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Remember when Italian Vogue labeled hoop earrings slave earrings? As if that wasn’t bad enough, now Dolce & Gabbana have taken it one step further by paying homage to offensive caricatures of black women in their Spring 2013 collection with questionable images that hark back to the colonial and minstrel show era : dark skinned woman with prominent bright red lips with a fruit basket on her head.
This post isn’t about the return of the white shirt (since it’s never really gone anywhere…). But after seeing the crisp white staple on the DKNY Spring 2013 runway, I’ve realized that I may have been ignoring this classic top as of late and favoring more eclectic choices.
DKNY has totally inspired me to reach for my white shirts again.
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, co-founder and CEO of Moda Operandi, the first and only luxury shopping site that allows you to purchase looks straight-off the runway only days after the shows, took some time out from her current hectic fashion week schedule to share her thoughts on the Spring 2013 collections, the stand-out trends and her personal shopping list for next spring.
London Fashion Week is in full swing and yesterday’s Burberry Prorsum show was a seriously dazzling celebration of British fashion. Designer Christopher Bailey continues to turn-out polished and imaginative high-performance updates on the brand’s iconic piece, the classic trench, every season. This season the signature outerwear has gone bright and seductive making for a glam riff on the original.
Designer Duro Olowu once told the Independent in London that his “job is not about dictating to women what they should wear, it’s about presenting them with beautiful options.” The selection Olowu presented for Spring ’13 was undeniably perfect. Olowu established himself in 2004 as a maestro of one-of-a-kind prints. The Nigerian-born designer was fearlessly mashing-up prints long before it became de rigueur in fashion. |
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