Resort 2011: Pantsuit anyone?

Ok. So. Pre-Fall and Resort collections.

Normal people just don’t understand them.

They don’t get why ‘Resort’ exists, and the difference between Pre-Fall and Fall/Winter. The funny thing is, is that large department stores make a ton of room for these collections because they sell out. I guess you don’t have to get it to wear it?

Anyway, I’m not here to explain what normal citizens think of these collections; I’m here to showcase my favourite looks from Resort 2011. Because lets be honest, without these collections we wouldn’t have Chanel’s extravagant Resort collections to view and without Pre-Fall, we wouldn’t have gotten a glimpse of one of the best jackets ever made: the shearling leather aviation jacket from Burberry’s Pre-Fall 2010 collection (which, was then multiplied many times, in many versions in Burberry’s Fall 2010 collection.) That collection was then named runner up for Best 2010 Fall Collection by style.com, after Alexander McQueen.

God, I love these collections. I love that they are smaller, cohesive, wearable, and understated. I love that we get a small introduction to some huge trends that will follow in Spring/Summer or Fall/Winter.

Ok, so trends for Resort: The 70′s are baccckkk! Pantsuits, jumpsuits, graphic dresses, geometric dresses, prints, maxi dresses and skirts, and BOLD colours!!! Another trend that isn’t 70′s which, I am very sure came from the Oscars is the white dress. It was literally in every collection.

Enjoy my favourite looks!

Givenchy Resort 2011

Stella McCartney Resort 2011

Bottega Veneta Resort 2011

Rag & Bone Resort 2011

Chanel Resort 2011

Balenciaga Resort 2011

Erdem Resort 2011

Gucci Resort 2011

Doo.Ri Resort 2011

Stella McCartney Resort 2011

Roksanda Illincic Resort 2011

Chanel Resort 2011

Proenza Schouler Resort 2011

Pucci Resort 2011

Celine Resort 2011

Balenciaga Resort 2011

Burberry Pre-Fall 2010

All pictures from style.com

Trend Spot: Buttoned-up Collars

Maybe it isn’t a new trend, but it sure is everywhere right now. I can’t read any blogs or look at any male collections without seeing a collar buttoned all the way up.

Women are starting to sport this look too. So I decided to investigate our women’s collections a bit more. Low and behold, the buttoned-up collar was on the womenswear runway too. I love how womenswear and menswear are becoming more and more intertwined.

Maybe androgyny is taking over??

If not, menswear clothing is definitely becoming a staple for women, and skirts for men…? Well, skorts/skirts were on the runway for Spring 2011 and Marc Jacobs does like his skirts.

Kenzo Spring 2011

Etro Fall 2010

lookbook.nu

Acne Spring 2011

Burberry Spring 2011

GQ Tommy Ton

Calvin Klein Spring 2011

3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2010

Hanneli Mustaparta

Chloe Spring 2010

Dries Van Noten Spring 2011

Lookbook.nu her caption was "Like the boys"

Pringle of Scotland Spring 2011

The Row Fall 2010

GQ Tommy Ton

Neil Barrett Spring 2011

Lookbook.nu

Prada Spring 2011

Marc Jacobs

Photos from lookbook.nu, style.com, elle.com, gq.com and tommy ton pics from gq.com, hanneli.com

Balenciaga Fall 2010

I started looking through all my Fall 2010 collection pics that I save from style.com (thank god for style.com!) and came across Balenciaga again. Now who are we kidding, Balenciaga pretty much has its own religion, so I don’t need to profess my love or have to explain it to anyone else.. just because, well…you know… they should understand.

Here are my favourite looks from that collection. The dresses would be so cute to rock right now, especially the lace dress, and those colours…in the words of Rachel Zoe, “I die.”

Ps Nicolas Ghesquière is like my second God…next to Riccardo Tisci.

All pictures are from style.com

Isabel Marant Fall/Winter 2010: Kate Moss

Kate Moss is Isabel Marant’s new face. It’s all very interesting to me, considering in April she was photographed in their leather pants by the paps.

Coincidence? Freebies? Oh who the fuck cares… it’s just another reason to be jealous of Kate Moss, and her closet.

I would also like to note that those leather pants would be full length on me, not cropped. Perfect? Maybe. Pathetic? Never.

PS- When bigger pictures surface on the internet of the ad campaign, I will change them. Until then, we must suffer.

Update: Yes! I love you fashiongonerogue.com. Bigger picture of Kate Moss’ ad for Isabel Marant.

Isabel Marant Fall 2010 ad

Isabel Marant Fall 2010 ad

Kate Moss in leather Isabel Marant pants, photo taken in April 2010

Isabel Marant Fall 2010

Obsession: a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling

I have an obsession.

I used to like to think of it as a passion, even a hobby, but I finally crossed the line. Now how do you know when you have crossed a line?

You just know.  Trust me.

I live, think, breathe and dream fashion and whenever possible throw it into conversation because I just need to speak about it (even when I’m talking to people who don’t know who Karl Lagerfeld is – and I promise you those people do exist). I know… it’s hard to imagine. But again, trust me, I am surrounded by them. I can’t believe these people can live without the knowledge of Karl, John, and Riccardo. That’s right, in my mind we are on first name basis.  Now after everything I just told you plus having several dreams where I am friends with these amazing designers, or where I have acquired (always out of nowhere) a Christian Lacroix Couture gown from his Fall 2009 show, you would think that I’d know I was a little obsessed… at the very least.  But no, people, I have learnt from my teacher that I have a very big obsession. You see, for every class project where we get to choose our own theme, I go through my mental list and pick which fashion topic best suits the project. I have done a project on the Gucci Group, an informational speech on Haute Couture, and a power point presentation on Riccardo Tisci, (in my ideal world, he wouldn’t be able to create without me) and the list goes on. So this time around, we were doing a presentation sales pitch and I was like “Yes! Yes! Yes! I have several obsessions (I didn’t realize the extent of the meaning of this word quite yet) du jour!”

I became overly excited that I was able to continue my obsessing for a good cause, my school project, and I started mulling over my current favs.  The neon Celine classic bag from resort 2011, Givenchy’s black wedges of Spring 2010, Proenza Schouler’s PS1 bags and the Dsquared vertebrate shoes. However, when I pitched these ideas to my teacher she was not at all impressed. And by unimpressed I mean, she reminded me that I was “selling to a bunch of students who wouldn’t think these products were very practical.” Oh yes my friends, she went there. Inside I was screaming “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!!??!!?” But instead of raging on my teacher, I took the cool, calm, and collected road…

“Well Mrs. Whatever, the Celine bag however expensive it may be, will be a collectors item and is very practical. Everyone needs a stunning small day bag!  This one just happens to be TIMELESS and the designer (Phoebe Philo) happened to turn the house from BLAH to an UBER fashion-forward house of amazing-ness. You can obviously imagine the extent to which I went to defend the Givenchy Wedges:

“ITS GIVENCHY!!! How can that be a waste of money?! It’s an investment god damn it! Riccardo Tisci helped the couture house build its clientele from 2 to 26. TWENTY-SIX! That’s a MIND-FUCK!!!”

As I was getting all huffy inside, cursing where I live, how no one understands or appreciates fashion, and how my teacher was an idiot for not understanding why everyone should invest in something Celine NOW. I suddenly felt like I was having an argument with my father on why he should buy me Chanel pearls. Then I realized like I do every time with my father that this conversation was the biggest waste of time ever.  I sucked it up and established I’d either need to leave Vancouver or invest in therapy ASAP, (which would really just take money away from my clothing budget) so I shut up and I’m now doing my project on M0851 bags, which are practical school bags…for $450.

Enjoy the pictures.

M0851

Neon Classic Celine

Givenchy Spring 2010

Proenza Schouler PS1

 

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