Zimmermann, In Between Power Outages, Gets Steamy

If any show made sense in this magnificently located city, where there seem more beaches and coves than traffic lights, it was Zimmermann on Tuesday, April 28, the hottest show so far in Rosemont Australian Fashion Week and a label whose true forte is great beachwear and bikinis.

Inadvertently, yet aptly, the show was staged after a bizarre power outage, when a switching station shut down power in most of central Sydney, leading to a muggy moment inside the runway show-space of the Overseas Passenger Terminal where most of the week's shows are staged.

The collection, entitled "Bittersweet Nightshade," kicked off before a capacity audience of 500, with an acid hued tank dress worn over a mean little body suit. Ballet dancing bodies, twisted fabric tops and cocktails, rope layered dresses and tapered lattice looks all had plenty of zing in a show that was all about cruising cool and having a great time at, or around, the beach.

However, whether it was the understated styling or somewhat prosaic choice of Impressionist blotch prints, the best images at this event were not on the runway but in a stylishly made catalogue placed on each seat that featured a brilliant range of bikinis. In a word, the house's carefully honed image did not project as much as it should on the catwalk.

Designer Nicole Zimmermann is a savvy creator, whose design studio clearly is a slick, hard working machine. If she could just inject the same level of creativity into her prints that she gets into her cuts, then this label could achieve great international success.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Camilla and Marc Kick Off Sydney Fashion Week

They love a double act in Australia, where the sister and brother combo of Camilla & Marc kicked off Sydney Fashion Week Monday, April 27, with a stylish romp that was a clever mix of commercial and cool.

These talented siblings were followed by two more twosomes - Bec & Bridge and Ginger & Smart - but of the three, Camilla & Marc were the most accomplished, and most in synch with contemporary global trends.

Staged before a great looking trompe l'oeil couture house backdrop on a hipster casting of young and veteran models, this collection had plenty of easy to understand clothes, whether artfully ripped white jeans, semi-abstract animal prints singlet tops and gold chain belts.

Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman went for a layered look in this spring 2010 show, but since their fabrics were so floaty and craftily aged the effect was light and comprehensible. At least one member of the family is no slouch at tailoring; some deftly made glove leather mini bomber jackets were the very epitome of beautifully hung fashion.

They also showed natty knobby toed and spike-heeled platforms, and some great mesh tops, although their micro striped dresses and trousers suits were in a formulaic beach wind-breaker stripe, they were still flattering.

The collection was ultimately a bit too derivative, and looked familiar to anyone familiar with recent collections by the Paris house of Balmain, the single most influential label in high fashion this past season. Designs included 80's broad and peaked shoulders, glitzy use of sequins, angle zips and one shoulder dresses.

Moreover, while the clothes did seem ultimately finely adapted to an insouciant moment on a balmy summer's day, they did not seem terribly Australian. However, the bedraggled, bedroom hair, scant use of make-up and high dress length is something of a compliment, and will find an international audience for Camilla & Marc.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Gap Launches 1969 Premium Denim

The latest Gap product to get an upgrade from Patrick Robinson, executive vice president of design, is denim, with a new premium collection, “1969,” which will debut for Fall 2009.

Gap gave a sneak peek of the new additions to their denim roster at a press preview in New York on Monday, April 20, with a line-up of diverse styles and washes for both men and women, from skinny to straight and the new “boyfriend” jean for women, to re-designed boot cuts for both, from light to dark rinses and all shades in between.

“Gap’s about a lot of options,” said Robinson. “Every fit has a person behind it, from curvy to long and lean. You find out who you are and get the jean to fit it.”

Robinson spent a year and a half with the Gap denim design team to redo everything from the fit and the wash to come up with a collection of denim under $60 that rivals premium brands that retail for $150 to $500.

“I’m using our size as my advantage to get the price down,” said Robinson, who said that Gap developed proprietary fabrics and sewing techniques with their extensive worldwide network of mills and factories so that their product would be unique, and also cost less to produce.

Robinson said they brought in all the people who run the floors of the factories around the world - where the production happens - to meet with Gap’s technical team over the course of a week so that they could show them the exact construction specifications.

“There’s an internal meticulousness,” said Robinson. “Everything from how they sit, how they hug the back and lift up the behind to how to make a knee on a boot leg cut fall straight down and not twist.”

The key task for Robinson for the women’s collection was to make the fit “sexy” where it counts the most - namely, in the rear and the thigh - and for men, to make sure the jean “fits like a dream, with an aesthetic that’s cool.”

“It’s about dressing America,” said Robinson. “You may only like one style and your friend may only like another. There’s something for everyone.”

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Crispin and Basilio Fall 2009 at Revolve Clothing

Fashion is an emotional purchase, and in this economy, designer Donny Barrios wants women to fall in love with his designs.

Barrios debuted his Fall 2009 collection for his Crispin & Basilio line April 8 at the Revolve Clothing boutique in Los Angeles—and love was certainly in the air. A dress layered in faux ostrich feathers, a silk mini-dress in an acid-wash print and a lightweight trench coat with biker jacket styling were crowd favorites. Zippers toughened up jackets and silky dresses.

“I wanted to create a sense of sexiness and confidence,” Barrios said. “My focus was to step a little out of my own comfort zone—with the acid-wash, for example, that isn’t necessarily my style, but it works for the collection in this context—and create pieces that make women feel sexy and powerful. I think that’s important right now.”

True to his background in menswear and tailoring, Barrios offered crisp staples, including shrunken jackets, floor-length maxi-dresses, fitted party dresses and his own take on the drop-crotch pant.

Source:http://www.apparelnews.net/fashion/

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Gorgeous Stars at the "Grey Gardens" Premiere

If all you knew about Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore was what you see in their new HBO film "Grey Gardens," you would never believe the glamorous pair that hit the red carpet at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Thursday night, April 16. For the duo star as what HBO executive Len Amato called "the most amazing mother-daughter pairing you will ever see," as real-life weirdoes Edith and "Little" Edie Bouvier Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy who gained fame in the 1970's in a documentary of the same name.

That poverty-stricken pair lived on a ramshackle beachfront estate in East Hampton, N.Y., surrounded by countless cats and piles of garbage, ate cat food to survive, and eventually became cult heroes because of that documentary. With the help of plenty of prosthetic makeup and some very shabby clothes, Barrymore and Lange are definitely transformed for the worse in the film.

"Our goal was to disappear into the characters, and not be seen as ourselves," Barrymore explained, and the thunderous applause that filled the theater as the credits rolled proved that they had succeeded.

The dynamic duo looked fabulous on the red carpet. Drew, with hair teased high in a Sixties-inspired style, wearing a full-length white gown with a jeweled breastplate and gigantic turquoise jewelry to match, and Jessica a bit more demure, and also in a white top and embellished skirt. They were joined by co-stars Daniel Baldwin and Ken Howard, writer-director Michael Sucsy, and friends Ali Larter, Lisa Kudrow, Jennie Garth, and Cameron Diaz, who avoided the red carpet but snuck into the after party to congratulate Drew.

"Grey Gardens" begins airing on HBO on Saturday, April 18.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Daniel Swarovski Collection Celebrates 20 Years of Couture

The Daniel Swarovski collection – the high-end couture collection of Swarovski accessories generally found adorning celebrities on the red carpet – celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and with that come 20 new bag designs and 20 new pieces of jewelry to commemorate the brand’s history.

Rather than reviving accessories from the archives, Swarovski artistic director Nathalie Colin chose to highlight how far their crystal technology has come with innovative applications of the famed crystals, from crystals applied to precious stones and pearls to exotic skins. The processes add up to spectacular-looking pieces with blinding luminosity. Bling is definitely not out – it’s just made out of crystals now, instead of diamonds.

This season, 1920’s art deco design inspired the look and feel of the pieces, from the vintage-looking styles of the delicate evening bags to the deco patterns used for the crystal settings. And in a nod to the changing demands of red carpet walking clients, the bags are now slightly larger to accommodate their number one purse accessory: the Blackberry.

Also new for Swarovski this year is an expanded watch collection, with high quality Swiss-made timepieces at the core of the new designs. For women, styles range from a crystal cuff, the “D:Light,” with a time display made up of crystals that light up only when a button is pressed ($1,500-$1,7000), to edgier styles like a wrap-around leather band ($575) or classic timepieces with a metal watchband and subtle crystal bezel ($650-$750).

Swarovski’s signature jewelry collection for autumn/winter 2009/10, “Nature Reloaded,” follows the nature-oriented theme started for spring with “Super Nature.” For this collection, Swarovski took a trip to an enchanted forest with wooden pendants embedded with crystals, to mushroom-shaped charms to smoky hues of plum, forest green and black crystal. Other key looks include serpent bangles and necklaces and Swarovski’s unofficial mascot characters, Erika and Elvis, re-imagined as a butterfly and a bumblebee, respectively.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Easter's biggest treat by Marc Jacobs

Easter's biggest treat this year didn't come in the shape of a chocolate egg courtesy of the Easter bunny. Oh no, thanks to Marc by Marc Jacobs it came in the altogether more thrilling guise of a brand new London store which, eagerly anticipated, opened on 56 South Audley Street in Mayfair on Saturday.

A stone's throw from the Marc Jacobs store on the ever popular Mount Street (where Lanvin, too, now resides alongside the likes of Jenny Packham and Christian Louboutin), shoppers can expect to be greeted by a Union Jack of blooms in the window and, besides signature cute dresses and blouses hanging on the rails inside, a host of affordable bags (we're talking from£19), belts, key chains, purses, T-shirts, umbrellas and other cult accessories.

Downstairs in the vault (the building was originally used as a bank), shoes and bags lie waiting while a corner upstairs is dedicated to sunglasses and the coolest of coffee table books can be found stacked high around the shop. And with menswear too, it's not just one for the girls.

Source : http://www.vogue.co.uk


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