introducing

The Proenza Schouler Patent PS1

and another Proenza lo-fi video master piece to go along with it.

get off the screen and on to my wrist

I really don't care for accessories at all normally...But recently I cant seem to get them off my brain. I.E. Proenza Schouler PS1, and now this magnificent watch ala Balenciaga.

It's almost as if it were crying out for me to wear it...Own it....Never take it off.... If you've ever wondered if it were possible to fall in love with an inanimate object, my answer to you is yes.

Princess Hijab

 

cant get you outta my head

P is for Proenza

There isnt a whole lot to say about Proenza this season other than it was fucking amazing. It was lady like, in that "Proenza Schouler way" if you have seen Jack and Lazaro's work you know exactly what I mean. I don't wanna say that the collection was futuristic, more like a new elegance? Mixed with a bit of 90s Nu-Rave and a dash of hippie boho vibes....

Will Jack and Lazaro ever stop ceasing to amaze me? At the rate they're going I'm going to have to say no.
 Season after season, it's something different yet very identifiably Proenza....As I stated above that "Proenza way" of designing, there just so dynamic. This season was, I feel anyway really inclusive as well. Anyone could find something in this collection, there wasn't one specific print or silhouette there is clearly a lot of variety, but its still a very cohesive and put together collection.

Audio Visual

in flagranti
in flagranti
in flagranti
in flagranti

dark, enigmatic and leopard printed

Yes, when things started to all run together in a bleak, boring way Ricardo Tisci saves the day. This season at Givenchy was all about sexy....In a pagan kind of way via leopard prints,  leather, paneling and sheer chiffon. I think its safe to say buyers went insane this season over the leopard prints. They were totally commercially viable, and not in a bad way, I can totally picture them being worn in so many different ways sexed up, gothed out, anythang reeeeaaally.

Note also the soundtrack during the collection: Salem-King Night.....Thank you Ricardo I am officially obsessed.

Irina Lazareanu - Alex Prager

Jil Sander SS 11

I've been lazy and haven't  gotten around to posting about this yet, or anything else for that matter. Bear with me though I am going to stop procrastinating and I'm going to get too it. I digress......

This season Raf Simons brought a new minimalism volume, volume and some more volume with couture like proportions, and a seemingly Yves Saint Laurent influenced color palette, and on that note military jackets as well.

 I for one am loving all of this...With all the digital floral prints, stripes, volume, and textures. The collection is almost maximal, but in a minimal way? if that makes sense....Not to mention the cut's/tailoring. I know it's really easy to say the cuts and tailoring blah blah were sooooo amaaaaaaazing, but I mean seriously look at the oversized jackets, and obviously the suits....

 And of course the more "wearable" pieces in the collection....Still I dont really understand why anyone wouldn't want extreme couture like volume incorporated into there wardrobe....

Also take note of the amazing textures shown..............

Nothing compares to you

Proenza Schouler PS1
I love you, be mine?

Jessica Stam by Lina Scheyniues- Vogue UK november

I just love everything about this so much.

If this kind of love is wrong I don't wan't to be right

Gareth Pugh SS 11

Kristen McMenamy - Ruth Hogben

I love show studio

detailz

Obsessing over shooz mostly and some other various accessories via detail shots...
There are more to be obsessed over obvs, but these are the only ones style.com/gq.com had that I actually liked, and I'm to lazy to zoom, crop etc.

3.1 Phillip Lim

 Billy Reid

Brooks Brothers

Duckie Brown

Rag&Bone

Robert Geller

I want it allllllllllll

P.S.
Didn't think anyone would notice did you Scott Sternburg?....Well I did, yeah I see you.

 Left: Band of Outsiders SS 11. Right: Calvin Klein SS 10.
A bit of a stretch? probably...But what else am I going to do with my time other then search desperately for similarities/ ALLEGED thievery  in collections.

Duckie Brown SS 11

Its really refreshing to see a design team like Daniel Silver and Steven Cox bring some pizazz  into a normally repetitive NYFW. Season after season the guys at Duckie Brown never fail to impress, with there bold use of prints and color constantly bringing something new and fun into the sea of blank faces and the almost cloned suites that is the majority of NYFW.  Not only that but they are definitely not a one trick pony either always adding some more minimal/conservative pieces into each collection this season that came in the form of greatly cut suits and jackets.

OK this season at Duckie Brown was madness per usual, plaids, beetles, leopard print basically any print you could ever want, I feel like a kid in a fashionably candy store that only sells amazingly crazy printed clothing. I mean seriously those beetle printed button ups, I literally died. Another piece to ad the collection of "my life will be an empty void without"...Anyways some seriously great layering pieces as well this season ranging from sheers, to asymmetrically buttoned cardigans to cropped buttons ups.

I'm all for a great pair of sweats and I'm also all for a drop crotch, so when the two meet I'm all kinds of excited. AND THE CARDIGANS omg seriously I cant get enough. The asymmetrical cuts that when unbuttoned I'm guessing will do some great draping. BTW pants I did not forget about you. This is the exact cut I tend to go for in a cropped pant, relaxed but not to baggy, straight legged but not overly tight, and once again the prints especially with that blue and white pair, they looked like they had been water colored or something...Not to mention hounds tooth pair, *drool*.   I think this has replaced FW 07 as my favorite Duckie Brown collection.

Shittin' on all y'all Calvin Klein SS 11

Francisco Costa shows the rest of the fashion world with it's resurgence back into minalism how its really done, with an extremely confident self assured collection. There's also very romantic feel to it obviously not in your typical Valentino, John Galliano way...But in a more subtle almost futuristic 2001 space odyssey sense.

Best New York collection by far. Season after season of architectural minimalism I'm never ceased to be amazed....My feeling are best described by a performance art piece by Yoko Ono:

                                                                                      

pop pop pop pop

POP from Antoine Asseraf on Vimeo.

If you've read through my blog you would know that I'm really obsessed with fashion films. So here's some more fuel to that fire. By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher, featuring Alana Zimmer and Ann Kenny Styled by none other than Isabelle Kontoure for Pop.

Maria-carla by Mikael Jansson for Interview

YES

It looks as though dreams do come true....
I mentioned before how badly I wanted this day to come, and then today I found out about this...

 Christopher Kane Mens  SS 11

Finally a menswear collection from Christopher Kane... I was kind hoping for some space printed pants and jackets, a wee bit more cray cray...Seriously Christopher space printed moto jackets would have been magical, I could have loved them.....

I'm just being insatiable, because I truly do love this, especially that cardigan and green T-shirt. I really don't think I've ever felt that way about a T-shirt before, not to mention the leather shorts. I neeeeeeed something  from this collection so fucking bad (mostly a cardigan if anyone out there feels like being generous). I honestly think life will be just an empty void if I don't get my hands on any of this...You will be mine one day soon cardigan and or T-shirt. It is Gods will.