Despite a very short record of menswear, Marni is quickly carving its niche in the market. Graphic, simple silhouettes, with great details continue to be Marni’s signature spirit, even for menswear. Loving to color blocking on the pants and shorts and the pop of color on the collars.
Hardly ever do I skip over reviewing a Dries Van Noten menswear collection, and S/S 2012 is no exception. The collection is relatively simple with some great geometric color-blocking to give the looks an extra push. We are starting to see more and more of this shorts over pant look in menswear and I feel though the idea may sound a bit too edgy for most, it looks totally effortless when done well.
I just came across this beautiful color blocking editorial from German Vogue’s October 2010 issue photographed by Sebastian Kim. I absolutely love the retro vibe, hair, wardrobe and colors. Check out the entire editorial on Papermode.
For as long as I have followed fashion Jil Sander has been a staple in setting the standard in my eyes. This SS 2011 Raf Simmons continues the houses legacy of pure, minimal but highly inspired forward fashion. There was nothing conservative about Simmon’s palette, “A mille-feuille of color,” as he best stated it. The colors infusing the collection with a vibrancy that I really did not feel anywhere else during Milan Fashion Week. Read the full story
Colors are Malene Landgreen‘s vocabulary, and when it comes to color blocking we totally understand what she means! Landgreen has moved far beyond the conventional frames of painting in Denmark with the wall exhibition in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It’s through her relations to volume and colors that she ‘speaks out’. Read the full story
It seems that Alice Dellal loves to do cool, underground lookbooks, after the great Dominic Jones Jewelry – here she is for one of our fave UK brands David David. By now you should know we like this brand a lot. Still riding their color blocking/ psychedelic prints wave and now (finally) available at Seven New York – Also see the preview of their AW09 @ www.daviddavid.co.uk
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