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Along seems determined to follow closely the microphone: while the spring-summer collections have just arrived in store, we dream of and already now – and that in the month of January – the steamy bathroom glimpsed Balmain and Etro. For once, along is not the result of the dictates summer, in that each presentation has a few pieces. Indeed, to judge the pre-fall, the robes have decided to reinvest our wardrobe, and that for an indefinite period.

The offset generated by the timing of processions that it is sometimes difficult to navigate: the latter we present models spring when we are desperate for a fur hat, or we obnubilent a girly shot liberty as we have just barely understand how to wear jodhpurs. In the end, we have no Strenna trends outlined in the latest fashion shows as the next season we already lobotomize the dressing Nevertheless, in the heart of this logorrhea modesque sometimes cacophonous, we can try to lift our game pump .

So when the season was spring 2008, we saw at Lowe position itself, Galliano and Stella McCartney (and many others) of frail figure dressed in robes longuissimes, we rejoiced, knowing full well that nevertheless exercise style was much more seasonal variation in adequacy with the desires of customers that a real trend. Read the rest of this entry »

Announced last few months, the collaboration between the hopes of the French couture Alexis Mabille and the mail-order company La Redoute has fed the fantasies fashion. It must be said that Mabille has become the darling of fashionistas since its reinterpretation of the bow tie as an accessory and highly mixed style. Has remained whether the designer’s first attempt masstige would be a good year….

For better and for worse… Could be summarized as ephemeral associations linking the creators and brands of wide circulation time of a capsule collection. For if some unions are clearly a success, offering the consumer a lambda opportunity to wear a piece Griffee at lower cost, others are not at the height of the reputation of the guest designer.

I must say that is not H & M wants. In spite of some false notes, the Swedish group is indeed still managed to edit several beautiful pieces in his marriages masstige. Recently, the Matthew Williamson dresses for H & M and were voted for on the red carpet. We remember also the wave of buying triggered by fever tuxedo jackets Viktor & Rolf.

Yes but here, other collaborations between a size fashion and mass-market rarely generates the same excitement. They were certainly less publicized, but collections were also less interesting.

If Alexis Mabille, for its part, is perplexing. For if we find in the pages of La Redoute lines dear to the creator, his classic clothes falsely starved of this fantasy revealed that the daring young man.

Besides the pants – which is suspected of having benefited from the expert eye of Mabille in cutting – the locker room attracts little envy. Moreover, such long two-tone vests and boleros neo-already seem improbable presented by slender supermodels, we dare not imagine the result on a young woman physically more common… Read the rest of this entry »

This summer, the dress code of short dress is clear: one thinks of ancient Rome and Olympus, to shoulder a stripper in the purest spirit toga. Farewell strapless or thin straps plunging neckline, the trend is suggestive of asymmetry, generating subtle seduction and elegant.

The dresses have decided: This summer, the shoulders – or at least one of them – will steal the spotlight from the usual summer stars that are the legs. Hide to better reveal, this could be the line to follow in the spring.

Conceal a shoulder makes it possible to put the other in value and thereby attract attention to one of these body parts often forgotten and yet very flattering. In addition, focusing the gaze on a joint untied (as size, belly and buttocks still need a few weeks before being presented Diet) is a solution that will allow us to approach the spring in all serenity. Read the rest of this entry »

Not at all! The population of Montreal is requesting architecture and design. The problem, I think, lies not in the coast but the coast people and media makers. The mainstream media covers only a small part of the creation in design and architecture, which is a shame because in a way they take the public hostage by cutting all that is here now. A society, a culture, to build and grow rich, to require multiple references..

The architecture and design, the same way as literature, dance and music are essential to the public and it is wrong to put them aside. We have to stop to combine design and architecture to decoration. Design a project, it is another thing to paint a wall! Doors open reassures me because I discovered that the public loves good architecture, that he understands and is sensitive…

Yes. And it is this aspect that I understand the least. One wonders why there is so little competition and open bidding to all designers, especially in the selection of major public projects. It lacks, in Quebec, good internationally recognized methods for granting warrants to the best designers, whether in design or architecture. I do not think the embodiment by public-private partnerships (PPP) is a panacea for cultural projects. Read the rest of this entry »

All the Savoyards and other addicts to Peruvian knitwear rejoice: their pullovers to graphics naive, previously regarded as highly cheesy, are about to reach the heights of hipness. Initiated by the recent D & G show, the trend has indeed already been emulated across the Atlantic….

Nothing like starting a trend that deliver the taste of the day a garment already in the wardrobe of fashionistas. And no matter if it was hitherto excluded from any activity fashion, it will be more plebiscite, the extreme and contradictory feelings in quick succession in the heart of the fashion sphere.

It is therefore time to look differently waistcoat embroidered with a string of llamas offered by our friends translated trade fair and knitwear highlight the hitherto reserved to stay in Chamonix. According to some Italian designers, they would indeed potentially exploit a fashion emergency…

Yes but here, between a D & G fashion show or fashion models sexy hoisted a quickdraw (a base of fine muslin topped vests star snow) and Rachel Bilson Degaine (which has merely highlighted his old Peruvian wool) the gap is immense… Read the rest of this entry »