Friday, March 12, 2010  11:22 AM
Fall for a fashion designer
 Hussein Chalayan Fall 2010
 Haider Ackermann Fall 2010
With the new blog up, I can now focus on other topics of interest here - fashion randoms, celebrity infidelity, earthquakes and tsunamis and pickings from the human mind, perhaps. We'll see. I also need to do something about this blog template because I think it's impeding the way I write. Any takers?
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Fall trends this year are quite the myriad of sculptural lapels, structured coats and arched shoulders. I took an eyeful of a journey from the safe staples of Maison Martin Margiela to blazers with strategic cut-outs exposing slivers of skin from Alexander Wang. Christopher Bailey and his giant-collared shearlings and overcoats for Burberry Prorsum to Yves Saint Laurent's seventies-influenced shapes with capes and mid-calf skirts, painted statement black with nary a glimpse of grey.
Speaking of mid-calf skirts, Marc Jacobs played on the A-line this year with a modern update on the classic silhouette, and included in his repertoire ankle socks and tweedy grey culottes - giving new meaning to irreverence as he shimmies away from his enjoyably psychedelic spring collection.
I wonder how all these designers seem to come together in a meeting of the minds and decide that structured coats and A-line skirts make the hit list of Fall 2010. Is there a fashion bible out there which I'm unaware of?
But the two shows that left the most impression on me were the lower-key designers Haider Ackermann and Hussein Chalayan. Ackermann with his play on futurism, his signature structured loops and folds artistically executed, and Chalayan, playing homage to the late Alexander McQueen as he takes a ride on the wild side with an avalanche of headpieces and glitter ensembles.
What fun, what fun. I write about this all from my bed in a ten-year-old nightgown worn so often the material has achieved a new level of softness. Elmo peeks out from the front of it and waves. Miles apart from the haute couture on my screen. Perhaps fashion designers have mornings like this too, you think?
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