s/s 2012
I was so incredibly impressed by the beauty trends of Spring/Summer 2012, I can’t hold it in! As a former make-up artist, I can appreciate the creativity and effort that goes into the more extravagant beauty trends, but hate to see them ‘inspiring’ young girls into cake-facing themselves. Personal preference, of course, as I am a woman who rarely wears colour anywhere but the lips. For that reason, I am going crazy over S/S 2012. With a plethora of fresh-faced looks that would be pretty easy to interpret from home, it fit into the ‘natural’ beauty ideals that I rave...
Hold your tears, fashionistas. Though the Week/Month of Fashion has bid us adieu, I have the final edition of the Spring/Summer 2012′s Best Dressed here for you: Paris Fashion Week! Plus, by the time we recover from the show schedules, champagne comas, and spiked platform t-strap stilettos, it will be Autumn/Winter 2012. Time to get inspired!...
Louis Vuitton is the show that people will be talking about for years to come. Following an onslaught of rumours that Marc Jacobs would be jumping ship and heading to Christian Dior, the show seemed to act as a rebuttal in itself. Pre-show, the runway area hid a circular structure by covering it in white curtain. When the show began, early (!!), the fashion crowd gasped in unison as the curtain dropped and revealed a full-size white carousel, where every model perched atop a horse. One by one, each model hopped off the slow-turning carousel and walked the round runway...
Paco Rabanne has not shown ready to wear since 2006. But damn, did those 5 years produce results. As it was Manish Arora‘s first collection since taking over the brand, I will let him explain his Spring/Summer 2012 collection: “The workmanship is similar [between my own work and Paco Rabanne's work]. We like to work hard, we like to make dresses that take 25 people and 20 days to make and that’s the value of Paco Rabanne that I appreciate and that’s the common factor”. While Manish has a real flair for sci-fi showmanship, he seemed to put his own...
In my head, where I have the design skills of a couturier and a fabric arsenal of my favourite stores in East London, I dream of collections like this. Delivering demi-couture like only this label knows how, it was incredibly moving to – yet again – feel like Lee McQueen was holding the reigns of the design process. A testament to the absolute brilliance of Sarah Burton. For her third solo collection for Alexander McQueen, the obsessive detailing was as powerful as ever. Breathtaking and haunting pieces (dresses, dresses everywhere) were modelled after the three G’s; Grès for the pleating...
Lela is…
Editor. Freelance fashion/beauty/lifestyle journalist. Former (and when industry friends ask) fashion stylist and makeup artist. Media Executive. Currently based in London. Author of She Said Style.
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