Av. Montaigne's 1st Birthday

Today, 29th of  March's my lovely blogs 1st birthday. Happy Birthday to Av. Montaigne

Unknown facts about Gabrielle

Gabrielle Chanel & Serge Lifar (was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.)

1. Chanel Modes - First name of Chanel house

2. Canotier - Favorite and invariable accessory

3. Chanel's first published  model - Harper's Bazaar 1962, named "A charming chemise of Chanel" 
4. Gabrielle invaded her hair after every fashion show, because she thought that it was formula of success.
5. Favorite stone - Nacre
6. She respected - Yves Saint Laurent and Christobal Balenciaga

                                YSL                                          C. Balenciaga

7. Coco's friends - Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Serge Lifar, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Reverdy, Jean Cocteau, Misia Sert 
8. She died on a day she hated - Sunday, 10.01.1971    

P.S Source - Henry Gidel's book "Coco Chanel"                              

Trend 12/13 - Raffia

Bags trend on this season - raffia. Looks very light and comfortable. I thought that raffia bag could wear in spring on beach and etc, but designers broke this muth and I''ll wear it with great pleasure. I liked most Anya Hindmarch's floral raffia bag, which's first in my list.

Cape on my mind

                      A.P.C                                                 Junya Watanabe

 

Alexander McQueen                                        J.Crew

     Marc by Marc Jacobs                                             Vince                 

When it's until March it means that many rainy day waiting for us, that's why we need these comfortable clothes named Cape. It's very stylish and very elegant, I'm sure that every woman like it, and when u like something, u must wear it with jeans, loafers, nice beret and umbrella, its all.Cape on my mind and in my wish list on this season. Try it on u.

Good luck and have a nice day my dears.

Royal Velvet

          Burberry Prorsum                                Emilio Pucci             

    Gucci                                               DVF

 Chanel                                                    Etro

    Dolce & Gabbana                               Paul & Joe

Temperley London                                 Viktor & Rolf

My Fav. designers and fashion houses used velvet in 12/13 rtw collections. Skirts, dresses, pants, jumpsuits and some of them used this material  for only details, but it's fact that velvet must be new trend on these seasons. I adore Dolce & Gabbana dress, with  massive golden details and u can see the post about this collection on this link Dolce & Gabbana 12/13 - National Motives. I plan to sew a velvet dress  with my design and  I'll post pictures as soon as I can. Good luck to u and to me also.

Dolce & Gabbana 12/13 - National Motives

When I saw Dolce & Gabbana 12/13 RTW collection I was very surprised, because collection was very attractive, luxurious and charming. Lacy and velvety dresses and details, also coats, skirts, blouses, corsets, collars, also limpid materials and many many different prints. There are very massive accessories, bags with pearls and chains and etc. In first inspection I saw that in collection was some of Uzbek and Ukrainian motives, of course it's only my opinion but I'll base it with some of pictures.

 

And here is slides from collection with Ukrainian motives and picture of  national dance, with traditional costumes.

 P.S u may also like a post about byzantine motives from CHANEL in post Byzantine fragments by Karl Lgerfeld