Nick Knight captures A/W 14’s finest Haute Couture from houses such as Dior, Schiaparelli and Chanel in dynamic movement in a fashion film edited by Younji Ku (via Showstudio)
Fashion Fairy Tale: Hair How wonderful are these hairdo’s for Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2014 show!? Each “do” is a story in itself! Lovely…Make sure to click the pictures to view them enlarged. (images via dollyphyton)
Recapping Fashion Trends by Mimi Berlin, noticed on the runway shows for Fall 2014: Neatly organized so you won’t miss out on any story! Just click on the title to go to the full posts on this blog. xoxo Mimi Berlin
Fairy Tale: Little red Riding Hood 
Fairy Tale: Glamour Dreams
Oversized Comfort
Huge Street-Art-Faces at Prada
Fashion Tale F/W 2014: Mimi spotted a mini trend at the runway shows for Fall 2014: surrealism and/or trompe l’oeil
Man Ray, Painted Hands, 1935.
Butterfly Patterns in Fashion; The butterfly theme started at the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture Show for Spring 2014. All outfits had something to do with the little, colorful insect. Hats, prints, shapes you name it, Mr Gaultier had turned it into a butterfly. At Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli also used the butterfly as an inspiration source, well into the Pre-Fall season of 2014. At the Fall 2014 shows the butterfly was seen at Valentino, Givenchy and Les Copains
(images via style.com/ from JPG Couture Spring 2014 via fabsugar)
About the butterfly: “A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly’s life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths. The earliest known butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, 40–50 million years ago. Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some, like the Monarch, will migrate over long distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; however, some species are agents of pollination of some plants, and caterpillars of a few butterflies (e.g., Harvesters) eat harmful insects. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.” and in fashion…(via)
View Mimi Berlin’s review on the Spring Couture 2014 shows HERE on this blog
More animals (birds) for Fall 2014 Ready to wear on this blog
Fashion Fall 2014: Postmodern Prints. Alchemia and Memphis are back in fashion-land at Chloé and Kenzo’s runway shows for Fall 2014. At Kenzo the combination of prints definitely shows the influence of the Italian interior designs of the eighties, done very tastefully and modern (NOW). Chloé’s designer Claire Waight Keller made use of the same squiggly-macaroni-abstract-little-postmodern-shapes, both in full-color an bi-color for allover prints. Less clear at Michael van der Ham’s show but we can see some post modern influences for sure, with thanks to the cuts at the hemline of the skirt! It’s just what we, at Mimi Berlin noticed, and amongst all the other loud grafitti-bomber-zipper-eighties retro fashion on the runways, we find these translations of the 1980s to be like a breath of fresh air. (if we could stay clear of our daily smokes that is)
