SHOWstudio: AW 2011 Collections, Gareth Pugh, Prada, Mary Katrantzou, Proenza Schouler, Sussie Bubble, Sam McKnight, Victor & Rolf and more

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	Newsletter | 10 March 2011
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: PARIS WOMENSWEAR A/W 2011
Paris: the crowning glory to the A/W 2011 collections - shows from Parisian powerhouses Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and Louis Vuitton and avant-garde statements from Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh and Mugler closing the season in style. As always, Paris both consolidated the existing mood of the season, and kick-started a few of its own - fittingly enough, this season French Chic was the order of the day chez Rochas, Nina Ricci etc all, as illustrated via our live image uploads from NOWFASHION.com and a barrage of blogs and tweets. [more]
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: MILAN WOMENSWEAR AW/11
The Milan A/W 2011 Collections proved once again that Italians are the go-tos for luxury heritage brands. Fashion Director Alexander Fury’s in-depth coverage, accompanied once again by images from NOWFASHION.com,  brought us front row and backstage as some of fashion's heavy hitters took center stage. Miuccia Prada’s love of perverse took another turn, reviving the twenties via the sixties and reinventing traditional luxury textures for the twenty-first century; and Raf Simons’ continued his love affair with mid-century couture, taking inspiration from Balenciaga’s structured silhouettes for a stellar Jil Sander show. [more]
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: LONDON WOMENSWEAR AW/11
A sense of hometown pride descended upon us here at SHOWstudio.com as the London A/W 2011 Collections coverage began back in February. The feeling was difficult to avoid with the city ripe as ever with talent both young and old, and those yet to be discovered, with our Fashion Director Alexander Fury at the helm. This season SHOWstudio.com introduced Collection Audio reports; live, unedited and off-the-cuff, these reports were inspired by Carmel Snow’s post-war radio reports which introduced the name Balenciaga to the United States and gave Dior’s New Look its iconic moniker. Capping off the London Collections were Hywel Davies’ in-depth reports from London's Menswear Day [more]
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: NEW YORK WOMENSWEAR A/W 2011
It's hard to believe that it has only been a matter of weeks since our marathon coverage of the A/W 2011 womenswear Collections began, kicking off on the other side of the pond in New York City. Braving the biting cold weather on our behalf were SHOWstudio.com contributing fashion writers Lindsay Sammon and Indigo Clarke, complimented by guest blogger Susanna Lau of Style Bubble’s sartorial critiques and images from NowFashion.com. New York certainly gave fashion a running start to the A/W 2011 season. [more]
COLLECTIONS Susie Bubble, Guest Blogger
Returning for her second season as contributing fashion writer for SHOWstudio.com’s Collections coverage, Susanna Lau waxes lyrical on her observations from the frontline of the New York A/W 2011 show season. A fashion media renegade better known as Susie Bubble of the blog Style Bubble, Lau’s hand in the blog revolution makes her an exciting addition to the SHOWstudio in-depth reportage; first getting her knit kicks at Tess Giberson in New York, then bringing us straight to Canadian Jeremy Laing, Ecco Domani Award winning lingerie label The Lake and Stars, and heavy hitters such as Thom Browne and Thakoon. Lau leaves no stone unturned as she makes her way through SHOWstudio’s first stop on the A/W 2011 Collections schedule tour de force.
COLLECTIONS Sam McKnight, Backstage Blogger
World renowned hair stylist Sam McKnight’s work has a proven track record of redefining the ideals of modern glamor season after season: a regular contributor to British Vogue and other celebrated international publications for over three decades, and founder of our modern idea of a the 'session stylist’. A/W 2011 proved no different with his creative direction sculpting catwalk creations for Balmain, DSquared2 and Fendi, to name a few. SHOWstudio.com had the privilege of bearing witness to all of the magic via McKnight’s exclusive backstage video reports - up close and personal with Freja, Anja, and other mannequins extraordinaire as they are primped and prepped moments before they took to the catwalk.
FROM THE SHOP BEDTIME STORY, 2005
Fashion enables women to dream and arguably, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are responsible for more dreams than most. With their fantastical fusions of haute couture and high concept, they have been a highlight of the Paris Fashion Week schedules since the nineties. For A/W 2005, Viktor & Rolf gave a new interpretation to the idea of 'bedclothes', reinterpreting duvets, eiderdowns and blankets as the very height of chic - with Tori Amos crooning background lullabies for good measure - which made this collection the perfect fashion inclusion to the latest SHOWstudio Shop exhibition, To Bed. V&R’s garment of choice for our show? A chic fringed dress crafted from a single twisted sheet of silk - albeit crowned with an extravagant padded neckpiece of tasseled pillows. [more]
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