Applause (Inspiration V)

Dear all,

just came from Istanbul. I have so many things to show you and tell you but before I have to close my inspiration cycle. This is last but not least post about it. For last I left my favorite designers but this is not a main reason to show their collections- it is because this season I find them top of the tops. I think those are really must- have, ok...I know most of them are really expensive but this is not reason to not fallow their fashion ways like colors, shapes, materials and way of wearing accessories. Please meet the best of the best...


GILES

Even thought this might remains you of Black Swan movie, Giles himself explains it is not. It is a panoply of interlocking, steam-of-consclousness references. He is inspired from different photographs and museum  automatons of swans. Giles marked silver tiered cutwork lace like main line. Important part of collection take also 3-D swan-printed satin, and filmy yet slightly sporty looks in red and black animal-print lace layered with bandeaus and briefs. As Deacon pointed out, the swan may be supremely elegant, but it's also fierce and savage. Big surprise of his show were swan headdresses. Those might be hard to wear but lets admit it- looks amazing. I have to say swan is my favorite bird and I am happy last and this year swan embezzle whole fashion, music and movie industries.

LANVIN

Alber Elbaz admit this collection is inspired came from idea of angel in hell. But as he drew and drew, the angel returned to earth. Still, if you let your mind go, you could imagine that the snakes coiled in appliqué across a dress or in a print down a pant leg were echoes of Down There. Typical for collection are shoulders which give epic silhouette, they could also remain of wings. As always in Lanvin collections main place take the dress. This time Mr. Elbaz add also some tops and bottoms. What makes impression here is how to wear day-clothing into night dress, no wonder all collection has one perfect simplicity that makes every piece of style already enough to wear day and night. Like every season key words for Lanvin collection are- sexy and strength. It is easy to see sexiness and strength in sheer tulle dresses that conveyed a nothing-to-hide vulnerability. Alber Elbaz is famous with making women desires true. I have to say all of my desires are collect in this collection and if you look carefully in it will notice how simple, radical and timeless it is. 

GIVENCHY  

Ouh how I love you Riccardo Tisci! Have to admit it all- ever since Givanchy made him creative director of the brand, it's status in worlds fashion scene change grew up to the sky. This collection is based on few colors and mostly on tailoring. The designer claimed surfers and mermaids as influences, but we've never seen either species in sexy suits quite like these: jackets that were sharp and soft at the same time, with strong, confident shoulders, and, for contrast, suggestive, undulating lapels and come-hither peplums trimmed not in leather but eel skin, shark, or stingray. Speaking of exotic materials, the jackets themselves weren't exactly cut from workaday fabrics. Chiffon sequins and lasered leather cutouts recalled the most stunning creations in his July couture show. My favourite idea in this collection is second- skin tight pants. I have to say this collection is most accessible that Tisci has ever done. Just love it!

BALMAIN

This post is really to hard to handle already. I cannot say which one collection in my best one, because I love all of them, but maybe biggest part of my love is for Balmain. After seeing the Spring collection (and already Fall 2012) I had no words to express my admirations. It was Olivier Rousteing's big moment. This is his first ready-to-wear collection after placing Christophe Decarnin. Inspiration for young designer is toreador costumes. "Mixing the tailoring of Mexico and the glamour of Vegas," was how he described his MO for Spring backstage. So there is a new softness to a wallpaper-floral motif rendered in pastel silk embroidery on an hourglass dress, one that was echoed in the baby blue and white print of the opening trousers. Maybe leather for warm seasons is not the best choice but I don't care. I will wear mine all season long. 

ALEXANDER McQUEEN

It is not like I don't respect and admire the talent of late Alexander McQueen but ever since Sarah Burton is involve. I find brand collections much more interesting and inspiring. And this spring she decided her styles to  be goddesses. She based her collection on the three Gs: Grès for the pleating and draping, Gaudí for the architecture, and Gaia for the sense of all-encompassing oceanic life that infused the clothes, like the outfits composed of coral or shells. Her matelassé jacquards are perfect pattern for this collection. This season is full with mystical creatures and materials, seeing also here. And if you carried the analogy still further, the black leather appliqué that infected a lace dress could be an oil slick; the Fortuny-pleated organza woven with copper, silver, and gold was like a pirate's buried treasure. The details of the clothes were so obsessively conceived and realized, they could have easily sunk the clothes. The color palette—as translucent as the inside of a shell. Burton duly injected the glossy black leather—a sinister barracuda slipping through the shoals of shimmer, like the spirit of her erstwhile mentor. 

CHANEL

Had enough of sea creatures?  Hopefully not because I left the last collage for his majesty Karl Lagerfeld. This collection is the masterpiece of Spring season. Inspired from magical underwater world, even The Grand Palais was transformed by huge, blinding white sea shapes—corals, shells, sea horses, stingrays. He'd been musing on the fact that forms as modern as anything designed by the architect Zaha Hadid have been shaped at the bottom of the ocean by natural processes taking millions of years. Perfect graphic modernity. He'd used new fabrics even he didn't know how to define. They brought an iridescent mother-of-pearl shimmer to the collection—the lightness literally shone through. Maybe this is reason why instead of belt were pearls around waist. Even thought this collection is not 100% Chanel style, Mr. Lagerfeld explained there are so many brands offering same style like Chanel, for that reason he wanted to escape a bit from main look. So there were boxy tweeds, drop waists, mille-feuille pleats. This collection is full with brightness and somehow pureness. It is not only reminding of sea bottom but heaven to me. 

My dear readers, this was "short" guide of my favourite collections. I hope you will get enough ideas for creating your perfect spring-summer outfit. Remember: important is to have personal style!