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Metrofashion Magazine - 21st Century Fashion

Summer 2005: Show Some Skin
Cutouts and knitwear highlight the sensual season

©2005 Metrofashion.com- San Franciso Style Festival This season's must-have item, the tunic beach cover-up, plays an important part in the Swati collection at the San Francisco International Style festival.

Swati is a couture design studio specializing in a bilingual view of fashion that blends the sensuous and the practical, bringing the art of the East to the West.

Indian-inspired motifs glitter across the silken fabrics of hot pink, peacock purple, and turquoise.

" Crossover looks" abound with a heavy focus on embellished sequins and beads playing across variations of the Indian sari and shararai, updated with modernized midriffs, choker necklines, and lace-up backs. Swinging skirts complete the prom-meets-Bollywood look.

Luxury designer Liliana Castellanos displays her penchant for soft Alpaca wool with exquisitely tailored coats, shawls, ponchos, and jackets.

Full-length and knee length coats in powder pink and blues, ivory and beige take off the chill while details like tone on tone embroidery, contrasting waist ties and frothy dipped fringes keep the eye moving.

When lounging is the only way to beat the summer heat, Cari Borja is what to wear. Flirty ruffles appear in unexpected places with whimsical results - along the elbow, gracing the ankle, or framing the face with studied romance.

Sleeveless hoodies are matched with flowing wide-legged pants in neutral shades or bright harlequin patterns. Wrap tops and dresses in gauzy silks and viscose slink across the skin like the patterns of a heat wave.

 
Design is discussed repeatedly in an article on www.styledash.com website. Design is touched on on www.rogerperry.com website. Sequins is noted on offtherack.people.com website. Beach is a popular search term and is remarked upon on profile.myspace.com website. Beach is discussed on www.seenon.com website.
Summer 2005: Show Some Skin
©2005 Metrofashion.com- Front Row Fashion Photography
Los Angeles fashion week swimwear, first row: San Francisco style festival and fashion week
 
 
San Francisco is an editor keyword and is touched on on www.donovansf.com website. San Francisco is mentioned on www.genartpulse.com website. Ruffles is a popular search term and is referenced on www.squidoo.com website. Ruffles is touched on repeatedly in an article on www.squidoo.com website. Seattle is an editor keyword and is brought up on news.google.com website. Seattle is talked about repeatedly in an article on news.myspace.com website.

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
Los Angeles Fall/Winter 2005

L.A. Designers mix masculinity and earth tones to create artistic fashion.

©2005 Metrofashion.com- Are you a Kevan Hall girl? If you're spending much time on the Red Carpet, you probably are. Kevan Hall Fall/Winter 2005 Los Angeles Collection set the tone for a Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios resplendent with chocolate and navy, burgundy and purple, tweeds and velvets, and festive masculine suits.

Hall said he drew inspiration for his glamorous formfitting silhouettes from the public life of Italian opera diva Maria Callas, including houndstooth coats, silk satin evening gowns, and wool jersey dresses with fur accents. A black wool jersey notch front column dress sports a Chinchilla capelet. Hall shows amethyst in the form of a floral richly beaded lace dress with open back and a smart tie-front silk collared gown with plunging neckline. Throughout, Mikimoto cultured pearls highlight the neck and lead the eyes upward to the face.

(Right: Kevan Hall Fall 2005 Los Angeles hammered silk gown with ruched sides)

These are dresses made for dramatic arrivals and alluring departures. One piece, a teal fully beaded keyhole back gown with clasp collar, is paired with a chocolate peau de soie opera coat, mixing lively dinner sparkle with dramatic evening comfort. In grand style, Hall shows a lacquered chiffon ombre empire dress in verde green with matching white, bronze, and blonde pearl necklaces. Kevan Hall's girls show 1950s' luxuriousness wrapped in modern fabric creations.

Also showing at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Fall 2005 Los Angeles were Petro Zillia, Jenni Kayne, Sue Wong, Michelle Mason, among others. Petro Zillia Fall 2005 Los Angeles reflects the 1970s disco era with large lapel tweed suits over green, blue, and pink separates, boucle coats with fur collars, and clever twists on herringbone and leopard chiffon. Zillia Fall 2005 stays with the high waisted theme of Spring 2005 while integrating charming shapes like a heart neckline coat. Giving each piece a crayon feel with black bordering or contrasting vertical panels, designer Nony Tochterman creates a Fall 2005 collection that travels easily from the boardroom to the television spot.

Jenni Kayne Fall 2005 Los Angeles shows a continued emphasis on the tensions between sexuality and propriety. The collection is rich with plum, chocolate, black, and dark navy. Supple coats made of cashmere and velvet warm the pallet while feminine touches such as illusion ruffle shoulder sleeves and a rabbit capelet provide allure. Most signature: a chocolate and white charmeuse mini ruffle dress under a plum velvet double-breasted jacket; a little for him, a little for her.

Eduardo Lucero shows a spectacular Fall 2005 Los Angeles collection with cranberry silk chiffon blouses, ultrasuede dresses, slicker pants, velvet beaded gowns in burgundy, and a nude silk satin gown for evening. Pegah Anvarian shows a hooded jacket in granite and a feather jacket in grey tweed, with butterfly pants and drape silk dresses.

 
Fall Winter 2005 Runway Photography ©2005 Metrofashion
Left to right: Kevan Hall Fall 2005 Los Angeles houndstooth bustier in verde with feathered faux collar, Kevan Hall blonde sequin mesh gown with diamond-facted silk satin-bak crepe, Kevan Hall ruby lacquered chiffon La Davina gown with sunburst pleating, Petro Zillia Fall 2005 Los Angeles purple cat-print silk chiffon dress, Petro Zillia Fall 2005 Los Angeles catwalk collection, Jenni Kayne Fall 2005 Los Angeles tweed boxy short-sleeved jacket with ivory cardigan,
Fall Winter 2005 Runway Photography ©2005 Metrofashion
Left to right: Jenni Kayne beaded apron dress, designer Jenni Kayne during her Main Tent fashion show, Eduardo Lucero brown silk beaded illusion skinny pant with jersey blouse, Pegah Anvarian grey one shoulder sweater, Shakti by Jaqueline Love bronze boucle mini dress, Samora gold plunging neckline evening gown, Magda Berliner Fall 2005 Los Angeles lace-ribbon maille dress, Sue Wong "Venetian Carnivale", Sue Wong mocha exotic ombre Schederazade gown with turquoise stones and necklace beading, Michelle Mason Fall 2005 Los Angeles wine corduroy pantsuit, Michelle Mason chestnut herringbone portrait collar jacket suit, Gaelyn & Cianfarani Fall 2005 collection
SAN FRANCISCO FASHION WEEK™ 2004
Metrofashion is a Media Promotional Sponsor of San Francisco Fashion Week

©2004 Metrofashion.com-
WEBSITE: SF Fashion Week™ http://www.fashionweek-sf.com
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LOCATION:
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
3301 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123

DATES: August 26-29, 2004
See schedule for designer fashion shows
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PRODUCER: Mystery Girl Productions, Erika Gessin
PRESS CONTACT: Samantha Slavin Publicity, Carla DeLuca


DESIGNERS: Christina Hurvis Couture, Colleen Quen Couture, Fornarina, Hieros, Lilly Samii, Besnik, Zilda by Flavia, Liz Bang, Everize, Loungewear Betty, Rock & Republic, Saffron Rare Threads, Starr D., Art Institute of California - San Francisco, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Fashion Week Boutique designers, more

San Francisco Fashion Week 2004 website fashion designers sponsors events scheduleSPONSORS:
SF Weekly, Zink Magazine (Official Magazine of San Francisco Fashion Week), San Francisco Magazine, SFStation.com, radio stations Wild 94.9, 106 KMEL, Star 101.3, JetBlue Airways, Kerastase

Joie de Vivre – the Commodore and Phoenix Hotels, Presidio Merchant Partners LLC, Metromint, Spa-Bar, Hair Play, Blush Beauty, NARS Cosmetics, Guess Eyewear, SpaBar, Hair Play

Steve Madden, Vespa SF, Presidio, Foreign Cinema, Stonestown Shopping Center, Guess Eyewear, W San Francisco Hotel, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Bauer's Transportation, POM Wonderful, Offset Music


SAN FRANCISCO FASHION WEEK™ 2004
Metrofashion is a Media Promotional Sponsor of San Francisco Fashion Week
Front Row Fashion Photography ©2004 Metrofashion.com
Left to right: Colleen Quen Spring 2005 daywear, Saffron Rare Threads, Lilly Samii carnation ballgown, custom Vespas in Boutique, Christina Hurvis
Los Angeles Fashion : Renée Bardot
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In Renée Bardot's birthplace of Frankfurt, Germany, her destiny was shaped at an early age as a primary fashion leader. Simply, she played dress-up with fabric scraps in her father's leather clothing company.

It was in this arena, Renée would create elaborate gowns and costumes by draping chiffon or other discarded fabric over her five-year old frame.

Renée's father had taken notice of his design protégé and began to teach her everything there was to learn about the hand-sewn coats, pants and jackets he sold and distributed throughout Germany in the late sixties.

Aware of her talent, her father took the pre-teen Renée under his tutelage, apprenticing the budding designer. Renée's father was a haute couture sewer and he passed the generations-old art of creating clothing down. By twenty was selling her designs to fashion forward stores.

Renée moved to Amsterdam were she honed her business skills and opened her first store, Jezebel. She then worked as an assistant to the late designer C. Gordon. Nationally known in Germany, C. Gordon - along with his peers, Karl Lagerfeld, Wolfgang Joop, Uta Raasch and Iris von Arnim were part of the burgeoning German cultural Renaissance. Gordon's mastery of draping and European pattern-making greatly influenced Renée and her designing skills took on whole new artistic bent.

   
Metrofashion Spring and Summer 2002
Flouncing Around

2002 Spring and Summer - Flouncing Around
©2002 Metrofashion.com- Wrapped and ruffled, pleated and pale, beaded and bangled, Spring and Summer 2002 fashions invite the post-9/11 world-weary woman to chill out and let loose, what the Southerners call "flouncing around." The fabrics are chiffon-centered, feminine in nature, and luxurious with layering, while the cuts, shapes, and embellishments shout "watch me swish!". Everything moves in Spring 2002, the skirts have plenty of bias themes and embellished borders and sink low on the waist to mirror recent pant trends, and the tops and dresses hang loose and have lots of texture, attachments, and whimsical artwork. In a sort of "new Aquarius," stylish folk are revisiting watery themes of flow, splash, and flounce, making Spring and Summer 2002 the most expressive new millennium summer season yet.

For starters, Romeo Gigli shows a neutral palette of two-piece sets with soft wrap components in the season colors of moss, burnt red, black and grey. Giglio's collection is alluring and mature, separating this Spring season mood from previous experimental seasons during more prosperous times. A grey wrap handkerchief camisole directly across the breasts compliments pencil-strapped suspenders and bias-cut above-the-waist slate grey skirt. The skirt adds ruffled floral cut-outs strung across two opposing biases, creating a trailing wave motion in repose. (Some images copyright Passerella.)

Gigli flirts with the lingerie look but stays with clean lines and earthy colors to create an illusion of lush covering. It's as if the very forest itself covers the female in swaths of warm sheers and layered mesh. Gigli evicts the gypsy nature of post-9/11 reflection merged with an ongoing integration of elegant detailing with premium garments.

Carolina Herrera's Spring 2002 collection continues the looseness theme while simplifying the silhouette to be long, lean, and flouncy around the cuffs. Sequin characters decorate tops and cocktail dresses, and the plunging neckline highlights the shoulders. Joining in the 70s nod, there are working pants with low waist disco shapes and satiny finish. Herrera mixes formalwear with ready-to-wear, bringing gown concepts into the mix with bias cut bottoms and white mesh overlays.

Herrera's collection extends elegance to include flouncing and prancing. The modern lady can carry a classic posture while showing off a little draped chiffon or some splashed crystals. White is critical to the carriage as Herrera interrupts the "white is the new black" theme by using body-forming tops with sensuous bordering. Always aware of the bridal influence, Carolina Herrera has managed to transform Spring 2002 ready-to-wear into something lady-like.

Metrofashion Fall 2001 Fashion - Modern Reality
©2001 Metrofashion.com-
The New (1990s) Rules Don't Apply - Watching the movie Serendipity (©2001 Miramax Films) in October of 2001 is like watching a home video of a story from another time; a time before the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11th.

Serendipity is a romantic comedy about the human desire for destiny fulfillment in our search for love. Underneath, the movie is a classy, chic romp through modern innocence in the age of American prosperity.

The lead couple, Jonathan Trager (played by John Cusack) and Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) are attractive, successful, even witty characters made out to be your average young American adults affected by infatuation. Yet their journey is alive with scenes of runway fashion, contemporary designer home accents, and intellectual references to literature and theater.

Jonathan and Sara are portrayed as common Westerners, beautiful people with sophisticated, luxurious lives and crisp, tailored personalities.

If only those images had appeared before the collapse of WTC Tower I and Tower II, perhaps the love story would have connected to the aspirations of a young America looking for new mythologies.

The opportunity to believe again, for the first time since the roaring 1920s, that life would always be good. Alas, wrapped in the dense mental imagery of churning smoke and ash from September 11th, Serendipity is like a dream remembered from an unblemished youth. And a lasting documentation of the hopeless romantic in all Americans that existed until the Fall Season of 2001.
 

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Nicki Hilton gets up on her high horse at Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall 2008; shown here Nicholai Fall 2008 Collection.

New York Fall 2008
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