I can’t be 100% sure that a professional field as competitive as the world of fashion is able to nurture pure, altruistic friendships, but I am romantic enough to tend to believe that we had a couple of nice examples of friendship in fashion in the past few days. Of course the case of Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti can be conceived as a win-win situation, as the BFA…
Roman empress or Han princess? I’d say no earthling. Cate Blanchett in Givenchy Haute Couture looked absolutely fairy for the first time after the “Lord of the Rings”. This statuesque pale violet pleated long dress, highlighted by a little yellow on the square shoulders, goes so well with Cate’s fair complexion and classy attitude. I wish I can slip into such a Givenchy…
Fashion has always been particularly sensitive towards taboo diseases such as AIDS, be it the famous nude celebrities calendars or special shopping events (read also A night with Mawi of London). But how can a poncho fight HIV? Well obviously not any poncho can do that. It has to be Kenneth Cole. The American brand has launched this hooded double-faced, unisex poncho…
Belle is for beautiful and Sauvage is for wild. The question is, how can anything smashingly wild feel utterly beautiful? Virginia Ferreira and Christian Neuman answered their part on the catwalk, by giving life to a seductively aggressive and primitively honest female who always knows, says and gets what she wants. [Watch video at the end of the article] The show started with…
Besides the shows and the catwalks during LFW, the Exhibition in the Embankment Galleries is an interesting place to trendspot. Even Valentino himself was there yesterday to have a look at emerging talents. Here are a few things I liked from the showrooms. More are to follow through interviews and extensive reviews, so stay tuned on PaulaTrendsets, either on the blog or…
