Net-a-Porter Holiday Sweaters Collection

From the Net-a-Porter holiday sweaters collection :

We chose the Bemrose intarsia wool sweater

and the Firgrove intarsia wool and alpaca-blend sweater
both by Aubin & Wills (exclusive to Net-A-Porter.com )

Hyères 2012 Fashion Designers Competition

Les inscriptions pour participer au prochain concours du Festival International de Mode et de Photographie d'Hyères, qui aura lieu du 27 au 30 avril 2012, prennent bientôt fin. Vous avez en effet jusqu'au 26 novembre pour vous inscrire sur le site.

Nous invitons tous les jeunes designers à tenter leur chance et à soumettre ainsi leur travail à un jury d'experts.
Bonne chance à tous !

Pour de plus amples informations sur la démarche à suivre, visitez le site de la villa Noailles, lieu mythique où le festival prend place chaque année :

http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres2012/


The young fashion designers who would like to take part to the 27th International Fashion and Photography Festival of Hyères have to register before November 26th. So hurry up and connect to the website of the Villa Noailles at following address :

http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres2012/

You will learn the way to participate in the famous competition taking place in this mythic architectural location and see your work submitted to fashion experts.
Good luck to all young fashion designers !

Valentino Dress

This guest (we're really sorry not to know her name, any help would be appreciated) arriving at the spring summer 2012 fashion show is wearing this charming Rosette-embellished stretch wool-twill dress by Valentino (fall winter 2011/12 collection), that is right now on sale at Net-a-porter :

J. J. Martin

New Faces Spring Summer 2012 : Kati Nescher

Jennifer Dixon

Jennifer is wearing an angora sweater by Schumacher (fall winter 2011/12 collection).

Sarah Rutson

Top 5 New Faces Spring Summer 2012

Voici notre top 5 des New Faces pour la saison printemps-été 2012.
(Nous choisissons parmi celles que nous avons pu voir.)
Par ordre alphabétique :

Antonia Wesseloh (Elite)
Chiharu Okunugi (Nathalie)
Kati Nescher (Viva)
Kelly Mittendorf (Marilyn)
Morgane Warnier (Silent) et Nadine Ponce (Next) (ex-aequo)

Anna Dello Russo Wearing Stella McCartney

Anna Dello Russo is here wearing a Stella McCartney dress from the fall winter 2011/12 collection.

A quite similar, only a bit less daring dress is now on sale at Net-a-porter : this
Lucia stretch cotton-blend and tulle dress from the Stella McCartney fall winter runway collection :

Miranda Kerr at Chanel

Miranda Kerr leaving the Chanel spring summer 2012 fashion show.

Alana Zimmer

Alana surely knows the trends for this season, mixing here a bright shirt with a patterned skirt and adding a two-tone bag.

Vanessa Coyle

Ursula Geisselmann

Ursula is wearing a Boudicca dress and Ann Demeulemeester boots ; she's also carrying a Tod's clutch.

Our Top 5 Paris Spring Summer 2012 Collections

Here are our top 5 Collections for Paris Spring Summer 2012 and our favorites looks from these shows.

Dries Van Noten (with James Reeve, "Lightscapes")


Kasia wearing a coat with "Beirut" printed


Vasilisa wearing a dress with "Casino, Las Vegas" printed

We do think that it must be a hard task to transform a photography (and mainly a black one) into a desirable piece of clothe or accessory.

Haider Ackermann





Stella McCartney

Commuun





Hermès



pictures credit : GoRunway courtesy of vogue.co.uk

Anne Christensen Wearing J Brand

Anne Christensen is wearing these bright-red 811 mid-rise twill cropped skinny jeans by J Brand :




We might try to match her look by choosing first similar shoes, like these Maxine leopard-print calf hair sandals by Charlotte Olympia :




For the top, there are two options :

either a short sleeve Two-tone silk-georgette blouse by Adam, to keep the black and white pattern :




or a Two-tone cotton-blend top by J.Crew :





All these items are available at Net-a-porter.

New Faces Spring Summer 2012 : Chiharu Okunugi

Chiharu Okunugi after Hermès spring summer 2012.

Chiharu was by far one of the nicest models this season.
She walked following shows in Paris :

Hermès, Moncler Gamme Rouge, Mugler, Thierry Colson and Yohji Yamamoto.

Luisa Orsini

Together with her friend Antonine Peduzzi, Luisa is a handbag designer. She is carrying a bag of her collection, entitled TL-180, and is wearing all Louis Vuitton.
The dress is from the Resort 2012 collection.

Anna Dello Russo

Anna Dello Russo arriving at the Chloé spring summer 2012 fashion show, wearing a Stella McCartney dress from the fall winter 2011/12 collection, a Stephen Jones for Jil Sander hat with veil from the spring summer 2012 collection, Prabal Gurung for Linda Farrow sunglasses (spring summer 2012 too) and Tom Ford clutch and boots.

Caroline Issa

Caroline is wearing a Chloé pant suit from the spring 2012 collection, with a McQ printed tee-shirt and the Jason Wu Jourdan bag worn as a clutch.