Burberry Bashing

I've just started a project for Burberry as part of my degree and came across this website, bloodyburberry. The website is crafted to a high level in reflection of the Burberry brand whilst attacking their use of fur. Clever!

At first glance it seems like a joke but there are some very specific heart breaking videos...it's hard to continue with the project. But Trend.Stop is keen on fashion, and although PETA are using the bloodyburberry website to attack the use of fashion in fur, we cannot see a specific link as to why Burberry are being especially attacked.

Trend: Technicolour clash

Bold Colour...we LOVE you! Above are pieces from Jil Sander, Damir Doma and Jonathan Saunders that blew us into the clouds of technicolour

Trend: FlatPack

Maison Martin Margeila collection featured looks that came from the idea of clothes on the hanger; they were innovative and inspiring in shape! But are you gonna wear clothes that are flat, square and don't let you move? No, but it's not a problem because there were some more wearable pieces that took this Avant-Garde look at fashion into wearabilty. Margeila had a couple more wearable pieces but the ones to note were at Hussein Chalayan and Carven. We, at Trend.Stop wanted to search out new ways of taking these great forms further so we've done just a couple of looks above

Trend: In line shades

You know how everyone's always looking for a great pair of shades. Well why not hold out on those millions of £10 pairs and save just a little from the array of sunglasses at Prada or Dsquared or. They're definately gonna brighten up a simple look not to mention yucky London wear that's sure to be around next summer!

Trend: Stripe Back

Are you fearful of getting a stripey jumper on? How can you care about looking fat with beautiful numbers like the cropped slouchy jacket at Prada (centre), this jacket is very loose at the hemline and kind of falls off the shoulder so it's deceptive whats underneath. We also like the 'one stripe' at Jil Sander (second from the right), this little idea in a different colour to the skirt or shirt your wearing is an interesting way to add a bold bit of colour and detail to a simple beautifully made garment. Other interesting ways of use of stripe can been seen below from Junya Wantabe

Trend: Beneath the Petal Lies...

A soft look at florals this season at Jil Sander, Dolce and Gobbanna and Wunderkind..

Trend: See Through Curtain

A intricately thought out combination of texture was all over this seasons Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk from the mixing of striped shirts with transparent silk trenchcoats at Junya Wanatabe. But as we so love the sleek look at Trend.Stop we've taken a little look at how sheers have been mixed in a slightly different innovate way. Cerruti have designed something we at Trend.Stop have been looking for; sheer trousers (far right), they soften what would otherwise be a plain worksuit. There's a question about what you seen and what you don't see! At Chloe a number of textures were mixed with no complaints from Trend.Stop, the dress (centre right) has layers up transparent fabric on the bodice to add a new dimension to the use of transparency in fashion.We like this mix of hard and soft, it's delicate and light without being too girly!

Trend: The Naked Lady?

Isn't clothing clever? Designers in Paris this season masterfully use cut and colour to give the impression of the exact shape of the female form whilst still covering them up. Hakaan's silvery flesh tone bodysuit is a Trend.Stop favourite. This one however is gonna have to be worn by someone with an ultra mini waist. Hannah MacGibbon at Chloe has done it using (centre) what appears to be a favourite of her; with lots of Beiges, we appreciate the looks here as her texture and silhouette is not just appealing for young women. Pedro Lourenco also uses cut to expose unexpected parts of the body...What is important here is that the look is elegant not overt! Get your naked look on!

Trend: Collar it in

Shirts have been key this season from Jonathan Saunders shirts that vary from blunt use of stripes to his softer ones with a delicate print on them. Also a Trend.Stop favourite are the sheer butterfly embellished shirts from Sportmax. Carven and Giambattista Valli are also some Trend.Stop favourites.

Trend: The Mini Criney Crop Top

The mini top is back but but with a boom...ladies it's not just for little girls. Trend.Stop always loves a lil peak of belly but atleast this one isn't too revealing. Our favourites are the looser fitting ones from Damir Doma (far left). But if you want a smarter look go to Sportmax and pick one to wear to work with a blazer and some high waisted wide cut pants.

Paris Fashion Week: Spotlight Alexander Mcqueen

Sarah Burton is now the head designer of Alexander McQueen and Trend.Stop can firmly say the legacy is still intact. As soon as the first look went down the runway it was clear to see the decadence of McQueen's style, but what is clear to see in comparison to McQueen's work Burton has removed some of the dark side of his collections and softened the palette and the catwalk staging.

The collection still featured some of his signature peaked shoulders but replaced bulbous shapes with lighter ruffles. We were afraid that some of McQueen's more WOW pieces wouldn't feature but the above pieces shows something different. Trend.Stop looks forward to how Burton continues to shape the masterful beauty of McQueen's work...

Check out the video here

Paris Fashion Week: SPOTLIGHT Hussein Chalayan

Where's the future gone? It's still here in the background of Chalayan's work but in the foreground is twisted formal wear done to its best. Do we mind that the futures slightly disappeared? No... because the collection is a flood with stunning fabric, modern colour collaboration and these flattened out body shapes that seem to be a trend in Paris this season.
The look still features Chalayan's signitures but in a modern way, a black dinner coat is slit on the side seams to let the shape of the umbrella shape underneath show. Trend.Stop gives a thumbs up to Chalayan's new direction!

Paris Fashion Week: Celine

Phoebe Philo has shaken up Celine with some sportier casual looks. There's still the minimalistic charm that has made Celine so desirable. This collection seems to embody freedom, again and again Spring/Summer 2011 has been about making easy to wear clothes for women. Phoebe though does it in her own way with geometric cut and a detail to fabric.

Paris Fashion Week: SPOTLIGHT Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto, a Trend.Stop favourite has in some sense got something to prove with his recent bankrupcy. This show we think is definately about making a statement that he's still individual. His last piece featured a tee shirt with the repeated slogan 'THIS IS ME'. He's not planning on going anywhere! The collection still had featured his signature raggamuffin look but we don't feel the romantism that makes his clothes truly desirable.

I still don't know who wants to wear all black in spring, but we're sure there's some ladies out there. Yamamoto continues to mix western structure with Japanese drape but we want back the dark romance!

Exhibition: Future Beauty starts October 15th

Future Beauty: 30 years of Japanese Fashion is an exhibition at the Barbican starting on October 15th that Trend.Stop has long been waiting to see.

Tickets are £10 on the door, but cheaper for concession or if prebooked. It features works from the greats including Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamamoto and the masterful Rei Kawakubo aswell as featuring younger designers Junya Wantanabe and Jun Takahashi. We fear that you won't wanna miss it if you want to see the Avant-garde at their best!

Paris Fashion Week Comme des Garcons

Kawakubo continues to shake up fashion with literally upside down clothes. The collection feautured coats with bags attatched and two garments joined to each other. Why we just don't know! Kawakubo used obvious construction techniques to again question what can be accepted in fashion.

Paris Fashion Week: Cerruti

It's what see and what you don't see in this Cerruti dress...the skirt is like a curtain on the models dress; as she moves parts of the model are revealed.

Paris Fashion Week: SPOTLIGHT Maison Martin Margeila

Trend.Stop loves Margeila's ludacris flat clothes. Fabric was pulled tight over rectangular pieces of plastic, a statement about people's wardrobes...Some may question how wearable such pieces are...But..we think..Who cares! Although some pieces were impracticle there were others looks that put the idea into a wearable form. Margeila continues to stretch the boundaries of fashion in order to find new ways of dress and it gets a thumbs up! Check out the ludacris collection below...

Paris Fashion Week: Lanvin

Although there wasn't a lot of new ideas Elber Albaz continues to make clothes that women WANT to wear...easy, clean and glamourous with simply beautiful fabrics. But we want more!

Paris Fashion Week: Victor & Rolf

These are Trend.Stop's favourite from Victor & Rolf. Trend.Stop is all about showing wearable, clean, beautiful clothes for the modern young women with a modern and inspiring edge. These pieces are exactly that, we loves the cuff on the women's nighty, a smart edge makes the pieces wearable for the daytime.

Paris Fashion Week: Pedro Lourenco

We see something NEW in Pedro Lourenco's second collection. It made of exclusively leather plus there's an almost invisible tulle to add a feminine tough. The idea that it looks almost as if some of the pieces are literally glued to the body are very interesting. Trend.Stop always loves new ways of showing revealing different parts of the body and Lourenco has done this by putting the tulle in places where one would think it's neccessary to cover the body. Although it's a very futurisitc collection, some of the pieces in isolation are very wearable and modern. We like!

Paris Fashion Week: Hakaan

Trend.Stop always enjoys when clothes make a gesture to revealing the body underneath them. Hakaan has done this with the cut out dresses and the body double jumpsuit made in an off fleshtone grey that sort of swims along the curves of the model.

Paris Fashion Week: Anne Valerie Hash

Trend.Stop has picked these from Anne Valerie Hash. We never say no to a jumpsuit...and this one is masterfully constructed, what is normally costructed as layers on a dress has been stripped down to create soft shaped jumpsuit. And braces...are they back? Maybe, Maybe not

Paris Fashion Week: Balenciaga

There's always something to say about Balenciaga. This season we've picked these wearable shirts out of the futuristic look. They're girly but they have a modern twist!

Paris Fashion Week: Carven

Kinda girly...Kinda Cool

Paris Fashion Week: Rochas

The nighties and 1920's inspired dresses and jumpsuits are made into modern day wear and evening wear. It's questionable which women will be willing to try them but it's very interesting what Rocha has done..we like how femininity is questioned by playing with clothes women wouldn't wear outside the house.

Paris Fashion Week: Damir Doma

Colour..Tick. Make up..Tick. Hint of stomach..Tick.

Paris Fashion Week: Manish Arora

Manish Arora as ever mixes a number of things in their collection through colour, fabrication and embellishment. We don't love embellishment at Trend.Stop but this coat was we like! The simpler colour combination in this look gives a fresh approach to the colours used this season on the runway. The animalistic print is out there but paired down to be wearable. We also like this take on the ponytail.