Just another Victoria's Secret show

Victoria's Secret show is always controversial for me. I love lingerie and how big this show is getting year by year but I don't like the preparation that models have to follow before the show or just to be selected.
Victoria's Secret's lingerie comes in different sized and I think that also on the catwalk shoul represent different sizes and shapes. There's plenty of amazing models that unfortunately won't even be considered because they don't respect the strict body standards.

This year te show was brought to China in Shanghai, which was a very daring move to bring a lingerie show where models walk in their underwear in a country where everything social is put under a lens.

 

The show was divided into different sections: Nomadic Adventure, Goddesses, Porcelain Angel and Punk Angel, all of them accompanied by 3 different music performances by Leslie Odom Jr, Miguel, Harry Styles and Jane Zhang.

Big City Life

I know, I'm super late to fashion weeks but I just moved to London!!
But, first of all let's start with NYFashion Week, the one that started the fashion season.
I've selected few designers and brands that really impressed me. like Tom Ford, Brandon Maxwell and Oscar de La Renta.

Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart)

 It's Haute Couture time again! This year's collections' vibes are very interesting. Of course, there are some collections that I didn't like bery much, but I was positively impressed by few. I have to say that big designers such as Dior and Dolce & Gabbana were quite disappointing. I feel like they are starting to be repetitive with the inspirations for their collections. In my opinion their inspiration is the same in the last couple of collection and they just give some different vibe.
However, let's pass to the collections that were amazing for this next season!

On y va à Cannes!

Oh I wish I was in Cannes too, enjoying the sun, the redcarpets and a lot of films!!
But what about the redcarpets' outfits? Well, I can't tell I was disappointed! Finally, after a lot of warm fashion choices, Cannes was a success!
So many good outfits and looks on the red carpet!

This year the jury was composed by the spanish director Pedro Almodovar, the german director Maren Ade, actress Jessica Chastain, actress Fan Bingbing, french actress and director Agnès Jaoui, korean director Park Chan-wook, Will Smith, italian director Paolo Sorrentino and french music composer Gabriel Yared.

Haute Couture's Season

From fashion men to fashion women and haute couture! Haute Couture is like living a dream made of velvet, sparks, silk  and a lot of refined fabrics used to create artworks to wear.

Personalities of 2016

2016 was definitely a tough year for the world of show business, a lot of iconic singers and actors sadly passed away like David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, George Michael, Prince, Alan Rickman and many others. I think it's a general opinion that if we had Brexit and Trump's election, 2016 certainly SUCKED, !
But who are the personalities who were able to stand out this year?

Just a pair of Wings

This is the fashion show most waited for men and the least for women. Men dream to be lucky enough to just be near one of the Victoria's Secret Angels, women instead, dream to have that kind of body.
But you know what? Those kind of bodies are just for few, those bodies are unrealistic because the majority of women are not like that. I mean, there are a lot of women with amazing bodies (lucky them!) but the most of us have slow metabolism, sweat in the gym with scarse results and are perennially on diet. 

Couture by Trevi Fountain

I know, I'm so so so late for this, but Haute Couture deserves a post!
Everytime Haute  Couture Fashion Week is up, it's like different dreams are brought to life by the designers with their collections.
The Ready to Wear collections are great, but the Haute Couture ones have something special and magical.

We Cannes't

It's Cannes' time! Yes, the Cote Azur waited for us for 2 weeks of super glamour where fashion and cinema mixed perfectly!
Models, actors and actresses, all there to show us the french riviera glamour... and of course also very sophisticated films!
I went once to Cannes and I didn't like it so much.. maybe because it was very cloudy and cold and I've ended up in the casino (ahah) but I'm sure Cannes must be so glamorous and super chic!

A Breath of Spring

From Milan to Paris.. Here we are again for the best Ready To Wear collections of  Paris Fashion Week.
Paris is one of the best locations for fashion, for example, Dior expressed itself creating a floral covered dome in the courtyard of the museum of Louvre. It was such a clever idea for the S/S  rtw colletions: in the middle of fall you can find a breath of spring made by a waterfall of blue and purple flowers in the middle of Paris.

It's Tony's turn

It's time to give to theatre some space! Actually the Tonys were originally called the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre. These awards honour achievement in live Broadway theatre and are considered the highest theatre honour. In fact it is the equivalent to the Oscars for films and the Grammys and Emmys for respectively music and television.

The hosts of the Tony Awards were Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, really expert actors of Broadways. Alan recently played in "Cabaret" and Kristin played in "On the 20th century".
Kristin decided to wear a silver Zac Posen gown, Badgley Mischka shoes, and Eva Fehren jewelry. Alan, instead wore  a custom Lucio Castro suit with short trousers.

Besides all the actors there were also a lot of celebrities who supported theatre and of course they showed off their best outfits.

Patricia Clarkson, who is starring in Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper and seen in a lot of Woody Allen, wore this elegant black dress with printed red roses all over.

Carey Mulligan  wore a simple but very elegant long, plain burgundy gown by Balenciaga.
I liked the round neckline, it's so delicate.
Is just me or she seems pregnant?

Ivanka Trump wore Prabal Gurung with jewels, clutch, and shoes from her own collection.

Amanda Seyfried chose an Oscar de la Renta dress with  Christian Louboutin shoes, and Tiffany & Co. jewels.

Bee Shaffer, daughter of Anna Wintour, wore this sparkly Marc Jacobs dress. Nice!

Bella Hadid, aka Gigi Hadid's sister, wore a Prabal Gurung autumn/w inter 2015 gown. I really liked this dress, so white, so classy, so unwordly.

Bradley Cooper, the protagonist of the play Elephant Man, attended the event with his mother Gloria Campano and his sister Holly Cooper. Bradley wore a custom Salvatore Ferragamo with Johnston + Murphy shoes. How cute is he with the women of his life? So sweet!

Joan Smalls wore Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci autumn/winter 2015 gown.

Beth Bers, aka Carol from 2 Broke Girls chose a light blue Gauri and Nainika dress, Stuart Weitzman shoes, a Judith Leiber clutch, an H Stern ring, and Ippolita earrings.

Kendall Jenner wore a fluffy, pink, backless dress by custom Calvin Klein Collection. Mmm.. no, Kendall, bad choice.

Rose Byrne wore a bright red gown with a deep neckline and details on the shoulders from the Delpozo autumn/winter 2015 collection with Cartier jewels, Brian Atwood shoes, and an Oroton clutch.

Ruth Wilson wore a bespoke Ralph Lauren Collection gown. Tight and casual on the top with a soft and bouncy skirt in this bright fuchsia colour.

Taylor Schilling wore a black, long dress with cutouts by  Michael Kors.

Vanessa Hudgens, protagonist of Gigi, chose a  Naeem Khan spring/summer 2015 gown with Kurt Geiger shoes, a Rodo clutch, and Norman Silverman jewels. She was styled by Natalie Saidi.
 During the award she also performed a scene of her musical Gigi.

Elisabeth Moss wore an Oscar de la Renta Resort pre-spring/summer 2016 gown. This dress is one of my favourite: white with a waterfall of colourful flowers.

My top 3 outfits of the night were Helen Mirren, Jennifer Lopez and Emily Ratajkowski.
Helen Mirren, who was nominated best actress for her role in The Audience, wore a Badgley Mischka gown.

Jennifer Lopez chose a Valentino Couture gown, Harry Winston jewels, Christian Louboutin shoes, and a Jimmy Choo clutch. She's just WOW! It reminds me the "Starry Night" from Van Gogh.

 Emily wore a navy blue Marc Jacobs gown and  Forevermark jewels. So classy! I love it! She seems a greek goddess.

That's all for now


Talk to you soon




Carol

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