DKNY Catwalk Fashion Show New York Womenswear FW2014

For fall Donna Karan and her design team decided to celebrate the New Yorks diversity, making that point clear with the show’s production. It started with a video featuring real-life New Yorkers — all young and edgy and in varying ethnicities — waxing poetic about the city.

Then came the runway show, cast with a mix of models and locals including girl-about-town Hannah Bronfman, nightlife hostess Melissa Burns and DJ Chelsea Leyland. As for the clothes, they too were diverse, from sporty to utilitarian to feminine. Karan mixed functional with whimsical — a quilted parka coat with a long-hair shearling hood over a glittery sequined skirt; an elegant burgundy fur vest with a navy duffle coat and wrap skirt.

It ended with flashes of hot pink worked on pieces including a lace jacket and slipdress.

Streetfashion New York Womenswear FW2014, Day 2

What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Gucci-shoes, that vintage Prada or your latest Givenchy-sweater? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: New York Womenswear Fashion Week fall/winter 2014.

Lacoste Catwalk Fashion Show New York Womenswear FW2014

A visit to a golf course built in the late Twenties in France’s Basque region by René Lacoste’s father-in-law, was the starting point for Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s collection for Lacoste. He handled the golfing theme with restraint.

The sporty looks were relaxed, polished and wearable, but could have used a little zest. The women’s portion had its moments of girlish charm,  lik the cool, oversize white sweater with an abstract motif over a skirt. For men, Baptista worked in a mostly tonal palette with ensembles in burgundy, blue and beige, including a double-breasted hooded jacket with pants cut close to the body.

Streetfashion New York Womenswear FW2014, Day 1

What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Gucci-shoes, that vintage Prada or your latest Givenchy-sweater? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: New York Womenswear Fashion Week fall/winter 2014.

SIS by Spijkers en Spijkers Fashion Week Amsterdam FW2014

No fashion week without the SIS-sisters. Truus and Riet Spijkers closed the Amsterdam Fashion Week spectacle with a playful, wearable fall/winter collection ‘Around the world in a day’ for their SIS-line. Inspired by traveling they changed up their typical SIS-silhouette a little bit for next year. Looks became a little more structured and sportive. T-shirt tops with rose appliques looked refreshing. As did a series of baseball jackets, which came by in sheer and a few rose appliques versions. They were matched with pencil skirts and grey woolen socks with black heels. The typical SIS dresses were still there too; with colored, printed parts and cute little collars. Oh and don’t think the Arnhem based sisters forgot about the suits. With accentuated waists and strapless dresses the silhouette was feminine. And with shades of burgundy, black, pink, white, blue, green, orange, red next winter is going to be bright.

Dennis Diem Fashion Week Amsterdam FW2014

Not only do those towering high fashion shoes make a more dramatic catwalk image, they can be painful and dangerous too. Tonight Dennis Diem showed just how dangerous they can be as he sent out his models on sky-high black shoes. After a few tumbling and stumbling models one of the girls really fell flat on her face. It gave everyone in the audience a heart attack, yet turned out to be an act (what a relief!). It drew our attention away from the clothes for a brief moment, but luckily Dennis’ creations, inspired by opium and the movement of smoke, were just so gorgeous we couldn’t keep our eyes off of them. From a wall of smoke models appeared in a selection of (mostly) monochrome dresses with a slight rebellious touch. Sexy corsets (Diem’s signature) were attached to pencil skirts and floor sweeping dresses with lots of tulle to create that extra romantic vibe. Cashmere capes added some extra drama and shiny sequins gave the looks a dreamy touch. With a focus on shoulders and hips the designs were even more powerful. The fairytale was complete once Dennis received his applause while walking the catwalk accompanied by two of his princesses dressed in impressive off white dream gowns.

Edwin Oudshoorn Fashion Week Amsterdam FW2014

At Edwin Oudshoorn an improvised forest formed the scene for his collection presentation Fools Paradise. “An artificial paradise”, as he wrote in his show notes, “which  comes with the striving for perfection”. Not only the room was gorgeously decorated, a singer in the back of the room, playing the piano sang beautifully too. And then there were those dresses… first short and white, then grey, checked, sequined and red, with corsets bodices. All highly decorated, showing sparkling Swarosvki details, embroideries, feathers, as well as a lot of skin (or.. actually sheer nude colored fabric). Towards the end the dresses got longer, the models’ cleavage deeper. Apart from the elegant dresses a pair of shorts and a few skirts were in the mix too, worn with blouses with wide sleeves. All perfectly tailored and well shaped. A nice, well edited selection of chic, ladylike looks. Just what we needed on the closing night of this fashion week.

Said Mahrouf Fashion Week Amsterdam FW2014

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FashionWeek Amsterdam FW2014 Fashion LAB Pilger & Frida by Alexandra Frida

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Frida by Alexandra Frida

FashionWeek Amsterdam FW2014, this was Day 4

The fifth day of Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek Amsterdam brought us the impressive l’Oreal Professionel Hair Show, the poetic presentations/catwalkshows of Winde Rienstra, Dorhout Mees and Rebecca Ward plus the new fall-collection of Tony Cohen.

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