My Favorite Designer 2: Matthew Williamson at London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 – from Bohemian Look to High-end Style

February 28, 2010 in Autumn/Winter, Bohemian Chic, Designers, Fashion, Fashion Week, London, Matthew Williamson, Seasons, Slideshow, Spring/Summer

Let’s shift our focus to London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 which kicked off last Friday on the 19th after New York. I have fallen for our British fashion darling Matthew Williamson, known as “the king of boho” for his brilliant color palette and use of prints to have brought the modern bohemian style, which encapsulates the simple, flowy style of hippies and gypsies to his collections since 2001 Spring/Summer when he launched his collection titled “Wonderland” in which a paillette-encrusted skirt rich in rainbow sequins simply fascinated me. Ibiza inspired hippy bohemian clothes are Williamson’s specialty. Over the past seasons he has been doing Ibiza-chic flooding his designs with bright colors and embellishments, exotic prints, bohemian beading and flowing caftans. His 1970s Ibiza hippy bohemian collection for 2005 Spring/Summer’s a case in point in which a stunning silver floor-length skirt did highlight the theme.

Aurélie Claudel for 2001 Spring/Summer collection “Wonderland”
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My Favorite Designer 1: Anna Sui at New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 – Aestheticism in Typical Sui Fashion

February 24, 2010 in Anna Sui, Autumn/Winter, Bohemian Chic, Designers, Fashion, Fashion Week, New York, Seasons, Slideshow

Anna Sui has always been one of my top favorite designers over all these years. Though I missed her show last Thursday that was the 7th day of New York Fashion Week because I am currently in Europe, my passion for Sui’s design has urged me to write about the collection. Only by seeing the pictures can remind me of a typical Anna Sui collection that couldn’t have possibly come from anyone else. I saw many similarities between this Fall/Winter 2010 and other seasons such as Fall/Winter 2008 and 2009 collections. Art nouveau esque aestheticism has exercised an enormous influence in shaping a typical Sui look, which is full of art deco motifs with tons of patterns and handmade touches and American Indian ethnic feel. We love seeing how Anna Sui keeps her stylistic integrity and never stops marching to the beat of her own drum, but always remains relevant and gorgeous. In this post you are gonna see lots of prints and decoration as well as a summary of some distinctive designs mostly found in her collections. After all, like what makeup master Pat Mcgrath said, “Anna is talking about arts, crafts and colors, and lots of decoration.”

Feature 1: Lots of prints and colors to accent the look with the handcrafted chunky necklaces and fur trimmed boots adding a touch of American Indian/Bohemian ethnic style as a whole
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