Streetfashion Toronto Fashion Week ss2011 Day 5
October 23, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Streetwear, toronto
The shows are not over yet. After New York, Milan and Paris we were curious what you would wear during Toronto Fashion Week. Our streetwear-photographer Jon Loek – based in Toronto – caught the streetvibe and spotted the fashionable and young in Canada’s most trendy city. Fashion and style are everywhere, we don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy looking at you and what you wear….
Streetfashion Toronto Fashion Week SS2011 Day 4
October 23, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Streetwear, toronto, womenswear
The shows are not over yet. After New York, Milan and Paris we were curious what you would wear during Toronto Fashion Week. Our streetwear-photographer Jon Loek – based in Toronto – caught the streetvibe and spotted the fashionable and young in Canada’s most trendy city. Fashion and style are everywhere, we don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy looking at you and what you wear….
Highlights Milan Fashion Week SS2011
October 21, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Milan, womenswear
With the beginning of Milan Fashion Week the colorblocking started too. All big Italian fashion houses were in the mood for brightness. It started off with Gucci, then Prada, Missoni and Jil Sander followed.
It also became clear that the clothes were becoming more and more comfortable. The silhouettes were elongated and looser than before, the heels less high. That is, perfect clothes to lounge in next summer.
Oh, and one other trend: fringes and tassels as details on any possible item; dresses, bags, tops, hats, shoes, skirts and jackets. Major!
Gucci
The Gucci show was a great example of colorblocking to the max. The models looked glamorous from head to toe in their colorful designs, perfect leather pieces, shiny accents and numerous items with playful tassels. Like Marc Jacobs’s show in New York Gianni opted for a seventies vibe too. Yet the outfits of the sexy Gucci ladies were a bit more body-tight.
Jil Sander
Seemed to continue the colorblocking vibe the brand had launched during it’s menswear show in June. Simons used green, pink, yellow, violet and orange in one outfit and called it ‘a mille-feuille of color’. There were a lot of stripes too. The first few looks were made of large, floor-sweeping skirts and white tees. They made the models appear larger than life, but still looked elegant. We were impressed.
Bottega Venata
No colors at Bottega Veneta, but shades of black, white and grey. The silhouette was very loose letting the body shape almost completely disappear. Items like shirt dresses and suits made gave the collection a manly touch, without becoming less elegant. A great wearable collection from look 1 to look 41.
Roberto Cavalli
At Cavalli we celebrated forty years of an amazing, glamorous fashion house. Cavalli held a great show and a just as impressive after party. His spring/summer collection, which he presented in an area full of gigantic tropical leaves, was revealing and sexy. He came up with croc and python jackets and dresses with fringes all over the place. A perfect glamazone collection with all the right Cavalli ingredients.
Prada
Colorblocking, banana & monkey prints, stripes and Mexican hats, that is Prada SS2011 in a nutshell. Miuccia herself called the collection brave, bold and obvious. And only a designer like herself would be able to pull off some of these looks. The designs were often over the top, but there’s no doubt Prada will set some new trends for summer.The show immediately became everyone’s favorite and surely was one of the highlights of Milan Fashion Week.
Streetfashion Toronto Fashion Week ss2011 Day 3
October 21, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Streetwear, toronto
The shows are not over yet. After New York, Milan and Paris we were curious what you would wear during Toronto Fashion Week. Our streetwear-photographer Jon Loek – based in Toronto – caught the streetvibe and spotted the fashionable and young in Canada’s most trendy city. Fashion and style are everywhere, we don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy looking at you and what you wear….
Streetfashion Toronto Fashion Week ss2011 Day 2
October 20, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Streetwear, toronto, womenswear
The shows are not over yet. After New York, Milan and Paris we were curious what you would wear during Toronto Fashion Week. Our streetwear-photographer Jon Loek – based in Toronto – caught the streetvibe and spotted the fashionable and young in Canada’s most trendy city. Fashion and style are everywhere, we don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy looking at you and what you wear….
Streetfashion Toronto Fashion Week ss2011 Day 1
October 19, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, Streetwear, toronto
The shows are not over yet. After New York, Milan and Paris we were curious what you would wear during Toronto Fashion Week. Our streetwear-photographer Jon Loek – based in Toronto – caught the streetvibe and spotted the fashionable and young in Canada’s most trendy city. Fashion and style are everywhere, we don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy looking at you and what you wear….
Topmodel of the Week: Sasha Pivovarova
Most people know this girl from Prada. She was the face of the brand for three years in a row. Yet this Russian beauty does so much more….
Name: Sasha Pivovarova
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 21 January, 1985
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Discovered: Her friend, photographer Igor Vishnyakov took her picture in 2005 and sent it to IMG modelling agency. She was studying art history back then.
Runway debut: Prada, the brand immediately signed an exclusive three-year contract with Sasha.
Fashion shows: Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Pringle of Scotland, Rag & Bone, Rodarte, Max Mara, PHI, Christian Dior (couture), Elie Saab(couture), Valentino (couture).She opened last season’s (fall/winter 2010/2011)shows for: Jean Paul Gaultier
Covers: American Vogue, Greek Vogue, Russian Vogue, British Vogue and Australian Vogue.In May 2007 Vogue named her as one of the new ‘supermodels’ together with models like Doutzen Kroes, Jessica Stam and Chanel Iman. As one of the favorite models of Steven Meisel, she appeared on the cover of the Italian Vogue five times.
In 2009 Pivovarova was ranked second on the Models.com top 50, together with Natasha Poly.
Vogue declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.
She won the Best International Model award in Shanghai in 2006
Ad campaigns: Pirelli 2008, Armani, Longchamp, Chanel, H&M, Mulberry
Agencies: IMG models (NY), Unique (Denmark), Donna Models (Tokyo)
Quotes:
- ‘I was on board of 148 airline flights in 2008!’
- ’I’m not a person who likes waking up early’
Extra:
- Sasha loves to paint and draw.
- Her paintings have been published in French Vogue.
- She uses anything as a canvas hotel papers, casting and itinerary papers.
- She is working with Miuccia Prada to produce a book of her own artwork.
- She is also illustrating a book for Karl Lagerfeld based on Russian fairy tales.
- She is married to long-time friend and photographer Igor Vishnyakov.
- She practices Kung Fu.
- She recreated her wedding for a Vogue spread
- She has a very strong Russian accent
Topmodel of the week: Chanel Iman
This week we focus on topmodel Chanel Iman. She always wanted to become a model. And with a name like that she did seem destined to work in the world of fashion…
Name: Chanel Iman Robinson (yes, this is her real name!)
Age: 20
Date of Birth: November 30, 1989
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia
City: she currently lives in New York
Discovered: when she was thirteen years old she was already accepted at a modelling agency.
Breakthrough: 2006, after ending third in the Ford Super Model of the World Contest
Runway debut: 2006 (fall/winter) for: Anna Sui, Derek Lam, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler
Fashion shows: Aquascutum, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Bottega Veneta, House of Holland, Nathan Jenden, Dolce & Gabbana, Hermès, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexis Mabille, Christian Lacroix, Diane von Furstenberg, Valentino couture, Christian Dior coutue, Givenchy couture.
Covers: Korean Vogue, Teen Vogue, V Magazine, Time, i-D and the premier cover of Harper’s Bazaar Dubai
- In 2007 Vogue named her as one of the next topmodels
Ad campaigns: Gap, Benetton, Ralph Lauren, DKNY and Victoria’s Secret
TV: she appeared on America’s Next Top Model as a guest judge
Agencies: Supreme Management
Quotes:
- ‘If I sound like my own drill sergeant it’s because modeling sometimes is like boot camp.’
- ‘In a couple of years, I’ll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.’
- ‘But I’m still a regular girl. I go to basketball and football games. I want to go to prom.’
- ‘I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.’
- ‘All I can do is being myself. And either you like it or you don’t..’
- ‘Most models wear all black all the time. I’m kinda tired of all the black’
Extra:
- She is Phillip Lim’s muse
- Her mother is with her during the shoots and shows, because she does’t want Chanel Iman to experience ‘the dark side of fashion’.
- She loves eating icecream when she is in Milaan
- She appeared in in two editorials for the all-black issue of Italian Vogue
- She has a boyfriend; rapper Tyga.
- She walked in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show in 2009
- She was the DJ for the Sonia Rykiel for H&M party this year (2010)
- Chanel Iman has her own website.
- Follow Chanel Iman on twitter: @ itsmechaneliman
Streetfashion: in the navy
April 2, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under People, Streetwear, womenswear
Navy-stripes are back in fashion and in the streets. Especially the French marine-shirt, a classic that goes back to the heydays of Coco Chanel and later Brigitte Bardot. This summer it mixes well with your jeans, khakis and boyfriend-jacket. Every time you need to add a casual, fresh touch to your outfit.
Catwalktrends SS2010: in the navy
April 2, 2010 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, womenswear
Not only is navy blue a big hit this spring, the whole navy theme is extremely popular at the moment. The ‘basic’-looking striped top is popping up everywhere. Of course blue and white horizontal stripes suit the navy theme the best, but red, black and gray also look good with white.
The striped tops come in multiple variations. You have the short sleeves, long sleeves, wide stripes, small stripes, round and straight collars and there are versions with buttons and bows on the shoulders.
Then there’s also this navy jacket. It comes with stripes or just in one collor, it has eye-catching buttons and you often see anchor detail on it. Clements Ribeiro showed some nice examples of that jacket, loosely worn on top of a striped t-shirt.
Brands like Oscar de la Renta, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste and Antonio Marras all had some navy accents in their collections for the summer of 2010. Also, large fashion retailers like H&M and ZARA are promoting the navy look big time. A smart move, that’s for sure.
Cause, while the striped top has a very basic look, it fits well with shorts, skirts and wide pants. And although it might not look that special at first, just because it’s so basic-looking almost any woman can look great in it. They just need to put on a pair of sunglasses, a nice scarf or a hat, take their big beach bag and they can join the navy in style!
