Are you ready for a trip? Vuitton’s designer Kim Jones invites us to join him and check the new Louis Vuitton Menswear fall-winter 2012-2013 collection. You will ask: Where are we going? Kim Jones says from west to east. Our directions are Paris and Tokyo. This would be a pleasant journey as the designer proposes to wear bathrobe-like coats.

Georges Vuitton, Louis Vuitton’s son, always took inspiration from Japan. He adored Japanese floral print and paid special attention to it while he was developing the brand monogram. And of course he loved travelling. Kim also likes travelling. In another case he won’t have a second season success in the role of Vuitton’s designer. And in the new Louis Vuitton Menswear fall-winter 2012-2013 collection Kim Jones pays tribute to the Japanese culture, which gave him inspiration.

The Vuitton Menswear fall-winter 2012-2013 was named “a tale of two cities” to commemorate long and fruitful relationship between the two world capitals – Tokyo and Paris. Moreover, Jones has always respected Antonio Lopez’s art works. According to Jones, Lopez was one of the first artists who went to Japan and found out its potential and implemented it in European art. Thus Antonio Lopez’s motives can also be tracked in the Louis Vuitton Menswear fall-winter 2012-2013 collection.

The international style collection deserve this epithet: a sandy camel coat with collar of kangaroo fur, crocodile patches trench, a coat from a brand Vuitton travel blanket, astrakhan shoes, bag locks were covered in tiny leather sheaths modeled on the Chinese zodiac signs, and the most precious – silks, tissued outside capital Tokyo, according to UNESCO this place is s World Heritage Site. The wonder is also that the tissuing process requires only 20 centimeters daily. But in the Vuitton Menswear fall-winter 2012-2013 collection we see kimono shirts and even suits sewn from the textile.

Talking about the suits I can’t help mention “the replacement of the three-piece” where shirts were used like waistcoats under jackets. Some men jackets and coats from Vuitton fall-winter 2012-2013 collection had the collars color different from the suit body.

Japan fabrics, hand-painted feathers, new forms all these made Louis Vuitton Menswear fall-winter 2012-2013 collection a genuine pleasure of an eye and mind. See the whole collection below.

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Perfect city-style from Giorgio Armani was presented during the Milan fashion week 2012 in Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012-13 collection. While watching the collection I felt the smell of naphthalene from Soviet-like long black-leather men coats. Though these outdoors are ideal for the mild winter we have this year.

Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012-13 performs the classic wear of the Soviet 60-s: yobs in waistcoats and peaky caps, candy kids in low cut tweed jackets and berets, gentlemen in solid long coats accessorized with brutal rude leather handbags.

Mr Armani saw his Autumn/Winter 2012-13 suit orientated collection in somber grey, black and blue palette. Most of the draped trousers were peg-topped and tight to the bottom, resembling cossacks. Some sweaters had colorful red and blue knits bringing some life to the collection.

Leather was one of the main men trends 2012 in the Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012-13 collection. Black leather gloves and cropped leather vests gave that perfect and a bit inaccessible look to Armani man 2012. On the contrary dandy-influenced velvet coat models appeared homely warm wardrobe.

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As you see Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012-13 was rather cold from the first sight despite of the warm material used in the menswear 2012 collection.
Check the video with full Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012-13 collection below.

Christian Dior has launched the new Christian Dior Handbags 2012 resort collection. The high street handbags collection is fresh, bold and cute as usual. And if you want to become quickly a summerish style siren showcase one of Dior high street outfits.

The festive atmosphere which is created by Christian Dior Handbags 2012 resort collection could easily turn a boring day into a super outfit parade. And juicy and bright colors of the Christian Dior Handbags 2012 resort collection (indigo, aquamarine, pink and red) help you in that.

Speaking about the main trends we catch those chain straps which are one of the fashion handbags trends 2012. Then goes classic summer textile – the straw. Dior straw handbag is a scream for 2012 summer season ladylike outfit. And of course the piton pattern. I think that there are no designers which can spare without this pattern in 2012 season collection.

As for me I liked Christian Dior Handbags 2012 resort collection for its elegance and charm. Despite of the tacky colors, the handbags shape is ideal. This is a perfect balance: both a young girl and a woman can wear Christian Dior handbags 2012.

See the whole Christian Dior Handbags 2012 resort collection below.

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Since Kate Middleton’s wedding Sarah Burton (the after-death Alexander McQueen fashion house creative director) set about gardening and presented the new cabbage-inspired Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer RTW Collection 2012 at Paris Fashion Week.

Feminine woman dressed in a lot of ruche and frilling pale beige and pink, nude, cabbage-form frilling on skirts, cabbage-texture and cabbage-print dresses – that is all Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer RTW Collection 2012. Aged gold color costumes give the special medieval chic to the collection – the Alexander McQueen’s calling card.

Then see those macramé laces. Can you imagine middle Ages with its’ Gothicism without laces? So does Sarah Burton. Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer RTW Collection 2012 showed magnificent black-laced evening gown with sights of nude in the most unacceptable places. Designer even went too far with laces and put them on the models heads in a way of pastiche helmet, or better to say helmet’s vizard. Not sure that this is ready to wear for everyone.

The good news is the corsetry jackets embellished with tough leather belts. Together with tightly pulled narrowed skirts they make practically any women’s figure slimmer and give the desired sand-glass shape.

Talking about the textiles I must say, that chiffon is the best material for making cabbage-form silhouette by gathering the material like ostrich bodies shape. Pay attention to the chosen colors for those dresses: pale lavender, coral and pink. Doesn’t it resemble you those salad leaves? Thus the emerged in many collections 2012 aquatic theme was thought out by Burton.

Mystique as usual and in McQueen’s clue McQueen Spring/Summer RTW Collection 2012 was fine hymn to medieval spring. And how do you think, does Sarah Burton manage to correspond to the perfect McQueen’s style through her three collections?

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Seems Karl Lagerfeld doesn’t wait much sun from this spring season. As Chanel Spring/Summer Collection 2012 was rather snowy. There were a lot of white, pale palette and just modest black and light-pink, trying to get out of that snow.

Surprising himself and all the critics, Karl presented chanel spring collection 2012 under the Florence Welch’s incredible accompaniment. By the way, she sang live.

Intricate techniques used in Chanel collection 2012 gave birth to the Spring/Summer 2012 trends. First of all it was silver, which managed to cool the summer hit. Metallic lamé skirts, silver tweed jackets and flat-footed metallic silver booties appeared on chanel sping collection 2012 models. Then goes the pearl - pearlised tweed suits and pearl-studded jackets spines, pearl encrusted handheld clutches, all these detail would surely be catchwaves of the next spring season.

Talking about the Chanel Spring/Summer Collection 2012 I can’t help mention wearing exotic wardrobe mixes. This collection was reach in routine breaking decisions. Elastic-edged bombers or metallic tweed jackets were proposed to be worn with pencil skirts of leather, chiffon vests and atheletic shorts, as well as with pulsating lace or tulle skirts.

The only ordinary thing was the ribbed-knitted jacket worn with the A-line skirt. Much resembling Chanel’s spring collection, but we won’t pay much attention to that fact. Thus Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2012 was much like winter. Think this would be nice, regarding the forecasted hot summer 2012.

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Сhristian Dior Spring/Summer Collection 2012 showed that Dior’s show goes on without Galliano. The new Сhristian Dior ready-to-wear collection brought some fresh notes to the catwalk so that I’d rather took some of these fabulous chiffon dresses and put them on because of the unexpectedly hot weather.

Bill Gaytten saw spring/summer collection 2012 in pastel tone: caramel, beige with grey (rather freaky mix, I’ve never thoughts of it, but it works), palest blue.  The festive accent was made by carmine dresses and leather sleeveless jackets. They were just perfect! So effective they were on Karolina Kurkova, opening the show, Miranda Kerr and Karlie Kloss.

Dior’s woman of 50-s is always right and she knows what she wants. If you need a confirmation – read the Сhristian Dior Spring/Summer Collection 2012. Read it in the feminine organza full skirts and boat-necked blouses, in narrow leather belts around the collarless tweed coats, in charming and mystique Stephen Jones’s leather cloche hats. The trousers were specially shortened to show heels embellished with thin chains.

For the evening Сhristian Dior Spring/Summer Collection 2012 wear the fashion designer decided to choose the unmistakable collaboration of lace and chiffon in black-and-white palette. I have no word but gorgeous! I can bet that these transparent and at the same time full of elegance and Dior’s chic evening gowns would soon be spotted at the red carpet. Light as air, grey-blue, nude and black, those gowns fitted numerous layers of chiffon with sexy lace under them.  It could be sexier, but it already has been!

Light irony and flirt with which Сhristian Dior ready-to-wear tease you means you are surrendered and have chance to get out alive.

See the whole Сhristian Dior Spring/Summer Collection 2012 below.

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Sakura blossom falls 5 sm per second…

The intriguing phrase that I used in the beginning means that in this article we’ll talk about the Japanese wedding dresses. As you guessed traditionally Japanese weddings take place in spring and … autumn. So if you are going to get married soon and you are from Japan or just a fan of a Japanese bride style I prose you’ll find this article interesting.

Firstly, let me say a few words about the Japanese wedding itself. The Japanese wedding ceremony can be divided into 2 main parts: “Shinto ceremony“ (the formal part in other words) held at shrines and “kekkon hiroen” (the informal part, reception ceremony) held at ceremony halls or hotels).

The Shinto ceremony requires from the bride the traditional Japanese women gown – kimono. This simple straight-lined robe wrapped on the brides’ body and tied with an uki must be of white silk. The white Japanese wedding kimono is called shiro-maku. Colorful wedding kimono is put on during the reception ceremony and worn is called iro-uchikake.

So the bride has the wear two or even more kimono and change them according the ceremonies. As you see this is not very convenient. So for the contemporary Japanese brides I propose another variant. Find two wedding dresses: a traditional shiro-maku for Shinto ceremony and Japanese-inspired modern wedding dress for reception party. Thus you won’t need to wear several kimono simultaneously, elaborating one after another according to the ceremony. And won’t resemble Russian “matreshka”. Remember, we have Japanese wedding here!

Rather fresh variant but I’m sure you’ll like it! If you think that there would be a problem with the second dress (I mean Japanese-inspired modern wedding dress) you are wrong. There are plenty of designers, both Western and Eastern, who find inspiration in the Japanese theme.

For example,  Aoyama and Motoazabu. Their dresses, found in The Micie bridal boutique in Tokyo, would please you with the sophisticated back and bodice details, which make even simple dress chic and glamorous.

Then I liked Japanese wedding dresses from Setsuko Wakatsuki. He “specializes on outmarriageы”, combining the traditional Japanese fabrics, obi sash knot and flared kimono style sleeves, serpentina-cuts and chiffon overlays with the Western style.

Of course, if you are lack of money to buy the two Japanese wedding dresses, you can rent them both. But the last thing that I can say there could be no future without traditions. And Japanese people are absolutely right!

The atmosphere was set thoroughly. While the D&G 2012 collection strode past, Prince was singing his renown lines, “You don’t have to be rich to be my girl…” And there were colorful, feminine and refined ensembles without the lightness of some previous seasons’ foppish boys and vividly printed dresses.

Bright swirls of accessories were absolutely eye-capturing, particularly the scarves in green and pink, orange and yellow, red, yellow and gold, with polka dot flashes and leopard prints. They were worn in different positions, some wrapped up around the body resulting into ruched dresses or worn on top of each other forming layers, some were cut as the sleeves of denim sweatshirts or worn as a sarong under a white shirt.

Despite the aura of spontaneity which was set by numerous flippant scarves, it was no casual collection. The line gave an impression of a gorgeous whirl of Flamenco, especially the huge hats with colorful scarves, large golden coin waterfalls streaming from earlobes.

An up-to-date and trendy propositions were silky pyjama suits, which by all means looked luxurious in D&G 2012 Collection. The pieces were in contrasting bright prints and would look fine both together and apart.

At the end all the models walked out together as a band of colorful gypsies with loose hair. Each dress looked brighter and more romantic than the last. A fascinating show, indeed.

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There’s a special sense of beauty and glamor in Gucci Ready-To-Wear Spring/Summer 2012. As Frida Giannini said she’d just wanted to explore the optical side of feminine fashion. The Gucci 2012 Collection spiced up the Milan Fashion Week by impressive elements from art and photography, from our DNA and design history, by outlining the strong personality. The show presents the generosity of the hedonic era, stylish embroidery against the metropolis skyscrapers’ background and skillful working with 3D effect.

The Gucci 2012 Spring/Summer Collection is full of richly colored fur-and-felt units which attracted the audiences. Therefore, Giannini has completely replaced her love for the 70s by the glossy novelty of the modern era.

Special atmosphere was set by gold-and-black cocktail dresses with ornate art-deco beading around the waist. Gucci jackets also look like a great investment for the coming season. They are slightly shortened, collarless and decorated with gold-and-black adornments.

The Gucci Ready-To-Wear Spring/Summer 2012 could also boast some animal themes. For example, the double-breasted jackets with equestrian references via frog latches, or giraffe and zebra prints merged with leopard spots.

As lustrous as ever, the collection prevailed with black, white and gold perfect pieces along with smoky eyes. Many outfits were just slightly touched with a gold shades. For instance, a strapless green piece had a line of gold around the hips or the bronze-touched gladiator sandals with killer high heels.

Among the new and glossy models there were the old Gucci sexy ensembles–a cutaway black swimsuit, with a transparent touch of chiffon over it, and low-cut silky dresses.

All in all, the show was fantastic, with a genuine Italian talent and sense of style. Take a look at Gucci Spring/Summer 2012:

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This season the icon of fashion Vera Wang presented her mysterious collection for the New York Fashion Week. Vera Wang Spring/Summer 2012 Collection was inspired by a psychedelic fairytale muse – Alice in Wonderland. It contained mostly youthful and hyper-progressive spring designs which couldn’t be compared with Vera Wang dresses of bridal and gown-shaped style, in the slightest.

The atmosphere was set by the childish melody background from an antique music box. While the catwalk was hit by Victorian-style sporty ensembles with numerous layers of snowy white, changing slowly to the graphic and abstract prints and colour variations: from yellowish to grey, then from rose to cobalt or indigo.

The well-known audience in front rows was startled at the final floor-length numbers. Among them where:  Beyonce Knowles, Kim Kardashian, Jen Brill (Chanel ambassador) and others. The Vera Wang 2012 was an obvious exploration of fine tailoring and transparency, which combined together, gave a cutting-edge and unique effect.

A number of vests and jackets with hoods and short-cut shorts added the collection an athletic edge. In addition some bodices and corset-garments borrowed from modern fetish streams brought in some chic and subtlety. While some of the outfits in Vera Wang’s Ready-To-Wear 2012 Collection carried a psychedelic character, especially the organza and tulle pieces and meringue-like mini-skirts, the majority was original and practically wearable.

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