Esquire’s Best Dressed Man 2009
The winner of the Esquire Best Dressed Man Award 2009 is guitar player Dennis van Leeuwen.
The international jury chose Dennis because of his very own style and because his clothes stress his personality. Yet shortly after Dennis came on stage it became clear that he was not the only one responsible for his good looks. When he accepted his award he immediately gave all the credits for his clothing style to his wife Karen. ‘Karen always tells me what to wear and gives me great advice.’
There were six nominees for the Esquire award, all with their very own style. One of them, Chris Zegers, told us he loves to wear second hand clothing. Another one, Theo Hiddema, always has his clothes handmade in a boutique in Belgium.
A third nominee, Waylon, admitted he always wears a jacket to finish every outfit.
Tess van Daelen
Backstage atmosphere ss2010
November 19, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Backstage, Featured Items, Paris
We will have our backstage-material online soon. It’s always a pleasure to flip through those images, because the give a totally different view of the collections, models and sometimes designers. We’ll be back with more asap!
Trends ss2010: fantastic plastic
How can you protect yourself from the rain and still look sexy?
Zac Posen, Sonia Rykiel, Frankie Morello, D Squared and others gave us the answer: you just wear a transparent plastic raincoat. In this way you’re still showing the great outfit you’re wearing underneath and your silhouette stays visible too.
For next spring transparent plastic was used by several different designers. Isn’t it typical that at least four designers came up with a see-through raincoat, independently of each other? At all four shows these raincoats also popped up out of nowhere and didn’t really connect to the rest of the clothes in the collections.
But the raincoat wasn’t the only transparent plastic item; there were bags and shoes as well, for example at Prada. D Squared and Charles Anastase both had transparent bags too.
Michael Kors used the plastic for his bathing suits and bracelets. Out of everything we saw the most fantastic plastic was made by Frankie Morello. He came up with a chique Chanel-looking plastic jacket, which had collar and cuffs made out of fabric.
Tess van Daelen
Trends ss2010: streetwise
Most women love to dress up like classic, elegant ladies when they go out. Therefore international topdesigners create the most luxurious clothes made of expensive fabrics like silk, satin, chiffon and lace. But what do you wear on any given day when you haven’t planned anything special? Exactly, you mix and match your clothes into your best streetstyle.
We found out Marc Jacobs was all about the young streetmix for next summerseason, as well for Louis Vuitton as for his own brand. His LV models showed short skirts with jackets made in every possible shape and print.
The girls in the Marc Jacobs show wore a mix of many wearable items. This resulted in strange combinations (girls wearing their underwear on top of their clothing?!).
Balenciaga, G-Star and D Squared presented some easy-going, funky outfits for streetwise girls too. The designers often added a bag to make the outfit look more like streetwear. We can actually picture some girls working these streetmix-outfits on their day off in the city.
Tess van Daelen
Trends ss2010: slim silhouettes
Although models usually have a slim silhouette already, for ss2010 a few designers made their models look even taller and thinner than they normally are.
At Missoni’s fashion show the clothes with maximum lengths accentuated the models’ slim figures. The girls were wrapped in lots of layers as well. They wore long cardigans on top of long dresses, that only left a small part of their legs uncovered. The fact that Angela Missoni mostly used one shade per outfit added the feeling of the girls looking slimmer than ever.
Besides Missoni, many other brands had long slim pieces in their collections. Etro, Calvin Klein, Blumarine, Roberto Cavalli, Alberta Ferretti and Oscar de la Renta showed some great examples. Most of these were long feminine dresses, made of ultra-light and airy fabrics to make the outfit look less stiff.
Flowers or sequins were the finishing touch on many of these silhouette-accentuating outfits.
Tess van Daelen
Peter Stigter aan de Muur: first images are sold!
November 17, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, People, Team
The first images of Peter Stigters latest charity-project are sold. Fans of Peter’s work and fashion couldn’t hardly wait for the photogallery to come online. The friday after the launch we already had an order of three (!) pictures from one collector, and there was more to come during the week-end and monday. The dogs at KNGF will be very grateful. They also payed a visit at the launch, last friday.
You can still see the pictures at:
Peter Stigter aan de muur @ Fashionmania by Rollan Didier
2e Laurierdwarsstraat 64
1016 RC Amsterdam
13/11 – 20/12 2009
Openinghours: thursday – sunday.
thu & fr: 16.00 – 19.00 uur
sa & su: 14.00 – 19.00 uur
www.peterstigteraandemuur.nl
Trends ss2010: fashionably exposed
Together with the nudes there’s a a lot of semi-nudity for next summer-season too.
Many designers worked with sheer and airy fabrics. Through these light fabrics the models’ skins were visible most of the time. At Giambattista Valli, YSL, Michael Kors, Sonia Rykiel and House of Holland the models’ breasts could clearly be seen through their designs.
Almost every piece of clothing came by in a transparent version. Roberto Cavalli even designed a few see-through pants. Valentino’s shiny, ruffled and transparent materials were made into super sexy party dresses. And Donnatella Versace created a few sheer evening gowns in pastel shades.
The sheer fabrics were often layered or draped. Viktor & Rolf used multiple transparent layers, becoming non-transparent by this application. Riccardo Tisci beautifully draped his sheer fabrics for Givenchy.
Apart from the delicate ultra-thin fabrics we could see some body-exposing nettings (Jil Sander, Sonia Rykiel, Just Cavalli) as well.
So, for next season don’t be afraid to show some skin. And if you are, just follow the example of Viktor & Rolf and wear lots of layers.
Tess van Daelen
For sale soon: Peter Stigter on the wall
November 11, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, Team
One more day to go before Peter Stigter will launch his latest charity-project: Peter Stigter aan de Muur. Fashion- and photography lovers can buy limited edition large format photo’s via the website www.peterstigteraandemuur.nl. The sizes of the prints, made in collaboration with Canon, will be 100 x150 cm. or 70 x 100 cm.. They will be accompanied by a certificate of originality.
The photo’s will be wrapped in a special cloth developed by TextielLab in Tilburg and send in a tube designed for Peter Stigter aan de muur. Prices start at € 750,-.
A small selection of photo’s are exposed and for sale at photogallery Fashionmania by Rollan Didier in Amsterdam opening friday the 13th of november
Peter Stigter aan de muur @ Fashionmania by Rollan Didier
2e Laurierdwarsstraat 64
1016 RC Amsterdam
13/11 – 20/12 2009
Openinghours: thursday – sunday.
thu & fr: 16.00 – 19.00 uur
sa & su: 14.00 – 19.00 uur
www.peterstigteraandemuur.nl
Countdown for Peter Stigter aan de Muur
November 10, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, Team
Two more days to go before Peter Stigter’s latest charity-project – Peter Stigter aan de Muur – will be launched in Amsterdam. A glimpse of the interior.
Trends ss2010: goddess glamour
Next season shoulders are getting some extra attention in several different ways. We’ve seen shoulderpads, shoulder cut-outs, adorned shoulders and one-shoulder dresses.
Many designers gave their own interpretation to the one-shoulder dress. Most often they put all their creativity in the dress’s one shoulder. They gave that one shoulder lots of layers, ruffles and draping so it really stood out and made up for the missing one.
During the Iceberg fashion-show shoulders were emphasized in many ways. The colorful one-shoulder dresses seemed to be the highlight of the show. At Lanvin the shoulders got a mix of ruffles and layers.
Sonia Rykiel showed a one-shoulder dress with bows all the way to the top.The shoulder on one of Viktor & Rolf’s designs (made out of hundreds of layers of tulle) reached as high as the model’s head.
Most one-shoulder designs looked sexy, summery and a bit Roman/Greek.
Tess van Daelen
