Clothing & Accessories

Cult LA label Wildfox don’t just pick a theme and loosely flirt with it, they grab it, squeeze it for all it’s worth, build a collection from the cobwebby essence of its very dreams. Case in point: their latest collection. Titled Magical Creatures, it picks up everyone who’s a fan of the label’s aesthetic and transports them into a constructed dreamland of pink hair and …

Young Germany-based fashion designer Rayan Odyll is having a love affair with multi-tone prints for spring 2012. Finding their way onto luxe silks, these prints were “developed from abstracted childhood memories, floral motifs and Polkadots” resulting in an exotic mix that warrants the collection’s title: Cultural Limbo. Odyll’s peplumed, waist-accenting shapes have a certain femininity, while his accessories add their own exotic whimsy to the …

Clashing bold colours with pitch black, ladylike silhouettes with vampish perforated leather, modern flair with a vintage mood…. there’s barely an outfit amoung Jitrois’ spring 2012 collection look book that doesn’t captivate visually. Jitrois’ designer Jean Claude Jitrois has a fascination with leather, which shows in the look book. Skin – with its textures and scars and imperfections – is equal to a biography, he …

Colour, texture and abstract prints all draw your eye with magnetic force when you view Carla Chan’s graduate collection. But the thing your gaze then hovers on is the unique shapes, the twists and gathers and drapes that bend the mind like an Escher sketch. A graduate of Nottingham Trent University in association with the Hong Kong Design Institute, Chan’s quirkiness is her trademark. Timmothy …

While no doubt there was much about 18th century life that would preclude it from earning the title of glamorous, that may also have much to do with where you sat on the social divide. If you were born into castles and powdered wigs, glamour might have had plenty to do with it. That’s the side we often see interpreted through cinema and popular culture. …

There are plenty of ways to style vintage swimwear, but most that have crossed our desk have played heavily to a 40s / 50s vibe. They’re soft and cutesy, oft interpreting vintage as girly. Few have played to the other end of the spectrum: the bombshell. Few have tried to capture what it was that the likes of Brigitte Bardot gave to the 1960s and, …

If you’ve ever looked at Anna Dello Russo‘s intense and somewhat flamboyant sense of style and wished you could replicate it without having access to every forthcoming designer collection and a wardrobe of 4,000 shoes, then your chance has just arrived. Dello Russo has created an “over the top” accessories collection for retail chain H&M.

The differences between Spanish retailers Mango and Zara have been something of a mini-theme for us of late, and we can now add another element into the discussion: Mango’s autumn / fall 2012 campaign.

Swimwear pictorials normally follow a recipe. One part photographer, one part model, one part waterside location (preferably a beach), several parts swimwear and so on. The colours of the resulting photo shoot are usually both intense and saturated, all communicating the beauty of summer and the intensity of its sun. Few pictorials venture elsewhere. Return to the Sea by Michael David Adams does however. It …

Luxury fashion brands and houses continually represent more and more facets of fashion. Recently, Dior has expanded upon its jewellery offering with Dior’s Fine Jewellery designer Victoire de Castellane turning her hand to the My Dior collection.