The new S/S 2012 collection by Spanish designer duo Cardona Bonache is called Lesson 5 " Prints" , featuring dazzling, surrealistic paper-craft prints on silk and lace in candy colours and structured patterns.
Jonny Johansson, Head Designer of Acne, drew inspiration from his trip to Marrakesh for the swedish label's S/S 2012 collection. Using the Moroccan exotic influences in combinaton with urban style, Johansson created a unique, funky and really modern collection with bright colours and boxy sillhouettes managing to capture many different styles on denim, double silk and raw edged double cotton creating a multicultural vibe.
The extravagant show took place at the disused space of London's Old Sorting Office, with a parade of thirty three models along a 50 meter long mirrored catwalk, with 500 guests.
Below you can enjoy a few catwalk and guests pictures, along with a video of the full collection (All pics courtesy of Acne):
Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton, the designers of Sass & Bide label obviously had a huge inspiration and fun when designing their S/S 2012 collection. Fresh, bright, with a really clever combination of colours and materials it was a joyful parade of bold-patterned pieces, styled with beautiful africa - meets - techno jewellery, sleek hair and sexy make-up.
A great new video where butoh meets inception, by Antoine Asseraf and Rene Habermacher featuring the best outfits a fashion film could have by Givenchy, Raf Simons, Ann Demeulemeester, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh and Comme de Garcons, plus amazing hair and make-up.
What comes to your mind when hearing the word Bals? Baroque-style ballrooms, femmes fatales, extravagant masks, luxurious floor-sweeping gowns and the lovely sound of a waltz? Exactly! The above images become more vivid when opening the new super-glossy edition of Assouline titled Bals, edited by British historian, author and journalist Nicholas Foulkes. The amazing 308 pages book features nine of the most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century from the Romanov dynasty, to the Art Deco era of Paris and the glam seventies, through over 250 illustrations, with social commentary by and for great personalities like Truman Capote, Paul Poiret, and Cecil Beaton, also memory notes by Jacqueline de Ribes, Helene David – Weill and Marisa Berenson.
The F/W 2011 campaign of Hermes is shot by legendary photographer Nick Knight, featuring Alana Zimmer and Isaac Carew. The campaign is complimented by the following amazing video that's full of movement, warm winter colours anad the House's beautiful printed collection.
