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Designers Michael and Nicole Colovos have presented their first cruise collection for Helmut Lang, having added a little risky glamour to images of the brand, known by its at times excessive sugariness. Working in a graphic palette from black and white, designers have preferred the minimalism once making a Fashion house’s basis. Knitted details, deep cuts and layers have added depths both to straight and strict silhouettes, and softer and delicate ones. “Hits” of the show were some straight narrow suits.
The place of dresses with wrap over created by designer Diane von Furstenberg in the new cruise collection have taken tunics with А-shaped silhouettes. Zippers became decorative elements on mini-dresses; the abundance of paillettes and rivets decorated skirts.
At last, Valentino cruise collection, who is actively preparing for Fashion House’s 45th anniversary celebration in Rome, has become 43th cruise collection of the designer. Valentino, who knows all his clients, has offered in a new collection dresses and suits in style of the true ladies: some are decorated with flower applications, others – with prints and laces.

«Give me Liberty!» – such could be the motto of Stella McCartney’s cruise collection. While other designers tried to recover prints in Ossie Clark style, Stella has transformed a classical flower pattern into long and coquettishly – playful attires. Besides the collection includes day time dresses in the pastel colors and cocktail dresses with paillettes.
Bottega Veneta’s designer – Tomas Maier – most decisively changed the idea about traditional fashion shows and instead of the organization of the show has sent to representatives of the fashion industry DVDs showing his collection. A little bit African stylistics expressed in an embroidery, ethnic prints and a dimmed color palette.
Visiting Kyoto inspired Derek Lam to create his cruise collection – the influence of the Japanese style was present in red silk dresses. However the doubtless advantage of collection was absence of strongly determined themes. Collection includes many dresses, everyone distinguished by something individual. For red paths’ “haunters” Derek Lam has presented two amazing dresses: magnificent purple and white with a dissymmetric drapery.

TopShop has always been skilful to support interest to itself. This time there are new talks about the possible joint project with Comme des Garcons.

Rei Kawakubo is the well-known innovator, the avant-gardist, the founder and the inspirer of Comme des Garcons brand. We can expect everything from her, even a female collection for TopShop. From the last projects of Comme des Garcons: a small collection of color trainers, created together with well-known Converse, and also swimming suits (both female and man’s lines) for Speedo.

By the way, this collection of swimming suits has already been placed on TopShop’s site, and the main things will be on sale in shops of the trade mark. Though already now the fruit of Speedo and Comme des Garcons’ cooperation is submitted in other boutiques.

After the death of the founder Gianfranco Ferre Ferre, his House, contrary to the rumors about disintegration and possible closing, grows and develops. One of these days the information appeared, that in the nearest months House plans opening of some new boutiques in the USA and Japan.
As it is known, Japanese are considered as one of the main consumers of the luxury class goods and admirers of known brands. That’s why expansion of the brand in these countries will be, in opinion of the fashionable house’s management, only beneficial for the company and its world image.
«We are convinced, that the brand and business will not suffer, and will grow and prosper after the death of the designer.  Gianfranco would be glad”, – declared general manager of IT Holdings, Gianfranco Ferre’s daughter enterprise, Massimo Mukky.
The oustanding fashion designer of the XX century Gianfranco Ferre has died on June, 17 in a hospital in Milan. In fashion world Ferre was considered as the main «architect of the fashion».

Growing popularity of shorts is quite obvious: they are so easy for wearing, and look stylish. However any trend can be made even better, and in the case with simple shorts the fashionable touch can be added with the help of prints – as made the best designers of the world.
Perhaps, the best combination of shorts with prints has fashionable brands Luella and Biba. Without especially original prints, these shorts nevertheless add charm of style to absolutely ordinary tops.
Shorts from brands Alice + Olivia, DVF and Forever 21 are a challenge for there owners – in fact prints on them remind patterns on beach shorts of some surf-riders.
Much easier for wearing are simple checked patterns (as, for example, offer Max Sports and Luella), which can create a coquettish and lovely image. Checked patterns are those prints, which are in general, loved by many fashionable brands. In particular, checkered pattern are offered by Abercrombie, American Eagle, Juicy Couture. More womanly are patterns from Abercrombie and Forever 21 – such shorts can be worn with high-heel sandals.

German fashion admirers won’t be able to see popular Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta new collection within the framework of the first Berlin Fashion Week because of the decision to cancel display. The reason of the decision became the 10th death anniversary of the legendary fashion designer Gianni Versace. On July, 15 – this very date was offered to Bottega Veneta by the management of the Berlin Fashion Week – Milan will gather all main representatives of the fashionable public, and hardly someone will want to choose Berlin to see a new collection of the Italian designers.
However the official version is to pay tribute to great designer. «We have decided not show the collection in Berlin as we respect memory of Gianni Versace, – declared Bottega Veneta’s creative director Thomas Mayer. – “Nobody has allowed us to change the schedule, that is why, to our regret, we had to refuse participation».
According to the organizer of the first Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin Massimo Redelli from IMG Fashion Europe agency, now they negotiate about the participation in Week of the other Fashion House with a world name.

Forget flowers and frills – immemorial and given good account of itself cruise collections motives. Frida Giannini has preferred another approach. Working in a minimalist palette of black and white with rare addition of bright color flashes, she has created magnificent skirts, loose leather jackets in bike-style, gloves and dark solar glasses.
Nevertheless, Giannini’s models are a little bit rebellious and completely reflect new Gucci’s tendency. The embroidery which has decorated wide skirts with fitting belt, dresses – shirts and slightly similar to pelerines tops, and also graphic bamboo and coral prints add to the collections the summer note. Continuing motives of the autumn collection, Frida Giannini has decorated cocktail dresses’ low necks with brooches.
It is necessary to note, that the majority of models can beautify any summer clothes irrespective of geography – dresses, combining simple and precise shades of black, white and red become the fine addition to clothes of any fashion-lover.

Recently French brand Balenciaga has pleased the public with a strange novelty which was discussed in all glossies. It seems that it is all the same shoes, however they cause feeling as if the well-known firm has suggested us to skate in summer streets.
At first sight, these tremendous sandals is a combination of ski boots and roller skates. Plastic fastenings, black grid and protectors do not leave doubts, that some parts of shoes have been somehow borrowed from sports regimentals. However if to pay attention to a mad palette of colors – green, yellow, red and dark blue it seems that it is the ultrafashionable essential element from Will Smith’s clip of 90th.
However, everything has the right to existence. The last question – what to carry it wiith, if, certainly, there will be such desperately courageous ladies. Here, it is necessary to tell, Balenciaga sandals are not lonely in their puzzling eccentricity, as even in most expensive boutiques sometimes has strange things. So the excellent pair to these sandals will make fabulously expensive handbag-”patchwork” from Louis Vuitton.

One may hope, that ladies traveling by the first class whose images inspired designer Luca Orlandi on creation of his cruise collections enjoyed more favorable for holiday weather, than that that interfered in the designer’s plans and break the order of carrying out of the fashion show. After a delay caused by the strongest downpour in New York, models in sunglasses appeared on Luca Luca podium in summer clothes strongly reminding the twentieth years, an inceptive trend of the season. These light pleated dresses could have easily worn Daisy Buchanan; however lacing gave them a little bit sports view.
According to designer Orlandi, the collection has been created first of all for those women who are «today in Rome, and tomorrow – in Osaka», however the basic theme of the collection was all the same more close to Jackie O’s style. Jacquard coats looked light and flimsy and suits otherwise were cut out for a respectable, adult woman. However in general it is not so difficult to imagine a stylish traveler going at the back of beyond with a suitcase full of pleated skirts and light jackets.

Italian designer Giorgio Armani has declared in the French Cannes about his intention to support newly made Martin Scorsese’s initiative named World Cinema Foundation. Armani has admitted, that considers a great honor opportunity to take part in the unique project devoted to preservation and restoration of the important and forgotten films from all world. «As well as for Martin, cinema for me was inspiration and made strong influence on my life since young years, – has declared the designer. – I think, that Martin Scorsese and his colleagues – producers have thought up a very important mission».
Scorsese has declared that he and Armani will also work together on creation of film – memory in honor of Italian cinema – in the same key, as their last joint project «Il Mio Viaggio in Italia». «I am very glad, that my good friend Giorgio Armani has agreed to help us», – admitted the producer.