Gucci’s spring fringe bag cements its It status on the backs of 6 ultra-cool DJs
Gucci’s original bamboo handle is getting a major high fashion upgrade for Spring 2014. Hot on the heels of the release of the brand’s latest short film, “The Fringe”, the luxury Italian fashion house has commissioned fashion’s most sought after female DJs to give their spin on the coveted bag. Providing their It girl statuses to the campaign are Harley-Viera Newton, Leigh Lezark, Pixie Geldof, JaKissa Taylor-Semple (DJ Kiss), and Chelsea Leyland.
Shot on location in New York, Paris, London, and Paris, the portfolio showcases each DJ rocking the fashion house’s bamboo suede fringe bag in monochrome and rich jewel tones against a variety of underground club locations and hotspots. Accompanying the images are six exclusive playlists curated by the DJs, which will be released on Gucci’s new Spotify hub.
With a sci-fi inspired short film and a major viral campaign featuring some of fashion’s best dressed DJs, the bamboo bangle bag is basically confirmed to be one of this season’s most coveted. We wouldn’t be surprised if we spot the bag on the arms of festivalgoers come April… hello Coachella!
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Florals for all: Sarah Stevenson’s Target collection revealed!
Move over Peter Pilotto, there’s a new Target collabo in town. Almost a year after designer Sarah Stevenson nabbed top honours at Toronto Fashion Incubator’s annual New Labels competition; images of her upcoming collection for Target Canada have been released! Launched last night at a fashion show in Toronto, the 15-piece collection rings true to the designer’s signatures, but re-imagined for the budget conscious at only $25-$60 a pop. The 15-piece collection features laser cut, layered and multi-hued floral prints on dresses, trousers, blouses and a statement blazer.
“I really had the Target guest in mind and I worked really loosely with the Target design team to really understand who that guest is and what they’re looking for,” Stevenson said. “I still wanted it to have my aesthetic and all the elements that are signature to my high-end line but making it wearable for the urban Canadian woman. I thought a lot about transitional pieces, that can be taken from winter into spring.” Given how hot florals continue to be on both spring and fall runways, it’s pretty safe to say these pieces will be wardrobe essentials for seasons to come.
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It would've been impossible for Nicolas Ghesquière to arrive at Louis Vuitton and deliver a fully formed debut collection, the forward-pushing, prophetic kind he consistently brought to Balenciaga. It will take several seasons and countless tweaks to come to an aesthetic that blends the designer's quietly radical experiments in proportion and fabrication with the brand's own DNA, still so closely associated with Marc Jacobs.
A natural compulsion to compare the two designers may have been the reason Ghesquière wrote a touching note placed on each seat. It read, in part: "Today is a new day. A big day. You are about to witness my first fashion show for Louis Vuitton...I salute the work of Marc Jacobs, whose legacy I wholeheartedly hope to honour." All of which is to say, Ghesquière's first foray was a very pared-down affair, sans sweeping conceptual statements. But while there were no great ideological leaps, the mere cracking of the door is marvelous enough.
Marc Jacobs was known for his elaborate sets for Vuitton — carousels, escalators, a real steamtrain. But Ghesquière kept the setting at the Louvre’s Cour Carrée stark and simple, utilizing only the space's blinds, which were fully open to allow a flood of sunlight onto the runway — emphasizing that this was a fresh start, a clean slate.
The clothes, too, were relatively undramatic and straight-forward, keeping mostly to a silhouette of high-waisted mid-thigh skirts paired with long-sleeve snug tops or tanks. Leather and suede were the materials of choice — a nod to the house's long heritage as a luxury luggage purveyor — and they were often cut, at times imperceptibly, in unconventional ways yet in conventionally autumnal colors. The most winning of the bags, and there were a lot, ended up being the smallest, a minaudière shaped like a trunk and, of course, monogrammed.
Leathers and fabrics were cut in diagonal and oblong shapes that were pieced together to create cohesive looks, like a leather dress with a side zip or knockout knit skirts with panels of fringe or feathers cascading down the front and back. Those alone are enough of a starting point for future collections.
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Fierce Femmes: Vivienne Westwood Fall 2014
Vivienne Westwood took her strong woman a step further for fall, as fierce, face-painted models swaddled in crushed velvet and bold brocades stomped confidently down the runway.
An anti-establishment aesthetic resonates with the British Dame and queen of punk. It's no wonder that the silhouettes, fabrics and prints were mashed together in a harmoniously haphazard way. In fact, from plaid to stripes, flouncy midis to harem pants, nearly all possible silhouettes were accounted for. Yet, there were a couple of strong design elements that held the collection together: Westwood’s signature mutton sleeve, ruffled collars and endless layering, just to name a few.
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