Fashion in the Bag – The Gleni Blog

Talent, hard work, humility and sacrifice are always rewarded, even in the world of Paris Haute Couture. The latest shows dedicated to high fashion took place January 23rd to 26th proposing fabulous models and designs for the Spring/Summer 2012 women’s wardrobe, especially addressed to well brought up women of taste.

Particularly well received was Giambattista Valli’s collection, perhaps the most beloved Italian designer in Paris. Having arrived

Change, surprise, amuse and reassure: fashion does all of this giving us a new line, without the extravagant frenzy of the past few seasons. The times demand new rules, consumers are more reflective but also freer, even from the dictates of style.

Vintage, from sheer and simple whim, becomes almost a necessity when ones clothes budget is becoming more and more restricted.

In short, change is in the

In our previous article, we gave you a brief and tantalizing synopsis of the most interesting facts and events of this year’s Milano Moda Donna. Now in this article you can plunge headfirst into the many collections that were presented by the most renowned and worldwide appreciated Italian fashion houses, in very close detail.

So, are you ready?? Let’s start!!

The countdown has started to the beginning of the 78th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo, which opens its doors to the Spring/Summer 2011 menswear fashion collections on June the 15th, offering four days of important and interesting events, exhibitions and…lots of fashion shows, of course!

On 10th March, Paris switched off its spot light on one of the most anticipated and controversial fashion events of 2010: the Paris fashion week, which started March 2nd and lasted eight days. Yes, we can define this Paris fashion week as “controversial” because it played out in a climate of polemic and criticism, in part due to the greater length of this event

Beauty, richness and brightness are the key words of the most recent Paris Spring-Summer 2010 Haute Couture shows, presented a few weeks ago from January 24th to January 29th against the wonderful backdrop of Paris’ historical palaces and monuments, by those who are considered by everybody the high priests of fashion, the inventors of luxury and elegance at their purest

Elegance and the desire to be free from any kind of rule or convention: this is the recurrent theme that ran through the recent edition of Milan fashion week, from January the 16th to January the 19th, one of the most anticipated fashion events, which saw the presentation of the new men’s styles and trends [...]

Let’s look in more detail at the new proposals presented by our famous Italian designers for the men’s spring-summer 2010 collections.

Many important labels of Italian luxury style took part in the Milan fashion week this year and every one of them has made a valuable contribution to establishing the main coordinates of the men’s look for next spring-summer. However, we have focused our attention on the

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

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 …