“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.”

Two influential designers who happen to be two of my all time favorite designers, having an impossible conversation…

Video: Courtesy of the Met Museum.

"PURRR-A-DA."

 

One of my favorite shows for F/W 2012. So beautiful yet so quirky.

Miuccia at her best.

“My Favorites From Milan Menswear Fashion Week Spring 2012: Prada and Jil Sander.”

Prada

Miuccia’s spring 2012 collection for menswear was quite the most bright, fun, quirky collection with the right amount of girly-ness a man could ask for. Her contradictory way to get inspiration took her this time for a golf tournament, which could be easily assumed by the set of the show, the many golf-bags the models carried down the runway (which I did not include here) and, of course, the grass looking-esqe carpet that covered the whole set. Highlights of this collections were the childish and odontology's-esqe printed shirts, jackets and pants, that gave the garments a naïve feeling; the Village People-esqe studded jackets; the flowery 50’s-early-60’s printed pants, jackets and shirts; and the ice-cream colored oxfords. Now double the corny-ness in you and listen “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club while watching the runway video up on Prada’s website.

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Jil Sander

Raf Simmons outing for Jil Sander presented a collection that reminded me of Oliver Twist, obviously, in a much modern way (in the Oliver Twist-way). And continuing with the childish-thing I’m having at the moment, I find this collection quite transcendental, as it remind me of the child inside me. According to Tim Blanks review for style dot com: “…with a mens collection for Jil Sander that aimed similarly telescope the style of the postwar decade into one disorienting whole.”, Oliver Twist, anyone?. That postwar note was quite visible in the shorts, most of the high-waisted, specially the one paired with the snake-skin printed shirt, nipping in the waist of the model and giving him a much more delicate figure; and on the many combat boots presented. Yes, the simplicity was there and the lack of color was very well welcomed. My favorite pieces from this collection were the heavy crochet knitted sweaters and pull-overs, the shinny eel-skin jacket, and all the shorts.

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Pictures: Vogue Australia dot com

“The Girl from Ipanema…”

In the middle of Paris fashion week Lulu couldn’t help but wear her Prada spring 2011 dress and runaway from the fancy front row seats to Brazil (she loves Brazil, i think you already know). Can you believe it?. Excuse: The sun was too beautiful and gloomy to not enjoy it. Let’s hope she doesn’t get tan lines (hate those). I paired this dress, for her, with Charlotte Olympia-Mondrian-printed heels and those Cleopatra-esqe Kara Ross spring 2011 earrings. Below, two of our favorite songs that get us into that sparkly beach-y mood (yup every time we are near a beach we have to listen, at least, to this 2 tracks to get all “sparkly [SPARKLY, new addition to our weird vocabulary])

Videos: You Tube.
Drawings: By me.

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“Prada Spring 2011”

I received this collection with mixed reactions, reason why i waited quite a long while to write about it. Itself the whole collection is (for me) a novela called: “The  Adventures of an un-Loved Nurse lost in the Caribbean” (quite a funny title, but that’s how i understood it ). Taking notes from hospital uniforms, a slightly baroque-era (which was present in the shoes), and Josephine Baker, was evident that Miuccia wanted this season to be BOLD. I say that Carmen Miranda and some sort of disturbed innocence were also present in that extraordinary mix of thoughts. An almost comical thing about this collections is how the banana and the monkey prints felt naive and innocent while resembling grandpa’s beach shirts. The refreshing points came from the dropped shoulders (in an inverted “U” shape), the stripped neon colored fur stoles and circular-shaped striped hats, in comparison to last season which was all about curves and the 50’s but still having a hint of the resort collection. Saying all that and praising Miuccia Prada and her unique way to turn what she thinks into clothes, i conclude that this was one of the most exciting collections from this season and one of my personal favorites.

Now let’s watch the “Novela”.

I think i illustrated my “The Adventures of an un-Loved Nurse in the Caribbean” novela very well. What do you think?.

source: Style Dot Com and Google.
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