Dolce&Gabbana Spring Summer 2017 Women's Show
Weekly #fashioninspo - The Dolce & Gabbana Spring ready-to-wear show was a good vantage point for observing how the old-fashioned runway system is being questioned—pushed by digital technology to the brink of falling apart. Stefano Gabbana is the social media–savvy, fast-reacting, hilariously self-mocking one on Instagram (brave his in-underpants exercise videos if you dare); Domenico Dolce is the hands-on tailor-couturier with a huge Southern Italian heritage behind him. At one and the same time, these two were some of the first enthusiasts of the changing media (live-streaming, bloggers front row), while also becoming pioneers of the long, slow, excessively luxuriant “experiential” travel habit, which has now taken over the summer schedule.
If you whittle all that down, these guys have been Italian fashion’s best advocates for bringing the outside in—and these days, thanks to the invention of the cell phone camera, all that life, detail, movement, history, and exuberance can be captured, shared, pored over, and treasured by all. With their Spring collection, they brought in 20 “millennials,” from Lucky Blue Smith and his sisters to Luka Sabbat and Cameron Dallas. They also put on an energetic, democratic kids’ performance—street dancers, up from Naples, who occupied the runway, in their own clothes with their wild fusion of hip-hop and the ancient bloodline heritage of the Neapolitan tarantella.
What the young, flown-in audience saw on the runway—from the light-up heels to the multiple varieties of Alice-band headdresses (tiaras, turbans, piles of fruit)—was calculated, of course, to connect with trophy-hunting kids on a budget. Also for them, the D&G logo T-shirts, an ironic reappropriation of the market-stall fakes. Pretty clever move, in the context of the cultural soup Vetements and others are swimming in.
Nevertheless, this was a traditional show. After the real dancers, came the models, walking single file, not much smiling. What they
Gucci Spring Summer 2017 Full Fashion Show
Weekly #fashioninspo with Gucci. Taking us to another world.
We are in a simulacrum of a ’70s nightclub or—given the boudoir-pink velvet banquettes, mirrors, and miles of matching carpet—maybe it’s a high-class pick-up joint. A white mist imitates cigarette smoke. It feels like being in a movie set. But something is not right. “You know, when you are in love, in a nightclub, but you are not in the right place, the person is not there?” said Alessandro Michele, in a backstage preview, minutes before his strangely solemn Gucci creatures set their gigantically platformed feet on the plush pink runway. Oh: So we’re speaking of being all dressed up, yet brokenhearted at the same time?
Maybe. There was one tiered evening dress that had a giant red embroidered heart, pierced with a jeweled dagger on the front, and the numerals “XXV” above it, which is Michele’s lucky number and part of the name of his Instagram account (@lallo25). Yet Michele’s whole point is never to dwell on a single point—it’s a phantasmagoria of vintage 20th-century pop-culture references, bound up with relics of the Renaissance that he created here. One pathway to understanding this most surreal of his collections might be the fact that he met Elton John at the GQ Men of the Year awards, and he’s a fan. Hence the opening look, with its tweedy jacket and flares, and the extra-big ’70s glitter-framed shades. Florence Welch was reading the poems of William Blake on the soundtrack. Then again, you would be rewarded by looking at the gigantically platformed footwear, and learning that Renaissance Venice also comes into it. Before the show, Michele knelt and picked up one example with a black patent 5-inch wedge and a black velvet upper, which was embroidered with a gold snake. “Prostitutes in Venice used to wear these,” he exclaimed. The necessities of glam streetwalking in a city of floods meant that elevated pattens, or chopines, soon became elaborately stylish and beaut
ROBERTO CAVALLI SPRING SUMMER 2017
Weekly #fashioninspo . ROBERTO CAVALLI SPRING SUMMER 2017 - Patchworked references, patchwork itself, long drifty dresses, flares, platforms—they’re all very “in” this season. In Italy, Peter Dundas has always been the most committed advocate of that look: come minimalism, come covered-up, come normcore, he’s always had his head in the hippy ’70s. Stay still long enough and the world will revolve around to where you’re standing. That was, sort of, the case with Dundas’s Spring collection for Roberto Cavalli.
There’s no contesting the fact that Dundas is a dab-hand at cutting a louche pair of flares (see the mouthwatering apricot silver-embroidered silk velvet pair) and at fitting a tiered, multi-everything dress to make a tall girl look like a toweringly slim reincarnation of what her grandmother might have worn in 1970. This season, Dundas said he’d looked to American textiles like Navajo blankets, as his mother was from the United States, and cross-referenced them with Scandinavia, meaning snow-inspired polka dots and memories of chunky wooden-soled clogs, which he transformed into platform boots.
There’s always a niche for this sort of thing. The striped jackets and skinny flares are in sync with fashion, as are the drifty dresses, fringed blankets, and shawls. Considering all the work involved in these pieces, though, young girls like the ones on the runway aren’t going to be able to afford to buy Cavalli. Probably it’s an older customer who might magpie around this collection when it hits stores.
Source: Vogue
PIRELLI CALENDAR 2017 by Peter Lindbergh
And just because we can't get enough of these stunning women and Peter Lindbergh's amazing photography, a little making of.. Great start of a monday morning. #realwomen #naturalgoals #keepitreal
Scotch & Soda - NYFW SS'17
We simply can't get enough of Scotch & Soda. They are going more and more tribal with every season. We dream of accesorizing these urban amazons and city warriors. Check out their New York Fashion Week Show Spring/Summer collection 2017.. Bring it on!!!
