Milan- bright and early morning of the 3rd day of the fashion week, to the tone of a military march, Moschino's army marched down the runway. The first outfits that started off the show were totally stolen from a barracks: sixties military jackets with gold buttons, maxi black hats that hide the face and tight leggings. The collection continued with military inspired clothes but revisit color block combinations.
Milan- Gucci opened yesterday for the first day of the Milan fashion week. Frida Giannini, -the creative director- shows one more time her love for the past. A noir and Vittorian atmosphere characterizes the entire collection: women come directly from the 1800's where the dark was sublime and where the poets were anguished and charming.
For the day time, Gucci wants an androgynous woman that looks like a soldier wearing tails, Jodhpur pants and jacket with marked shoulder pads. In the evening, the long chiffon dresses hug the body like a second skin, where the play between transparency and precious facing gives us the idea of a beautiful, but at the same time mysterious, mermaid coming out of the water.
Fabrics are velvet, used for light pants and dresses, chiffon, shearling, brocade and silk. Colors used are forest green, purple and black.
Magic atmosphere at Angelos Bratis' show during the 4th day of AltaRoma fashion week. His style full of classicism is a union between haute couture and pret-a-porter, a new way called "demicouture".
For his FW collection Angelos realized silk dresses in pastel colours, geometric coats realized in faux fur, tweed and cashemere almost all in grey tone. For the evening the dresses become more precious, long and trasparent. Angelos works his form directly on the mannequin to create a fashion of 360 degrees.
Angelos Bratis is the winner of the first prize in Who Is On Nex? 2011 competition. After his MA studies in Fashion Institute Arnhem, in Netherlands, he collaborated with fashion houses in Paris and Rome before establishing his own line in 2005. Has presented his collection in fashion weeks around the globe from New York to Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Athens.
Photos © Olivier Saillant
Are you loving the tv series PAN-AM? Karl Lagerfeld too. For the Chanel haute couture Karl Lagerfeld has decided to develop his show inside a plane: comfortable seats with electronic numbering, real windows, and charming flight attendants who served champagne to the guest or we should say to the passengers. All clothes represented the colors of the sky, from a sky blue to the dark of the night; the texture of the clothes shifted from classic boucle tweed into glitter-threaded denim to suggest a starry sky, and then into layers of opalescent pebbles that resembled a moonscape. Throughout, the silhouette was lean and curveless, with straight up-and-down dresses whose wide necklines almost matched the width at the hips. Anyway clothes were closer to the pret-a-porter than the haute couture because Karl always wants to astonish us or maybe because in these days he going to lunch his pret-a porter label "Karl".