My knowledge of any Fashion Week related stuff is very, very limited. Bowie's song is playing in my mind, as I try and form some words that are remotely relevant to women's clothing. Probably not the best start-point?? Or maybe it is...
I have paid no particular attention to London Fashion Week. Period. I know it's relevance to the world of trends, looks, make-up, hair etc. How big chains like your Topshop's and H&M's basically reproduce imitation copies of catwalk gems. Whilst, apparently, London has become trendy again, as it's fashion week had been shunned by the big name critics from Vogue et al. over the past year or two, but has now fallen back into favour this September...
My personal interaction with this years Fashion Week came from an unlikely source... a tabloid newspaper. I don't know if Maria Grachvogel would be particularly jubilant for this kind of exposure. I am sensing her clientele is probably a bit more high-brow, but hey, any exposure is good exposure, right?!
According to LFW, Grachvogel is reported to be "a well loved label of all aficionados of fine design. Established in 1994 and shown for the first time at London Fashion Week in 1995, the Maria Grachvogel label is a secret of many of the world’s most stylish women including Angelina Jolie, Marie Helvin and Yasmin Le Bon".
For me, I really loved her show for Summer 2011. Half of it mixes an array of bland creams, soft browns, pale greys, and lemon yellows, in very clean-cut floaty dresses, skirts, high-waisted trousers, and loose-fitting tops.
The elements of block-brightness in her collection do shout Summer! A crazy statement I know, so I will apologise in advance, but I can envisage a lot of upper class French women, lunching, smoking, and drinking white wine on a vista in Monte-Carlo in these lovely garments. Real class and luxury.
The second part of her show presents a lovely abstract contrast. Again, long, floaty dresses are at the focal point, with clean silhouettes being the product of such styling. More thankfully too, it's not a distasteful kind of abstract.
Swirls and slanted verticals of dark navy, petrol blues, greens, yellows, and orange, all sound garish when mixed, but I would love to see a woman strolling through Madrid, high-Summer, big shades, simple make-up, straight hair, strappy Roman sandals, and one of these beautiful Grachvogel numbers!
Femininity is the winner here. Although some items might appear a little baggy (sack-like), this collection is very celebratory of the female form. The designers garments sit unobtrusively, draped comfortably whilst being very slinky, sexy, and thus highlighting the beauty of natural curvature. A lovely, Summery collection.
'Femininity is the winner here. Although some items might appear a little baggy (sack-like), this collection is very celebratory of the female form. The designers garments sit unobtrusively, draped comfortably whilst being very slinky, sexy, and thus highlighting the beauty of natural curvature.'
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many women have this in mind when shopping? :P
I know. I would be the last person to be able to suggest how the female mind works... especially when in shopping mode :-$ However, on finding this, apparently, "Maria has a deep understanding of a woman’s form and shape, and there is a huge amount of integrity in her work. The cut of Maria Grachvogel clothes is incredibly skillful, and essentially unique. The lines are clean, with seams engineered to sculpt the silhouette in a way that that can only be understood fully when worn. Even the most basic item; a classic pair of trousers when cut by Maria lengthen the legs and narrow the hips, which has prompted stockists and clients to call them ‘magic pants’. Because of this, once a client discovers the label and invests in her first piece, she comes back again and again".
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