Showing posts with label fall/winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall/winter. Show all posts

Prada Menswear Fall/Winter 2012...or 1912?

There have probably already been a million blog posts about the Prada Fall/Winter 2012 Menswear collection, but I just couldn't resist...it is fabulous on so many levels!  Prada combined some classic vintage and Steampunk fashion with some amazing contemporary actors to create some serious  magic.  Actors Gary Oldman, Adrian Brody, Jamie Bell, Garrett Hedlund, and Willem Dafoe pulled off a visually delicious runway show.  

How original is this Prada collection?  Well, probably not the most original or forward looking to come from Prada (by contrast check out the Spring/Summer 2012 collection) .  But isn't kind of fun to see haute couture following street fashion?  

So boys, get out your cravats, spectacles, and waist coats...its time to be the Dandy you've always wanted to be!










Check out the entire show

Vogue 1938: Fall Color Palette

Such gorgeous jewel tones!  I love the mustard/grey and mustard/teal combo and - oh my - the plums...all my current favorite colors and all so very "now".  



1. For your dress, bold pink stripes on Crestwood's black jersey of DuPont Rayon; Altman.  For your coat, a beautiful black Botany wool with a gentle nub and subtle stripe.  2. The new colour "teal" for your coat in a Hockanum wool with a flat nub; cCutcheon.  Combine it with a dress of mustard DuPont Rayon jersey; Altman.  3. Deep wine and pale blue - an enchanting colour team.  The wins is Forstmann's virgin wool coating, "Neelepoint"; Altman; Marshall Field.  The blue is a Celanese dress crepe.

4. Elephant-grey and mustard - another new colour twosome.  The grey is Forstmann's virgin wool crepe; Lord and Taylor.  The mustard is Botany wool in suit or coat weight.  5. Autumn will see lavender and purple tones.  Juillaiard made the lavender wool crepe.  The purple is a Celanese twill.  6.  Deeply crinkled crepes return.  The black is an American Enka fabric.  Arnold's blue silk twill; Lord and Taylor.


1. Here's an effective trio of colours for an autumn scheme.  For your top-coat, Stroock's blue-and-white wool; Altman.  Under it wine Hockanum wool (Lord and Taylor), combined with a blue mossy crepe of Crown-Tested Rayon.  2. Another attractive colour threesome.  A Fieldcrest plaid of the MacLeod clan for the jacket; Bloomingdale.  Its colours repeated in the blouse of red DuPont Rayon jersey (Altman), with a skirt in green Hockannum wool; John Wanamaker. 


 3. Olive, beige, and plum - a distinguished trio not many will think of.  Forstmann's green virgin wool coating; McCutcheon; J.W. Robinson.  Stroock's chiffon-sheer wool in beige; Altman.  Duplan's Crown-Tested Rayon in plum.  4.  For your coat, Forstmann's superb brown virgin wool.  Make the dress of the beige Crown-Tested Rayon woven with large dots (Lord and Taylor), with a gilet or blouse of rust-coloured Cohma rebbed fabric; from Macy's.

Vogue August 15, 1938
Fashions for College - Furs - Fabrics


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