Anne Valérie Hash Fall 10 & Louis Vuitton

Sorry for the lack of posting recently, I've been snowed under with work, and am still sifting through all the Fall collections. I'm loving the laid back approach to Fall for day wear, because by night I want to dress like a Louis Vuitton girl, and by day this collection is one of the most appealing for casual wear:

Anne Valérie Hash:

I adore the way the tulle has been layered with sweatshirts, and the great pair of brogues that would be sure to become a wardrobe staple. The simple plait and barely there make up just adds to the look.

But as always I can never stick to one style of clothing, and Louis Vuitton was just a dream collection for me. I love it when Marc decides to go for glamour because he always pulls it off beautifully, the closing dresses could even be Oscar gowns - this was such a strong collection from Marc and one that will stay with me when I start building my Fall wardrobe, it was just wonderful:

Louis Vuitton:

I don't think it's too much to ask to be casual by day and Betty Draper by night, right?

Giles Deacon A/W 10

This show had by far the best model casting of the season thus far, what a show it was! I'm so glad to see the likes of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley returning to the runway, their return reminds me of the Fall 2005 season when I first started looking at runway shows. It's not a skinny vs less skinny debate, but it's just so nice to see the Victoria's Secret lovelies back at Paris Fashion Week.
Giles has always carefully selected the right models for his shows, right back to his early days when he featured the likes of Adriana Lima and Karolina Kurkova, and this show seemed like a 'best of' of models.



L-R: Karolina Kurkova, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz Barros, Jeisa Chiminazzo, Izabel Goulart, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Carmen Kass, Jessica Stam, Marija Vujovic.

LFW: Menswear: Aitor Throup

After the madness of the past five days what a welcome relief is what to finally work some menswear shows. Generally, they seem a lot more relaxed and of course the hair and make up takes alot less time. My first show of the day was Aitor Throup, and it wasn't a show but an installation, it was easily one of my favourite to attend, I just loved the concept and I hope my pictures do the installation justice. Walking around I couldn't help but think that if anyone ever doubts that fashion is art is to look at installations just like this one.



It's especially interesting that inspite of the conceptual nature of the installation there's some great tailoring and pieces amongst the art of the installation:


I like the way the red leather is stitched on to the bottom of the trouser to almost look like a red soul of a shoe....





I found these trousers to be especially interesting as they seemed to be made with raw sequins, it almost resembles fish scales. It just seemed like such a great use of texture for a pair of trousers.

all images shot by me.

LFW: Fashion East

Fashion East has been one of the most fun shows this week, with three different designers; Nasir, Heikki & Michael van der Ham. Taking place in the vaults of Somerset House it gives the whole show a very different mood, going backstage as like discovering some secret fashion show with models in full body paint in one room, ethereal floaty dresses in another and dresses with harness detail in the final room. The variety in the following pictures I hope begins to show what a wonderful and varied backstage area it was, it really felt like being at the Rio Carnival:

(all pictures by me)