Showing posts with label London Fashion Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London Fashion Show. Show all posts

Friday 6 July 2012

Graduate Fashion Week 2012

Julija Baranovska, GFW, London,


No excuse for not publishing this on time but feeling there is what to say and what to look at I eventually got myself together just to spit it out on you.
This year's London's annual GFW left me astounded  with the students' endless imagination, innovation and  energy to churn out so many new ideas and designs. Never tired to implement the latest technologies, daring to concoct clashing fabrics as well as to challenge the dogmas of the past. 

Just look at these prints and knits and you'll see what I mean...


The mackintosh in the middle, I've been contemplating it for a while, wondering if I've seen it last year at the same event. But once I got closer and looked- it was a print of mackintosh on a mackintosh- and how clever. So all the gizmo bits on the collar and sleeves are just prints and the mack itself is much more humble than it looks. But guess what a tiny and slim little bird you'd look in it if the silhouette is a print too! Disguise, disguise!
Julija Baranovska, GFW, London

I admit, that it wasn't the best of the outfits making me think the top looked more like a little vest in a third generation of some poor Eskimos in Siberia, I still liked the skirt very much. 
Many collections contained elements of very fine prints in very clever applications, which seems to be appropriate since digital prints are getting more and more popular.
On one of the rival blogs I saw some supper leggings with a digital print of a meadow in dawn...unusual, and bewildering..but haven't yet made up my mind about them-prints.
Here I guess we get an impressionists skirt in style of Mary Katrantzou. Lovely :)

Julija Baranovska, Graduate Fashion Week

One for myself too.


Lauren Moore had some awesome rock chick accessories, despite looking very modest and demure herself;  she showed me to her stand, and, believe me, this bag is the least scandalous of them all. I thought the next thing she would get a whip out and would chastise me right there.
But it is an awesomely daring bag as well as all the others and I've got Lauren's email, so for those who's interested feel free to enquire me for the one - I am sure she would be delighted to cast a couple of hardcore punishments.


Graduate Fashion Week 2012


Boys- one of them just had some shit happened. Eat more rice darling. 
Do you also think the author is  from Brazil? What's that thing about the yellow and green ? no wonder he's got problems with stool.




Interesting print but I'am cringing with blasphemy. Must be personal.


I'am not a huge fan of trinkets and all things beads but this is a decent peace of work that for a student couldn't have been overlooked. So much respect (see all the neatly done seems ). More so, I took the picture for my dearest friend who's crazily into beads and hand-crafting, and who, besides all, is incredibly talented . Hopefully will be linking this picture to her latest piece of art for you too see the relation. So watch this space.

I loved the sketch. She reminded of myself so I decided to marry her and to take her with me. 


 Men's apparel is always great. Sometimes I think it is hard to cook it bad. 



 And some smack-my-bitch-up feckin shoes - so wet your whip ready.


  
A bit of medieval fluff. Loved the immaculate details and colour palette and the use of metallic on the skirt.


There was also a photoshoot too but I don't know what all the fuss was about. 


May be one model was saying to another:
"Oh I spent last night with Mr X.....his X is this big "
"Oh..hehehe"


Graduate Fashion Week 2012


Friday 22 July 2011

Highlights of the Graduate Fashion Show



As the summer weather seem to have come to a halt, the mood for summery patterns has also downgraded a bit.  Half the season to go until the autumn collections, hence highstreet retailers pour out their old stock remnants under banners of ostensibly humongous discounts for horrendous rags of clothes.


In order not to succumb to a fashion distraught, please recharge with these highlights from the recent graduate show of UK's fashion students. 


Rather fresh and slick-to-wear apparels will give a food for your thoughts regarding upcoming season.

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Men's wear from GFS. More pictures, more ideas.

Unfortunately a number of brilliant pictures from the Graduate Fashion Show had to remain neglected for a good month or so, due to the numerous obstacles and an utter unattainability of getting a proper image gallery plug-in. Hence the carefully selected images are listed in such a humble way, but I am sure many of you will find those interesting to look at and very much inspiring.













Thursday 30 June 2011

Sweetheart devil or seducer the priest


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Music rocked the stage and the lights turned crimson filling the room with sensual exhilaration. Even the fellow photo crews  sighed simultaneously, vaguely shifting in their cramped 'nests' (I guess due to another hustle with the change of lighting more than anything else).

Superciliously smirking, boys walked out in impudently perfect  suits in black and grey charcoal colours. The sternness of this collection emphasized the impeccable quality of cut and celebrated a male silhouette.

Ambrosially fitting suits undoubtedly resembled of Russian clergymen cassocks.
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Despite of the apparent source of the idea, the application of new add-ons, the exquisite textiles and the sly interpolation of details has a direct reference to current fashion  instantaneously makes the garments to stand out.
Here is an example of typical Russian deacon's cassock:
The rigid elbow-high gloves (is this rubber?) definitely did the trick of titivating the once old-school look, so did the extended
pants artfully escaping into under the mini shorts. Tight.....man.

We nominated the vanquisher of the show the suit with the skirt, knee-high socks and the deacon hat (the first picture in the header); for its emotional voluptuousness, daring provocation and the exquisite quality. The wearability and ingenuity without succumbing into absurd was particularly pleasing.

Remembered that "God is in the details" from Ludwig Miles van der Rohe, but seriously doubting now whether it is God at all....

Dreaming of guys wearing skirts. Any thoughts on this?

Wednesday 29 June 2011

'Buoyant' ideas of fashion graduates.


Attending London's Graduate Fashion Show that exhibited the masterpieces of aspiring fashion designers from all across the UK, was equal to a stroke of lighting. Not because of excessive pageantry that the novice artists gravitate to, but due to the fresh and unblemished solutions of simple and wearable garments.


I felt we have been blessed by the boundless joy when we saw these fairy rolling onto the catwalk with their translucent voiles and chiffon bottoms.
We kept our fingers crossed for the garments to get into retail ASAP!