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Mad Print Job

Prints are going to be huge in upcoming collections. They provide a lot of room for creativity while still appealing to most people's appreciation of aesthetics, colour and contrast.

Erdem Moralioglu is a London-based designer with a penchant for custom-designed silk prints, sharp tailoring and bold colour palettes. Three things I am completely mad for at the moment. I especially love the evening gowns, ruffle top and skirt combinations in his latest Autumn/Winter '10 Collection:



Aren't they utterly romantic and playful? He graduated from the Royal College of Arts only 7 years ago and his label is about 5 years old. The inaugural British Fashion Council/UK Vogue Designer Fashion Fund recently awarded him £200,000 to help spearhead the development of his label into a global fashion label.



Zac Posen's latest AW10 collection resonates similar whimsical notes: interesting forms, mixed textures and embellished prints. I love the panelling on the dresses. (The little red velvet piece is a slightly odd one out in the following photos... adorable and somewhat opulent at the same time, isn't it?)

Freya Stark meets The Sheltering Sky: Kenzo SS10

The backdrop for his latest collection for Kenzo was a huge golden disc—the sun hanging heavy over the Sahara. At the finale, it literally exploded in a shower of gold filaments that rained down on the catwalk while models walked in juicily shaded chiffons—aqua, peach, hot pink—with heads wrapped like nomad princesses. It was a spectacular conclusion to a show that took as its starting point the Middle Eastern excursions of the early twentieth-century English adventuress Freya Stark, then stirred in a little of Bertolucci's film 'The Sheltering Sky'. So there was a Europe-meets-ethnic vibe to the clothes, which was so perfectly in tune with the ethos of the house that it underlined how appropriate a choice Marras was for this job. Tim Blanks for style.com.



The storyline for Kenzo's SS '10 collection is superb in that it allows for a vast array of designs, prints, colours, fabrics, textures and materials to be used- no mean feat, yet Antonio Marras executed it finely while still encapsulating the distinctive Kenzo style so wonderfully!