Now that summer is officially over its time to step into fall. What better way to do that than in something inspired and daring. This post is meant to provide some material for you ladies to work with. It comprises my favourite looks from the Fall 2011 Collections of some of my favourite designers. It also lists prominent trends for the season below the images. Enjoy my lovelies.
Inspiration
truly vintage
I was looking through some old photo albums and I decided to share some of what I found with you. Fashion really does go round in circles because I would wear pretty much everything I saw on my mom and aunt in those vintage pics. I attribute my love for fashion and aesthetics to the two of them. Your creativity is contagious so thank you. By the way, that’s my aunt in the polkadot dress (above).
Alexander McQueen tri-post tribute: The Visionary
How do you approach the sensitive subject of a visionary fashion designer tragically leaving us. This very question has been the cause of my hesitation in making a tribute post for quite some time. Somehow a single post didn’t seem sufficient to pay my respects to as great a genius as Alexander McQueen, hence my eventual decision to turn this into a tri-post tribute. But even now, I’m struggling with what direction I should take this in; falling into the trap of typing and deleting lines of text for the past ten minutes. Maybe in order to get out of this trap I will simply state what is at the very heart of these posts – fashion lovers will forever mourn your loss….intensely.
gaga for balenciaga
A few years ago I remember walking into a discount store in Toronto and seeing – amongst general mediocracy of everything else – what appeared to be a skirt from another world. A world of luxury, craftsmanship, elegance, and class. I was in a state of complete awe and astonishment. Within this trance from couture bewitchment, I longed to get lost in this mysterious world – the world of Balenciaga!
Stella McCartney in the ‘fresh’
It is now Stella’s turn to act the muse. I’ve always been fond of her fresh, playful kind of approach to fashion, with its ever-present sense of ease and cool. When putting together what I found to be the most interesting pieces from her spring and resort collections, there a few things that I noticed that sort of made me pause and think. First of all, as much as I love Stella’s clothes, I found her debut (2002) collection pretty uninspired. I would even go as far as to call it simply bad. It just seems so gimmicky and even vulgar. All the risqué slogans left an unpleasant taste in my mouth and made me wonder “why.” Well, in Stella’s defence, it was her first collection as an independent designer and this might have been her attempt at making her entrance with a bang (regardless of how big a flop it might have proven to be). At least our girl takes risks, right?
