Posts Tagged ‘collection’

I usually don’t like to double up with SwingFashionista.com but I just HAVE to re-blog some images from Elisa Palomino’s Fall 2010 RTW collection, that Jo posted.  Who is Elisa Palomino? Though her own label is a new thing, she’s no newcomer to the fashion scene.  She has been the designer behind Moschino’s Cheap & Chic collections, and the head of the John Galliano studio, during which time she also worked for Dior. She was studio director at Cavalli and is now the Vice-president of Design at Diane Von Furstenberg. Serious credentials! She’s also a 1920s style enthusiast and a collector of vintage Japanese kimonos, as you can see.  Elisa is the lady with the long, straight black hair in a few of these pics…

I’ve posted this on SwingFashionista.com already, but I just keep coming back to it, so I wanted to post it up here as well. Just such a dramatic collection, futuristic yet nostalgic…

Some of Dita Von Teese’s collection of toe shoes. Apparently she has them in every color of the rainbow.

This collection was an interesting re-imagining of the fashion house’s origins, and a glamorous mish-mash of styles from the 1920s to the 1950s.  The 1946 Dior’s New Look peplum was exaggerated into balloons of fabric beneath belt-cinched waists. Circle skirts, blouson sleeves, oversized coats, wasp waists and tea dresses were all in the mix. Cloche style hats and pencil-thin arched brows gave a nod to the 1920s. Corsets were occasionally sighted beneath sheer gowns, and a 1950s hourglass silhouette was fairly ubiquitous, save for a few slimmer 1930s styles. Patent leather, sheer fabrics and dark lipstick gave the whole show a more modern – and risque – feeling.