Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Gucci autumn/winter 2011 at Milan Fashion Week
via The Telegraph
Frida Giannini opens Milan Fashion Week with a bold, jewel-coloured collection for Gucci.
Gucci opened Milan Fashion Week today with a bold collection of jewelled colours, provocative, sheer evening gowns, and extravagant fox jackets dyed in shades of purple, emerald, turquoise, orange and fuschia.
The collection, designed by Frida Giannini, Gucci's creative director, focused on a 1940's-meets-1970's silhouette, inspired by Faye Dunaway in 'The Eyes of Laura Mars', and the style of the flame-haired, British singer, Florence Welch, of Florence & The Machine.
The look for day was dandified, with bright fox jackets and stoles, fitted, belted waistcoats, and culottes, worn with feather-trim Trilby's, pussycat-bow blouses, and patent or snakeskin boots. Coloured feathers also decorated the models' ponytails.
For evening, the mood shifted into sultry, seductive mode, the models swishing down the carpeted catwalk in see-through, halter-neck, red carpet gowns, festooned with cascades of silk roses, and split to the waist over matching "big knickers".
Tonight, Giannini will launch "The Fiat 500 by Gucci", a special edition of the iconic car which she has customized in a modernist black, white and chrome palette, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the famous luxury fashion brand, as well as the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
The new car will also be presented at the Geneva Auto Show in March, in a Gucci pop-up store on the Fiat stand.
Frida Giannini opens Milan Fashion Week with a bold, jewel-coloured collection for Gucci.
Gucci opened Milan Fashion Week today with a bold collection of jewelled colours, provocative, sheer evening gowns, and extravagant fox jackets dyed in shades of purple, emerald, turquoise, orange and fuschia.
The collection, designed by Frida Giannini, Gucci's creative director, focused on a 1940's-meets-1970's silhouette, inspired by Faye Dunaway in 'The Eyes of Laura Mars', and the style of the flame-haired, British singer, Florence Welch, of Florence & The Machine.
The look for day was dandified, with bright fox jackets and stoles, fitted, belted waistcoats, and culottes, worn with feather-trim Trilby's, pussycat-bow blouses, and patent or snakeskin boots. Coloured feathers also decorated the models' ponytails.
For evening, the mood shifted into sultry, seductive mode, the models swishing down the carpeted catwalk in see-through, halter-neck, red carpet gowns, festooned with cascades of silk roses, and split to the waist over matching "big knickers".
Tonight, Giannini will launch "The Fiat 500 by Gucci", a special edition of the iconic car which she has customized in a modernist black, white and chrome palette, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the famous luxury fashion brand, as well as the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
The new car will also be presented at the Geneva Auto Show in March, in a Gucci pop-up store on the Fiat stand.
'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' Previewed At London Fashion Week
Anna Wintour and Samantha Cameron presented a preview of "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" at London Fashion Week on Tuesday. The Costume Institute's exhibition honoring the late designer will be installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City come May and include more than 100 pieces of his work, dating back to 1994 and up to last year.
Most of the items came from McQueen's colleagues and friends, although Costume Institute Curator Andrew Bolton mentioned to Women's Wear Daily that he's still looking for one more thing: "It's a coat with three points. I have a softer version of the coat from McQueen's MA show, but I can't locate the more solid, structured one. I'd love to find it."
Director of the Met Thomas Campbell told the Guardian, McQueen's "work fits so easily within the discourse of art. He can be considered no less than an artist whose medium of expression was fashion."
Also on-hand for the preview was Stella McCartney, co-chair of the exhibition and Sarah Burton, who took over McQueen's label.
The exhibition will run from May 4 to July 31 and the annual Gala will be held May 2.
Take a look at some of the pieces to be featured, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(All images by Sølve Sundsbø)
Most of the items came from McQueen's colleagues and friends, although Costume Institute Curator Andrew Bolton mentioned to Women's Wear Daily that he's still looking for one more thing: "It's a coat with three points. I have a softer version of the coat from McQueen's MA show, but I can't locate the more solid, structured one. I'd love to find it."
Director of the Met Thomas Campbell told the Guardian, McQueen's "work fits so easily within the discourse of art. He can be considered no less than an artist whose medium of expression was fashion."
Also on-hand for the preview was Stella McCartney, co-chair of the exhibition and Sarah Burton, who took over McQueen's label.
The exhibition will run from May 4 to July 31 and the annual Gala will be held May 2.
Take a look at some of the pieces to be featured, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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