Posts tagged with 'Calvin Klein':

This month we are honored to feature illustrations of designer/artist/blogger Richard Haines as our cover art. The images, which Haines illustrated for JC Report take after his popular blog What I Saw Today, featuring hand-sketched looks from the endless runway that is New York City.
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Judging by the latest spring/summer collections, the fashion industry has taken a deliberately ugly turn. Dowdy or even monstrous silhouettes, discordant combinations of fabrics and colors along with unsightly hair and makeup ruled the runway, while show-goers frequently hid behind oversized glasses in a mock-display of concealment.
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Even before New York Fashion Week began, the industry was buzzing about how designers would respond to the gloomy economic climate. Many pundits predicted that the collections would follow a daring route, while others forecasted a very safe season. In the end, the week yielded a mixed bag of designs. Although the collective reception was lukewarm, designers explored a range of approaches that included new proportional horizons, gender games and sexual charm.
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German duo Silvia Hillmann and Katrin Wiens produce a chromatically intoxicating, print-heavy spin on flirty garbs for their label Pepper and Pistol.

Wiens originally created textiles for brands such as Just Cavalli, Heatherette and Calvin Klein, while Hillmann designed clothing for labels such as Boudicca, and the two decided to partner up in order to create prints that they would wear themselves. "There have been plenty of graphic prints out there in recent seasons, but it's usually a lot of the same style over and over again—how many more skulls can there be?" Wiens points out. "To us, there is so much more than making a cute little dress in an interesting print."  read more »

A mere four-day weekend, Milan men's fashion week for spring/summer '09 passed so quickly and so lightly over the fashionable horizon, one was left with the impression that it might never have actually happened. No juicy news items, no flashy catwalk tricks; our uncertain and hard times suggest that it's better to get real—well, as real as fashion can actually get on a catwalk—saving creative outbursts for a brighter future. Yet despite a host of presentations that were a little boring and a tad too safe, an evolved vision of masculinity still emerged.  read more »