At first glance, Yohji Yamamoto's Spring/Summer 2011 collection, presented yesterday at Espace Vendôme in Paris, was just another in the long line of displays of the master's great skill. Yamamoto is the go-to designer for garments blending the line between their supposed function and metamorphosis into an architectural object, but this collection is - as ... Read more
We have the winner of Dressful's first giveaway! True Random Number Generator chose comment no. 34 by Katarina Mandarina. Katarina, congratulations and I hope you'll love the book. :) I read all the comments you guys and girls left for this giveaway and it made me very happy to see that so many of you ... Read more
Although I usually freeze at the mere thought of having to pick a "favorite" anything, I won't hesitate to say that to me, Dolce & Gabbana is the most aesthetically pleasing Spring/Summer 2011 collection so far. I say "aesthetically pleasing", not "the best" because it didn't introduce anything groundbreaking, but then again, it didn't want ... Read more
I. PRELUDE: ONLY WHAT I CAN'T HAVE IMPRESSES ME ... and fashion does this splendidly, certainly better than anything (anyone?) else, both physically and spiritually. First, the fact that you can never get all the dresses, jewelry and shoes you want (even if you had all the money in the world, time wouldn't slow down ... Read more
I once read that in times of (economic) crisis, trends dictate higher and higher heels deforming women's feet, suggesting an almost post-apocalyptic vision of the world in shreds where women tower over men, children, the old and the disabled by a good 16+ cm (6,3 inches), being above everyone else figuratively and literally (how feminist!), ... Read more