Vidal Sassoon

Just watched the wonderful documentary film showing the life of the legendary hairdresser, Vidal Sassoon.

Now in his 80's the film methodically goes through his career interviewing everyone from colleges, clients, the media, friends and family. Personally I think the most interesting and informative part shows Sassoon and Mary Quant informally chatting about how life and fashions were in the 60's - you get more of an insight into how and why Sassoons style came about.

Above are the haircuts that defined him and got his career rolling.

Tommy Nutter - Rebel on the Row

Tommy Nutter - the radical tailor of the 60's/70's has a retrospective exhibition at the Fashion and Textile museum, London. His clients included Cilla Black (her suit at top) and The Stones to name a few. Precisional tailoring using amazing fabrics made his designs a success and last the test of time - my favorites are the two white suits - one of which was worn by Jagger on his wedding day to Bianca. Love the huge lapels with the silk/satin details.

Go before it finishes on the 22nd October, 2011

Totes this season...ha ha ha ha

Alexander Wang S/S 2012 (www.pollyanna.com)

Givenchy - Large Nightingale shopper - f/w 2011 (www.pollyanna.com)

Large Pandora Bag - f/w 2011 (www.pollyanna.com)

Alexander Wang f/w 2011 (www.farfetch.com)
A selection of a few of this seasons/next seasons bags of the bigger variety - the decisions!

Snakes

Burberry S/S 12

Lanvin S/S 2012 - www.anothermag.com

Lanvin S/S 2012 - www.zimbio.com

Instead of just wearing snake print - very popular for the last season, there has been a shift into having images/motifs/jewellery pieces of the animal as a whole. Lanvin's S/S 2012, shown in Paris this week is definitely the label embracing the  'full snake'.

Paco Rabanne S/S '12 show - Paris

love it

Paco Rabanne S/S 2012 - Paris

                                                  Paco Rabanne S/S 2012 - www.style.com

Paco Rabanne S/S 2012 - www.style.com

 Paco Rabanne S/S 2012 - www.style.com

                                                  Paco Rabanne S/S 2012 - www.style.com

Headpiece - Philip Treacy
Shoes - Nicholas Kirkwood

 Absolutely loved the Paco Rabanne show - showed this week in Paris. Held in the Pompidou centre the show production was amazing - making full use of the surroundings including the escalators. Above are images from the first part of the show - I'm currently researching garments which are influenced by reptiles, skin, movement etc and these pieces demonstrate this to the max (although the origninal inspiration was actually 'light'). Manish Arora has done himself proud as Rabanne's new creative director!