London Fashion Week Day 1: Hakaan F/W 10.

Carine Roitfeld outside the Hakaan show.

What a start to London Fashion Week! Hakaan is one of the most exciting brands I've seen for awhile, for a show debut the front row included Kate Moss & Carine Roitfeld, whilst Natalia, Lara, Anja & Natasha walked the show. The pieces were a master of construction, and very, very sexy. Something that London often misses out on.

Backstage:

Street Style:

Kate Moss

Maria Carla

Anja Rubik

Emmanuelle Alt

Imogen Morris-Clarke

Rose & Ranya

The show goes on...

I can't seem too work up too much enthusiasm about the New York shows right now, I'm not sure, but there seems to be a long shadow cast over proceedings. There has still been some beautiful shows, and I found myself with some unexpected show choices. Alexander Wang was once again such a disappointment, but there's still been some wonderful shows with such perfect layering and a beautiful dark colour palette.

Cushnie Et Ochs
I'm linking to this brand because it is such a new brand, it's a label created by two women and their Fall 10 show had such a perfect mood about it, the mixing of fabrics and the ponyskin boots are wonderful.


Doo Ri
Does this show ever let down? Such a laid back look but with polished fabrics and perfect draping.


Richard Chai Love
I really love the way this show is styled, there's a lot going on but it doesn't seem to overpower the models. The odd sequin fabric or fur thrown in really breaks it up. That strong red lip is divine too, especially for such a grungey mood in the clothes.

Rest In Peace

This is a difficult blog for me to write, and one I wasn't sure whether to write. It's hard not to fall into lazy cliches and insincere words when paying tribute to someone. I lack the words right now to even start to describe my all consuming despair about the death of Lee Alexander McQueen. As an aspiring writer, his show was the one I wanted to go to most, he was the person I wanted to interview the most - I pictured a life of wearing his designs, and a constant amazement at his brilliance.

Genius is a word that's thrown around too freely, and as such it has lost any kind of meaning. His creativity will be unparalleled, what a showman he was. I don't want to to say too much more, but when I first heard the news a quote from Matisse immediately began swimming around in my head:

"Creativity takes courage."

Lee Alexander McQueen. 1969-2010.

Here comes Fashion Week

With New York Fashion Week starting today and London Fashion Week starting in a week (!) I found myself looking through my S/S 10 Backstage pictures, and found this shot that perfectly sums up everything about the backstage madness. This was shot at Issa about half an hour before the show kicked off, and all the photographers standing on make up chairs are trying to get a shot of Ms. Naomi Campbell herself. I can't wait to be back there again, model spotting and viewing all the clothes before they hit the runway. I'm going to keep Between Every Line updated as frequently as possible as I get the best model shots and share them here. Bring on the clothes!

Ranya Rocks

Ranya Mordanova is such a striking model the noir dark eyes, bleached eyebrows and bowl cut make her quite something on the runway, but she hasn't had as much editorial coverage, althought she had a recent Vogue Italia editorial so she is certainly on the rise and I'm so glad to see her getting more attention. I spotted her in the new Dazed & Confused (February) shot by Ben Toms and styled by Katie Shillingford. Ranya's a perfect choice for the editorial with such raw unfinished clothes.




(all images rights to Dazed & Confused)

Julia Hafstrom

I was flicking through the Feburary issue of Teen Vogue, (I'm only just still a teenager but I just adore the fashion coverage and style of Teen Vogue). When I noticed Swedish model Julia Hafstrom. She's an interesting model and had the perfect early start to her career (Prada campaign and Vogue Italia editorial) and I strangely didn't really notice her until I saw the above picture in Teen Vogue.

She's not the most conventional model, and she is on the short size but she suits the cute styling and fiery red lipstick of the editorial so well. Oh, and she's quite something on the runway too:




She has a touch of Lara Stone on the runway, she looks like she is about to break into a smirk in every picture. Oh, and that shock of flaming red hair makes me want to dye my own hair red. I can't wait to see her on the runway again for Fall 2010 - I hope she turns up in London again!

all images from thefashionspot, Teen Vogue images scanned by gossiping at TFS.

A Master Class in Deconstruction

I'll be honest I've been a little nervous about blogging about Lanvin Mens Fall 2010, mainly because I haven't really blogged about menswear before in spite of my interest in it. This show was just too good not to post though, it was so futuristic but not intimidating as futurism can so often be. I can't wait to see it in the pages of Another Man and Fantastic Man because what a collection it was, easily my favourite show from the Fall 10 season,


The emphasis on the waist is an interesting detail, and makes what is quite a layered look look more refined. The slick back hair makes me think of Pat Bateman - after he had safely manouevered the financial crisis he comes back with a harder edge.


The last look has to be one of the most perfect mens coats I've ever seen, the navy blue colour makes it more of a statement coat and the classic cut complete with added zips makes it look so modern.

But for me, what completed the show was the details; the unfinished seems, the cumber band and the heavy utility belt.



allimages from gq.com