Does anyone else feel a bit like a Dementor just walked into the room?
We do. And not just because that’s Uncle Karl Lagerfeld up there, and honestly, he scares us, but because this whole Chanel collection is just a bit… dark, really. Literally, we mean: it’s a sea of black clothes, with hardly a “pop” of colour to be found. And, you know, we sometimes hate the whole “pop of colour” thing. We’re mostly OK with all black, all the time. But looking at this gallery made us dread winter even more than we usually do – and we usually dread winter a lot.
What’s the verdict, Fashion Jurors? Are you OK with the complete lack of colour here, or does this make you think the colourblocking trend maybe wasn’t so bad after all?
Well, we’ve established that colourblocking will still be around for Fall 2012, and now we know that the topknot will live on, too. There’s just not enough coffee in the world for us to deal with this right now, seriously.
And oh yeah, the eyebrows.We all know that eyebrows are just as much subject to the whims of the fashion world as anything else is, right? For instance, here in the UK, the tabloids keep telling us the “Scouse Brow” is the very height of fashion, and if you don’t know what a Scouse brow is, then lucky you: never, ever change…
Next season, though, it will be usurped by the “Vulcan Brow”. So that’s something else to look forward to then.
Warning! Warning! This post contains colourblocking! And a LOT of it, too…
Yes, the trend that just won’t die continues on into Fall 2012: or, at least, it does if Diane Von Furstenberg is to believed. The designer’s Fall collection contains lots of red, lots of pink, and lots and lots of our old friend/foe colourblocking. At this point we think we just have to accept that people are probably going to just dress like this forever, because there really doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.
Luckily for those of you who feel like you’re going to stab someone in the eye if you have to hear the term “colourblocking” ONE.MORE. TIME. there was a lot more to this collection than the bright colours. For instance, there was that one dress with all the hands on it. How can you not love hands?
This is Diane Von Furstenberg’s Fall 2012 collection, and we love it. What do you think?
New York Fashion Week kicked off today, which means that, for the next week, it will be impossible to use the Internet without seeing the same photos, stolen from Style.com, recycled on every single fashion blog and website. So that’ll be awesome.
Here at The Fashion Police, we like to remain a (mostly) Fashion Week free zone, because there are only so many runway photos we can look at before our minds glaze over and we start thinking about donuts again. Mmmm, donuts.
We will, however, be covering some of the runway action, and we’re kicking off with The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection. This is always one of our favourite shows, because as well as showcasing the work of lots of different designers, it also uses celebrities as models, with each woman here modelling a different designer red dress, with the aim of raising awareness of Heart Disease. (You can read more about The Heart Truth here.)
This year, one of the celebrity models is Krystle Carrington. Now what could be better than that?
QUESTION: What’s the difference between the clothes at Paris Haute Couture week, and the clothes you get on one of those “sexy clubwear” sites, like Great Glam or something?
Oh, yeah: there isn’t one.
Or not in the case of the two outfits above, that is. As for the rest of this show, take a look at the gallery and decide for yourselves…
Well, you’d look like a complete tit in this, wouldn’t you?
Full-sized image under the jump (trust us, you’re going to want to see this in all its, er, “glory”): they’re not real breasts, but it’s probably still not safe for work – and when you have to say that about an item of clothing, that’s a pretty good sign that’s it’s a crime of fashion in our book.
Zac Posen, Spring 2012. So much eye candy. So much to love. So many reasons to wish we could keep all (or, OK, most) of these dresses at the Fashion Police HQ, and force the fashion criminals we arrest to wear them. Sure, it would technically be rewarding bad behaviour, but how else will they learn?
