fashion friday *erdem* x

after taking a break last week, fashion friday is back, this week with the young british designer erdem....

spring 09
dresses in french lace, dappled pastel tinted watercolours of anemones and irises
add a twist
an orange ribbon clashingly threaded through an ice blue lace edwardian dress

*....soft and hyper-romantice, easy but a bit surreal at the same time....*

a midsummer night's dream

all photos from style.com

fall 2009
the girl moves from the meadows of the summer
*....now she's visited nightclubs and gone home on the bus....*

stunning silk dresses & sculpted silhouettes
short doll-like empire lines
with puffed up skirts
styalised red, purple, black crysanthemums

the cutest ankle boots

utterly romantic

all photos from style.com

wishing you a fashionable friday
xx

ps. this is my 100th post......how time flies!
here's to the next 100
xx

fashion friday *miu miu* x

fashion friday continues with miuccia prada....

*i love fashion, but i think it should stay in it's place, not rule your life*
*it's a very nice part of your life, but i think it should be fun*
quote from miuccia prada

forget prada, it's miu miu all the way
i heart miu miu bags & shoes

miu miu advertising campaign for ss09
featuring katie holmes

miu miu catwalk collection ss09

all images from style.com

as always
wishing you a fashionable friday
xx

fashion friday *chanel* x

fashion friday again, and seems only fitting that in the week "coco avant chanel" is released in france, that this week we should pay homage to coco chanel....

*a girl should be two things: classy and fabulous*

*a woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future*

*elegance does not consist of putting on a new dress *

*fashion fades, only style remains the same*

*fashion is made to become unfashionable*

*in order to be irreplacable one must always be different*

*luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury*

*look for the woman in the dress. if there is no woman, there is no dress*

*since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them*

*those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous*

*there have been several duchesses of westminster but there is only one chanel*

all quotes from coco chanel
catwalk photo's from style.com

wishing you a fabulously fashionable friday
xx

fashion friday *burberry* x

this weeks fashion friday re-introduces an iconic british brand that has been moved into the new millenium by a young designer......today, let me introduce christopher bailey, designer at burberry....

burberry was synonomous with it's trademark check, which lined it's trenchcoats from the 1920's, before reaching the height of it's popularity in the 1950's & 1960's, recieving royal warrants from the queen, and dressing audrey hepburn in "breakfast at tiffany's"....however it wasn't a cool label, until christopher bailey moved from gucci in 2001, kate moss became muse and burberry became a serious fashion brand

......enjoy......

burberry prorsum spring 09 ready to wear collection

"i had in mind these little gardening girls and i wanted to give them every kind of outerwear - from their rain hats to their silk dresses...."
inspired by his own "....somewhat wild garden...."
christopher bailey wanted the collection to be "....soft, very romantic, something familiar but something new and reflecting the company heritage...."

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burberry prorsum autumn 09 ready to wear collection

this season, as well as taking another clever turn in the archives of the house he so obviously loves, bailey took "modern nostalgia - great british icons" as his theme
elizabeth, countess of devon, was immortalised in finely pleated silk chiffon for lighter than air dresses
the arty intellectuals of the bloomsbury group of the twenties and thirties were admired through the use of a muted palette of browns, greys and neutrals, along with the soft, layered silhouettes, and dropped waisted skirts

i adore these last two collections, the colours, silhouettes, the so so cute socks & sandals in spring, the gorgeous printed satin dresses in autumn, they manage to be both unashamedly girly and nostalgic but completly up to date......beautiful xx

fashion friday *vivienne westwood* x

another friday, another fashion icon, the grand dame of them all, please let me introduce you to dame vivienne westwood....

i went to art college after leaving school, and started going down to london to visit all the galleries and shops. i remember going along the king's road, working my way from sloane square up to the world's end shop. i was fascinated by vivienne westwood, had just started reading into her influence on punk, and i loved being able to go into and wander around this little shop gazing at the wonderful clothes on display. it was my first real experience of designer clothing and i was completely hooked......although my love of fashion has now spread to many different designers, looking back through vivienne's collections brings back memories of designing and creating my college collections....

world's end, vivinne westwood's kings road shop

"vivienne westwood did not, as the waiting paparazzi had surely hoped, twirl knickerless yesterday at the victoria & albert museum, as she did 12 years ago after collecting her obe from buckingham palace. in fact, the outfit she wore for her first photocall of the day seemed at first glance rather conservative for one of the country's most celebrated nonconformists. rose pink silk is, after all, a traditional choice for ladies of westwood's age, 62, even if most of them do not have hair the colour of the inside of a jaffa cake to clash with it.

the dress was calf-length, and long-sleeved, and worn with matching tights and high heels. closer inspection, however, revealed a few very westwood touches: mini papier mache chandelier earrings, a brooch in the shape of a wasp perched on her bosom, and - nestled in the jaffa cake hair - two tiny silver devil's horns. and these, she intimated, were just daywear - she was awaiting the arrival of diamond-encrusted horns from de beers which she planned to wear to last night's private view.

even on the day she is officially welcomed into the british cultural establishment, honoured with the largest exhibition the v&a has ever devoted to a british designer, vivienne westwood cannot resist a small satorial rebellion"

excerpt from article in the guardian, by jess cartner-morley......read more here

......enjoy......

vivienne & sarah stockbridge

vivienne & tartan
vivienne & ball gowns

vivienne & nymphs for the new millenium
vivienne & gold label
images from here

as always, wishing you a fashionable friday

xx