Calvin Klein Works Hard For Your Money

New York – "Subtly sexy," was the theme of the Calvin Klein men's and women's apparel and accessories for Fall 2009, said creative director Kevin Carrigan at the collection's presentation on Thursday, March 26, in New York, which included everything from relaxed sportswear for the office to a new denim collection, Calvin Klein Jeans Body.

"There's a return to dressing up again," said Carrigan. "We're calling it 'refined eighties,' with good fabrics that are softly sculptured, rather than linear and hard." This is not the eighties of severe angles, touch chic and New Wave haircuts, in other words. Instead, it's the "Working Girl" eighties of loose blazers with pushed up sleeves, high-waisted leather skirts, and splashes of red, "the new pop color of the season," he said.

And get ready to shelve the opaque black tights to make room for a new version of legwear.

"It's all about the sheer hose with a sandal, something we haven't had it in a while," said Carrigan.

The sheer hose is just one of the new offerings from the Calvin Klein Underwear "Black" collections for women, a more sophisticated take on underpinnings for Calvin Klein with all-lace styles made with antique French lace machines. For men, "Black," includes classic underwear silhouettes in lightweight microfiber fabrics while the new "White" collection consists of luxe stretch cotton.

Calvin Klein Jeans, one of the company's signatures, introduced the Body collection, styles for men and women that focus on enhancing the body through a new fit, which Carrigan said they developed over eight or nine months.

"I wanted to launch a sexy jean for Calvin," said Carrigan, who explained that in recent seasons, denim factories have been more concerned with finishes, from embellishments to varying washes, rather than the technology of how the jeans are designed for the body. "It's a study in fit to make her look sexy," he said.

There are significant differences, explained Carrigan. For example, the yoke seam on the back of the jean is reversed. Instead of being sewn inward, the seam curves outward, following the curve of the body. And while the jeans are low-rise, the prevailing style for several years now, a new innovation here is a piece of elastic in the waistband to prevent unsightly gapping in the back, so that the jean hugs the body.

At $79, the designer jean with a high tech fit is a well-priced addition to one's denim closet. Eventually, added Carrigan, they plan to expand the Body jean collection to include a Body jacket, as well as t-shirts, all with a precision fit.


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The Williamson Wait

It's just under a month now until Matthew Williamson unleashes his vibrant and exotic print designs onto the shelves and rails of high street favourite H&M. But you don't have to wait until then to see exactly what's going to be in store as the look to the left shows. "I wanted to create a strong urban collection fused with the brand's signature symbols and shapes. It's been fascinating to search back through my archives to isolate the most iconic pieces, then rework them for H&M," explains Williamson of the collection, which will hit around 200 H&M stores worldwide on April 23.

"Colour is one of the defining aspects of my signature style. I focussed on the iconic peacock motif seen across my collections to develop a palette of blues, chartreuse and emerald. The spirit of the collection is both covetable and precious," Williamson adds, picking out a bias-cut graphic butterfly print dress, which references an outfit from his first ever show in 1997, among his favourite pieces.

Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor at H&M says: "I think people will really love this collection. I love the way Matthew mixed prints in the dresses, and the colour clocking of the tailoring. It's very elegant, but there are lots of things you can wear in a really relaxed way too."

And if you do miss out the first time round (this collection is bound to sell out fast), there's no need to worry - a second instalment of the collaboration will be available from May 14 and, for the first time in H&M's designer collaboration history, will be on sale in all of its stores.

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Clothing Line “Dialogue” (QVC)

She’s the resident conservative chatterbox (or nitwit, depending on you ask) on The View, but Elisabeth Hasselbeck is creating a different kind of “dialogue” with the launch her new clothing line.

The controversial reality personality has teamed up with style brand Dialogue to create a collection of “pretty and polished separates.” Like many of the celebrity-designed lines that have become a fixture on the QVC, Elisabeth’s line is “affordable,” with each item ranging in price from about $40 to $80.

“I think it’s nice to feel like someone paid a little more attention,” Elisabeth says on her QVC commercial for the line.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck will unveil her line on QVC.

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Thread Social's Girls About Town

New York – Thread Social founders Beth Blake and Melissa Akey are dedicated to dressing the young, flirty and confident New York woman, and with a presentation in the downtown New York apartment of designer Beth Blake, the duo stayed loyal to their name as models and guests sipped champagne and socialized at the buzzing after-work cocktail party on Wednesday, March 18.

Their variations on the dress - the brand's signature piece that Blake said you could "just throw on, zip up and go" - included color blocked or digital pixel print matte silk dresses and featherweight silk satin dresses. A color palette of navy, mustard, poppy, teal were meant to evoke a '70s French sophisticate, the kind of woman who would have hosted chic dinner parties in her home while wearing Yves Saint Laurent.

"It's as though you went into mom's closet and found great pieces and then put them together in your own way," said Blake.

The popular one-shouldered dress, one of which came in a basket-weave print mirroring the clear acrylic platform filled with bent wire hangers that the models were stationed upon, is a design first introduced in Thread Social's bridesmaid collection - they originally started the company making bridesmaid dresses - and "no one bought it," Blake said. But when they revived it for their recent holiday collection, it hit just at the moment that the dress style was gaining popularity.

"The reason it works is because of the high empire waist," Blake said, explaining the success of the style, with the minimal length top supporting the tasteful cut. "You can put playful stuff on the shoulder, like a flower or a brooch. It's sexy, but classic. And shoulders are an easy thing to highlight." she said.

Thread Social's Fall 2009 collection hit the mark with voluminous dresses, coats with folded ruffles, tiered skirts, and blouses embellished with oversized bows. It added up to a glamorous and flirtatious catch-me-if you-can attitude that the independent Thread Social customer embodies wherever the night may take her, whether a quaint candlelight dinner party with friends or a social night out on the town.

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Dries Van Noten: Francis Bacon On a Baltic Cruise

Paris – Painter Francis Bacon sounds a tiny bit unlikely as a source of inspiration for a fashion collection, but filtered through the canny brain of Dries Van Noten, and staged Sunday, March 8, in Paris, the result was a chic and sophisticated fall 2009 collection, albeit one more suited for a Baltic cruise than a backstreet art gallery opening.

Bacon got ideas from the magazines, images, art books and postcards that littered his legendarily messy studio, flowing them into his disturbing figurative artwork.

In preparing this fall 2009 collection, Van Noten's staff crumpled, bent and twisted images and materials, then mixed the resulting fabrics through this show.

"Francis Bacon and the way he destroyed and connected things, creating something new and stronger," was Van Noten's explanation of his starting point for this collection.

But where Bacon's figures were generally grotesque, Van Noten's were generally beautiful. Van Noten established his reputation with a masterly use of prints and a sense of bohemian exoticness. But his last few shows have shown a designer maturing into a more sophisticated soul and one who keeps the prints in check.

Frequently the only florals in a look for fall were the Baconized trompe l'oeil flowers on cloth covered high heels. Yet his double-breasted pink mannish jackets, the pinched-at-the waist cardigan jackets and his mid-length "mixed-media" skirts had plenty of excitement in their very understated purity.

Bacon used materials such as gouache, pastel, oils and pen and ink on paper, board and canvas in his art. Van Noten played with satin crepes, silk velvet, alpaca and, according to his program notes, fake plasticized snake print, woven ‘Couture' croc and silk ruffles as fur.

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Miu Miu: Femme Fatale Fantasy

Paris – The Fall 2009 fashion week term finally ended Thursday evening, March 12, in Paris with the last major show on the Paris calendar, Miu Miu, which turned out to be a lesson in fashion creativity and a ground-breaking affair. It confirmed the label's designer, Miuccia Prada, as the reigning heavyweight champion of style.

All season, from the opening shows in New York in February to this Miu Miu display in a private mansion on Avenue Foche, the most expensive real estate in Paris, designers have been grappling with the question of how one dresses women for the new economic and political realities.

Prada's solution is to become a femme fatale. According to Prada, what matters most is that you look great in the new era. Her models certainly did this evening, traipsing out in a plethora of variations on Himalayan carpet prints that were dyed, faded and cut into some remarkable dresses and skirts, the latter paired with semi-sheer tops. Moreover, she spray painted the models gold, then showed lots of their flesh and cut most looks with deep front gorges, right to the belly button and had skirts way above the knee.

"I wanted to send out the biggest sluts imaginable, but then everyone came in backstage and told me how chic the girls looked," Prada said, a bit mystified by the reaction.

A brainy collection like Miu Miu can evoke widely different reactions with the same outfit. A sleek, three-inch below the knee skirt with a high waist can telegraph school marm, but a sheer, deep gorge top in mesh says tart.

Prada also presented a slew of great new shoes, from thick heels with fur trim to zig-zag fur clutches in the most subtly colored show so far.

While perplexing in terms of social commentary, Prada's choice of femme fatale as role model did lead to an intriguing collection. Allied to her earlier stellar show in Milan with Prada, it maintained her status as fashion's most influential designer even if it put in doubt her reputation as a standard bearer for independent women.



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Andy Warhol's Wide World comes to Paris

PARIS (Reuters) – Andy Warhol comes to Paris in a major exhibition of his trademark society portraits but a famous image of Yves Saint Laurent will be missing after a dispute over whether the late couturier was an artist or a mere designer.

"Warhol's Wide World," which opens this week, presents some 140 of the 1,000 or so portraits of actors, stars and assorted jet set personalities turned out by the "Pope of Pop" from the 1960s until his death in 1987.

Based on existing photographs or created with a specially designed Polaroid camera, Warhol's garishly tinted pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy or Saint Laurent became icons in the modern cult of celebrity.

Along with his Campbell's Soup can, they are some of the best-known images in modern art and the exhibition is expected to be one of the biggest of the year.

Warhol once remarked that he wanted all his portraits to fit together and make one big painting called "Portraits of Society" and exhibition curator Alain Cueff regretted that it had not been practical to do so.

"It would be wonderful to recreate the dream of Warhol, to have 1,000 portraits of people just like that but it was quite impossible, I'm afraid," he said.

Even so, the Grand Palais, a vast hall created for the Great Exhibition of 1900, has been lined with some of the most famous faces of the era, from stars like Monroe or Mick Jagger to artists like Man Ray or fashion designers like Giorgio Armani.

But it also includes many portraits commissioned for $25,000 each by rich individuals hoping, as the show's catalog puts it, "to glow with the aura of Warhol's genius."

The 1974 portrait series of Saint Laurent, planned to hang in a "Glamour" section near Armani and other designers like Sonia Rykiel, had been intended as one of the centerpieces of the exhibition.

But in a move that provided a strangely appropriate backdrop to a show as much about fame as art -- it was withdrawn at the last minute by his former partner Pierre Berge.

"To show the portraits of Yves Saint Laurent with personalities from the fashion world -- even if some of them have talent -- was unthinkable," he explained in a letter to the Le Monde daily last week.

"To put Saint Laurent in the 'glamour' section would be to show disrespect for his oeuvre and to mix him up with the 'beautiful people,'" he wrote.

The controversy has added an element of spice to the exhibition, which is expected to draw vast crowds to the same hall in which Saint Laurent's monumental art collection was auctioned last month.

But organizers are confident that the importance of the collection will outweigh any controversy.

The exhibition opens in the Grand Palais on March 18 and runs until July 13.

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Louis Vuitton: Muse Mode

Paris – The Vuitton woman has an agenda: She doesn't need you and she wants to have fun. Her mother or grandmother was a famous muse with a French name, and the muses lived again Thursday afternoon, March 12 at the Louis Vuitton show in the courtyard of the Louvre in Paris.

Marc Jacobs sent out a fall 2009 collection inspired by the most famous European muses, even if at times, one sensed the audience was not terribly sure of who many of them were, or even the exact pronunciation of their names.

The concept of the muse is in the air, as the collection comes on the heels of Jacobs' announcement that he would be sponsoring the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's next fashion exhibit "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion."

More relevant for the consumer, this collection was very inventive, quaintly racy, brilliantly colored and ultimately will be an influential collection as well as one that broke new ground.

What was most cool about this show was that Jacobs did not reference the obvious suspects - Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell or Twiggy - but instead looked back to the generation whose taste and art for living makes modern supermodels look like upstarts.

"It was Victoire (de Castellane), Marie Seznec and Ines (de la Fressange)," Jacobs shouted out backstage, referring to the muses at the houses of Chanel and Christian Lacroix.

Out on the runway, Jacobs offered a great dose of Euro-chic style, leavened with American wit as several models wore Playboy Bunny ears.

Overall, the look was vamp society hostess with lacy tops, jackets with bulb shaped shoulders and frilly, puckered dresses, the sort that a lady would only really wear when hosting a dinner at her home. There were lots of faintly androgynous tuxedo jackets, green chokers and taut transparent tops.

There was also a great series off ruched cocktail dresses and the sort of see-through black chiffon top that well-brought-up haute bourgeois Parisian ladies would feel they could wear among friends. Whether Vuitton will produce even half these designs is uncertain or whether in six months time no Vuitton store anywhere will have even a third of this ready-to-wear collection on its racks or shelves.

When it came to accessories, however, Jacobs hit a home run with naughty ankle boots and side zippered riding boots, both with pyramid heels. He really struck gold with possibly his best collection of bags for Vuitton, including marbleized clutches, silver stamped logo purses and turquoise rosette totes.

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Rue du Mail: Dancing and Cabaret Are Not Dead

Paris – If anyone in Paris is a designer's designer it is surely Martine Sitbon, whose staged her fall 2009 collection of her brand Rue du Mail on Wednesday, March 4,the opening day of the eight-day French season.

This season life is a cabaret for Sitbon, as her vision of contemporary cutbacks does not stop her women from wearing arty chess pieces cocktails, and lots of dance clothes.

Sitbon has always held a slightly special place partly because, no matter how much she experiments, the end results are always feminine. Also, few designers are as assured as Sitbon when it comes to mixing urfaces. Whether she combines silver sequins, boiled wool, battered gold jacquards and ribbed mink, the combo is downtown yet classy. She can assemble the somber - navy blue, black and map gray.

Sitbon jumped back and forth between the pencil warrior look such as legging-pants over tight tops and handkerchief helm Spencers to layered and splayed cuts and mixed chess piece style disco groovers.

"It was about wandering around in the imagination, imagining new forms," was the explanation from Marc Ascoli, Sitbon's partner.

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