Love of Today: Tsumori Chisato and Her Fall 2011 Collection

Playful, Chic, Cool & Sweet at the Circus School.

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(images from Style.com)

The Row Fall 2011 Collection

Grown up Chic at The Row!!!

I am SO impressed by the Olsen sisters:)

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Love of Today: Tory Burch Fall 2011 Collection

Tweed, Wool and Silk Heaven!

Pretty Cool! Ready for Anything Anytime.

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(images from Vogue.com)

Love of Today: Jill by Jill Stuart Spring 2011 Campaign and Collection

As shot by Skye Parrott.

Just Lovely!

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(images from Fashion Gone Rogue)

Love of Today: Nick Knight's Tribute to the Late Mr. Alexander Lee McQueen

Music by Bjork and styled by Edward Enninful. Quote from Mr. Knight: "This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life," Knight said. "My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and the light contained within Lee, and within us all."Source Catwalk Queen

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Love of Today: Tom Ford Spring 2011 Collection

Such a Stylish Perfectly Perfect Spring 2011 we'll enter because of the Hugely Talented Mr. Tom Ford. It's been a long wait to see these images that Mr. Tery Richardson took during the show in New York in September. A wait worth waiting for.

Can't wait to read his January French Vogue that the man himself edited together with Madame Carine Roitfeld.

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(images1-2 from Vogue.com and 3-5 from Fashion Lover)

Fashionista's Today!

Alexander McQueen has now full control of its baby McQ:) The designer Sarah Burton (Creative Director of McQueen) will be in charge of a team of designers for this diffusion line.

Bergdorf Goodman Always Has the Most Glorious Wonderland Windows:) This year the theme is "Wish You Were Here"! Wish I was in New York to see live.

and Google's move into fashion: BOUTIQUES.COM

The Spring 2011 look is McQ's!
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(All info from wonderful trade newspaper WWD)

Love of Today: Nicole Richie's Spring 2011 Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960 Collections

Bohemian Cool! Adorably cute and chic as well. Love how she plays with proportions. Perfection for someone living in a climate like LA:)

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(images from WWD)

Fashionista's Today!

Quote from WWD in regards to Alber Elbaz (of Lanvin) collaboration with H&M: " Elbaz is doing some gesturing of his own these days towards a more egalitarian audience. At the end of the month, his collaboration with H&M rolls out to stores; a film teaser, directed by Mike Figgis, will make its debut on the H&M Web site tomorrow. It’s a lower-priced step Elbaz once noted he would never take. So why now?

“All of a sudden, you see your designs everywhere in the world,” he explains. “Coco Chanel thought [being copied] was a compliment, and sometimes I think, ‘OK, she was right.’ But sometimes it’s painful.” So when the H&M brass approached him about a possible partnership, he eventually agreed. “It was an exercise for me to understand what is the relationship between high fashion and fast fashion.” Ultimately, he concluded that offering the latter does not cheapen the former. “Ninety-five percent of women cannot afford [Lanvin], so let them have a taste. It’s like if I was living in a palace and opened some doors and said, ‘Have tea with me, taste the food.’ It’s not about giving away something that belonged to someone else; it’s about sharing.”

The collection, named Lanvin [Hearts] H&M, will include women’s fashion, accessories, shoes, jewelry and even lipstick, as well as men’s wear. Elbaz had a hand in every possible detail from design to packaging, store window concept, and even “what is next to what” in the corporate showroom. Yet he insists this is not a test before launching a diffusion collection of his own. “No, the beauty of our business is that we can do things and then move on,” he replies. “This project with H&M was about being relevant to a moment. I have always said that we are not a cool brand. It’s not about being cool or not. We try to be relevant. I’m not going into the cool club. It’s not my address.”"

LVMH has started to acquire quite a LOT of stocks out of the house Hermes....!!! Curious Very Much So about this one.

Derek Lam is partnering up with Ebay for his next collection which is showing in February in New York. Shoppers can vote on Ebay for the most wanted looks and thereby decide which looks will actually be produced for this exclusive collection. Ohalala!!!

And My Fave Editor, Meredith Melling-Burke has gotten a promiton at Vogue.com. She is now Fashion Market Director while of course keeping her title at Vogue, that of Senior Market Editor.

Top image is of Alber Elbaz the other of Meredith Melling-Burke with her daughter Eloise.

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Love of Today: Chanel by Mr. Karl Lagerfeld and His Spring 2011 Collection

A Pastel Fabolous Wonderland in tweeds, chiffons and metallics.

Lovely!

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(images from Vogue.com)

Love of Today: Stella McCartney's Spring 2011 Collection

Tailored to Perfection. Clean Simple and Wonderfully Beautiful.

She is Surprising me every single season, in a Positive direction that is.

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(images from Vogue.com)

Fashionista's Today: Monsieur Pierre Cardin to show in Paris

Quote from WWD: WWD: What inspired you for your return to the Paris catwalk?

P.C.: Showing that the brand still exists as a creative force — that’s what drives me. And I notice that what I do early on becomes commercial some 15 or 20 years later. I’m always ahead of the curve.

WWD: Do you still have a lot of demand for couture?

P.C.: Our clients are very elegant and very faithful. The global clientele for haute couture has declined, but I must have around 100 customers a year who buy three, four, five or six dresses at a time. They are very discreet women who want to remain out of the spotlight. We don’t sell ready-to-wear here [at the flagship Paris boutique located at 27 Avenue de Marigny]. Everything you see in the windows is haute couture, and the dresses are made in our atelier here. I have some 80 seamstresses working for me, including around 50 in my factory in Châteaurenard, which acts as an extension of the atelier here because I don’t have enough space. Given my age, a lot of them have been with me for at least 30 years. I don’t produce seasonal collections, because as you can see, I sketch very quickly. I can do 100 sketches per hour!
WWD: You also plan to stage a show in New York in October. Why?

P.C.: My aim is to boost my sales in the U.S. and to raise my profile among young people. Since I don’t get a lot of press coverage, young people don’t know who I am. I want to show them I am still avant-garde and that I produce original designs, and I also want to help my licensees, who rely on my creativity, after all. Unfortunately, they produce very classic outfits for men. I wish they picked up my designs. Instead, they produce this fusty, bourgeois stuff. It drives me to desperation, because I bring them my original designs to copy. That is the purpose of their licenses. I don’t know why, they just won’t do it. We really need someone to drum up new licenses there. They could make a killing, because my designs are very youthful. All you see is these old Hart Schaffner Marx suits for old men. It makes me ashamed to even look at them. We haven’t made much of an effort there, I have to admit it’s partly my fault. Business is strong; it’s not a small country. I make a lot of money, but not as much as I should. It’s not about making money, of course, but about having a presence. I am ambitious, you understand.”


WWD: Have you ever considered hiring a young designer to revitalize your brand?

P.C.: No, because I have five people sketching for me who are very young. And I think the young designers of today are less avant-garde than I am. I’m still in good shape, I work every day."

He is 88 years old. How impressive is this. Truly an Inspiration to keep on being an artist.

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(image and source WWD)

Love of Today: Dolce Gabbana and Their Spring 2011 Collcetion

White white white, how many variations of a white dress/ outfit can one create? Let Dolce Gabbana count the ways...!!!!

The customers will run to the stores of Dolce Gabbana. Girls and Women still want to look Beautiful Prettily Sexy.

Such A Stunner.

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(images from Vogue.com)

Love of Today: Maurizio Pecaoraro's Spring 2011 Collection

Gypsian Glamour ala 70's Anita Pallenberg and the gang. J'adore the bloomers/ shorts...that fabric too adores a neckline on the full length dress later on.

Lovely Show!

Maurizio Pecararo

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(images from Style.com)