London Fashion Week Spring Summer 2013 Schedule

14 SEP 2012

09:00 • Antoni & Alison

10:00 • Fyodor Golan

10:30 • Eudon Choi 

11:00 • Caroline Charles 

11:00 • Dominic Jones 

12:00 • Zoë Jordan 

13:00 • Maria Grachvogel

14:00 • Willow

15:00 • Bora Aksu

16:00 • Unconditional

16:30 • Emilia Wickstead 

17:00 • Jean-Pierre Braganza 

18:00 • Sass & Bide 

19:00 • Felder Felder 

19:45 • PPQ 

20:30 • KTZ 

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Jil Sander moves his fashion show to Paris Fashion Week

Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana published the schedule for Milan Fashion Week Spring Summer 2013 (see here), but surprisingly, Jil Sander is missing.

 I do not think is a mistake, I believe they moved to Paris.

Jil Sander and Paris sounds good, Jil Sander's elegance and simplicy is more appropriate for Paris.

PS: this is just a rumor

Milan Fashion Week Spring Summer 2013 Schedule

19.9.2012

09,30 1a CLASSE - ALVIERO
MARTINI COLLECTION
VIA ARGELATI, 1/A
10,30 PAOLA FRANI
VIA CARLO BOTTA, 8
11,30 MILA SCHÖN
PIAZZA MERCANTI, 1
12,30 SIMONETTA RAVIZZA
LOCATION DA COMUNICARE
14,00 GUCCI
PIAZZA OBERDAN, 2/B
15,00 GUCCI
PIAZZA OBERDAN, 2/B
16,00 JOHN RICHMOND
VIA MELEGARI, 3
17,00 ALBERTA FERRETTI
VIA SENATO, 10
18,00 N°21
VIA A. MAIOCCHI, 5/7
19,00 FRANCESCO
SCOGNAMIGLIO
LOCATION DA COMUNICAR

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Vogue US September 2012 / Lady Gaga on the cover / 658 pages of ads, the biggest issue in its history

 Vogue's September 2012 issue will include 658 ad pages — the greatest amount in four years — and be the biggest issue ever, when you combine ads and straight editorial content. 

Vogue's September 2007 issue boasted 727 pages of ads, but this year's editorial content will push its pages into record-breaking territory. 

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Katy Perry for ELLE US September 2012. The biggest issue in its history - 400 pages of ads

ELLE US, which is expected to have Katy Perry on its cover, will print the biggest issue in its history. ELLE US has announced 400 pages of ads — a 12 percent increase — in its September issue. 

Dolce & Gabbana Launches Haute Couture

Today Dolce & Gabbana confirmed rumours that it will create a small couture collection for the first time, to be showed July 9th to a group of clients in Taormina, Sicily.

The unveiling will take place far from the classic couture environs of Paris; the eye of the Chambre Syndicale, the governing body of the French couture tradition; and the fashion media. The choice is strategic, for a number for reasons:

1. It maintains the very exclusive, private allure of the couture;

2. It allows Dolce & Gabbana to avoid the stringent requirements the French couture world imposes on any brand that wants to call itself a full-fledged couture house;

3.  It gives them a chance to launch their first collection free of critics, who might not like it!

Apparently a select few — three — media outlets are being invited to the unveiling, but no American newspapers, and not this one.

Still (no sour grapes here!) it’s interesting that Dolce & Gabbana, which closed it’s lower-priced D&G line last year in order to concentrate on its main line, would choose to, effectively, trade-up to couture.

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More Details About GIVENCHY FW 12-13 Ad Campaign (Models, Team, Inspiration)

 

Riccardo Tisci, whose shows for Givenchy often feature bone-shuddering electronic music, has decided to portray the euphoric energy of a rave party in the French house’s fall campaign, featuring model Stella Tennant.

“It is about happiness and the freedom of expressing yourself with your body. It shows a dynamic, happy and fun world, which is what fashion needs,” the designer told WWD about the fractured images. “Stella represents modernity, elegance, masculinity and femininity at the same time, together with a dynamic, energetic beauty.”

Joan Smalls, Stef van der Laan, Daniela Braga, Simone Nobili, Jarrod Scott and Rodrigo Braga are the other “new stars of the Givenchy gang” who join the party with Tennant, Tisci added. Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographed the ads, with styling by Carine Roitfeld. The spots are slated to break in September issues of various international editions of Vogue, as well as Harper’s Bazaar and W.

Pierre Cardin Spring Summer 2013

In this season we see the return of one of the oldest: Pierre Cardin. The legendary designer, who claims to have been one of the first designers to show menswear on the runway with his debut men's show in 1960, returns to the runway after years of hiatus to present a Spring '13 collection on the last day of the week. Here's living proof that it's never too late for a(nother) new act. Cardin turns 90 the week after his show.

Jil Sander by Jil Sander Spring Summer 2013

The house of Jil Sander is home to one of the most-talked-about shake-ups in recent memory: the exit of its longtime creative director, Raf Simons, and the return of its founder and namesake to the helm. Sander's first collection as reappointed head of her label will be her menswear, and those anxiously anticipating it won't have long to wait: She begins the Milan schedule with the first on-calendar show, at 10 a.m. on Saturday the 23rd. As for her predecessor? Milan will be Raf-free for the first time in seven years. (At the end of the last womenswear season, he told reporters he was leaving the city forever.) His own namesake menswear will be shown in Paris as usual, though earlier in the week than in seasons past, presumably to allow him more time to work on his own big debut: his first couture collection for Christian Dior, showing just days after the Paris menswear week ends.

JW Anderson for Topshop

Topshop have announced that they will collaborate with young British designer JW Anderson to create a capsule womenswear collection featuring jersey, denim, knitwear and outerwear pieces as well as items such as pencils, memory sticks, rubik's cubes, vintage magazines and photography books.

"I am very excited to collaborate with Topshop. It gives me the opportunity to reach a much wider audience with my designs. It has always been very important to me that my collections are made accessible to anyone interested in fashion and design." said Anderson.

The Irish-born designer has quickly established himself as a promising talent on the British fashion scene. After studying menswear design at the London College of Fashion he launched his menswear line in 2008, later introducing womenswear for autumn/winter 2010.

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London Opens the Menswear Season

The first edition of London Collections: Men will bring together events from traditional British brands and collections by young designers exhibited more and more outside of their country.

Strategically scheduled just before Pitti Uomo and the presentation of the menswear collections in Milan and Paris, London Collections: Men is designed to bring the press and buyers to London for three days – before, menswear was held on just one day in the midst of the womenswear presentations some three months after the other European capitals had presented their offerings. 

The highlights of the first edition will be contemporary label YMC (You Must Create) and designer Margaret Howell’s (see photo) debut on the runway, and the first menswear collections from Richard Nicoll and the duo Meadham Kirchoff.

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It's OFFICIAL - Maison Martin Margiela for H&M

“MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA is one of the most important and influential fashion houses of the past three decades. I am so excited by this collaboration which will give fashion lovers around the world the chance to wear special pieces by MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA. This collaboration will be a great and memorable fashion moment“, says Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor at H&M.

“We are very happy to present MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA pieces with H&M, offering a new interpretation of our vision. The democracy of our fashion has always been at the centre of our creativity, and the collaboration with H&M allows us to push this instinct further. We will bring together the contrasting universes of the two houses in ways that will surprise all.” 

Maison Martin Margiela with H&M - Men, AutumnWinter 2012

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Valentino Men's Spring Summer 2013 Collection at Pitti Uomo, Florence

Valentino is pleased to announce the presentation of the Spring/Summer 2013 Men’s collection with a fashion show during the next edition of Pitti Uomo 82, which will take place in Florence from June 19th to June 22nd.

Creative Directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli who are enthusiastic to return to Florence, said “it was an honor to participate as special guests of Pitti Uomo in January. We are happy to return and be part of this important manifestation for a second time. We have chosen to show our Men’s collection in Italy because it is intimately linked to the idea of the contemporary craftsmanship of couture , and Florence, synonymous in the memory of men’s elegance excellence, is the perfect frame for it”.

“For us, having the Valentino brand conjures great satisfaction,” says Raffaello Napoleone, CEO of Pitti Immagine, “because it demonstrates yet again how Florence and Pitti Uomo are a winning combination for international projects that are of quality for Men’s fashion”.

The date and time of the Valentino fashion show will be announced at a later date.

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