Monday, November 22, 2010

INSPIRATION Guy Bourdin... PRADA SS//2000

While reading many of the SS//2011 collection reviews, I realized that various designers had been inspired by Guy Bourdin [left]. But I must say that the collection that recalls this amazing photographer more than every other was for me always Prada's SS//2000 with its lips and lipstick skirts.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

INSPIRATION Cristobal Balenciaga 1963...TOM FORD SS||2011

This Balenciaga top, photographed by  Karen Radkai for Vogue in 1963, is just a wonderful piece of fashion [left]... was about time to see it again [right]. Thank you Tom!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

INSPIRATION Junya Watanabe FW 2007//8... Haider Ackermann SS//2011

Both versions are beautiful...the winter, leather Watanabe jacket [left] and the summer, suede, Ackermann vest [right].

Monday, November 15, 2010

INTO THE FASHION interview on AnOthermag.com

I'm happy to share with you my Interview on AnOthermag.com, which went online today. THANKS AnOthermag!



Into The Fashion is a trend blog run by German-born, Milan-based, Diana Marian Murek. A fashion designer who has worked with such style heavyweights as Costume National, Wolford and Francesco Scognamiglio, Murek also occasionally works as a fashion journalist reporting while also lecturing at the Istituto Marangoni, a fashion design school with campuses in Milan, Paris and London. Her speciality lies in being able to comprehensively analyse trends in an insightful way, which she has cemented on her blog, Into The Fashion, since founding it only a year ago. Into The Fashion now receives an average of 10,000 visitors per month.
What prompted to you start your blog? Partly I started it for my students. I wanted to explain how important it is to study costume history for understanding today's fashion, and it was important for me to explain that in an amusing way without being too academic. I started to post similarities of outfits from the past to contemporary collections taken from the catwalks. What I'm willing to point out is that fashion lives in cycles, and that this is the nature of fashion. That's why I call my comparisons “inspirations” and not “copying”. A huge part of the language of fashion has been defined during the 20th century; every silhouette, colour combination or material has a meaning that has already been established and belongs to a period of time, a specific mood or socio-cultural environment. A huge part of today's fashion lives from the reinvention of its past. That does not mean that newness in fashion is not possible, of course it is, the thing is to combine all the known elements of fashion into something new. Doing interesting things today is challenging, and I really enjoy seeing how designers manage to create something that can move us every season again.
How has the blog changed since you first started it? I realized that information on the internet needs to be traded in a way that is immediate and strongly visual, so I decided to communicate through visual comparisons, instead of written explanations, which I find too subtle for this medium.
Why do you suppose it is as popular as it is? From the feedback I get I learn that people like to know why specific looks and trends appear on the runway, and where they actually come from. For those who do not work in fashion this mechanism is not always clear.
What specific trends have you noticed for this season and next season? For A/W10 there are of course the 50s proposed by Prada and Louis Vuitton, together with the minimalist style that has been re-launched by Phoebe Philo since her debut at Céline. For S/S11 we see a mix of the 70s (Marc Jacobs), the 80s (all the YSL inspired collections), the 90s (the minimal collections) and a great amount of vivid colours on the catwalks (Jil Sander/ Prada). Generally a lot of designers' proposals in these seasons collections, were very close to the identity and heritage of the fashion house they work for.
Do you see any particular inspiration points referenced again and again? Well, this year I could have made at least ten posts about Yves Saint Laurent references, we see them everywhere. This is due of course to the great retrospective at the Petit Palais in Paris. Then, since S/S08 we have seen infinite 80s references each season, which are still proposed now. Other inspirations are coming from great past designers like Roy Halston or Balenciaga – there is always something from them on the catwalks.
Text by Laura Havlin

Thursday, November 11, 2010

INSPIRATION Peggy Moffitt 1964... Miu Miu SS//2011

Here we see the wonderful 60ties Californian model Peggy Moffitt, also known as Rudi Gernreich's muse, in a picture taken by Dennis Hopper in 1964 [left]. The dress designer is unknown, but the pattern reminds me of the Miu Miu collection for SS//2011 [right].

Friday, November 5, 2010

INSPIRATION Mariano Fortuny... Lanvin SS//2011

Similarities in style, color, wrinkled pleating.... Mariano Fortuny [left] and two Lanvin SS//2011 outfits [both rights].
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949), son of the painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, was a Spanish fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946.
The Museum Fortuny is housed in a Gothic Palazzo in Venice, the former home, studio, showroom and "Think-Tank" of Mariano Fortuny, who acquired it at the beginning of the century.
Fortuny is known for his innovative fine creased pleating with which he created the Delphos gown in an ancient Greek goddess style.

Monday, November 1, 2010

INTO THE SAME IDEA ...Jeremy Scott and Jil Sander SS//2011

Fashion is getting really democratic if a simple item like a plastic bags can make a statement on the catwalk. A wonderful idea in both ways... weather as a bag at at Jil Sander [below] or as a top at Jeremy Scott [above].