Monday, February 21, 2011

London: Tom Ford, collection top secret

Vivienne Westwood is in its way, a queen. It will be true, perhaps, not surprising that its collections more: we all know by now what to expect from the runways of the lady of the British Empire that gave birth to punk. The unexpected and effect is so much a part of his design DNA, not nearly as surprised.

A kind of addiction? In a way, every show is a small fragment of this vast, endless parade that is his style and his taste. And that goes for the Autumn / Winter 2011/12 Red Label, on the catwalk yesterday in the calendar of London Fashion Week. Overlaps that defy all laws of balance, mix and match at least bold, references to the history of fashion heterogeneous anomalies that add up to one another seamlessly apparent ...

A merry mess of prints, processing, textiles, accessories, colors that seem to have become a trend. Yes, because we have seen in recent days, "something like" on the catwalks of designers of many other one (if not two) younger generation of Westwood. Disciples of time without a teacher.

Proposals for more "reassuring", rich in a very very British style, yesterday on the catwalks of Margaret Howell, Jasper Conran, Nicole Farhi and Mulberry. A few more thrill on those, always interesting, Antonio Berardi and Richard Nicoll. The first Anglo-Sicilian, press on the pedal of sexiness, inlaid with lace and splits per kilometer for the evening, and with bare legs well above the knee for the day.

The second, however, go for volume super comfortable, adapting to a mood decidedly sporty and technical, which runs the show from beginning to end. And then there's Tom Ford. That is, one who want to stick as an aside, an exception than the norm, habit, custom. And he is succeeding very well.

The presentation of its second womenswear collection was held as a rite of a secret society, in the presence of a few, very prestigious journalists. No photographers, especially bloggers nothing, nothing "all for all" now, subitissimo. In this age of immediacy, Tom Ford is called out of the game, discovers the law of desire, requires new times and new ways (new to the digital age, old for those who have experienced the heyday of haute couture) .

A choice that only those who know they have a great talent can do. Mr. Ford obviously knows it. They will be talking about her clothes, in due course. That is six months.

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