December 2015 - Fashionfad

Menswear in winter has to be with coats knowing that lot of layering goes behind it. With New Year and party season in the offing, we pick up 5 key coat styles for men’s, from pea coats to duffel coats to overcoats, we select the best outerwear to see you through the winter.

Duffle Coat

Slightly boxier than an overcoat, the modern duffle has evolved with a generous overlap in the front. Its rugged finesse is best worn with jeans or chinos, a cable knit jumper or wool roll-neck sweater.

Pea Coat

This is a great winter coat to team with smart casual look,longer than a regular jacket the pea coat is slightly indented at the waist, and has a slimming the silhouette.

Over Coat

The overcoat is worn over a suit and should fit squarely on your shoulders without too much room around the chest.

Field Jacket

The field jacket has number of pockets down and front with a belted waist. It has a slightly unstructured appearance best goes with sneakers and denims.

Trench Coat

Known to be Burberry’s creation it comes in camel or khakhi colour is often worn in lieu of an overcoat with a suit and is large enough to accommodate all the layering.

A Shaded View on Fashion Film, the International Fashion Film Festival founded by Diane Pernet – had already left its mark in 2014 with the likes of Belgian Design, Dries Van Noten. Its 8th edition, held early Dececmber at the Centre Pompidou, the event marks another important step by inviting one of the most iconic French couturiers of Fashion History: Jean Paul Gaultier, who presided the jury of the fashion film competition with a Carte Blanche session, hosted by journalist and critic Elisabeth Quin.

ASVOFF Grand Prix 2015 winner Hungry For Love by Justin Ambrosino, the festival offered special screenings, live performances, conferences offered thematic sessions with prestigious guests such as Iris van Herpen, Nicolas Godin, Nicolas Saada or Mathias Kiss, as well as documentaries, including an Arte cycle, a session focused on the Woolmark story with Colin McDowell, conferences and live performances from cult group Chicks on Speed, Muscians Pete Drungle and LOANE are part of this weekend dedicated to fashion and film, and to what inspires them.

The year 2015 is been quiet eventful year with so many surprises and changes within. It was a significant year for Indian model Bhumika, who was seen walking the ramp for Balmain, Alberta Ferretti and Stella McCartney. The year also saw John Galliano presenting his first show for Masion Martin Margiela in London while world’s most successful and highly paid supermodel Gisele Bundchen formally announced her retirement from the fashion runway.

Raf Simmons left Dior to concentrate on his own menswear label, it was told followed by Alber Elbaz bidding adieu to Lanvin after spending 14 years. As if this was not enough we heard Donna Karan stepped down as a lead designer of her eponymous label to pursue her philanthropic career.

Finally it was Alexander wang leaving Balenciaga, the thirty-year-old designer departed in order to pay more attention to his namesake label and launch his own jewelry line.

As the year 2015 comes to an end, we discuss about the show internet most freaked about, yes the Ricky Owens Spring summer 2016 show about human backpacks. The arrival of a model wearing a sleeveless long jacket, shorts, and a semi-sheer top, with the woman strapped to her back with her straight legs sticking out, baffled everybody. More so as the designer left immediately after the show to avoid addressing the consequent media frenzy.

He later explained saying, in the Spring women’s collection (Cyclops), the focussed vision being more about nourishment, sisterhood/motherhood and regeneration; women raising women, women becoming women, and women supporting women – a world of women I know little about and can only attempt to amuse in my own small way…Straps can be about restraint but here they are all about support and cradling.

Starting from spring to fall there are plenty of campaigns we notice each year from luxury labels and see the communication strategy used by the designers to convey their inspirations behind each collection through vivid imagery and celebrity cast.

We narrowed our research to bring you the best of the best.

Saint Laurent Cruise 2016

Isabel Marant S/S 2016 Campaign

Chanel Fall/Winter 2015/2016 Campaign

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Alexander Wang fall 2015

Balmian fall 2015

Celine Spring 2015

Dolce and Gabbana Spring 2015

Oscar de la Renta fall 2015

Prada fall 2015

Valentino Spring 2015

With the web flooded with slow fashion stories, there is a growing trend within the fashion world for sustainable, ethical clothing. At the forefront of this movement is Carin Mansfield, a designer who devotes herself to the art of “slow fashion”, says BBC.

Lately, Pantagonia started the campaign asking people to buy only what they need, as the clothing firm starts designing clothes that lasts forever. Slow fashion aims to wean us from cheaply made, high-volume, fast-fashion brands, instead, in having us stock our closets with a modest high quality, long-lasting garments, made in a way that doesn’t hurt the environment – or the workforce creating them, a trend which is catching up in Charlotte.

Fast fashion trends begin going from runway to chain-store-at-the-mall making patrons chasing trends lasting only few weeks until the next trend that led to millions of discarded clothing. Consumers are very wary with the fast fashion system, as the process doesn’t take care of workers and the environment.

Slow fashion isn’t a one-size-fits-all theory. Some makers source items locally, others use goods from other states or overseas, but from sources they say are ethical and eco-friendly. Some come with a high price tag; some items are similarly priced to their mass-market counterparts.

It’s still a wait and watch story for others, no sooner people realize and it actually become a trend, needs to be seen!!

Saint Laurent Spring 2016 campaign, gives us 17 looks for tiaras, day, night and life in general by including one in each of the looks. Creative director Hedi Slimane captures the black and white images which split between studio portraits of models Signe Lund and Steffi Soede as well as still life shots.

The spring collection focuses on barely there mini dresses ranging from sequin embellished numbers to metallic materials,paired with boxy jackets and furs focusing on 90s grunge.