Burberry Prorsum FW10.

Again with the belated LFW postings :)

I cannot get over the wearability of this Burberry Prorsum collection! Makes me want thigh high boots rather than ankle ones, renewed my search for the blazer, and winter brights.

I also wish I could find a full length photos of what Frida walked in:

How gorgeous is that blue-grey?

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Half a snowglobe.

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Absolutely adore this photo of Abbey and Freja. I wish I was there :(

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"... they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like sack potatoes." ~ Alexander McQueen

In the space of two days, the amazing symmetrical McQueen prints gracing two international editorials:

1. Anne Sophie Monrad by Felix Lammers in Glass Magazine (styled by a very talented Darren Knight)
2. Freja Beha Erichsen shot by Josh Olins for VOGUE UK (March 2010), styled by Superwoman

Superwoman being Lucinda Chambers :)

I wish those McQueen SS10 shoes and dresses could be watered down for retail - I would be there in a flash with all my yet-to-be life savings :)

Happy Friday all! I thought the end of the week would never come.

*love*

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"... an electronic flash in my head at five o'clock one morning."

Chanel, Chanel - perhaps Karl's first ever collection with no navy or black. Romanticism, space age, and intense amount of hand-worked optical illusion on the tiniest scale - take, for example, the ruffled skirts and dresses that took a significant chunk of the show: the edges of each tier were frayed just slightly, then hand-tinted in such a way that it looked almost like fur. Similarly, lots of playing with textures went on - molten, frothy, liquid... and embroidery that looked like shattered glass. Snaps to stylists too - all the jewellery somehow worked itself into the clothing, so it was hard to tell if it was accessoire or embellishment. And would you look at those collars!

One thing. Make that two. The whole time, I kept thinking of Zac Posen's 'naughty Minnie' hair from Fall 2008. Two: is it just me, a trick of light (quite possible) or nothing at all, or did Mr Karl pull a softer metallic Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2009? I'm talking tights here. Not just tights. The tights I'm still hunting for 10 months on. *sigh*

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Freja Beha by Sølve Sundsbø.

What I love so much about this is that all the clothing could easily be black, and you'd have your perfect V or W editorial, but because of the bold colours and patterns and the way Freja communicates that (with her brown shininess), it gives us a less androgynous side of her and sets off everything so nicely.

*love*

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Gemini.

Such casually, intensely, glamorously simple beauty.

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Magnetic Tape.

Freja Beha is such a beautiful girl - in that I'm-just-a-boy-with-incredible-cheekbones way.

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They're everywhere.

Oh my godchild: these tights. Are stalking me. I was just flicking through magazine editorials and they are EVERYWHERE... and I just found two more this minute:

I have to have them. But where?

*love*

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Made in France.

A few somethings from over at Garance Doré :) Karl Lagerfeld's average walk in the park - strolling past Freja et Baptiste et Lara having fun in the hay.

I would also kill to own that hessian print as a bag.

*love*

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I love you, I love you.

Chanel, for a change, was very sweet and subdued, but overstated at the same time. It was interesting to see how much closer to their age (i.e. 15-16) some of the models looked when they smiled. The show also had a completely separate media area - and might I say, I quite enjoyed the set.

*love*

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