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Miu Miu Runway Show Marks the Return of the Low-Rise, Ultra-Mini Skirt
What a time to be alive in 2003. Paris Hilton was starring in her hit reality show The Simple Life, Destiny’s Child was still together, and, most notably, the micro-mini skirt was a staple in every It Girl’s wardrobe. Italian fashion house Miu Miu teleported us back to that very Y2K era with the runway […]
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Salvatore Ferragamo partners with the Louvre to produce an upcoming da Vinci exhibit, and will be the first house allowed to show inside!
In what may be the greatest Italian fashion house art collab since Miuccia Prada met Rem Koolhaas, Salvatore Ferragamo has partnered with the Musée du Louvre to produce the upcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition Saint Anne, Leonardo da Vinci’s Ultimate Masterpiece. The house will present its Resort 2013 collection in the halls of the Louvre—a […]
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Sugar High: Soft pastels and frothy silhouettes are on the menu this spring
From left to right: Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Versace Spring 2012. Photography by Peter Stigter. By David Livingstone
Louis Vuitton show for Spring 2012 opened with the tinkling of a music box and the rising of a scrim to reveal a carousel carrying girls in pale dresses on cream-coloured ponies. It might have seemed a saccharine set-up, but such a response could just be a bad case of not getting it. The news of the season is gentle news. That’s what Marc Jacobs got so right at Louis Vuitton. All the white and those whitened pastels—a key colour trend, favoured by both traditionalists such as Ralph Lauren and more experimental types such as Christopher Kane and Hussein Chalayan—might have appeared to be borrowed from a bag of miniature marshmallows. But the candied palette was not there simply to satisfy a sweet tooth. It also appeals to a Bluetooth appetite when dished out in fabrics that are marvels of modern technology—things like foam organza, silk cellophane and laser-cut leatherette. For the theory-minded, it’s tempting to conclude from the fact that we live in times when you see toddlers dressed in skull patterns and infants swaddled in camo-print blankets that it’s only logical their moms should start playing with pink and baby blue.