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Baggy jeans are a hot trend, but fall’s avangarde slouchy pants with their tailored take, endow a silhouette with a more sophisticated and grown up look. At YSL, LV, Marc Jacobs and Nina Ricci, the models were walking with fabric, bagged, bunched, and looped low down between their legs.
Long and lean skirts paired with knitted cardigans and jackets are not just the favorite uniform of modest girls, it’s the fall’s new trendy look, delivered to the catwalk by designers such as Alexander Wang, Carlos Miele, Halston, and Marc Jacobs.
You might call them the ‘it’ bags or ‘the bag of the season’, both are cliches. Putting together this list of the fall’s top handbags, we looked for artwork, real craftsmanship, and fabrics and patterns that make a statement and stand the test of the time.
Polka dots are a hymn to innocence, femininity, fun and optimism. They were beloved by Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna.
The Girl Meets Boy trend is fun. We women like to wear menswear-inspired pieces like suits and vests. But, is it as fun, when men steal their styling muses from the women’s wardrobe, gallivanting about in silk and tulle blouses, corsets or skirts?
Fashion titans like Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel are tapping for their ad campaigns, not young polished models, but women in their late 30s. First, 37 year old supermodel Claudia Shiffer appeared in the Chanel S/S 08 ad campaign. Then, Linda Evangelista, who turns 43 this May, has been chosen by Prada as the face [...]
Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham have once again teamed up in a series of ads that appear to spoof Beckham’s “Posh” image. Here, Victoria emerges from a behemoth of a Marc Jacobs’ bag, wearing what looks like a miniature palm tree on her head. Quirky more than provocative, these ads may highlight a cleverness [...]
