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Showing posts with label Vetements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vetements. Show all posts
NOVELTIES #61
claire waight keller new creative director at GIVENCHY
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After two weeks from her final show for Chloé, Claire Waight Keller was officially confirmed by the French luxury label Givenchy as a new Creative Director, effective from May 02.
"She has this great ability to break the rules and innovate without making a revolution," Givenchy CEO Philippe Fortunato told to WWD. "Her very focused approach will help the brand in building the on-going momentum we have – and taking it to the next level."
"Hubert de Givenchy's confident style has always been an inspiration and I am very grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this legendary house’s history," said Waight Keller. "I look forward to working with the teams and writing a new chapter in this beautiful story."
Her debut collection for the French house is set in October.
other novelties...
MULTI-BRAND-ING
Demna Gvasalia continues to surprise. For the S/S 2017 he maintained the tailoring
in huge proportions, especially coats, jackets and shirts, as also that
underground, Margiela-ish flavour. So where is the surprise, you may ask? He
built this collection, subverting any norm or so called "fashion aesthetic rule",
through various collaborations with really iconic brands, such as Brioni that
produces menswear, Champion, Canada Goose and Sergio Tacchini who are into sportswear,
one and only Levi´s denim, bomber and biker jackets of Perfecto, Schott and
Lucchese, Juicy Couture famous fashion tracksuits, while the footwear was up to
Manolo Blahnik, Reebok and Dr. Martens. Yes, you read it right. Each was in charge
to design and produce outfits for Demna, of course in the aesthetic canons of
Vetements.
NOVELTIES #57
HELMUT LANG: ARTIFACTS
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Under this project title Resurrection Vintage is presenting a collection of designer´s pieces from the 1990´s until his departure in 2005. Yep, it has been eleven years since this creative genius abandoned fashion to focus on his major love, art. So all Helmut Lang lovers mind the upcoming 15 November, because you will be able to purchase, online or in the RV boutiques in New York and Los Angeles, iconic rare runway pieces, like the metallic-flash shirt that opened his FW 1994 show.
other novelties...
A SMOKE?
Nope. I never smoked and (never say never) don´t have any intention too. I don´t judge smokers either. But I like this galvanized brass silver cigarette case from Vetements, in which you can store different small things, like credit or business cards and not only cigarettes. So for no-smokers approved too.
VETEMENTS F/W 2016/2017
I am kind-a-inspired by this new wave of designers, who use in an intelligent way a street-wear fashion, some past-influences, even art and not only in stylistically terms mix everything together in their own, personalized way. Fashion is not only invention, but should be fun in first place, something to play with, a way to express your inner world or even, why not, to play a funny-role, lighten up this way, even it sounds silly, this (lately) grey, if not so dark and sad period. I admire Alessandro Michele´s more is more, baroquesque-dandy-grandma vibe at Gucci, as I do like also Vetements dark, rock-Goth, Margiela-ish, yeah you read it right. They could be, why not, in design-terms Margiela´s successors, grand (grand) children, after all they both have a similar conceptual and visual appeal, not to mention their driving force, and yeah, authenticity too.
Presented in a Protestant church in the chicest district of Paris, the winter collection got that brand´s typical “this doesn´t get well together” mix of street-wear, genderless garments, uniform, gothic elements, conservative pieces and bondage in sometimes really exaggerated proportions, like over-padded or restricted shoulders and amplified volumes on tight cowboy or lurex boots.NOVELTIES #50
CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE joins uniqlo
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Following the huge success of Christophe Lemaire´s fall and spring collection for Uniqlo, the Japanese fast-fashion giant named the designer as the artistic director of the new Uniqlo Paris Research and Development Centre, but also to design a completely new line called Uniqlo U. Although Lemaire designed his previous Uniqlo collections with partner in business and life Sarah-Linh Tran, this new contract for Uniqlo U line sees Lemaire on an individual basis, said a representative for Uniqlo, but it's possible Tran will be involved at his discretion. The collection will debut during Paris Couture Week in early July, while in retail stores will hit for the Fall/Winter 2016 season.
"I am delighted to welcome Mr. Christophe Lemaire as a member of the Uniqlo team. I have time and again been astonished by his outstanding talent in working together to create the Uniqlo and Lemaire collection. I look forward to seeing more of the innovations that he inspires, and I am confident that his tremendous experience and talent will thrive at Uniqlo," Tadashi Yanai — chairman, president and CEO of Fast Retailing, Uniqlo's parent company — told Business of Fashion, where you can also read an exclusive interview made by Tim Blanks to Christophe Lemaire, here.
other novelties...
DEMNA GVASALIA IS THE NEW CD OF BALENCIAGA
The Georgian designer, who is the lead
talent behind label Vetements, has been appointed as the creative director for
Balenciaga. Considering that Vetements aesthetic is an old punk mixed with
streetstyle, would be interesting to see what his first collection for the French
fashion house will look like. It will this become a new era for Balenciaga; like the one
happened with Hedi Slimane´s arrival at YSL, now Saint Laurent? All questions
will be answered during the F/W 2016/2017collection in March 2016.
VETEMENTS MANIA
magazine cr fashion book
photographer felix cooper
styling benjamin galopin
photo assistant ruddy lepoultier
styling assistant livia rossi
make-up sarai fiszel
hair olivier de vriendt
models la wenedikter, harriet rose and vic van der well
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I couldn´t ask the best way to end our denim week*if not with the same piece shown in introductory post and now in this post´s head-photo. It´s actually a part of the special-made editorial to celebrate one of most talked brands right now – Vetements.
Even she doesn´t like it, but Demma Gvasalia, head of the Vetements design collective, has gained a reputation of being the coolest designer or we could say the hottest novelty in fashion right now. The brand is really about authenticity. Gvasalia´s intention was never and still isn´t to invent new silhouettes, but all collections are marked by pieces that we know well; from bombers and denim to trench coats and peacoats.
“Even though it’s a challenge, we try to find fabrics that are authentic to these pieces. We’re not trying to be sophisticated, so the authenticity of the materials is important. An Antwerp T-shirt and a Thrasher sweatshirt had been lying around the office forever. We get inspired by things that we see. There is so much out there already and we’re not trying to make new pieces, so we choose pieces that we instinctively like.”
CLOTHES
If we mix urban, casual, sportswear, motocross and denim, what we get? The F/W 2015/2016 Vetements´ collection. Demna Gvasalia, formerly Maison Margiela and Louis Vuitton, is with the one year-old brand offering clothes (a literally translation of the name) based on reworking collective styles with humour and taste. This collection plays with outwear in oversize proportions, pairing them with vintage-made mom jeans, grunge-like flower dresses, men’s shirts and cargo pants. A man cannot literally take the eyes from it, that at the end almost nobody realised, that the whole presentation of the collection took place in one of Paris´s most famous gay sex clubs – Le Depot. Now you got an idea.
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