Category: Collection

Adidas SLVR Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Setting itself apart from the sport inspired garments, the Adidas SLVR collection stays one step ahead and releases the Spring/Summer 2012 collection, shot by fashion photographer Willy Vanderperre.

Inspired from the sport of fencing, the new collection is characterized by simple, dynamic lines and bold, primary colours that create a highly functional, well tailored and sophisticated result.

The concept behind the new clothing range is excellently presented in the campaign’s video, directed by Willy Vanderperre and starring Marique Schimmel. The video;

Extends the idea of fencing set to a beat which is reminiscent of the sport’s rhythm.

You can watch it here.

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Tibi’s Spring 2012 Collection

Pastel is the new black. At least for this spring. And Tibi’s proposal for this season is more pastel, elegant and breezy than many others I have seen lately. Amy Smilovic, the person behind the label, after graduating from the University of Georgia, decided to follow her husband to Asia and pursue her dream of creating a new fashion label. And the results justified her.

Her collection for Spring 2012 is definitely one of my favorites: chic, simple, clean and elegant. Soft and luxurious fabrics that highlight the best parts of any woman’s silhouette and are adaptable to various personal styles. And what about her inspiration?

modernizing and refreshing the nineties silhouette with streamlined cuts, sportswear elements and asymmetrical hems in natural fiber fabrics contrasting with modern techno textiles.

Photographs: courtesy of imaxtree.com and Matteo Volta

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THRIVE

Featuring my friends over at THRIVE Los Angeles, a fashion house founded by two technology innovators Rob Meadows and Ali Shahriyari.

Under the creative direction of a designer Cem Cako, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Thrive’s Autumn/Winter 2012 Collection is stunning in its mature design, smart craft and flawless execution. I had a chance to ask Cem about the concept behind the collection and his answers emphasised the goal for timeless pieces, quality, respect and re-discovery of the art of making clothes. Cem was driven by the art of tailoring and expressed a satisfaction of making a garment without targeting the mass production.

There was no reason for me to go beyond this craft and start doing loud things.

Each piece in the collection can easily qualify for the classic every woman appreciating quality and beauty can add to her closet. Additionally, I believe the statement of not doing loud things when there is no reason can extend beyond Thrive’s mission and is able to resonate with many aspects of good design.

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Yi Fang Wan Fall/Winter 2012/13 Collection

I instantly fell in love with Yi Fang Wan’s new collection for Fall/Winter 2012/13 presented in London’s Fashion Week. A very promising young designer, from southern China who recently graduated from the Central Staint Martin’s College of Art and Design and was awarded the L’Oréal Professionel Young Designer Award at the college’s BA Fashion degree in 2010. College’s graduates also include Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Stella McCartney and Hussein Chalayan.

Simple, elegant lines and high quality materials manage to create beautifully feminine and elongated silhouettes. I love the combination of blue and grey and the multiple layers of her clothing. Not to mention the oversized wooden pieces that give an architectural and theatrical dimension to the catwalk version of the collection. A great proposal for a contemporary style with all time classic elements.

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MTWTFSS 2012 Weekday Collection

A contemporary version of classic design. This is how I could describe MTWTF Spring/Summer 2012 collection by Weekday; a new line to celebrate Weekday’s 10th anniversary. Great, refined tailoring, simple lines and the finest materials – high quality cotton, cashmere, silk and wool – compose a collection that can easily become ageless.

I love the use of basic colours and the overall elegance that characterizes both men’s and women’s collection. Another great example of what Swedish knows to do best: minimalism.

MTWTFSS collection was launched in all Weekday stores on 22 February, 2012.

Images courtesy of Star PR / Weekday

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Haerfest Bag Collection

Brothers Tim and Dan Joo of fashion brand Haerfest, based in New York, have developed the beautiful B Collection of bags for Spring/Summer 2012 as well as the Capsule Collection. The bags follow a reducible aesthetic, aiming for an understated and urban sensibility. Familiar yet unexpected is always an underlying direction taken by Haerfest when designing.

Influenced by 1960s minimalism, the SS12 B Collection includes four bags – two backpacks, duffel and tote – in a range of four colours – black, grey, red and navy. The Capsule Collection includes a backpack, two duffels, and a two handle tote in black and creme, designed exclusively for the LN-CC brand in London.

Simple, stylish and wish-listed (at least a duffel is).

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Maison Kitsuné – Spring Summer 2012 Collection

A music-and-fashion label with french and japanese roots, Maison Kitsuné‘s collections often have a very classic, essentially Parisian feel to them, and this Spring/Summer 2012 collection is no exception.

Inspired by North-American classic film The Great Gatsby, the maison adds a Parision twist to the collection, featuring a mixture of timeless silhouettes with soft pastel colors and impeccable materials and tailoring. When patterns appear, they are muted in the seasonal pastel hues and classic shapes.

I’m usually a fan of bold, geometric, contrasting statements, but this aesthetic has a very fresh, light, spring-summery feel that works well with the elegance lines and the simplicity of concept.

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Vladimir Karaleev Autumn-Winter 2012/13

Considered to be one of the most promising young designers in Berlin and a master of deconstruction according to Zeit, Bulgarian designer Vladimir Karaleev has his own, unconventional approach to designing procedure and to fashion itself.

I’m too impatient. I work with the original fabric on the doll. All my clothes arise in the work process on the mannequin. I have some idea of ​​the silhouette, but nothing more. If I do not like something, I cut and sew until it is good, to make it smaller or shorter in order to get to the final form. 

Complex Overlay is the name of Vladimir Karaleev’s new Autumn-Winter 2012/13, recently showed at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. Asymmetrical drapery, open seams, slim dresses and superposition of different fabrics and details determine Karaleev’s latest collection. His minimal, graphic cuts and experimental forms do not fail to create elongated proportions and an unpretentious elegance. What describes his work best is what he says about it.

It’s the game with the forms.

Well, I can see a lot of them in my wardrobe.

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Gang of Collection by Proudrace

Gang of is the new, Spring/Summer 2012 collection of the Manila based label Proudrace. Pat Bondoc and Rik Rasos – and industrial designer and a T-shirt designer – the people behind the label, started their fashion journey creating a small T-shirt brand which was gradually developed into a full-fledged label with national and international recognition.

This collection, just like the majority of Proudrace’s clothing, is inspired by the 90’s and according to them

it’s a gang of nomadic skaters and their trophy girlfriends.

But it is more than this; it is a game of textures and materials within the simplicity of an achromatic palette, a curiosity with the uniform dressing of various religious groups and a nostalgic look to their teenage youth. Maybe more; but what they also say about their clothing is that,

it’s all about the use of different materials, textures, details and silhouettes to come out with pieces that are unique and subscribes to no particular trend. Proudrace creates hand made minimal pieces and re interprets traditional garments into their own aesthetic.

Photography: Everything We Shoot

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Serpens Collection by Qiu Hao

When two talented people meet, an edgy fashion designer and an unconventional photographer, an astonishing project, intriguing in many levels, originates. The Serpens collection lookbook is the product of the collaboration between the Chinese fashion designer Qui Hao and the Shanghai based, French photographer Matthieu Belin.

Named after the constellation of the northern hemisphere – the reptile, the mythological symbol that represents both good and evil – Serpens is as mysterious, futuristic and compelling as its name implies. An extravagant collection in which the size is the absolute dominant. Oversized clothes touched by the magic wand of minimalism. The use of black and white (evil / good) and the absence of colours add an extra dramatic dimension while emphasizing the simple, geometric lines that hide behind the original idea. An unfinished game between textures and sizes.

The photography concept is working on the same wavelength. Models like mannequins form geometric shapes with their bodies within the photo frame. Again, the absence of make up and the elimination of shadows produce a neutral canvas, where the clothes seem the only thing alive. Bodies like robots, clothing like structures, a rather architectural approach in a fashion photo shoot.

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