Fendi Handbags Show in Milan

If there is any brand in Milan whose runway theme is hard to predict it must be Fendi, whose spring 2011 collection shown Thursday, Sept. 23, was a masculine meets feminine conception with a very real difference.

Where in the hands of other, lesser, talents this would have meant mixing menswear fabrics with a female silhouette, at fashion Fendi handbags wholesale led to some strikingly new dramatic shapes and tonalities for the coming spring.

“It’s a geometric collection in soft materials, makes the whole thing float, and then, after all this beige, there was a need for color, which is why we used the bright colors seen at sunset,” Fendi’s creative director Karl Lagerfeld said post show.

“I did not want mark down Saint Laurent. There’s far too much of that around,” said Lagerfeld with a dismissive gesture, in reference to the dozens of shows in New York, London and Milan that evoked Yves Saint Laurent’s colors and cuts, in the wake of the French designer’s monumental retrospective this year in Paris’ Petit Palais.

Like the better-run Milan houses, Fendi telegraphed its intentions with the invitation, cream paper cutout and stained with what looked like cappuccino ? the same look that became the backdrop of show.

Shift dresses with huge curvy, priest’s robe-like sleeves, flounced blouses in voluminous proportions, asymmetrical shirts that looked like an upside down men’s jacket and some stunning looking woven leather skirts all felt fresh and new.

Fendi’s fabric innovations are so sophisticated they leave even experts puzzled. Critics sitting front row were divided over whether one dramatic red dress was in waxed taffeta or treated leather, though when Lagerfeld was asked, he responded: “Oh that, it was waxed nylon actually.”

His finale featured razor-thin rubber cocktail dresses finished with micro flower sewn as if to darn up old holes.

“They were darned by the atelier, as if people were sewing up old socks. It’s very Italian Neorealist, and very neoromantic at the same time,” said Lagerfeld, as he pulled up his ever-present designer replica handbags.

The show also featured notable new accessories, in particular some great bags in contrasting vivid Pop Art hues and clutches in contrasting strips of woven leather.

Mega sunglasses, an important new Italian trend, were also stars on this catwalk, as Fendi finally begins to move away from its signature double F logo print shades.

London Shows Sexy and Colorful Styles for Spring

Designers opted for the sexy and colorful for next spring’s womenswear at London Fashion Week, but stuck to a timeless style to appeal to budget-conscious buyers picky about adding to their wardrobe.

Short dresses and high heels featured prominently on the catwalk at many spring/summer 2011 shows, with Julien Macdonald injecting doses of glamour by looking to the boudoir.

His models wore pastel-colored and flower-printed short frilly dresses, at times transparent, as well as long gowns with trains in lace and silk in bursts of color,and last match with LV Damier Azur Canvas Handbags. A puff of perfume minutes before the show added to the bedroom feel.

“I decided to take these English girls to Hollywood and I made them very ultra glamorous and ultra sexy,” he said.

Hong Kong-born John Rocha took last season’s trend of underwear as outerwear one step further, playing with corsets and bras, sometimes put in as panels in jackets.

His collection was full of long fluid dresses, accessorized with backpacks and leather lace-up wedge boots.

“I just feel that at this moment in time, for me it’s all about texture. I try to make women look as beautiful as possible,” Rocha told Reuters.

“There’s enough sadness in the world, there’s enough drama.”

Burberry Prorsum mixed biker jackets with trenchcoats at mid and mini length, then combined the biker and trenchcoat looks in gabardine, bonded twill and other fabrics with all kinds of leather from heavy black to shiny patent in bright colors.
There was also a hint of the 1970s, with flared trousers, bold prints and fringed skirts and dresses at several shows.

For her Red Label line, Vivienne Westwood had a selection of trouser and short suits as well as loosely cut and shirt dresses that were worn with mismatched lace-up shoes.

Westwood, who rose to prominence 30 years ago during Britain’s punk era and shows her main line in Paris, also had net capes, hot pants and exaggerated cleavages on some designs.

“I’ve had a good run for sure. I can only say it’s because I do something that is not a market thing,” she told reporters when asked about her success. “I just do what I really like, and I make something that you can’t get anywhere else.”

Matthew Williamson presented a tropically colored collection, heavy in beading and embroidery. He had plenty of billowing gowns as well as short bustier dresses and collarless jackets worn with Hermes birkin Ostrich veines bags.

Skirts in muted metallics were fringed and worn with tribal-style platform sandals.

Savannah and Sienna Miller, the sisters behind the Twenty8Twelve brand, preferred a relaxed retro look, putting models in simple dresses puffed out with colorful petticoats, denim tops and shorts. Shoes were mainly flat sandals with big sparkly bows.

Paul Smith, one of Britain’s best-established designers, presented fitted and oversized shirts matched with cropped or oversized trousers — as if women had borrowed items from their boyfriends’ wardrobes.

Even though it has produced some of fashion’s biggest names London has struggled to maintain its international profile on a par with Paris, Milan and New York. However, it can boast an impressive front row of celebrities who this season included names such as Jude Law, Pamela Anderson and Sarah Jessica Parker.

“It’s never conventional,” Joan Burstein, founder of London’s renowned fashion store Brown’s, said. “I think that’s what we have in our favor from London Fashion Week.”

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The show might have been held on the docks of the Seine River, but the scent of the South China Sea enveloped the collection.

Kimono shirts in flower-printed silk were paired with wide-legged trousers, and the classic men’s button-down shirt — ever a cool-girl staple — morphed

into skirts. It was what a cool young Parisienne with Dior Gaucho Lambskin Bags might wear if a weekend visit to her boyfriend in Hong Kong turned into a weeklong stay and she had to raid his closet.

The collection managed a perfect melange of ladylike sensuousness and relaxed chill, and the fabrics reflected that — with a magpie’s mix of sequins and

high-sheen Lurex-shot knits and workaday cotton canvas in white and khaki.

Noten, whose gift for color has made him a critical darling and won him legions of devoted fans, said the collection was born out of his search for “a

beautiful fabric.”

“We started looking at Chinese pottery, which is something that I’ve always loved,” the Antwerp-based designer told The AP backstage. “The colors started

quite bright, so then we started to bleach them away.”

The result were nightgown dresses in navy silk, with a hothouse of oversized flowers in fuchsia that faded to white at the hemline. A boyfriend-cut jacket in

canary yellow drained into a bleached-out white at the shoulders.

At once in saturated colors and bone white, in sumptuous metallics and industrial cottons, the collection had it all.

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The Paris-based house proved you can dress like your grandma and still be at the very apex of fashion.

Long-sleeve button-down blouses in naive prints depicting Swedish villages were paired with matching skirts that hit at mid-calf. Plain-fronted dresses in

navy were cut wide and left nearly everything to the imagination. Printed doo-rags and black knee socks topped off the show’s “un-sexy is the new sexy”

spirit.

Still, hidden beneath that modest facade, there was a hint of Baroque decadence that lent the replica designer Chanel handbags a subtle kinkiness.

Designer Marco Zanini said he’d looked to Scandinavia’s rigorous aesthetic for inspiration.

“I find the modesty of certain Swedish people the key to elegance,” he told The AP. He added that the collection was conceived as a sort of antidote to

today’s frenetic pace.

“These are very chaotic times, we need calm down and reflect on things,” said Zanini, a towering blond with oversized mutton-chop sideburns. “We’re trying to

take it one step at a time, the proper way.”

His slow but steady approach seemed to be working. The show elicited hoots of approval from the A-list audience, which included Anna Wintour of U.S. Vogue,taking it all in from behind her trademark dark shades.

MILAN – Prada Goes Bold for Spring

There’s nothing understated in the colors, orange, green and royal blue; the stripes, decisively bold; and the patterns, from bananas to cherubs to monkeys. But there are also frills for a more feminine touch.

Miuccia Prada’s skirts are tight-fitting and to the knee, but matched with best luxury prada handbags, some echoing the men’s collection presented in the summer with V-necks that evoke doctor shirts. The outfits are paired with wedged sneakers high enough to give basketball court advantage.

The look becomes decidedly more girlie when a thick frill is added to the bottom of the tight skirts, providing a swirl of soft motion. The motion doesn’t stop there: horizontal striped dresses are paired with vertigo-inducing striped sombreros slung over the neck for maximum contrast.

Dresses are fitted, with bold patterns and lots of stripes, often alternating in both color and thickness, with a stripe of fuchsia to grab the eye. And then there are the patterns: paired monkeys on a white background give a whimsical touch.

In fact, while the cut of the clothes is urban, urban, urban, the message is Caribbean, fun and loose, an attitude backed up by the fabric: cotton. In keeping with the mood, bright tropical fruits of marzipan were available for viewers after the designer replica handbags show.

Even the sun dresses have a structured look about them. Thin straps and deep V-backs leave plenty of room for peek-a-boo, while tassels on the hemline beckon.

The little black dress makes an appearance for evening, with feminine ruffles around the gentle necklines. Lest anyone think, ah, black dress, seen that, Prada adds fun furry wraps in black and white stripes on a colorful background.