Dressage !

On Wednesday Jean Paul Gaultier presented his final collection as head of Hermes. The collection itself was very subtle and elegant sticking to quite a muted colour theme, but with a slight edge of Gaultiers sexy trademark fitted bodice. It was also heavily influenced by equestrian wear as tailored leather jackets and silk jodhpurs were both key pieces in the collection.

I also picked up a slight Spanish influence as the hats and capes reminded me of the traditional wear for a Spanish Matador when in a bull fight.


My favourite piece from this collection was this floorlength chocolate leather design, as I think it represents Hermes very well as they are famous for their leather Birkin bag as well as it clinging quite tightly and showing a womanly silhoutette which keeps in tuning with Gaultiers femine look. I particularly like the veil/cape on this piece as it looks so fluid like and elegant.

Gaultier also featured half a dozen black thoroughbred horses in the set of his fashion show, I see this acting as symbolism for it being his last show, as black horses are regularly involved in funerals.

B-jorkutiful

I have been looking at the images from the Alexander Mcqueen memorial service at St.Pauls and in my opinions the outfits arriving there were ten times more special than next seasons designer collections over at Somerset House.


In attendance were figures from the fashion world such as Kate Moss, Niomi Campbell, Anna Wintour, Sarah-Jessica Parker and Daphne Guiness all wearing amazing Mcqueen creations both old and new.


However the dress more amazing than any other was worn my singer Bjork who preformed at the service. The dress paid perfect tribute to Mcqueen, completely impractical, huge and slightly crazy. The Outrageously large winged coloured corset was made of what looked like metal or tin and from the waist down Bjork exploded into feathers. This was clever outfit choice as it almost made her look like a angel, ... an angel in couture !

My Girls got the moooovveess

Whilst also visiting the TATE, my girlie's decided to get there groove on !
In the exhibition on modern contemporary sculpture, a complete 70's disco set has been applied by artist DLA Piper. It includes multi-coloured lit dance floor, mirror balls, dramatic lighting and is surrounded by full length mirrors. By using lighting in this way the effect of more space is created making dancers feel like they have more room.

Wireless headphones were provided on entering the exhibit where it was possible to listen to 70's disco music and use the facilities to dance themselves . The girls jumped at the chance to show off their moves as well as bringing back some John Travolta moves, however to onlookers it looked very similar to a silent rave. Which made me wonder whether the artist was trying to create 2 contrasting styles of dancing.

Andy Warhol

On Tuesday we went to the TATE in Liverpool. My favourite exhibition I have ever seen in the TATE was the Andy Warhol, even the room and space in which it was set was amazing to see with all the bright colours that he used so often in his work.

Unfortunately this time there was only one piece of his work, this was the Campbell's Black Bean soup can .
The reason I am interested in Warhol as an artist is because of the way his pieces look amongst other art. The use of bright colour always makes them stand out and makes the eye focus on them. He also used simple objects and shapes meaning his work is not confusing to look at.

My favourite piece of Warhol is his pop art piece of a pink and yellow cow. this is because the colours really clash and therefore make the small darker details on the cow itself stand out and show the entire piece of more.

The Mad Hatters Wedding

This is the wedding I helped my Mum with this weekend. The Bride was having a outdoor wedding and a setting in a Chinese top tent. On the tables she wanted vintage teacups, saucers and teapots filled with fresh flowers .

By 6 o'clock yesterday evening we had filled over 50 pieces of china that completely filled our work table. I photographed this as it reminded me so much of "The Mad Hatters Tea Party".

I think the way the Bride had the idea to included a childhood memory as part of her wedding, was quite poetic as to a woman, your wedding day is what you always dream of as a little girl.

Wearing animals in a whole new way

Lady Gaga has produced some amazing outfits for the last 3 years at the VMA awards. As soon as I woke up this morning the main pictures on the news and papers were all of Lady Gaga’s strangest outfit yet!!!

I know fur is a HUGE trend right now but last night GaGa took wearing animals to a whole new level by covering herself it cuts of meat.

The un-cooked steak dress is by Argentinian designer Franc Fernandez and is also complete with platform boots wrapped in raw streaky bacon.

Gaga's reasoning behind the bizarre outfit, comes from her recent involvement in the gay rights movement in the US, her statement was 'If we don't stand up for what we believe in, we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're gonna have as much rights as the meat on our bones.'

I admire her confidence in wearing such a outfit as it could of potentially upset many people such as PETA members and Vegetarians or Vegans. I also admire the way the designer had come up with the idea to use such a strange material as well as making accessories to match.

Whilst reading the article I also realised Gaga had worn another of these meat garments on the cover of Japanese Vogue.

She's not just a W.A.G

OH MY GOODNESS !
Have you seen Victoria Beckham's s/s 2011 collection ! It is my favourite collection so far at new york fashion week, I want every single dress even the purple ones which is usually a colour I hate, but I'm sure if Mrs Beckhams wearing it so will half of the population !

And as if not to contradict her super skinny image, her collection was based on curves and the womanly figure. For example dresses that accentuated the waist, hip or bust and she also used more vibrant colours than her last 2 collection using oranges and purples instead of the usual svelte and slimming black she is so well known for.

As well in the change in Beckham's colour palette she has moved away from her more obvious looking pencil shape with draping and thicker fabrics to add shape or the opposite and using thinner fabrics to make them cling and again show a womanly silhouette, I particularly liked the silver lame maxi dress as it falls very elegantly.
However it was still good to see the odd tiny cinched in waist and trademark Victoria sun glasses and re-invented outfits she's worn in previous years