The 10 Coolest Biker Leather Jackets S/S 14

1. Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane


2. Porsche Design


3. Belstaff


4. Versace


5. Jean Paul Gaultier


6. Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane


7. Jean Paul Gaultier


8. Karl Lagerfeld


9. Versace


10. Belstaff

The Belstaff Jackets are available here.
Pictures are property of the respective brands. Jean Paul Gaultier photo by Patrice Stable.

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Black Week (6/7): Top 10 Black Leather Looks F/W 12

1. Emilio Pucci

2. Versace

3. Salvatore Ferragamo

4. Jean Paul Gaultier

5. Emilio Pucci

6. Versace

7. Yves Saint Laurent

8. Alexander McQueen

9. Vivienne Westwood Red Label

10. Versace

Pictures are property of the respective brands. Jean Paul Gaultier picture by P. Stable. Vivienne Westwood picture: copyright Catwalking.com

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Top 10 Picks: Dsquared² F/W 11/12

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Pictures are property of Dsquared².

I LOVE the collection and show! It is feminine but tough, historical but modern and very wearable luxury. It transports the spirit of the settler women and wild west ladies who had a very tough life but archieved and built so much with their endurance and strenght. The clothes express this "No matter how tough it gets - I always remain a lady."-spirit perfectly.

I`d love to wear all of the outfits and think the "ice skates boots" are mad-cool! *love*

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Retrospective: Alexander McQueen F/W 1997/1998 - It's A Jungle Out There

In “It’s a Jungle Out There,” shown in February 1997 in London’s Borough Market, McQueen meditated on the theme of the Thomson’s gazelle and its terrible vulnerability to predators.



He used the idea of animal instincts in the natural world as metaphor for the dog-eats-dog nature of the urban jungle, staging the show against a forty-foot-high screen of corrugated iron drilled with imitation bullet holes and surrounded by wrecked cars, adding dry ice and crimson lighting for drama.



In a television interview he said: “The whole show feeling was about the Thompson’s gazelle. It’s a poor little critter – the markings are lovely. It’s got these dark eyes, the white and black with the tan markings on the side, the horns – but it is the food chain of Africa. As soon as it’s born it’s dead, I mean you’re lucky if it lasts a few months, and that’s how I see human life, in the same way. You know, we can all be discarded quite easily … you’re there, you’re gone, it’s a jungle out there!”



Yet the design and styling of a hide jacket with pointed shoulders from which a pair of twisting gazelle horns stood up, worn by a model whose metallic contact lenses made her look like an alien, subverted the fatal passivity of the Thompson’s gazelle.



Though the animal was referred to in the model’s dramatic black and white face make-up, the horns, and the hide jacket, McQueen repositioned its parts and added the huge shoulders and metallic contact lenses to create a woman more like Rider Haggard’s She: predatory, scary, powerful, and only half human.



These were the characteristics of McQueen’s femme fatale, a figure who suggested the terrifying power of women rather than their soft vulnerability.





Sources: Pictures: Synaes, license: license: Creative Commons (by) 2.0

Text taken from article: 'A portrait of designer Alexander McQueen and his visions of the future.' by Caroline Evans

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Front Row & Top 10 Picks: Jean Paul Gaultier F/W 11/12

Front row

Nicole Richie


Daisy Lowe


Emanuelle Alt

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Photos: P. Stable. The images may not be used without permission of the copyright-holder.

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