Saturday, October 23, 2010

INSPIRATION AdvancedStyle.com... CéLINE AD

"AdvancedStyle.blogspot.com is a proof from the wise and silver-haired set that personal style advances with age" [left]… and  Céline agrees with this concept in it's Advertisement Campaign by using Gitte Lee [right]. Gitte Lee is a Danish actress who is married to the wonderful Christopher Lee.
Ari Seth Cohen, founder and editor of Advanced Style, is a Sartorialist for the superannuated and chronicles the stylish and often eccentric get-ups of a group in our society that's normally ignored by the fashion system… and I love it.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

INSPIRATION Yves Saint Laurent 1985... GUCCI SS//2011

A picture photographed by Helmut Newton from 1985 [left] showing an outfit of Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche collection from 1985, with in the background a portrait series by Andy Warhol done in 1972... and Gucci's SS//2011 collection [right].

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

INSPIRATION Henri Rousseau 1910... Lanvin SS//2011

Henri Rousseau's jungle painting 'The Dream' [left/ some cut-outs] reminds me of the five gorgeous african queens in Lanvin's SS//2011 collection [right]... similarities in mood, color world and patterns.
Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist in the naïve or primitive manner.
He painted 'The Dream', which is exposed at the MoMa in New York, in the year of his death in 1910.

Monday, October 18, 2010

INSPIRATION Missoni 1971... MARC JACOBS SS//2011

A wonderful picture from 1971 by Barry Lategan [left]...  and a 70ties inspired collection by Marc Jacobs for SS//2011 [right].


Sunday, October 17, 2010

INSPIRATION D&G FW 2010//11... ZARA FW 2010//11

In this case I actually prefere the fast fashion solution. The Indio edge of Zara's pullover [right] seams to me an interesting evolution to the regular Scandinavian pattern D&G proposes [left].

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

INSPIRATION F.C. Gundlach 1966... MARNI SS//2011

This picture of F.C. Gundlach taken in 1966 in Gizah for German magazine 'Brigitte'  [left] might have been a color and styling inspiration for Marni [right].

Saturday, October 9, 2010

INSPIRATION André Courrèges 1972...VALENTINO SS//2011

Similarities within this looks in style, bow-belt, ruffled sleeves and the delicate pois-trimming.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

INTO THE SAME IDEA ...Céline and Stella McCartney SS//2011

Here's my doubt... are Phoebe Philo and Stella McCartney still so much friends that they share ideas over a cup of tea or does their common background bring them to similar solutions in designing? Céline SS//2011 [all lefts] Stella McCarney SS//2011 [all rights]