Nicolas Ghesquiere

Nicolas Ghesquiere, probably one of the most talented and innovative fashion designers of our time, is showing TODAY his first collection for LOUIS VUITTON. I am waiting for this show for months now, and although Ghesquiere has very large shoes to fill (Marc Jacobs'!), I believe it will be amazing - the future of fashion will walk down the runway today. 

These are only few of his amazing looks showed throughout the years while working at Balenciaga...One can only imagine what will happen at Vuitton today...

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)

Calm = Stunning

All the big fashion designers are starting to publish their new ad campaign for the Spring-Summer 2013 collection. Yes, I know it is freezing outside - I started wearing two coats at the same time, but this is just the way it is in fashion. Usually I find in each season few campaigns I really like, but this season I totally fell in love with three of them: CELINE, PRADA, BALENCIAGA. 

I think the reason for my immediate crush, you know what, it's not a crush because crushes are coming and going and I feel like I will love these ads forever :) (ok..maybe it was just a little bit too dramatic)... So I was saying, the reason I love them so much is because there is something so calm, almost sporty (without being sporty at all) about all three of them, each in a completely different way, that makes the attitude of the picture and clothes just so beautiful. 

In Prada it's the face of the amazing models they picked (and the best one is Raquel Zimmermann - in the right first picture above) with the composition and the way the clothes are just resting on the body. In Celine it's the way they shoot it and the fact they decided (again) to show us the amazing so natural beauty of model Daria Werbowy, along with the clothes ohh these so simple but yet so sophisticated and stunning clothes. And in Balenciaga they just left the wavy movement of the clothes to talk, while  emphasizing it with its opposite: rough compositions and black and white pictures.