Road to California – Club Monaco travels to California deserts and highways for its spring-summer lookbook starring Eniko Mihalik and Valerija Kelava. The new season is inspired by music festivals where easy basics such as white tees and linen skirts are juxtaposed with cowboy boots and oversize scarves. Tribal prints in nude and pastel hues bring a bohemian flair to the summer staples.
Valentino’s Demure Couture – Valentino under designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Picciol has found its own voice throughout the years and spring 2012 haute couture is no exception with a collection of demure romanticism. This season showcased florals, lace, and crystal embellished bodices, all made with the utmost attention to detail. Like many shows this haute couture season, the color palette was light–showcasing silvers, powdery blue and rosy pink for a feminine touch.
Tisci Couture – Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci created a dark outing for the label’s spring 2012 haute couture show. Models including Natasha Poly, Kristen McMenamy and Saskia de Brauw wore oversize bullrings and earrings which also made an appearance in Givenchy’s menswear show earlier this month. These unusual accessories bring a certain harshness to the ten couture looks made of crocodile scales, leather and hand beaded crystals. Despite the change from last season’s ethereal gowns of ivory, Tisci managed to create an enchanting collection that was a cross between punk rocker and turn of the century glamour girl.
Boom Bang-a-Bang – The latest issue of Ponystep takes a look at the fall-winter collections through a sixties’ lens with photographer Ben Weller and fashion editor Phoebe Arnold’s high octane, over twenty page shoot. Starring Xiao Wen, Valerija Kelava, Codie Young and India Farrell, the quartet gets into the studio for a showing of fabulous outerwear and dresses from the likes of Burberry Prorsum, Tom Ford, DSquared2 and Prada.
Gothika – Fashion editor Tim Lim teams with photography duo Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello for this colorful editorial in the September issue of Numéro China. Model Valerija Kelava channels slinky 20s glamour with a short bob by Romina Manenti and neo-gothic make-up by Morgane Martini. Valerija dons sensual selects from labels such as Rick Owens, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Christopher Kane, Dries Van Noten, Jil Sander and Marni. / Set – Sophie Glasser. Styling Assistants – Niklas Bilstein, Olivier Pichou. Manicurist – Hiro.
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