Easy Rider

IN the week that legendary actor Dennis Hopper's dreamy photo archive was unveiled for the first time at the Royal Academy of Arts, there's no better moment to explore the late Sixties outlaw spirit dominating the pre-autumn collections. The summer-sales frenzy is grinding to a halt and now is the time to welcome the glorious arrival of new fashion ideas and make your edit of fresh shopping rails.

Take the Easy Rider trend - the rebel mood-setter of the next season and an ideal palette-cleanser from chaotic hothouse prints. Invest in a sandy-hued suede jacket or Mexican blanket wrap, pull on robust leather knee-high boots and ice-blue denim in crisp rodeo styles (Hopper himself was a great fan of bullfights).

This is about old LA's winsome vibe: re-watch the ultimate road trip movie and take your time over Hopper's black-and-white snaps - stolen moments documenting the explosion of pop art and the baton that passed from the Beatniks to Flower Children. Here's how to make the most of July's unhurried days.

American dreamers: Get creative with your beaten-up denim jacket. Try hand-painted stars in shimmering pewter to match your eye shadow.

Chanel's pre-autumn show in Dallas played homage to the state's cowgirl spirit, with just a dash of disco for good measure.

Pop-Art Makeup

In acest sezon avem parte de o explozie multicolora in tendintele de beauty!

Ce e nou in asta? De data asta, culorile sunt dispuse in grafisme cu accente Pop Art, cum am vazut la Chanel sau Manish Arora, iar makeup artistii parca ne indeamna sa cream un personaj din imaginatia noastra, atunci cand ne jucam cu fardurile. Verdele, de la tonurile proaspete de menta (cum am vazut pe ploapele din prezentarea Antonio Marrs sau pe unghiile de la Tracy Base), pana la cele intense ca smaraldul (Chanel), are un efect tonic. Turcoazul e mai HOT ca niciodata, atat in machiaj (MM6), cat si in lumea bijuteriilor. Galbenul parca exprima mai mult o doza flamboaianta de optimism decat invidie! Iar daca te intrebi ce poate fi mai COOL decat rujul rosu, e rujul portocaliu (cum am vazut la Galliano).

Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014: TRAINERS are ON

TRAINERS took to the couture catwalk for the second time this week as Karl Lagerfeld gave his seal of approval to the current sports-streetwear and showed us a Chanel collection fit for the most sophisticated of skater girls.

“I never want anyone to wear anything that they don’t want to wear but I think this is a very sophisticated way to dress,” declared Karl after the show.

Jewelled knee pads, bumbags and elbow guards aside. he began the collection with the standard set of Chanel feathered and jewelled tweeds but cut so that jackets were cropped and skirts were low on the hip and the waist itself became clearly defined like the neck of a vase. It through contrasting pastel candy shades to those of the rest of the outfit; sequins later on for a run of Black Swan gowns with feathers darting from them in every direction.
Since Coco Chanel can justifiably claim to have been the first designer to incorporate sporty elements with her jersey dresses and cardigan jackets in the 1920's, it seems only logical for Karl Lagerfeld to take himself and us to the track and field every so often, especially since he has such a talent for cross fertilising apparently contradictory genres.

Cara Delevingne – who also opened the show - made for the Chanel bride, complete with her own little page boy, Hudson Kroenig, to hold her train.

  

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