September 25, 2011
Drapers’ Marie Davies looks at the key trends and pieces for Spring 12 from London Fashion Week.
Flower power
Floral, floral and more floral! If you haven’t already bought this trend, London confirmed it for spring 12. Look to delicate prints at Erdem, or playful sequined examples at Ashish, and brights at Mary Katrantzou.
Yellow brick road
From the palest lemon to highlighter neon, yellow is the colour for spring. Regarded as one of the more difficult colours to wear, mix it with florals to ease it into [...]
September 24, 2011
MILAN — Muted shades, light, airy fabrics and demure knee-length hemlines have emerged as trends for next spring and summer at Milan Fashion Week.
Perhaps even fashion designers are feeling cowed by the constant grim economic forecasts, but according to the shows Thursday next summer won’t be loud and brash. On the contrary, there is something enduring about the collections being previewed in Milan: This is fashion that can transcend not only occassions but seasons, wearing well into the Indian-summer temperatures of fall. prada’s women don [...]
September 23, 2011
Forget the singing competitions, cop shows, fairy-tale dramas and the “Mad Men”-Style melodramas. For network television this is the season of the vagina. On Monday night on the premiere of CBS’s “Two Broke Girls,” one of the most highly touted new shows of the season, a waitress, played by Kat Dennings, got back at two men who were snapping their fingers at her by letting them know the deleterious effect their behavior had on her vagina. The show is slated to run Mondays at 8:30 p.m.
At that [...]