NYFW SS'13

There's been a quite a few seasons that I haven't post anything about, sometimes I was busy, sometimes I was just bored by the idea of opening Photoshop and editing photos, but anyways, here we go again, SPRING/SUMMER 2013, I'm gonna keep updating this post everytime there's a new collection that really catches my eye and it's worth posting here. By far my favorite has been Alexander Wang (that's why it's highlighted in black) the laser cuts, the proportions, the refined post-apocaliptic peek-a-boos in the skirts, the optic fiber detailing in the shirts and dresses, and even better, the glow-in-the-dark finale (there's a video Byran Boy posted for you to see it) were just amazing. Followed by Wang is BCBGMAXAZRIA and it's leather harnesses, lovely pops of tangerine and beautiful floral prints; Jason Wu and his teaseful leather and lace skirts, straps and studs; the to-die-for ombré prints @ Rebecca Minkoff and the floral nets of Richard Chai- as for Rag & Bone, I was really falling for the neon green-dinosaur-skin leather in cropped jackets and skirts.

Alexandre Herchovitch presented cool squares and typographic prints. Simple lines and a lot of urban inspiration @ Y-3, I wish Yohji Yamamoto would have gone much further and presented more pieces with the dragon-skin-and-flowers print, it was really cool. The sporty-girl-who-wants-to-dress-fresh-and-trendy looks @ DKNY were great. @ Tommy Hilfiger I liked how the eternal preppy master is always re-inventing the way of seeing it with every collection. Olivier Theyskens swept me off -in a good way- with all his leather looks while Phillip Lim made spanglish a trend with little peeks of florals. Jeremy Scott was all about moroccan-adventures-with-lots-of-gold-and hats with veils. Rodarte's cuts and architectural avant-gardé looks made them hard not to love and finally, my other favorite of all the NYFW, Proenza Schouler, Lazaro and Jack's criss-crossed prints and mixture of different leather fabrics blew me away and had me wanting more and more from them, big ups for them!

 There were other runways I liked, but I essencially loved this pieces out of them:

So, which ones were your favorites?

xx,

Alejandro

THE VOGUE 120 PORTFOLIO

It's been a 120 years of Vogue, wandering through people, places, trends, and more importantly, clothes; so is there a better way to celebrate it than emerging a tribute for those (under 45ers) who are representing nowadays fashion, music and social movements at its best? Norman Jean Roy was the chosen one to portray    über-known designers, actors and singers such as Florence Welch, Phoebe Philo, Stella McCartney, Nicholas Ghesquiere, Lazaro Hernández, Azealia Banks among many, many others. You can see/download the original pictures here.

FUCK THE OLYMPICS, I'M KATE MOSS

Nicholas Kirkwood x Keith Haring

Today I was wandering through the world wonder called internet and I found out that Nicholas Kirkwood made a Keith Haring-inspired collection last year. Yes, I found that out today, I'm always late for things. Keith Haring has always been one of my favorite artists, his art's simple, funny, bubbly and with little takes on childish, on the other hand, the message he gave to everyone about safe sex, american consumerism and free-loving was astonishing, brave and smart. 

Nicholas kept that cartoonish boldness, morphing it into amazing pairs of shoes with strong architectural structures, using patent leather and thousands of Swarovski crystals.

a london hurricane: Katie Eary

It's a secret for no one that I'm a sucker for prints, big prints, different prints, tropical prints, good loking prints, tie-dye + print prints, all-over-the-shirt prints, Givenchy prints, Jeremy Scott prints, even-on-your-pants prints.

I found out this amazing collection by Katie Eary, taking the animal print to a whole new level, a literal level, seriously. She mixes nature textures and icons such as cheetahs + hawks + goldfish's skin and even octopus' tentacles with baroque-like frames. The pictures from below are from her digital pop-up shop, some shirts were on her SS'12 collection and other from the SS'13 collection, both of them were amazing.

In case you don't know her, she's from London. And I really loved her bio introduction on her webpage. Judging by her amazing take on Menswear, she'll get there in a minute.

 

xx,

Alejandro.