Rose quartz PANTONE 13-1520 and Serenity PANTONE 15-3919 are the colors of 2016 according to Pantone, world-renowned authority on color. This time I really like Pantone’s color choice despite ‘What color is in fashion this year?‘ is one of the most nonsense questions by ‘common people’ to fashion insiders, and considering that in 2016 I’m tired …

Floral? For Spring? Groundbreaking!   Every time Meryl Streep pronounces this line in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, she makes laugh all the fashionistas who love her sarcastic role of Miranda Priestly. Needless to add that fashion bloggers “tragically” revive this joke once a year in March, when spring trend reports sprouting on the …

Venus de Milo and Marilyn Monroe, two hourglass silhouette icons La Venere di Milo e Marilyn Monroe, due icone della silhouette a clessidra We are close to the end of our journey through the autumn winter 2012 trends. Today we continue with the charm of the curves, in fact, despite the androgynous trend, even the hourglass …

In the film and fashion industries, there are many divas who made history by wearing male suits. You can think about the libertine and eternal rivals Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, or the casual-androgynous Katharine Hepburn, not to mention iconic garments such as the tuxedo for women by Yves Saint Laurent (mid 60s) and the …

Sculpture dresses are definitely one of the main fall-winter 2012 trend. Minimalistic attire with plastic shapes and geometric volumes. The jacket cuffs seem to be inflated, reshaping the shoulders line, enlarging the proportions and creating a strong contrast between the slim pants or skirts. Manuel Facchini at Byblos is certainly the “standard-bearer” of this trend …

Greta Garbo in “Anna Christie” 1929 Forget the rebellious mood of the biker jackets or the feticism of Jean Paul Gaultier and Donatella Versace. The leather for this Autumn Winter 2012 will be synonymous of comfortable fit. The silhouette of the leather clothes is wide, softened and even draped as a lightweight silk. Stilish examples …

The Gold Rush is not just a Charlie Chaplin movie (1925) inspired by the American golden researchers of the XIX century, but also one of the main Autumn Winter 2012 trends. Actually, it is not so strange that in times of economic crisis, the fashion designers propose luxuries and extravagances, so why not a total …

The tour through the autumn winter 2012 trends is going on. Today is the turn of the Houndstooth pattern, also known as Pied-de-poule, made of 8 wool wires recreating the stylized shape of a chicken’s foot. This typical male pattern has been proposed on classic pieces such as long coats and lady’s suits, in combination with …

Green is one of the main colors of the fall winter 2012 women collections. It has been presented in all its shades, especially dark, and once appeared on double breasted jackets with large gold buttons, it inevitably gave rise to the “military uniforms trend”. On the catwalks there were several women commanders, who didn’t renounce to …