Thursday, 17 March 2011

Carlotta Actis Barone AW11 collection at London Fashion Week

Another new designer Fashion Mode represented this season at Vauxhall Fashion Scout's catwalk shows was Carlotta Actis Barone. Italian born Carlotta is passionate about ethical issues and delivers her message through her designs.
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The inspiration for this collection was formed from cruelty against animals especially the slaughter of seals for their fur. 
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Main colour palette was striking with white representing the ice and snow,

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navy blue for the cold sea, 

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and splashes of red for the spilt blood.

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Faux fur and faux leather represented the actual seals. 

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The large square shoulders and

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the geometric patterns used were taken from the Inuit’s traditional clothes.

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Her usual signature bodysuit was replaced with transparent leggings and body stockings in the geometric designs.
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These looked equally stunning under the full skirted dresses and their red netting,

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but came in to their own when seen under long diaphanous fine wool tops.

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The models with their white faces and windswept hair looked as though they’d just arrived from the Arctic with flakes of snow still on their feathery eyelashes.

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More details on the new designer can be seen on www.fashionmode.co.uk 




FLORIAN JAYET AW11 Collection at London FAshion Week

Fashion Mode mentors new designers each a year and helps them launch themselves on to the catwalk.  This year it was the turn of French designer Florian Jayet.
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Florian states: “The focus was to create a fetish wardrobe that a woman can keep forever, bringing them out on special occasions when she needs to be propelled into confidence and strength”. 
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Obviously lots of leather was involved in this collection.
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Loved the skinny high waisted leather trousers with exterior stitching from knee to ankle creating a crumpled effect, and teamed with a padded white top.

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The key piece was the brown tweed capelet with conical leather shoulders and matching leather pencil skirt.

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Softening the collection were the white and black body con dresses
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and floor length skirts with their stitched graphic patterns giving a padded futurist look to classic styles.

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However this internal padding represented material armour giving strength and protection against society.

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and the coat's shoulder piece wrapped around the model like protecting arms.


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Jackets and skirts were structured
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Colour palette was blacks...

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..., browns ...

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....and whites.
A fetish wardrobe any women would be proud to own.

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