The 27th edition of the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography will take place from the 27th till the 30th of April, 2012, at the villa Noailles. This year the fashion jury headed by Yohji Yamamoto received 290 entries from young designers of 26 different nationalities. The selection was done in two stages. An initial pre-selection…
It all started from the “Youth Dew” of Estée Lauder. As a starting point for creation of the summer 2012 Alexandre Vauthier haute couture collection served the perfume’s bottle. Or rather its shape: concise, elongated and almost minimalist if not an only design “excess” – a golden bow, emphasizing the “waist”. “Gold” in the collection…
I noticed that I always start articles about Stephane Rolland with words of admiration or talk about beauty. And all this is true about every collection of the designer. So during the Spring-Summer 2012 presentation I was already difficult to surprise with floor-length dresses of muslin and silk, sparkling details in rays of spotlights, whether…
In one of her interviews, the priestess of fashion journalism and a true lady Suzy Menkes to answer a question, what is able to draw her attention in a new collection of a designer which she comes to review for a thirty-third season, said something like this: “All the designers sooner or later begin to…