THE NEW FLAPPERS

• Vogue cover from January 15-1928.

Always I have being felt attracted for the Roaring Twenties, period of sustained economic prosperity, an era of utilitarian aesthetic, where the spirit was marked by new technologies, especially automobiles, and moving pictures that in parallel with the jazz and dancing they rose in popularity  in opposition to the mood of the specter of the World War I (1914-1918);  a liberal period and was then when the Flappers, the "new breed" of young Western women had their origins, those girls who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to Jazz, drinking, and they made flaunted their disdain for what was then considered an acceptable behavior. 

And The New Flappers, is how I call to this collection from Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, that was inspired in the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age (1927-1963), decade marked by Great Depression of the 30s, and  World War II (1939- 1945).

• FLAPPERS- The Roaring Twenties video.

Focusing on the beginning of Hollywood's Golden Age, period also known as the Jazz Age, Cavalli presented their Spring Summer 2014 Collection composed of sophisticated outfits full of rich fabrics, textures and a beautiful misty colors palette.

• The color palette is composed of shiny tones as silver, and icy and dusty tints as lilac, mauve, rosewood, mint, supported by traditional neutrals as black, gray and white. Mystic colors for a sophisticated and chic collection.

• The long accessories were used to accentuate the lengthy silhouettes that give to the wearers a visual effect of more height.

• Languid and unstructured silhouettes are the common denominator in this very wearable collection and adjustable to every feminine shape.

• Shiny leathers, furs like chinchilla and mink, (that I hope will be fake furs), laces, brocades, embroidery, and morbid color gradient fabrics as chiffon, evoke the glamour of Hollywood Golden Age.

• Cutting lines, evoking the 20s, are visible in this white lace dress.

• The French orientalism from the 20s, could not miss and, is present through the Kaftan, utilitarian garment from the Middle East and North Africa, blending comfort and luxury.

• Roberto Cavalli, Spring Summer 2014 Collection.

MY MOTTO...

• "The dress must adapt to a person's movement". John Miranda.

• FASHION DESIGNER: John Miranda.

BITE ME...

• "My collection It's an insect sleepover," Sophia Webster.

Graduated from 'RCA', The Royal College of Art and Cordwainers Technical College (now the London College of Fashion) in 2010, and named Emerging Footwear Designer of the Year by Conde Nast Footwear News, Sophia Webster is one of the new British faces in fashion more well-known for her colorful and funny shoes. Insects as ladybugs, butterflies and its environment, with myriad of flowers, are the subject of inspiration for their Spring-Summer 2014 collection, with funny and funky designs that talk through textures, colors, shapes and words.

In a short time on market, Webster, with their collections of pajamas, handbags and shoes, gets groovy becoming the funniest designer nowadays.

• Of the "Ladybug", comes the inspiration to use polka-dots used by Sophia Webster.

• At the show, models seem like beautiful bugs slumbered in a garden enchanted.

• To underline the subject, models were wearing the antenna bugs hairstyle and as in a garden  flowers and butterflies were everywhere, printed on fabrics, die cutting punches on handbags and shoes.

• Polka dots are in almost all Webster's collections making of them a 'signature'.

• Speech balloons, used in comic books comic strips and cartoons to allow words to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic, are the inspiration to define the handbags silhouettes.

• "BITE ME", "BEE QUEEN", "I look like YES" or "TALK OF THE TOWN", are some words or expressions used by pajamas, handbags and shoes, to talk as in a comic cartoon.

• The color palette comes directly from nature. Striking and vibrant tones contrasting with neutrals black and white.

• Graphics, shapes and postures adopted by Butterflies are used in an abstract form in shoes, and handbags.

• You can fly with this, original, ankle-strap stiletto and butterfly heel.

• Butterflies in myriad of ways from a chic minimal, as in those silver stilettos, to an avant-garde saturated, as in the sandals boots style below, are present in this collection.

• The laser-cut technique is used to make this, butterfly inspired, high sandal boot style.

• Spring is here, so you should be ready to spread your wings and be prepared to fly for because, with this shoes, you may become a butterfly.

• SHOPHIA WEBSTER  SS14 LONDON FASHION WEEK.