Fashion in the Bag – The Gleni Blog

WHAT SHOULD YOU WEAR TO BE FASHIONABLE NEXT YEAR?

[...]Fabrics, shoes, accessories, make up….everything exudes the feel of the 50’s, 70’s and 80’s, in a return to the roots of genuine elegance and craftsmanship. Trousers are stretchy and made of black leather or shiny lurex, accompanied by long over shirts in vivid colors..[...]

Almost all the autumn-winter 2009/2010 women’s collections presented at Milan Fashion Week have been animated by a return to their roots of elegance and natural refinement. The woman’s look proposed for the next cold season is focused on the idea of classic simplicity! It is devoted to rediscovering the typical styles of the 50’s, and 80’s, both in their lines and in the materials used.

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…Paris fashion week, which opened last Wednesday, March the 4th and concluded last Thursday, March the 12th, has been much appreciated for what it offered. Most French designers proposed a sober and very elegant style for the woman of next autumn-winter 2009/2010, paying attention to detail and re-introducing seductive elements to make the woman more gorgeous and attractive, without losing any of her natural refinement and elegance.

Bags: a complementary luxury accessory or just a superfluous item?

As we already saw at the Paris and Rome haute couture shows (presenting the most fashionable styles and colors for spring-summer 2009), at London fashion week too, only a few designers were in favor of using the handbag as a complementary accessory for their fashion looks.  The handbag seems to be disappearing in favor of

LONDON FASHION WEEK: WHAT IS THE WOMEN’S LOOK FOR NEXT WINTER?

After the New Yorker Fashion Week, we focused our attention on Milan Fashion week, describing you the new trends in matter of colors and styles, proposed by our Italian stylists. It’s time now to take a look at London Fashion week, placed in London from February the 20th to February the 25th, waiting for the new proposals coming from the Paris fashion week, actually in progress in France.

Last Wednesday March 3rd, Milan fashion week drew to a close after seven exciting days spent  presenting the new women’s collections on the catwalks for the next autumn-winter season 2009/2010. The most famous Italian fashion houses took part in this fashion event, showing their creations and conveying the image of a refined, self-reliant woman, who loves luxury, with a strong personality and intriguing sensuality.

New York designers played it fairly safe for their Fall 09 menswear collections. Gone were the extravagant dandies of past years and in their place we saw rugged American road trip casual styles in denim and leather or no-nonsense business man chic in charcoal or black. The overall silhouette stayed …

Last Sunday, January the 25th, Paris Fashion Week switched off its reflectors on the men’s autumn-winter 2009/2010 collections presented by the most famous French fashion houses and emerging designers. As you already know, this important show was preceded by another fashion event, Milan Fashion week where many world famous and Italian designers presented their own collections. Because of the closeness of these two events, fashion journalists and critics have had the opportunity to analyze and compare both these “fashion weeks” in a very detailed way and many criticisms have been made of both the events.

Before discussing this subject, let’s see in more detail what was proposed at the Paris fashion week by French designers:

Many of the top, world famous fashion houses took part in this show and it would be almost impossible describe each of them in detail. So we have decided to concentrate just on those designers who, more than others, have prioritized the usage of prestigious exotic leathers in the making of their masterpieces or have re-proposed the use of handbags and suitcases for men too, because, in our opinion, they are more relevant to our business and to our projects than the others.

From January the 17th till January the 20th, Milan was once again the center of one of the most important fashion events in the world: Milan fashion week, which this year was concentrated into just four days in order to allow journalists and designers to fly to Paris and take part in Paris fashion week, which started already on January the 21st.
This edition of the Milano Fashion Week saw the participation of about thirty-eight important labels, which presented the image of a classic, elegant man, a business man who takes care of himself and of his look.