VALENTINO
The clothes weren't the only thing standing out on the spring/summer ’12 runways; from unique ponytails to radical roots and funky hair accessories, fashion-forward hairstyles stole the shows. After combing through this season’s hair trends, we picked out our top five favorite looks that we're excited to try out in the coming months. No matter what your hair length or texture, we guarantee you can pull off at least one of these stunners!
While this classic trend has never gone out of style, floral prints and patterns will certainly be making a much more diverse statement for summer 2012. Betsey Johnson mixed vibrant colors with oversized tropical floral prints for her spring/summer 2012 collection, while Prada brought back the mod-look, and still others like Valentino and Isaac Mizrahi took a romantic approach.
Want to own a piece of Hollywood history? From December 3rd through December 17th, Christies.com will auction off approximately 950 personal items of the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. Items to be auctioned include custom made black cowboy boots, a Lanvin handbag, an Oscar de la Renta gown, and a Bulgari cuff. The auction will also include 22 designer handbags by Dior and Valentino, 500 pieces of jewelry (including a 33.19 carat diamond given to Liz by her husband Richard Burton) and more than 400 additional fashion pieces.
Listen. We love culture as much as the next guy. The editors here at Joonbug enjoy rolling out of bed at noon on a Saturday (or one, or two) and heading to our favorite fine art institution. But we are not about to waste our hard-earned weekends on New York tourist traps. And as it turns out, staring at paintings is a favorite activity of the Times Square-loving, Ray's Famous Pizza-eating, crisp white tennis shoe-wearing museumgoers...so the MoMA and Guggenheim will have to wait. Rather than shelling out to bump shoulders with a stroller-toting family of four, consider some of these exhibits that have been happily forgotten by the fannypack crowd:
Boots in every style, color and texture!
Hot off the catwalk, the Italians: Valentino and Prada, chose to showcase traditional stacked heel styled boots. Whereas The British Fashion house Burberry preferred to make their statement with chunky, ankle length, lace ups. The boots came in a range of materials from soft as butter leather through to slouchy suede and sexy python.
So how do we work this look?
The riding boot with its flat sole and discreet 'go with anything in your closet' style is perhaps the most versatile and flattering to wear. For those who wish to add an element of Je Ne Sais Quoi, a stacked
heeled boot spells serious sex appeal. And for us fashion mavens? It has to be the wedged, ankle style. Worn with the wrong type of clothing (short skirts being one example) these boots make your feet look like they are attached to a pair of clompy bricks! But, team with a pair of slim fit/slouchy pants and you will provoke serious fashion envy.
It's that time of year again: time to look through your wardrobe and decide what stays and what goes. With fashion week just around the corner for us New Yorkers it is important to see what exactly it is that we should be wearing. As per the industry's custom much of the upcoming trends are things we have seen before done in a new way.
Clearly nautical stripes are nothing new, but in the upcoming seasons they are coming back in full force. Everyone from J. Crew, who has continued their collaboration with Saint James, to Mauro Grifoni (Fall 2011) and Kitsune (Spring 2012) has shown striped pieces. Even Valentino is utilizing this classic style; note the long-sleeved striped turtle necks seen in the designers Fall 2011 show.
1. Ultra Feminine
While the ditzy girly-girl type may get on our nerves from time to time, her style is all the rage right now. Over-dramatized ruffles, bows, and ribbons, demure colors, and baby doll silhouettes are at the top of our wish lists. Carven's tulip-skirt jumpers, round-collared blouses, and bow adorned heels are the perfect definition of girly-girl style. You'll find plenty of frilly layers and soft colors among the designs of Alice + Olivia. Herve Leger and Valentino are also designers to check out if you're in the market to fem-up your wardrobe.
Perhaps it was all the love (and ensuing weddings) floating through the summer air or maybe it was a dire need to find an escape from the scorching heat; whatever the inspiration was for the use of bright white hues and tones throughout this season's Couture collections, we salute it.
Never one for routine, Christian Dior put a major spin on classic white this couture season. Dior stayed true to its reputation of being a visionary genius by combining crisp whites with peachy pastels to show the true versatility of light hues, pairing interesting textures with even more interesting textures, and creating voluminoussilhouettes that literally pushed boundaries, or at least daintily brushed against them.
The phenomenon of mixing insanely expensive designer pieces with label-less bargain duds began when Sharon Stone appeared on the red carpet of the 1996 Oscars wearing a Valentino skirt paired with a plain black t-shirt from the Gap. It's been fifteen years (105 in fashion years) since the birth of the High/Low craze, yet it is still going strong. Quickly evolving from a trend to a necessity, High/Low fashion has come to mean that mixing a $3 tank top with a $300 skirt is more than acceptable. In fact, it's highly encouraged. Celebs and commoners alike are balancing their wardrobes with high-end designer pieces and cheap-o trendy clothes and accessories.
Have you been cursed (blessed?) with impossible taste? Every time you see something you love, is it always the most expensive thing in the store? Yes, we understand. There's a Valentino-loving-Christian-Louboutin-craving-Chanel-worshipping shopaholic in all of us. Some girls say they're not "into brands," but trust me, they wouldn't turn down a $5k Chanel handbag. I remember prom dress shopping as a teenager and every dress I picked out was always absurdly priced.
A decade later, nothing has changed. I drool over Valentino probably more than any other brand. If I could wear one designer for the rest of my life it would be Valentino. So when I saw Valentino's silk ruffled dress for a cool $11,000 (Yes, that's $11k worth of silk, sequin, bead-embellished embroidered floral lace with organza rosette embellished skirt) I swooned, then cried because the price tag is absurd -no matter what your financial status is.
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