Clements Ribeiro Limited Edition Shoppers – The Brazil Bag Project

Husband and Wife duo, Suzanne and Inacio of Clements Ribeiro launched The Brazil Bag Project – a limited edition collection of stripy shopper bags.

Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro regularly visit Brazil – it is Inacio ‘s place of birth and where his family is still currently based. Last Easter they returned from their annual visit with some lovely black, blue and white stripy shoppers which they have customized and developed a limited edition collection of  unique shopper bags. The bags are hand-woven from tear resistant plastic fiber,  and have been decorated with the duo’s signature embellishments.

The Brazil Bag project is exclusive to the Clements Ribeiro website shop

www.clementsribeiro.com

Left to right:

Recife Price £75 – One off design made to order. Hand embroidered with black jet and glass beads in  exclusive circle motifs in varying shapes. Trimmed with black grosgrain ribbon. Unlined

Flores – price £65 - One off design made to order, Hand embroidered with yellow, rust and white sequins and beads in exclusive flower motifs

Buzios – Price £65 –Edition of  2.  Hand embroidered with violet, yellow and white sequin trims mounted on silk organza tape and white grosgrain ribbon . Plus hand embroidered yellow sequin and beaded diamond shaped motif

Evil Eyes – Price £65 – edition of 3. Black, white and blue irregular stripes. trimmed in black grosgrain ribbon and hand embroidered with black jet and glass beads to create exclusive eye shaped motifs

Etro Woman Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Titled 'The New Jazz Age'.

Inspired by Futurist artist Fortunato Depero, the signature paisley print has been deconstructed in to a broken collage.Stencil florals and paisley have a modern look.  Silhouettes are loose boxy shapes with either straight or dropped waists.

Fabrics are fluid and include crepe de Chine, silk and satin, embellished with intricate stone and thread embroderies and large tiled sequins.

Shorts are short and made in compact knits. Worn with printed silk shirts and long cardigans, kimono coats or tuxedo jackets.

Curved hems show off layers of silky finging New this season, patterns have been stategically placed to emphasize the curves.

An innovative new technique involves printing a fabric, then plisse pleating it, then overprinting again to create burnt inky edges on the pleats.

Colour palette is colourful with a light sorbet of apricot, mint, raspberry, lemon, peach, cream and ice blue mixed with harder citric colours of lime green and poppy orange and grounded with inserts of black.

Images provided by Modus Publicity

 



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Elsa Palomino Spring/Summer 2012 collection at London Fashion Week

Although the collection is titled ‘A Fairy Dance’, inspiration came partly from the traditional Manila shawl of Madrid.

In the 18^th Century, beautiful hand embroidered silk shawls made their way from China and featured peonies, pagodas and dragons. However soon the patterns changed from their Chinese essence to accommodate the Spanish taste of birds, butterflies and roses.

Palomino’s collection is a mix of these patterns, from oriental patterns of pagodas on bold red gowns 

to the laser cut white appliqué butterfly and floral motifs on black gowns. 

But a fairy dance feel was there in the lightness and the ethereal movement of the fabrics,

the cobweb sleeves and bodies adorned with floral embroidery 

and the wonderful flora and fauna headpieces by Angel Amor.

Ziad Ghanem Spring/Summer 2012 collection at London Fashion Week

After a long day running from show to show and queuing for hours, you may go in to a Ziad Ghanem show feeling exhausted and agitated, but you’ll come out feeling invigorated and on a high!

Titled ‘Matka Joanna’ the collection’s inspiration came from the Polish film ‘Matka Joanna od aniolow’ (Mother Joan of the Angels). Here is good and evil in a tale of a nun processed by demons and where love and sacrifice is her only salvation.

OK the inspiration doesn’t sound like something that will lift your spirits but Ziad uses fine art performers as well as models. These performers know how to work that catwalk and work it they did!  

 The gorgeous singer Miss SaHHara sashayed in a silk flower print evening gown dramatised with the red colour bleeding, and even more so with red drips painted down SaHHara’s shoulders.   

Dominatrix and fire performer Jessica Love Dougher showed tough love in a see through corseted dress and g string.(tattoos model's own)

Marnie Scarlet- Diva Extraordinaire mixing latex with a froth of tulle  

Contemporary dancer Laura Cherry striking a pose

Here temptation abounds in burlesque curve enhancing corsets

and diaphanous silk organza body skimming silhouettes worn with nothing underneath. 

One little black dress although body skimming, looked quite demure and ordinary compared to the rest of the collection, until....

she walked past and showed a long row of loosely tied laces exposing her back and derrier.

The colour palette was monochrome representing good and evil 

with splashes of bright red, pinks and

peaches.

Bringing innocence in to the collection was Ziad’s little niece wearing a white bridesmaid style dress, although she gave a little diva toss of her hair as she walked off the stage- bless! 

Images by Chris Dadey www.christopherdadey.com

Cristina Sabaiduc Spring/Summer 2012 collection at London Fashion Week

The models for Cristina Sabaiduc’s collection started in simple vests and high waisted knickers

and then dressed along the way by adding layers 

which could be adorned and customised to suit the wearer’s needs and create different looks. Initially the garments are displayed on a clothes line. 

The soft draping is inspired by Tibet and Ancient China culture with silk and jersey fabrics being used.

Digital prints on key pieces such as the silk print cocktail dress.

Layers included a fine silk jersey hooded bodysuit.

Texture and pattern featured strongly.

Main colour palette warm orange, greens with neutrals.

The models showing how to layer the pieces was a great idea in theory. However in practice not everyone could see this part and it was a long wait in-between each model walking down the catwalk aisle.

However thiswas the ultimate capsule wardrobe!

Images by Chris Dadey www.christopherdadey.com