach, even if it’s just a memory.

Autumn/Winter collections in all the major high street shops might be full of heavy knitted jumpers and festive Christmas party gear, the winter party season is in full swing, but it’s time to forget the cold miserable winter months and start to look forward to a new exciting decade and a full Technicolour transformation.

Bring in the exciting new decade with fresh new eyes and a whole new wardrobe. Make a New Year’s resolution to clear away all those old grey miserable clothes that have been at the back of the wardrobe for the last ten years.

The new decade is all about dusting away all those old cobwebs and looks for a fresh new exciting start.

The four major fashion capitals were playgrounds to all fashionistas who want to transform their wardrobe.

Designers had alluring hypnotic blends of colour on their catwalks. Miu Miu’s collection ensembles a futuristic sci-fi miss-mash, silky dresses with printed stars gave a message that we searching for the stars.

Sonia Rykiel, Gucci and Prabal Gurung catwalks were Technicolour rainbows. Boldness and brightness were the statements these designers were putting across in their spring summer collection.

The Autumn Winter trend of 2010 was all about block colours when making an independent statement, one firm tone to suit the outfit.

Technicolour is best described by WGSN beauty editor Alice Leeburn “Think bold hues, opaque matt pigments and graphic colour-blocking…Highlight just one area of the face or hair for maximum impact.”

Technicolour is a vibrant colour scheme giving you maximum impact for your fashion wardrobe but will give you a new fresh colourful room décor.

A new room décor doesn’t need to be over the top, you don’t need to suddenly slap on the brightest Technicolour paint on the wall, it’s all about taking the smallest step, brightening up your dull lifeless bedroom with a Technicolour rainbow blend bed cover, a great way to put a smile on your face in the morning. Get a retro feel to your home office with the famous YSL Piet Mondrain inspired art with bespoke furniture. If you want to go down the road of the Brady Bunch and want to transform your room in total outrageous 70s vintage style, then look for complete zest wallpaper giving you that time capsule décor.

The best advice would be to keep the Technicolour décor to a minimum; you don’t want to enter a room wearing sunglasses.

The YSL Piet Mondrian inspired dress that was a big hit in 1965 has been reinvented for the new decade, YSL might have died in 2008 but his sprit and designs live on and his colour palette was an inspiration to the designers for spring summer. The exhibition in Paris celebrating YSL’s career was a reflection on how vibrant blends of Technicolour can be reinvented. Designers such Prabal Gurung and Carolina Herrera had Technicolour collections that took a wide range of bright neon colours such a luminous green dress mixed with a baby pink belt, completing the look with sunny bright yellow bright high heels.

No doubt the designers were inspired by pop art – Andy Warhol and his famous Marilyn Monroes as well as Roy Litchenstein’s use of primary colours in his comic art. It was about transforming an original Marilyn Monroe 1953 photo and creating something new and unique.

From past popular culture such as Andy Warhol and the pop art movement to present day with pop stars such as Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj adding a vibrant tone to their own individual fashion style. Technicolour is already evident in popular culture and it is a perfect bright way to start the new decade.

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My catwalk Report – Alexander McQueen s/s 2011

Posted on September 26, 2010

Alexander McQueen was a designer who could shake the fashion industry to the very core. “McQueen never wants his audience entirely relaxed”, one journalist noted of his collections and his theatrical catwalk shows. It was in February 2010 that Alexander McQueen unexpectedly died, leaving a shockwave throughout the industry. Even in death the audience couldn’t entirely relax.

A huge task now fell to McQueen’s right hand lady, Sarah Burton, to take charge and to take over the designer brand. She is someone who has worked with Alexander from the very beginning and was the perfect choice to take over.

Sarah Burton’s biggest challenge was the Spring/Summer 2011 collection, this was her first catwalk show and as well as her first collection.

While McQueen’s 2001 show was a theatrical spectacle, an epic dark hellish show that would transport you, this time around the show was a lighter, earthly affair, stripped back to basics. Even the floorboards had grass emerging between them. It had a natural atmosphere.

As the first model strutted down the catwalk to the sound of a rock balled, a harmony of a white outfit blended with a white tail jacket and a ruffle shirt. Long plaited hair completed the look with natural make up.

The show then progressed into a more familiar ground, a sense of deja vu. Silhouettes were decorated in what was described as poetic beauty. Sarah reinvented the poetic beauty look and gave it an entire new earthy pagan quality. High necks were decorated with cut out shoulders and flare skirts, an explosion of colours, a dazzling sight that held the audience’s attention.

A black military jacket adorned with gold leaves with a black short skirt. A black-laced suit jacket with laced Capri trousers, finishing the look with a necklace chain. A White ruffle on the top half of an epic dress, which exposed the leg while leaving white fabric trailing being the model. An ice queen in the middle of an epic Narnia story. A fiery blast of colours, rich golden fire adorned a V necked dress with an epic dark burnt out brown flame.

The woman of this Alexander McQueen was instantly refreshed and reinvented, no longer is she a woman of a harder dark nature, but an earthy gentle nature.

Selma Hayek described the clothes as a being narrative, “every piece has a story of its own”.

It was easily evidence that the new reinvented Alexander McQueen collection has now a womanly touch; Sarah Burton was successful in putting on her stamp while not losing the flavour and the creditability of the original collection.

This was very much an Alexander McQueen collection. I’m sure he smiling down on Sarah and saying well done.

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Catwalk time!

Posted on September 24, 2010

Last week i went to my first fashion show, i was very very excitied. I obtained ticket through someone on twitter and this is my report on it:

(I been asked to remove picture from the catwalk show, oops sorry!)

Getting invited to a Vauxhall Fashion Scout catwalk show was an exciting opportunity. It was as I was queuing up for the Jasper Garvida catwalk show, I wished to myself that I put on my high heels as I noticed I was the shortest! The catwalk show was laid out in a small room where it was packed with various visitors. Stepping on tip toes at the back the light started to dim and the music started pumping. Wispy candyfloss hair complete with what only can be described as pom pom hats, micro baby ballerina-style doll dresses and huge corsages were on display from the collection. A critism of this collection was that it was more designed for the middle of a Nutcracker opera than a spring summer collection to be worn when the weather is warmer. Overall the collection was beautifully laid out but the catwalk show was over before you knew it.

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