Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013 | The Fantasy Bra & Candice Swanepoel

A 10 million dollar fantasy bra and 40 Angels, Victoria's Secret Runway 

In New York, last night, the most sought after ticket in town took place, the Victoria's Secret Fashion show. Fourty models, known as the VS Angels, strutted down the runway, as if they ruled heaven with their beauty and the majestic wings. 

It was a star studded affair with the likes of Julia Restoin Rotfield,  Valentino Garavani and Olivia Palermo with Taylor Swift as the main entertainer for the evening. Everyone was there, and I wish I was there too. 

The runway was full of silver glitters, ready for the the most sparkling show on earth. Victoria's Secret starts planning one year ahead for this annual affair, especially thinking about the costumes, which have now become couture lingerie, the models and the master jewellers, but the fantasy bra is the one which gets everybody talking.

This year it cost ten million dollars, and the lucky angel was the beautiful South African supermodel Candice Swanepoel, she was the star of the night with that pout, those long legs and immaculate body. 

Four themes; The British Invasion, The Birds of Paradise, Shipwrecked and Parisian Nights as well as the Pink collection. Fourty of the best models in the world including, the veterans Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio and Doutzen Kroes and the high fashion best, Karlie Kloss, Cara Delevigne, Jourdan Dunn, Hilary Rhoda and Joan Smalls controlled the arena. The Birds of Paradise was my favourite, where the models looked angelic, wild and free. 

Also check out all the lovely VS Angels inspired jewellery from Caratime

THE SHOW

This show is something out of this world, a bejewelled affair, which has the most beautiful angels every seen on earth in lingerie. 

Photos from www.vogue.co.uk

New Designers | Luke Azzopardi | The Young Artistic Couturier

 The Gozitan Couture Artist | A modern Traditional Canvas

Luke Azzopardi is a young and very talented artist and couture designer from Gozo, Malta. He exploded on the local Maltese fashion scene, and noone can dare to question why because his talent is obvious.

His one of a kind pieces are inspired by art. In his prints he uses paintings as sources and are modified accordingly, translating the colours and motifs onto fabric using laser printing. He has been using this technique and printing with these motifs since 2012.
 His latest collections were galvanized by the various images from the Sacra Conversazione - Madonna & Child renditions. 

This comes to no surprise because Luke is currently reading a degree in History of Art and before that he studied performance design and practice at the prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. 

Now for his next collection, which will probably be the Autumn/Winter 2013, he is researching stained glass during the Art Deco period and Egyptian Revival Periods. 

Luke Azzopardi  "I want to transpose whatever I develop onto Gothicised and ecclesiastic silhouettes"

He custom makes garments upon order both for men and women according to what his client wants, but remaining true to his ideas, concepts and his brand.

Luke Azzopardi Spring/Summer 2013 collection

Midnight in Persia 

This very young designer has talent; his passion and knowledge about fashion and art  are producing beautiful and one of kind pieces - a modern traditional canvas. 

I will be ordering my first dress for the winter season soon. 

Visit Luke Azzopardi's website http://www.lukeazzopardi.com/

‎Christian Dior Couture AW13 | A perfect and elegant deconstruction

Raf Simons mixed the Dior heritage with his Antwerp roots ... a new found freedom

Raf Simons brought a new kind of couture to Paris this time. His contemporary silhouettes and modernist way to doing things, was conveyed for the first look to the last. 

The Antwerp roots of a perfect deconstruction were there, a new found freedom I guess . from the strict Parisian Couture rules. His multitude of inspiration came from many sources ... The Japanese culture, African tribes, the different parts of the world, his clients and Christian Dior himself. 

He said this about his clients and freedom:

"But it's so much more satisfying to give freedom to people and see what happens." 

The catwalk was not a coonventional one, but a room with large screens, cinema looking. Patrick Demarchelier, Terry Richardson, Paolo Roversi, and Willy Vanderperre's photos of the collection were an anticaption of what to see ... Raf Simon's antithetic twist to classic couture. 

 His inspirations turned into beautiful dresses, jackets, and accessories, couture worthy. Details were on the necklines especially with the many strapless dresses. From day dresses to ball gowns he inserted many layers and draping ... very dramatic and demure. 

A modernist at heart he reivented the Bar jacket once again and played around with Christian Dior's houndstooth print and the suit,  accenting the waist with the Japanese Opi belts.

The reinvented Bar jacket by Raf Simons for Christian Dior Haute Couture
His details included buttons, beneath the knee lengths, long gowns, sculptured silhouettes and foulards very reminiscent of Christian Dior, keeping his woman feminine with a powerful seductive confidence. 

Sheer and mesh, one of Raf Simon's trade marks and gloves featured everywhere. A new detail, was added with jewellery, this came from the African inspiration. 

Details: Gloves

Details: Spacey Shibori (the Japanese process that produces that peculiar spiky fabric

Details: Jewellery 

Details: Layers

His trade mark mesh and sheer

 This is his third couture collection for Chrstian Dior and we have seen his ever lasting contemporary nature as he was with Jil Sander he kept it going here. He knows how to mix Dior's legacy and HIMSELF very well and lastly what he did was take haute couture global and looking at a real future. 

Raf Simons I'm your biggest fan!

Pictures from www.vogue.co.uk