Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are having a mud-paint-and-twigs-as-accessories moment in their spring 2010 look book for The Row. Despite the distracting dirty limbs, we are loving that they did indeed introduce denim into the collection and, as reported, the jeans do look like vintage Levis. The knits are superb as are a pair of black leather trousers, a red leather skirt, a satin night shirt, and perfectly wrinkled blazers in white and nude.
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We've long been obsessed with Shelly Steffee's sharply cut, inventive brand of fashion and often pass through her Meatpacking District boutique/showroom/salon to shop, peruse her vintage jewelry collection, and check out the new design talent she's currently supporting. (Right now Steffee is selling Patrik Muff of Nymphenburg's porcelain pendants—of which we purchased the black wing charm on rose gold.)
Since forgoing her usual in-store presentation for spring 2010, Steffee took us through the collection personally. "I knew I wanted to do prints and address something primal by getting back to the basics," she said, "to return to tailoring but mix that structure with draping techniques."
For Steffee back to the basics meant more of what her loyal following love to wear—reversible jackets, tailored riding coats, mesh tanks, and shirt dresses and tops that can be worn multiple ways. The aforementioned spring prints were inspired by a book of fish x-rays, which Steffee digitally collaged to create geometric textures on chiffon and jersey in shades of blue, gray, and white.
In addition to Steffee's always covetable array of blazers, lingerie-style bra tops and perfect tees, two dresses caught our eye during the visit—a black asymmetrical sheath with subtle cut outs at the shoulder and a red, draped-yet-tailored cocktail number with a back slit.
Although Steffee has been doing the thoughtful, multifunctional fashion thing for a long time, it's never seemed quite so relevant and felt quite as urgent. Call us fans.
Maria Cornejo's capsule menswear collection, available next spring, is full of the types of directional silhouettes her womenswear clients have come to love. For the tightly-edited 28 piece line, Cornejo distills her signature shapes down to a few key looks for men—a textured double-layered shirt, a concave rain jacket, soft blazers, and a pair of tailored slim pants—all with classic Zero + Maria Cornejo detailing, namely asymmetric lines and plays on volume.
Trippy, geometric prints dominated the spring runways—appearing in black and white oversized checks at Junya Watanabe, pastel digitally-printed cubes at Peter Pilotto, thick stripes at Marni, and psychedelic patterns at Givenchy.
For the spring 2010 Calvin Klein jeans, swimwear, underwear and accessories collection, creative director Kevin Carrigan kept it clean and simple. The focus was on denim and American sportswear—the former bleached white and used in slim jeans with ankle zips and micro shorts, the latter in the form of chambray blazers and tie-dye shirt dresses.
New York 11/10/09. Source: WWD, FWD
At the hands of Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten, mixed prints and layers of contrasting fabrics somehow make sense when paired with graphic jeweled cuffs and oversized neckpieces. Diane von Furstenberg took a more bohemian approach to the tribal trend for spring—with armfuls of bangles and printed maxi-dresses—while Frida Giannini and Nicolas Ghesquière fell hard for the urban warrior.
Israeli designer Lia Kes nails major spring themes in her most recent collection. Her easy evening dresses are among our favorite uncomplicated, wear anywhere options from the line up—in silk and knit with subtle shoulder padding and an asymmetrical hem. Also of interest from Kes' fifth collection—ruched micro skirts, graphic racer-back tanks, and a silk wide-leg jumper—each in a subtle color palette of gunmetal, black, white, and blue.
The Riviera Club menswear look book reminds us just how much we love the laid back vintage style of Southern California surfers. In their debut collection, friends and designers Derek Buse, Greg Ullery, and Joe Sadler looked to a man named Bucker Spreckels—a real life Los Angeles party boy who spent his multimillion dollar inheritance surfing around the globe and chasing women before dying very young—as inspiration for the spring 2010 collection. Each season the boys of Riviera Club have vowed to search for a different real-life or mythical muse, hopefully without losing their specific brand of West Coast charm.
In addition to our favorites from the recent bridal shows, we've selected the 50 best unofficial wedding dresses from the spring collections in New York, London, Milan and Paris. From a strapless Stella McCartney jumpsuit to Azzaro's floor length column dresses and Chloé's haute hippie looks, the spring shows offered something for every type of bride-to-be.
Yves Saint Laurent
Vanessa Bruno
Hogan
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