#7 Trunk Shows

A trunk show gives vendors and designers an opportunity to show their merchandise and new lines to department stores, retailers or special customers before it is presented in the stores. A recent development is online trunk shows, especially amongst high fashion brands. What's interesting and fun about online trunk shows is that you can add behind the scenes footage and you get a more personal view of the items shown.

About a week ago the designers of Rag and Bone, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, showed their SS12 men's and women's collection at Nordstrom in Chicago. Their inspiration for the collection was 70's surfing, gypsies and a building in Munich, Germany designed by designer bureau Herzog and de Meuron. I personally love Rag and Bone and often go in to their stores just to get inspired.

The building in Munich, where clearly they have found their color inspiration, as the collection is full of turqoise, orange and yellow. 

Pieces from the collection, from their website

The designer duo

Image from style.com

#6 Louis Vuitton AW12 Paris Fashion Show

There has probably been a million posts and comments about this since fashion week, but still..

I don't know if you guys have seen the Louis Vuitton show from fashion week in Paris a few weeks ago. If you haven't, take a look, it is incredible! It's a bit long, but it's worth your time. There is actually a train inside the Louvre. The models come off the train, each with their personal porter to carry their bags from the new collection. Well done, Marc Jacobs.

Beautiful thick but feminine coats, checked skirts as well as cool prints and glistening details. Some of my favorite pieces from the show:

I really like the tailored look on women, and here with the pink it adds an feminine touch.

Really like the gold!

This green coat is really amazing with intersting texture.

I love paisley, and the color combination is great.

The plaid skirts are super cool.

#5 Marni for H&M

Last week the Marni collection for H&M was released! I personally didn't know a lot about Marni before, but when seeing this collection I got interested and I think some pieces, aspecially accessories, were great. I actually went to the store later during the day of the release, but of course most of it was sold out. Not a single accessory was left!

 Here are my favorite pieces:

I really liked these shorts and this blouse. The matchy-matchy look is really cute, and the sophisticated "PJ's look".

Such a beautiful dress, I love the prints.

Love the contrast of the fabrics.

Super simple and classic

Collars are really trendy right now, both this style and also the Peter Pan style. I would have loved to have one of these to spruse up any boring shirt or tee.

Super cute flower necklace, really romantic.

This necklace has more edge to it, and it comes in different colors. I really like this yellow toned one, it's supercool and fun. I like the little details with the stones.

The commercial for the collection was directed by Sofia Coppola and is really amazing. Click the link to watch it!

#4 Fashion Language

Cathy Horyn, one of NY Times fashion reporters writes in this blog post, from March 5th, about Clare Waight Keller's second collection for Chloé. She describes it very well, and you get a great idea of what the collection looked like, even though the images only shows two looks. You also clearly understand what she liked and disliked.

http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/recapturing-chloes-charm/

"Clare Waight Keller may have found her groove at Chloé. After a tepid start last season, the designer came back with a very strong collection full of distinctive color — pale pink, lemon, dusty blue, deep red, camel — and standout, pretty sportswear. Although she had a few clunker coats (too heavy) and weird leather culottes with crinkled hems, she created a look with cute jogging pants, airy sweaters with an underlayer of white lace showing, coats based on quilted linings, and some lovely lace tops and dresses. I especially liked that Ms. Keller was comfortable with the notion of a sweater and a skirt, doing them in the Chloé spirit."

Silhouette and Design

• pretty sportswear
• weird leather culottes
• cute jogging pants
• airy sweaters 
• lovely lace tops and dresses

Details

• crinkled hems
• quilted linings

Color

•  pale pink, lemon, dusty blue, deep red, camel 

Fabric

• leather culottes
• underlayer of white lace showing
• lovely lace tops and dresses

Creative Jargon

• Chloé spirit
• clunker coats