Room on the Woman

London Fashion Week with Prints On Prints.

Are you inside ? In your Room ? If yes look around the objects of beauty .What do you see ? Some interior decorations – wall coverings , vase , porcelain ,ceramics etc. Now what if you put them on ? Before you start thinking how is that possible lets see how Mary Katrantzou has put the room on the woman. Her latest collection for Autumn / Winter 2011 is all about objects of beauty specially ceramics. Inspiration is ceramic art. A complete checklist of wearable separates . The lampshade skirts and tops that are constructed into body plates captures the attention because of the structural opulence .The collection have everything skirts ,trousers ,leggings that can be fitted into personal style very easily. Most of the stylist work on the strategy of either layering or mixing the combinations. For reference have a look at Gok’s clothes roadshow specially episode shooted in Birmingham where the stylist have tried to create layering impact by doubling pleated skirts from high street store River Island .However the seem philosophy seems to work in Print On Print collection produced by Mary Katrantzou. Complete look layered all together by pairing dresses over long sleeved tops ,cardigans and jackets . Print on Print dominates the whole collection . The Lampshade dress print reminds me of tea cosies and mosaics. Prints in red ,pink ,turquoise ,mint, yellow ,purple , moss green , vermillion and more are very rich motifs. Talking of just me I have seen such shades in VERSACE prints .The motifs used have connection with rooster and eggs , English country and ancient traders ,floral vase and fish vase ,porcelain and ceramics , objects and objects from interiors . Apart from Peplum skirts there are also dresses that are voluminous and full in silhouettes .A collection of luxurious prints with plently of wearable  separates .

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Only women can carry it.

London Fashion Week 's Glamour continues.

Finding a long dress collection made more easy with breathtaking drama from Roksanda Ilinic ‘s A/ W 2011 collection. Elegantly floating long dresses in silk are perfect for the evenings. Beautifully drapes around the body contours in colours that contain nature in it. Royal Blue , scarlet and bronze dresses pinned beautifully  to give that perfect fit to the moment of carrying it as true piece of femininity. No messing plains are so enchanting .

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Shimmy Shimmy

Christopher Kane 's  Plastically Accessorised Saving.

Shimmy Shimmy Grandmother‘s pastimes rocking on the runway at London Fashion Week.From House of Holland to Christopher Kane all inspired by fantastic crochet knits of typical granny style patterns. Knits that are so lovely , warm and cosy displayed in Christopher Kane ‘s collection for A / W 2011 .I would categorise his collection in three sections – Crochet , Black crepes and Cashmere and shimmers. The collections is defined  to be inspired from by pencil cases and stationary. If you have been regular on my blog by now you must be aware of my fondness for knits so lets start off with it as the runway started off with crochet. Crochet Isn’t it lovely to think how the crochet actually progresses from one loop on mere hook.Loop by loop it grows artfully into a piece .Christopher ‘s crochet outfit patterns are from very familiar line of patterns of bedspreads or afghan blankets or granny style throws.Actually its knit from very basic pattern which most of the crochet beginners learn – the very first square. Here the afghan square is shaped into very simple pencil skirts ,cardigans  and straight dresses in navy ,greens and browns. Like Henry Hollands collection had some prints very similar to chrochet patterns similarly Kane also been inspired by these patterns which are used as prints on leathers.

Crepe And Cashmere  Some black & Navy ... This is  a favourite bit in Christophers’s collection where black crepe and cashmere dresses are highlighted with strips of plastics. These plastic strips look like ripples of colours floating in liquid  creating colourful waves in green ,blue or red and pink .Plastic strips are used as trims to define the necklines ,hem and shoulders . The marbelled liquid scales are used as collar details , pockets and hemlines. Also few pieces have plastic detailing to enhance the waistline or midriff. The liquid panels running vertically or horizontally into black outfits appears a different version of jewellery embedded within the outfit . Accessorized offer within the garment.Some with gathered nets keeping the silhouettes very simple .

Shimmers The see through dresses in iridescent sequins is too shimmy shimmy and plastically accessorized. The plastic strips once again bisecting the wet look outfit  . Some plastic trims as collars and some as pockets clearly marked on the outfit .

Beautifully bisected  .

All the smartness and warmth we need in Winter Clothing

Matthew Williamson A/ W 2011 at London Fashion Week

Part 1 : 

Its not Pass the Popcorn day of being couch potato . London Fashion Week has too much going on and I have barely started it yet for the collection I am about to blog has so many beautiful pieces and don’t feel good to leave any of the piece uncovered even though I am not officially signed to write about LFW haha …. For couple of days I been blogging on London Fashion Week where we saw brilliant command on combinations and creativity out of all unexpected zone’s of life. However , at the first glance of Matthew Williamson A/W  2011-12 collection was immediately a quick journey of memories for me .On seeing the wrap skirt in red and grey knit and the big petalled embroidery over the short black dress  I was thinking of  the time when I started working for knitwear company. On the very first day of my interview I was given a task to make a patterned design for a sweater on a graph sheet and for one or two minutes I was totally blank and had no clue what to do with graph sheet for I never ever had designed anything on graph paper before apart from drawing bar charts in my maths class. Anyhow something clicked to me and I was successful enough to impress the employer who was qualified designer from Germany himself running knitwear industry in India  ….. I still don’t understand if that was talent within me  ha ha …. sounds like blabbering for I am not working as designer for knitwear presently but designing onto graph sheets for knitwear company did existed in my employment history till the time I went to university to study further.

KNITWEAR Sorry I have to interrupt myself here for my story about it might take good chunk of blog that already has too much to share about. So coming back to Matthew Williamson and his A/W collection 2011. Lets start with his knits first for I must confess I like knits and knitting like old granny lol . The knitwears  are cut into oversized jackets to slim fit jackets. The knee length knitted coat with roll up sleeves and shawl collar is unique to me as it has all that smartness and warmth required in winter outerwear. Can’t miss to talk about the mini length wrap skirt in knit with perfect finish in black belt and offcourse the border which is very much required to add weight in knits to stay straight .The colour pallete in red , black and grey is knitted into quite geometrical pattern of  squares and triangles running around in the form of all over design.

Knitted Wrap Skirt Ready to Wear Kniwear from Matthew Williamson   Autumn / Winter      2011