chanel 2013-14 Cruise Collection

Following, Venice, Saint-Tropez, Cap d’Antibes and the Bosquet des trois fontaines in Versailles, Karl Lagerfeld presented the CHANEL 2013/14 Cruise collection in Dempsey Hill, Singapore. With its eternal summer, tropical vegetation and exotic trips and  journeys, Singapore is the ideal platform for this spring ritual.

Disused buildings were redesigned with an air of the tropics with long galleries below the roofs, black and white blinds and refreshing whitewashed walls. As night fell Karl Lagerfeld took guests on a journey through time with his collection that mixes Mademoiselle Chanel in Deauville in 1913 with a colonial style.

In his debut prêt-a-porter collection for the house of Christian Dior, Creative Director, Raf Simons explores liberation themes both historical to the house and personal to himself.
Christian Dior established his house in 1947 and bucked fashioned trends prevalent during WW2  of a simplified, masculine style. Embracing the feminine body in  silhouettes together with movement, lightness, transparency and playfulness are key to the prêt-a-porter. Looking back to go forward and daring to disrupt the purity of shape and convention  is at the heart of the house of Christian Dior.

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This season, Brioni use a spectre of models originating from the worlds of art, fashion, photography, and international business, to unveil its Fall Winter 2013 collection.

As always, the product is King, demonstrated succinctly by a three-piece fitted suit made with a super fine wool stripe enriched with discreet 24 carat gold thread. Another highlight of the collection is “Foglia,” a softly constructed, knee-length coat, equally at home and chic over a suit or chunky cashmere sweater. Luxurious winter staples.

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The starting point of the Dolce&Gabbana Fall Winter 2013 women’s collection is the tradition of Sicilian Baroque, which has evolved in volumes and processes, experimenting in new cuts and decorations: Golden embroideries embodying Baroque mirrors and frames, embroideries of small dot points inspired by dining room tapestries; printed cherubs and angels that appear to emerge from a painting.

The cape, one of the more eminent feature of the collection, developed in entirely different proportions.

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American designer Ruthie Davis takes us to ankle threatening heights with her 2012 Fall Collection. Playing with black, wood and pops of colour, Davis brings us elegant yet empowering silhouettes that would make for beautiful statement pieces to accompany any downplayed lux outfit.

Check out Ruthie Davis’ entire Fall 2012 Collection.

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These bags are the three winners of Gucci’s social media competition ‘Icons of Heritage – Cut & Craft‘, launched on September 2 of this year. And we understand why! They are absolutely stunning – colourful, inventive and quirky to say the least.

Before we get into who made these divine bags however, let’s just briefly revisit the idea behind the competition: The concept behind this Gucci campaign was for fans to download the pattern of one of three iconic Gucci bags, and then make their version of one of them using paper and other materials. The competitors would then photograph the result and upload it to the competition’s dedicated Facebook page.

Thousands of submissions and votes later, the selection was narrowed down to nine beautiful recreations, and yesterday, Gucci’s creative Director, Frida Gianni selected the three winners.

From left to right:

‘Jackie’: Soyoung Jung of Korea
‘Stirrup’: Gerardo Larrea of Peru
‘New Bamboo’: Monia di Liello of Italy

The three bags are now featured as the cover image of Gucci’s Facebook Timeline, and the creators behind each of them will be receiving a complimentary Gucci handbag.

Good work and congrats!

On a catwalk of checkered glass in yellow and white, Louis Vuttion showed us their take how women should dress in Spring and Summer 2013 on Oct 3 in Paris. This is the first ever Louis Vuitton collection where the monogram was nowhere to be seen, leaving the damier pattern to provide the house’s signature.

Brought to stage by 4 escalators, the models came out wearing yellow rectilinear prints. A sense of opposition underpins this SS13 collection, which, on the day of the show, was reinforced by the models presenting the collection in pairs. This duality is the result of artistic director Marc Jacobs having the image of two very different French icons of the 1960s in mind when creating the collection, Françoise Hardy and Jane Birkin; Hardy always very covered up, Birkin always revealing plenty of flesh, but both always in long, simple clothes.

For all its crisp, clean lines, and bold blankness, Marc Jacobs paid homage to the swinging 60′s where silhouette are of linear and graphic shapes in differing colours, textures and at varying scales. With the iconic cropped hair and wide hairbands to match, the models strutted to Philip Glass’ “Einstein on The Beach”.

The presentation was dedicated to Yves Carcelle, for his years of dedication to Louis Vuitton.

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Aiming only to deliver good quality, good comfort and good looking shoes, Australian footwear label Meandher’s Season Four Collection takes us back to the style and charm of our dapper grandfathers – though with a modern twist.

Meandher’s collection is for those sophisticated gentlemen, wanting to spoil their feet with a trans-seasonal, classic and yet stylish place to rest. The collection features coloured leathers in nubuck, sap, suede and canvas with Meandher’s trademark XX stitch.

Meandher’s Season Four Collection is available in selected Australian and Japanese boutiques and online at meandher.com.au.

Spots, spots and spots… and then some more spots! All created in Louis Vuitton’s hit collaboration with the Polka Dot Queen, Yayoi Kusama. With a total of seven Pop-Up stores worldwide, they are inviting guests to try their Second Wave Collection on for fit, in a playful world where fashion meets arts in vivid colours of red and white.

The Pop-Up stores have already been and gone in Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York, but it’s not too late, if you would like to check one of these amazing concept stores out for yourself: There are still dots to be seen at the London Selfridges until Oct 19, at the Paris Printemps untill Oct 21 and at the Singapore Ngee Ann City till Oct 31.

Go to louisvuittonkusama.com to see more of the Second Wave Collection.