Our Fall Obsession

If there’s one thing that we love in the Fall it is beautiful fashion ads that start sprouting up as early as August. This season via Showstudio, we’re treated with the YSL ads shot by Inez Van Lambsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Chances are your ad won’t go wrong with Gisele Bundchen fronting the campaign. It’s about the collection as well and we’ll knock through our favorites one by one. The classic blocked heel pumps with rounded tip is top on the list. The nylon Shiny Duvet trench coat another wishlist favorite at Papierdoll. Another item that consistently runs through our minds while ogling Gisele is the handbag seen below.

Roman Holiday

Flipping through my Vogue yesterday I found this ad from Bottega Venetta. While not particularly different from the other ads in the magazine, I found this bag alarmingly large and wondered aloud, how large are hobos going to get? I also pondered exactly what do we hold in these things. I guess the last thing that crossed my mind is will the bags get even larger?

The Rough YSL

YSL takes a contrarian point of view in their Fall 2007 campain. Similar to Marc Jacobs’ rough edged look, not necessarily amateurish but unpolished. We think that’s a great thing. The uber polished look doesn’t reflect how anything will appear on the socialite going to her socialite event. You can contrast that with the super done up ads from Dior last year and see that designers are more content with being tastefully gruff. Witness the Dior ad below for the Winter 2007 season:

[tags]YSL,Ad whore,Fall2007[/tags]

I Actually Like ShopVogue.TV

I was about to start off this blog with a jaded rant on the commerciality (yes, I’m creating words) of fashion and how Shop Vogue is an enabler of an industry that needs to go into a collective shopping rehab. But Shopvogue.tv is really effing cool. If only for the sake of being able to immediately purchase items from gorgeous ads, that might not look equally gorgeous on me, but still plays to my vanity. The functionality of it is superb once you get past the 92% loading screen and the temporary freeze of your computer (Sam built my pc from scratch -yes, I still use a pc- so it worked well on mine).

My favorite aspect of Vogue TV is that I can browse the ads from the magazine and literally, point, click and shop immediately. This is an idea long in coming. Prior to that (before the invention of fire) we had to look hard, and slow for the pair of Chloe flats that you know existed but just couldn’t find. If there is one tiny nitpick about the whole experience its that the ability to purchase items does not necessarily cross over into everything. Some items will simply give you locations where you can purchase. Which is what the magazine literally does, which begs the question what good is that? Overall, I like the service, I think it finally gives Vogue a real voice online (eat your heart out sister site Style.com).

Go there now.

[tags]Shopping, Vogue, Style, Fashion ads, emptyyourwallets[/tags]

iPapier interview

If I am shilling too much for our international blog, please let me know. But it is damn gorgeous check out the most recent interview with emerging designer Leila Batten:

Q. What do you wish people would take notice more of (whether in your collection or fashion in general)?
A. My use of materials. Making a material that would not be considered precious into something precious.

read the entire interview here (and bookmark the blog)

[tags]international fashion, emerging designers, blogging[/tags]