Wednesday, December 31, 2014

INTO THE ARCHIVES... Gianni Versace 1987 and Versace FW 2015||16 PRE

This beautiful color blocking outfit designed by Gianni Versace in 1987, worn by Christy Turlington in an advertisement photographed by Richard Avedon [left], might have been an inspiration to Donatella Versace's Pre Fall 2015||16 collection [right].



Tuesday, December 23, 2014

INSPIRATION Vogue UK 1972… Chanel Resort 2013


This beauty photo shoot by Peter Knapp, featuring the wonderful Louise Despointes [left], was published in the June issue of the British Vogue. I looks like it might have been an inspiration for Karl Lagerfeld’s ‘Rococo” Chanel Resort 2013 collection [right], venued beautifully in Versailles. These two pictures have such a similar atmosphere that it seems they have been taken in the same occasion.


Wednesday, December 17, 2014

INTO THE ARCHIVES… Valentino Garavani 1968 and Valentino HC SS||2015

The haute couture show that has just been presented on a special occasion in New York [right], reminded me of a beautiful image of Audrey Hepburn. In this picture [left] Audrey is wearing a Valentino gown to the ‘Proust” ball held at Château de Ferrières on the 11th December 1971. The picture was captured by her beloved friend Cecil Beaton and has been published a few month later in the American Vogue.

What NowFashion wrote about the New York event: ‘Valentino took its haute couture show on the road this week. Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli descended on New York to present a special haute couture collection they designed specifically to celebrate the opening of the biggest flagship store in the brand’s worldwide stable of shops, on the city’s famous Fifth Avenue. This was the first time in the over fifty years history of the brand that the house has shown its couture creations in the United State and the duo did not disappoint. They even added an extra level of reverence and reference to the heritage of the brand. In a nod to founder Valentino Garavani’s famous White Collection of 1968, from which Jacqueline Kennedy chose her wedding gown to marry Aristotle Onassis, the designers created their own all white line up of one-of-a-kind creations…” [click here for the entire article].


Tuesday, December 9, 2014

INTO THE ARCHIVES… Vogue US 1988 and Vogue US 2014

The American-Palestinian model Gigi Hadid, wearing an A.L.C. Covington sweater [right], has been chosen to recreate the famous Vogue US cover from 1988, photographed by Peter Lindbergh [left]. This particular Vogue picture, featuring Israeli model Michaela Bercu wearing a Christian Lacroix jacket, is famous in the fashion world because it was the first cover under editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and it was the first time a pair of jeans made it on a Vogue cover. The Lacroix jacket was actually part of a suit, but the skirt didn’t fit Michaela: she had been on vacation back home in Israel and had gained a little weight. 


Monday, December 8, 2014

INSPIRATION Into The Fashion... Top Fashion Clothing

Just yesterday I found out that my blog has been cloned [copied is just not enough to describe what is happening here]... by a blog called Top Fashion Clothing [click here to view my contents once again]. I'm actually only posting this content to see if the web site Top Fashion Clothing is more delinquent or stupid: will they also post this content that is reporting their wrongdoing? 



Wednesday, December 3, 2014

INSPIRATION Susan Dannenberg 1947… Schiaparelli FW 2014||15 Haute Couture

The iconic ‘Jezebel” sweater with a patch of a heart pierced by a jewelled dagger [left], might have been an inspiration to Marco Zanini's FW 2014||15 haute couture collection for Schiaparelli [right]. The surreal feeling of this design fits in fact very well the heritage of Elsa Schiaparelli. The American designer Susan Dannenberg, who created a series of so called ‘Suse” sweaters in the the forties, became famous also due to this Life magazine feature photographed by Nina Leen and attracted Hollywood stars like Barbara Stanwyck and Esther Williams who became some of her best customers.