Burberry Prorsum Spring 2013 Menswear

Metallics? Check. Hot pink foil trench coat? Check. These additional playfulness on the latest Burberry collection by Christopher is a good way to update it's really boring pieces he sent these past seasons. I thought the metallics were controlled that it did not go overboard but just enough kick to make an outfit very interesting. Not sure about the new proportions he did for his bomber jackets. On the runway it looks cool but i thinks it's bit of a problem worn in the real world.

I'am liking Burberry again.:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love this look

Prada Men's Summer 2013

It's nice to see again what Prada used to look like years ago--simple and pure lines. What I like about most about this collection is the fabric used. It is so light and breezy and really worked well with the color-blocked designs. Although the whole collection is a bit repetitive from start to finish and there is no ;'it' shoe this time around, Miuccia still did not disappoint.

H&M x Maison Martin Margiela

Perhaps one of the saddest news that happened to fashion to date. Excitement, to some, but for the  loyal and true fans of Martin himself, it is like trading your very soul. Maison Martin Margiela isn't different with any labels that collaborated with the Swedish fast fashion behemoth. Lanvin, Versace, Marni, even Comme des Garcons did a little 'knock-off-ing" of their designs for the mass consumer. So why not MMM?

No. Like the previous labels, it is very much easy to downgrade a dress, or a skirt, or a shirt. Lanvin, for example managed to make party frocks that cost more than half cheaper than its mainline. But how do we downgrade a philosophy- values that is the very foundation of  the Maison Martin Margiela. How could they turn against what Martin has stood for building this house?  There has been a lot of commercialism undergoing the Maison these years. They recently jumped in the perfume industry, which stayed very exclusive and hard to find months back and now available to mainstream, not so but it is going there. Their eyewear line, Line 8, drowned in the ultra fashion forwardness of its Incognito predecessors a few years back. The newly refurbished website, their massive presence now in social networks like Pinterest, Tumblr, and well Facebook is scarrying me to death the house will go global- not that it is a bad decision by its management, but it tries to challenge the house's codes of creativity and will kill the exclusivity and the elusiveness of the brand.

And talking about going global, this collaboration will certainly put MMM to another dimension. Fans who can not afford mainline can have a lick of its "coolness" the house is known for.But, really? We love the house being exclusive and chase after its unusual pieces and willing to eat instant noodles for a month just to have that certain hype.

The bottom of the bottomline  isn't about this business strategy that will make the house on every young teenager's lips. It's about how we value the difference between what is past and going forth. This decision may not have a negative effect on the brand and losing its core values would not be as bad; but, it would have been nice if the house stayed true to  what he has left them.