Carven's Autumn/Winter 2012 Girly Elegance

Henry Guilliaume debuted his autumn/winter 2012 line for Carven in Paris this past week. The collection took cues from medieval artwork and stained glass with a traditional fall palette. The result was absolutely charming.

The collection featured a wide range of heavy textiles and materials. Silk, suede, leather, tweed, fur, and velvet, which is fall’s hot fabric, were all present on the runway, located in a Parisian convent. The silks featured medieval artwork, while many of the leathers and velvets were cut by lasers to create stained-glass patterns.

The shapes were feminine yet modern, creating a gorgeous contrast between the old-world patterns. Carven had structured dresses and skirts, tailored separates, and high waists. The models wore chunky Mary Janes on their feet, and hair was parted down the center with loose kinks. Their faces were almost completely free of makeup. Overall, the collection was as girly as doll clothes but as elegant as a church.

Text Ashley Amidon 
Images Fashionising.com

BCBG Fall '12 Keeps Warm Trends Relevent

New York Fashion Week has begun and Fall 2012 fashions are coming. BCBG started things off on Thursday with a collection of color blocking, flowing sheer fabrics, and fur reminiscent of warmer seasons.

The mind behind the runway event, Max Azria, told Yahoo News that he and his wife, Lubov, were using the textures and palette “to add character.” The pair was also aiming for “an artful proposition” with fourties flair.

Instead of the red that dominated the fashion scene in the fall of 2011, these colors were brighter and bolder. The collection featured classic blacks, corals, purples, teals, and muted yellows.

As for beauty, BCBG kept it simple. They went for soft, dewy skin with minimal makeup. The smudge of eyeliner and brown and gray shadow with a dash of lip balm was vastly different from the spring trend of dark eyes and lips. The models’ hair was parted to the side and styled in sleek, low pony tails.

Text Ashley Amidon 
Source and Images Yahoo News 

New York Fashion Week: There’s an App for That

With more than 200 shows and presentations scheduled, Fashion Week can be quite the blur — and it doesn’t help that those models stomp down the runway in the blink of an eye. But now there’s good news for Fashion Week attendees who want to pay a little more attention to detail, or more likely, those nowhere near New York City who are eagerly waiting for fashion blogs (ahem) to update their sites for the latest news on each line’s look.

Made Fashion Week, a venue that will host more than 50 shows this season, including Alexander Wang, Christian Cota, and Proenza Schouler, has launched an impressive digital platform to showcase their designers. This includes a Made Fashion Week app which syncs each runway show and displays a photograph of each outfit as it comes down the catwalk, taken by a Made photographer, as well as the name, short biography, and contact info of the designer. Fashion show attendees, and even those streaming live Webcasts, can use this app, as it's available for the iPhone, iPad, and Android to share or “like” the look on various forms of social media, take notes, and save looks on the devices. Fashion bloggers, rejoice!

How does it work? This fashion app is designed to listen for sound waves which are inaudible to the human ear that will indicate which outfit is making its way down the runway. Even if attendees are moving between shows that are on at the same time, the app will pick up whatever event they’re at and pull up the appropriate slideshow. Kind of Zenon, kind of awesome.

Text Kara Solarz
Source New York Times, WWD
Image WWD