MILAN - For spring-summer 2011, Roberto Cavalli hangs it all out, from fringes, beading and intricate lacing, to sex up the look of his already super-sexy styles.
Lover of the body-grabbing effect of snakeskin, Cavalli placed his latest collection in a make-believe jungle with huge plastic plants set up under a glass tent Monday behind the Arco della Pace, a Milan monument.
"Me, Cavalli, she, Jane" the designer seemed to be saying as model after model walked through the jungle in skin-tight gowns and trousers to the thumping beat of a soundtrack.
Many of the outfits were barebacked, but that came as no surprise. The sex-appeal of Cavalli's latest collection comes in the intricate workmanship.
Almost every outfit is dripping with fringes, which carried over to the reptile skin shoulder bag. But if at times the fringes served as chastity curtains, the lacing did little to cover up the body. Instead, it was used for a peek-a-boo effect on the open seams of a flared pant or the bare midriff of a gown.
On the runway, the fabrics looked like a combination of prints and beading, with a dash of real snakeskin. But a closer look showed that the patterns were not printed but were the result of intricate embroidery matching tiny silk leaves with pearls, sequins and fringes. Of course there was the staple snakeskin, which got its best use in the ethnic-inspired fringed shoulder bags that accompanied every outfit.
Rather than spoiling the untamed effect of the collection by weighing it down with the currently popular ethnic-inspired jewelry, Cavalli preferred simple oversized gold loop earrings.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Fashion Week In London
London Fashion Week is under way and British designers are hoping to regain the clout they had long held in previous years. I'm not entirely convinced that it had ever really gone away to begin with, after all those of us in the states typically love British fashion. However, the UK wants to be sure that their fashion week is looked upon differently than those of New York, Milan and Paris. While London's fashion week still retains fashion giants in the industry such as Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and Matthew Williamson, they overflow with new talent positioning themselves as the future of fashion, not just what is current and now.
When all is said and done, there will have been 65 fashion shows happening in less than a week's time and London is hoping the feeling will be less commercial and more real, targeted to today's woman and not the size zero model. But fashion is fashion after all, and from some of the pictures I've seen from the runways, super thin models are still there in full force.
When all is said and done, there will have been 65 fashion shows happening in less than a week's time and London is hoping the feeling will be less commercial and more real, targeted to today's woman and not the size zero model. But fashion is fashion after all, and from some of the pictures I've seen from the runways, super thin models are still there in full force.
Airbrush alert: UK wants fashion ads to state if photo is retouched Read more: Airbrush alert: UK wants fashion ads to state if photo is retouched |
That, at least, is what campaigners working against eating disorders insist. For years, they have complained that the waiflike, size zero models promote an unhealthy dieting culture. But digitally trimmed celebrities and models, they say, are much worse: many people don't realize what they see is neither real nor attainable.
Now the British government is taking up their cause. Next month, officials are sitting down to discuss how to curb airbrushing and promote body confidence among girls and women. If the campaigners get their way, fashion ads and magazines in Britain may soon have to label retouched photos to warn people that the perfect bodies they see are but digital fantasies.
It's the latest initiative in a long-running battle to force the fashion industry to show more diverse -- and realistic -- kinds of beauty.
"The trend does seem to be more and more extreme Photoshopping. Everybody's just moving towards Barbie dolls," said Hany Farid, a professor specializing in digital photo forensics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. "I don't think there's a single photograph in those (magazines) that's not retouched. They're all manipulated to hell."
Editors and ad managers have been making use of technology to improve the appearance of photographed models for some time. Before, it was taming the occasional stray hair or erasing a blemish. These days there's much more extensive trickery: flabby stomachs are tightened, necks and legs are lengthened, bosoms are reshaped. The result: a flawless body shape no amount of dieting or cosmetic surgery can achieve.
Now the British government is taking up their cause. Next month, officials are sitting down to discuss how to curb airbrushing and promote body confidence among girls and women. If the campaigners get their way, fashion ads and magazines in Britain may soon have to label retouched photos to warn people that the perfect bodies they see are but digital fantasies.
It's the latest initiative in a long-running battle to force the fashion industry to show more diverse -- and realistic -- kinds of beauty.
"The trend does seem to be more and more extreme Photoshopping. Everybody's just moving towards Barbie dolls," said Hany Farid, a professor specializing in digital photo forensics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. "I don't think there's a single photograph in those (magazines) that's not retouched. They're all manipulated to hell."
Editors and ad managers have been making use of technology to improve the appearance of photographed models for some time. Before, it was taming the occasional stray hair or erasing a blemish. These days there's much more extensive trickery: flabby stomachs are tightened, necks and legs are lengthened, bosoms are reshaped. The result: a flawless body shape no amount of dieting or cosmetic surgery can achieve.
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