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Ted Baker For London Fashion Week
I went to see Ted Baker’s new Hunger Games inspired collection at the One Aldwych Hotel. Firstly I devoured a cake on a stick, which was absolutely delicious. As I rifled through the rails I was very impressed by the clothes. There were lots of beautiful Autumn colours and textures.
The menswear was inspired by being outdoors and fishing, as Ted Baker loves fishing. In the womenswear there was beautiful snakeskin accessories, prints were in, bold colours and fake fur. It was day five at the Handpicked Media suite. I also got my nails done by Teds Beauty Spot therapists. It was the first time I got Shellac nails. Shellac nails look amazing and last two-to-three-weeks. I got a beautiful coral shade that doesn’t even have a chip yet. I also loved their swimwear and hats. Ted Baker’s new collection is gorgeous. Full marks.
DISPAIR London and Depaul UK unite to create limited edition product with a difference.
Innovative men’s footwear brand DISPAIR London has embarked on an exciting new collaboration
with Depaul UK, the largest national youth homelessness charity in the UK, to offer the opportunity
for one young person to be a guest designer of a limited edition DISPAIR London shoe.
A competition to submit design ideas was opened to the young people helped by Depaul UK with
100% of profits from the winning design going directly to Depaul UK.
With inspiration originating from the laid back streets of Spitalfields, DISPAIR London fully endorses
individualism, and is ideal for those who don’t feel the desire to conform, who are comfortable to lead
their own way in fashion.
Depaul UK helps young people who are homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged, and has helped
over 50,000 people since it was founded in 1989. While Depaul UK offers an immediate solution to
homelessness, Depaul UK protects young people who have become homeless, helps them to
progress beyond homelessness with training and employment schemes, and works with families to
prevent youth homelessness from happening in the first place.
The design competition proved to be hugely popular with well over the expected number of entrants.
The winner was chosen, a former resident of Depaul UK’s Simonside supported Newcastle
accommodation, with the design being put onto DISPAIR London’s most popular style, the
Winston, a loafer shoe with monk strap detailing.
DISPAIR London has since worked closely with Depaul UK and the competition winner on every
step of the process, offering the young person work experience in the fashion footwear industry and
being fully involved in the design process along the way.
The shoe will be part of DISPAIR London’s AW12 collection, available in navy, grey, off-white and
black. Hitting Topman stores in time for Christmas.
ENERGIE START AW 12 ‘MAKE NOISE’ CAMPAIGN WITH UK ROCKERS ‘RUBBER KISS GOODBYE’
ENERGIE KICK START THEIR AW 12 ‘MAKE NOISE’ CAMPAIGN WITH UK INDIE ROCK BAND ‘RUBBER KISS GOODBYE’
For their AW12 collection, Italian menswear brand Energie has captured the urban feel of the brand with a new campaign titled “Make Noise” fronted by UK band Rubber Kiss Goodbye.
The Energie ”Make Noise” campaign previews in the brands anticipated AW12 collection, presenting
a new means of expression through dress that is fully reflective of Energie’s identity to stand out from the crowd. The “Make Noise” collection presents a mix of black and white urban-style graphic t-shirts that are not for the faint hearted and a denim collection synonymous with the cutting
edge British indie scene.
Rubber Kiss Goodbye are proving to be one of the UK’s hottest new bands around, consisting of Tara Ferry, son of English singer, musician and songwriter Bryan Ferry along with other band members Oliver and Peter. Energie also appointed the Swedish photographer Alex Lindhal to follow the band in their natural environment where they live and work, capturing their every move. In turn resulting in a range of retro black and white campaign shots reminiscent of backstage scenes of indie-rock groups on tour, identifying and exalting the spirit of Energie’s “Make Noise” collection, for an independent and unmistakable style that goes beyond mere seasonal trends.
Asger Juel Larson’s AW12 collection
Executed with militant efficiency, Asger Juel Larson’s AW12 collection combined raw masculinity with a nonchalant effeminate twist.
‘Lucid Disorder’ held on Wednesday 22 February 2012 reinvented the classic male suit with textured materials, two toned jacket and bottom combinations (both harem pants and thick-pleated skirts) and an attention to detail to accessories.
Almost as dark and edgy as the sumptuous surrounding of the Freemason’s Hall in Holborn, Larson’s London Fashion Week set offered predominantly statement black styles with heavy, and occasionally imperfect, fur adornment.
The emerging Danish designer’s catwalk collection suggested an experimentation of a tribal- come-trooper style – with fluffy hats, some models sporting quiver bags, double breasted jackets and others exposing their tattooed chests.
But Larsen added a modern twist with décollage detail to his jackets which were ripped to the shoulders or simply cut around the neck with no other embellishment.
In other striking designs, the models (who were styled with a frozen brow and beard) emerged wrapped in thick polo necks and Middle-Eastern head gear.
Already voted as ‘one to watch’, Larson has blurred his vision of past and future male clothing, the effect of which is vibrancy, even though his trademark style is underpinned by a gothic, lucid theme.
Paul Costelloe – LFW – The Review
The newly rescued Paul Costelloe opened London Fashion Week with a collection that mixed fun and sophistication for his Autumn/Winter 2011 range.
Bright candy coloured hues of pink, green, orange and yellow sauntered down the catwalk alongside checked tweeds, metallic jaquards, and pchycadelic prints – all keeping with this season’s top gun fashion trends of the sixties and seventies.
The sixties silouettes and details that prevails as being one of the hot trends of this year, played a significant part in Costelloe’s collection. On women, trapeze coats, boxy jackets and tweed bomber jackets were teamed with skater skirts and accesorized with bright opaque tights and nude platform courts.
Sixties baby doll dresses with peterpan collars and mock button plackets came in bright and checked tweeds, bright watercolour prints and metallic brocade. In the fashion hype for deep stitch detail and colour blocking, Costelloe procured his collection with a flow of bold, statement making pieces.
Detailing came in the form of pleats; most notably at the waist and neckline. With the instilled brightness of the collection, some may have found this a less noticable factor – but us at Frost, found it simply divine.
The Female and Male Fashion show, showed the female models dressed in matching red bobbed wigs in perfect accompaniment with a mix of soft lilac and traffic light Red shades of lipstick – intrinsic to the quality of Costelloe’s shows.
Menswear styles were slightly more muted and resembed lounge wear, aside from the brightly hued check jacket, the subtler designs included velvet jackets and belts – in keeping with the signature sophistication of the Costelloe Man.
The brand was recently rescued from administration by Cesar Araujo, the owner and chief executive of Portuguese supply group Calvelex, who has set up a new UK based company named Couture Brands.
F2D Clothing Launch New Collections. {Fashion}
F2D Clothing have launched a new collection just in time for Valentine’s day. So if you want your man looking urban cool, check out the website F2D Clothing.
Born on the streets of Birmingham City, UK, F2D Clothing is a urban street fashion brand created by long time friends Daniel Gardiner, Gary Thompson and Marcus Isaac. Since 2008, the F2D Team have been bringing you limited edition alternative wear to the normal high street labels you see plastered all over everybody.
Already worn by Dizzie, J2K, Ghetts & Leo Gregory, F2D embodies the UK street lifestyle translated into raw material and will always strive to keep it fresh.
We got them to outline their concept: “F2D is neither street wear, high street, or high end, we are somewhere in between, We Are F2D!
Survive and Provide.
THE SURVIVE SERIES CONCEPT.
TO SURVIVE AND PROVIDE!! WE ALL SURVIVE AND PROVIDE IN SOME WAY SHAPE OR FORM, WHETHER ITS FOR OURSELVES OR OUR FAMILIES. WE WANTED TO FINISH THE YEAR AND GO INTO IN 2011 WITH THAT MOTTO, ‘SURVIVE AND PROVIDE’ FIRMLY ASSOCIATED WITH F2D. WE AS THE OWNERS OF F2D ALL SURVIVE AND PROVIDE DAILY FOR OURSELVES, OUR FAMILIES AND EACH OTHER. OUR NEW COLLECTION SHOWS HOW THE BRAND HAS MATURED AND SURVIVED THE LAST 2 YEARS TO GET TO WHERE IT IS TODAY. THE BRAND F2D PROVIDES FOR US AND OUR CUSTOMERS THROUGH OUR IDEAS AND DESIGNS. F2D WAS AN IDEA THAT EVOLVED TO WHAT IS IT TODAY AND HAS SURVIVED MANY ADVERSITIES SO THE NEW COLLECTION COULD ONLY BE CALLED ‘THE SURVIVE SERIES’!!”
SURVIVE AND PROVIDE – F2D.