Two of our favorite designers took Paris Fashion Week by storm and we couldn’t wait to profile each of their collections since they both share similar tendencies and themes.
Vivienne Westwood
Costume National
Paris Fashion Week is currently underway and caps off a very successful and fruitful season that overflowed with chaotic energy filled with all things beautiful and bountiful.
Not only does model Joan Smalls look amazeballs on the cover of the March issue of Vogue Italia, but she is also the first woman of color to be bequeathed the honor since 2008.
Veronica Etro’s modernistic offering titled “Lady Paisley” graced the runways last week during Milan Fashion Week, and proved to be a very dramatic production that commanded the attention of fashion disciples on a global scale.
Rapper Nicki Minaj is everywhere these days and for the most part, the ride has been a smooth one. Her debut album Pink Friday was a blockbuster hit and earned her three Grammy Award nominations, and her soon to be released second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, is already garnering great reviews.
London Fashion Week is currently underway and what better way to begin our coverage than to pay homage to London based designers – Temperley London.
Designer Laura Smalls treated her audience to an enchanting world of wonderment and exploratory innocence with her Fall 2012 Presentation, appropriately named “American Plains Princess” at The Empire Hotel in NYC this past Wednesday.
So far singer Adele is having a very good year and enjoying the fruits of her labor. She brought the house down and garnered a standing ovation at this past Sunday’s Grammy Awards thanks to the awe-inspiring performance of her signature hit, Rolling In The Deep.
The new A/W 2012 collection by Mimi Plange draws its inspiration from a fluidly fantastical retreat aptly referred to as “Labyrinth”, where monumental relics of ancient times are transformed into an architecturally dynamic maze of intersecting lines that echo Plange’s signature trapunto embroidery.