Mr.StrictlyIntimate
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Burberry Prorsum: The S/S13 Amazement
Burberry Prorsum Womenswear Invitation
With tears in my eyes and a heart that was skipping a heavy beat every time a new outfit appeared on the runway, I was watching the Burberry Prorsum fashion show from London Fashion Week today. Let me tell you one thing, apart from the beautifully touching and perfectly fitting music, Christopher Bailey has created a Spring / Summer 2013 collection for Burberry that just blew me away and left me shivering breathlessly and speechlessly.
I just sat there staring at the amazingly drafted clothes and thought to myself, ‘THIS must be what heaven feels like.’
I know, this all might sound a bit overly dramatic but believe me if you’ve been through what I’ve been through and if fashion turned out to be the only thing that can save you from failing you will find yourself in a world where everything all of a sudden seems brighter and more beautiful just because you can dress up and go out; or simply wake up in the morning and jump out of bed because a new outfit is waiting for you; or you can just sit there, staring at your wardrobe putting together outfits for a whole week, losing yourself in the most precious of fabrics, designs, labels.
To this date, nothing made me feel more beautiful, precious and happy than wearing Burberry. It is not about people seeing the label you wear because mostly, they can’t see. It is just about the feeling it gives you to know you’ve bought yourself something that is marvelous in design and quality; reflecting tradition that was found back in 1856 with Thomas Burberry and that still lives on. It gives me the feeling that I can live on forever if I just work hard for all the goals I want to achieve; for all the dreams I have in mind; for all the love for fashion I have inside me – to let it all out and create something uniquely amazing. For myself, and for others.
Bright Metallic Trench Coat
Bright Metallic Trench Coat Detail
Metallic Python Vinyl Capelet
Metallic Python Vinyl Capelet Detail
Metallic Corset Jacket
Metallic Corset Jacket Detail
The collection couldn’t have been more inspiring, more soothing, and more diverse in fabric than it has been. We saw trench coats from metallic lurex mixed with a technical fabric to make it lightweight and comfortable yet perfectly structured. Also an amazingly bright, bold and beautiful capelet in metallic python leather and bright vinyl with a python leather laminated with reflective foil to act as a frame for the tailored transparent vinyl. Corset jackets made from metallic and silk fibres crafted in plissé fabric featuring a bustier bodice and corseted back to give a sculpted silhouette.
Peacock Feathered Trench Coat
Peacock Feathered Trench Coat Detail
Tailored Satin Capelet
Tailored Satin Capelet Detail
Sculptural Dégradé Bubble Coat
Sculptural Dégradé Bubble Coat Detail
What didn’t just make me gasp but let Anna Wintour surprisingly turn her sunglass protected head with amazement (there you see the connection to the headline) was the marvelously beautiful peacock feathered trench coat with iridescent peacock plumage rosettes, crafted using couture techniques. Each of these feathers was placed by hand and afterwards stitched into a geometric floral design. The trench is finished with a collar made of rich satin and heritage-influenced epaulettes, cuff straps and a satin belt.
Absolute highlights have been all those beautifully tailored capelets, especially the ones made from floating satin. The canopy shape shelters the shoulders from the cold and is detailed with a leather latch. The dégradé effect on the blue coat results from a design painted by hand. Printed on silk the hand painted color changes its character to a dramatic twist.
Laser-Cut Leather Caban
Laser-Cut Leather Caban Detail
Last but not least, I found this caban to be worth mentioning for its pure beauty! Crafted from rich leather in a unique lace design it is laminated with a thin layer of metallic foil while the leather is laser cut then washed to soften the metallic sheen.
If this collection doesn’t take away all the doubts of fashion haters that this world is uniquely rich of talent, depth and beauty I can just say screw you! What Christopher Bailey created for the Spring/Summer 2013 season is not just divine but one of the most beautiful Burberry Prorsum Womenswear collection I have ever seen! Kudos, Christopher Bailey!
XOXO
P.S.: All pictures courtesy of Burberry.co.uk. You can see the whole show and shop the looks exclusively for one week: Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer 2013 Show.
The Opening: Forever 21 and infantile behavior… a glorious combination!
I just arrived at home finding my daily Standard on my bed and a cup of hot tea waiting for me to be a mental support for writing this blog entry. It is Wednesday the 4th and today the first Austrian Forever 21 Shop opened its doors for VIP’s and press people to look at the variety of clothes, the interior concept and the floating champaign…
As my blog turns out to be my most important working source, I actually had to be there – not just to provide you, my dear readers with the newest and hottest fashion gossip, but also to give you an insight into the partly scandalous life of Vienna’s wannabe top society. Therefore, I attended the opening with a beautiful outfit that included a Burberry tie and with a beautiful lady as my +1 – beloved K – meeting stylish blogger colleague MY! In my opinion the whole concept of the actual Label Forever 21 strangely appears as an American version of British fashion empire Topshop who at least had Kate Moss as a leading and top selling campaign model.
The shop itself holds a more than big variety of clothing with three enormously large floors – the only disappointing thing about these superior number of styling proposals was the percental segmentation of menswear and womenswear – I would dare say it was a very unhealthy division of 5% to 95%… not kidding, at all.
But back to basics – if I were a fifteen year old girl with a minimum budget to spend on fashion this store definitely is the perfect cotton candy location to shop. All those flowers and butterflies and pastel colors really kind of freaked me out compared to the lack of quality. Besides the quality, I have to say, that the store looks quite okay – just like an enormous, glittering Disney wonderland full of faked antiques and somewhat beautiful but kitsch furniture.
In the end, the only really creepy and weird thing was finding out that some people my age and your age and even a few years older than you and me seem to be unbelievably infantile and ridiculous. Once this usually beautifully dressed blogger was working as an intern at a magazine and somehow, by a weird mistake and a weird coincidence one party was against the other and oh my fucking great gosh – A saw me at the opening and ran of to hide away from me. Every single time she saw me. Coincidence? I don’t think so! Lack of self-confidence and knowing one was wrong? Definitely!
On the way to my sister’s new place for having a quick coffee and a little chit chat about what is going on in our both lives, I saw something, that made my mood rise at least a little bit. I do not know what it is, but every time I see this ad I have to smile – whether it is Natalie Portman or the fact that it is a Dior campaign for a wonderful perfume called Miss Dior Cherie – it just makes me feel safe and secure every single time I come across it.
Isn’t she the most beautiful woman that walks on this world?! Well, in my mind she is!
Have a wonderful night my dear, beloved readers.
XOXO
Mr.StrictlyIntimate
