As the fall ‘fashion’ season approaches and magazines fill our mailboxes with every must-have blazer, bag or or boot, I wanna take the opportunity to give my two cents on some of my favorite designers or at least the lines I deem admirable and ‘covetable’ this fall. So for now, my Fridays will be filled with fall fashion, good or bad.
For my first show, I thought I would admire Dolce & Gabbana, mostly because just this week they released a statement saying they would, “…shave prices by between 10 and 20 percent while maintaining creativity and quality. The initiative will begin with the upcoming spring season, but is a long-term one, said Gabbana. The price reductions will occur across the board for both the main and D&G lines and margins will be squeezed to help achieve them,” according to Women’s Wear Daily. (June 16 2009)
For the current fall season, though, price cuts were clearly not made and quality exceeded our imagination with the eccentric inspiration of Elsa Schiaparelli. The headpieces are to die for and the leg o’ mutton sleeves paired with mini skirts embellished with screen prints of Marilyn Monroe meet black and white perfectly. I am in love, once again, with Dolce & Gabbana.
While I am intrigued and in awe of their cutbacks for spring, I am still thankful that my Italian design team has pulled me through that ‘blah’ period, where we all held our breath and believed that fashion must go back to basics based on economic hardship. While I condone every designer for cutting back and getting creative during a time when our wallets are weary, I love that this fall is making great strides to bring back ‘why’ we love fashion. So, I applaud the fall Dolce & Gabbana line for being themselves and for taking inspiration from Schiaparelli, who never seemed to take notice of how other’s perceived her as well. This is a match made in heaven, sans the lobsters. Her inspiration came from surrealism and those thoughts and creative ideals were clearly transferred successfully in Dolce & Gabbana’s fall line. Shocking? No, just Shocking Pink.
Coffee Black with Fashion 