Fall, I Do

I miss winter. There, I said it. I'm currently in Israel and it's so hot outside that it makes me miss the awful first American winter I had a few months ago in Philadelphia and New York. I was never a summer person, and the fact that we have incredible beaches in Israel never helped. Give me my coats and layers back and I’ll be the happiest person ever.

On that note I wanted to share with you the next winter fashion campaigns I loved. So there were the 2 kings - Prada and Celine. Each and every season they keep surprising me with a new breath taking aesthetic (though I know I will love them before even seeing them). 

And with that said, this season I found a few other campaigns that I loved, and what was special about me liking them is that they are totally out of my "comfort zone". They don't reflect my obvious taste and it makes me like them even more. 

PRADA

No need to explain. It's just perfect.

CÉLINE

Again, no need to say a word.

With explanation:

SONIA RYKIEL

Because of the humor aesthetic and the tension it makes alongside the clothes and model.

ISABEL MARANT

Because of Daria of course (Werbowy, my favorite model) and because of this peaceful Parisian chic that is so typical Isabel Marant, but yet inventive each season.

MAX MARA

Because they came out of their comfort zone and because it reflects a new and great sport-elegant aesthetic, and because it's 100% Carine Roitfeld (the campaign stylist and a god).

CARVEN

Because it’s blurry but not a cliché blurry, I love the clothes and I put my eye on model Marina Deleeuw for a long time now and it's nice to notice they agree.

CALVIN KLEIN UNDERWEAR

Because supermodel Christy Turlington (she was there in the 90's, she will always be a super model) looks amazing at 44 and I thinks it's saying something great about fashion in general and maybe about the path fashion will take in the future. By the way, Turlington stared  the same campaign 20 years ago (!!).

and this is Turlington 20 years ago (just saying):

LANVIN

Because of the humor, again. But Alber Elbaz's (Lanvin’s designer) humor is always both sophisticated and sexy and celebrates the women’s body in such an amazing way. 

MISSONI

Because of the unexpected urban nature and model Stella Tennant (another one who was there also 20 years ago).

Final notes:

-Did you notice that there is something very pink in the pictures I chose?! I am totally a black-grey-white-blue kind of person…maybe something is happening to me…

-2 times Daria (in Celine and Isabel Marant) = obsession.

-2 times Christy Turlington (in Prada and Calvin Klein) = obsession.

-2 times photographer Steven Meisel (in Prada and Lanvin) = obsession.

DARIA

Don’t think I forgot the Daria thing I promised to put at the end of every post. As I said, we had a lot of Daria in this post already, put I can always use some more.

I mentioned the word humor a lot today, so here is a big Daria smile on the cover of Vogue Paris, August 2013 issue. A smile on the cover, so beautiful and unexpected.

And if I mentioned the little pink obsession alert – here is Daria in a beautiful soft pink, from an editorial in Vogue UK September 2013 issue.

That's all. XOXO

PUNK Time

Stella Tennant by Steven Meisel, Vogue UK 1993

It's been almost a month since the annual Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The theme of the event was PUNK since the new exhibition of the Costume Institute at the Met was named PUNK: CHAOS TO COUTURE. Punk, as a music movement of the 70's-80's wasn't at all about fashion, but from then until today it was definitely an inspiration for the fashion world. I didn't see the exhibition, but from pictures I saw and reviews I read, I think the goal of it was to show the impact of this movement on the luxury fashion world.

Stella Tennant by Paolo Roversi, Vogue UK May 2013

The exhibition drew a big conversation about punk and fashion, especially in the fashion magazines, but the punk editorials and the collections inspired by Punk were always there (the biggest example is Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and especially the combination between his designs and the amazing model Stella Tennanat, my Punk icon).

Stella Tennant, Chanel Spring 2013 Couture show

Left: Rooney Mara, Vogue November 2011. Right: Stella Tennant for Chanel

So although I didn't visit the exhibition, I decided to make a little research and find these pics and collections of this Punk inspiration, even the slightest ones, that I like the most. Enjoy. 

Vogue Paris, October 2010

Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere, Spring 2011 show

Left: Lara Stone, ID Magazine cover Spring 2013, Right: Kate Moss, Love Magazine Spring 2011

Linda Evangelista, Love Magazine Spring 2012

Fendi show, Fall 2013

Gianni Versace show, 1994

Chanel Spring 2013 Couture show

Chanel shows: left - Fall 2011, right - Spring 2011

Chanel shows: left - Fall 2013, right - Fall 2011

Daria Werbowy

Stella Tennant, ID Magazine cover, May 2011

And another thing, I decided this post will be the launch of a new thing that will appear in every post. As mentioned in other posts (here and here), you may know that I love the model Daria Werbowy. I think she is “the one” of our time, in top-models’ terminology. As a result, I decided that at the end of every new post I will add a picture(/s) of her that I like and that relates to the subject I was talking about (and maybe sometimes it won't be related at all :). Hope you'll like it. 

DARIA

Director Cass Bird shoots Daria Werbowy for a Vogue video, May 2013. The video name: Punk Stories. (recommended: view the video in full-screen). (If you can't see the video window you can click here and watch it on YouTube).

From the video shoot, Daria Werbowy by Cass Bird

(All runway pics are from style.com)