Missoniis one of the best known, loved and recognized fashion and design brands in the world and influences a contemporary lifestyle. But the talk in the fashion world is about the remarkable and unique Fall/Winter 2017 campaign, which was recently released. From there, the results were in left in awe of the work and message sent from the Missoni team.
Creative director, Angela Missoni, first expressed her wants for unity and fearlessness within the fashion community at the FW17 fashion show in Milan, which is where the theme of the campaign, female empowerment, identity and freedom to be, originates from. Gigi Hadidposed as the face of this campaign, and we at Downtown can’t imagine anyone else portraying female empowerment better.
The campaign is set to be in the surroundings of Angela’s home, located in Brunello, Italy, which overlooks Monte Rosa, became driving force in the background of the images shot.
Missoni’s Fall/Winter 2017 collection involves slim, sensual and iconic designs. Each design bring into singular harmony banded and trapezoidal patterns, checks and macro space-dyes, monochromes and exclusive technical elaborations, all while celebrating a freedom by combining and superimposing the lively colors, warm textures, proportional lines and alternating lengths, which are the principles of this season’s campaign.
The womenswear campaign was styled by Vanessa Reid and presented the looks accessorized with jewelry by Joseph DeMeo. The menswear was styled by Stephen Mann. As longtime collaborators, they helped pull together this extravagant campaign.
Peter Miles is to thank for the artistic direction and the introduction of new models from the Missoni Eyewear collection, which was presented in this season’s campaign. The campaign favored contoured imagery, cut-out bodies, and looks stand out against the soft, gradated landscape which references the environment and the bond with nature.
The entire campaign reflects and showcases Angela’s world and her ideal choices and ideologic creeds. It also represents her 20th anniversary as creative director of the house of Missoni. Here’s to many more!
It’s Tuesday – which means it’s time for the Trend Report of the week. This one, however isn’t reporting on new trends, rather which fashion icons to keep an eye out for and see how the trends are being worn.
Who you look up to reflects what your personal style is. Classy girls may look up to someone completely different than trendy or edgy fashionistas. But, there are some fashion icons who slay in anything and everything.
Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy, Jackie Kennedy are all classic icons whose shoes no one are ever able to fill, however new faces constantly being tried on by new faces to the fashion industry.
Although some of these fashion icons have been around for a few years now, there are some who have gradually made their way to the top.
Here are Downtown Magazine‘stop fashion icons to watch right now.
This week on Trend Report Tuesday, we are featuring the CFDA’s, Council of Fashion Designers of America, red carpet from last night’s award show hosted by Seth Myers, taken place in New York City at The Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The CFDA award show, partnered with Swarovski, recognizes the best of the best at their award show and the attendees and nominations included both newbies and classic icons in the fashion world along with an audience full of celebrities of all kinds wanting to be a part of this night otherwise known as the “Oscars of fashion.”
The red carpet was fabulous and emphasized beauty and liveliness. A sudden spring/summer trend has been neutral along with bright colors, and the looks this year mirrored the color trends making the atmosphere sophisticated, as well as cheerful and the guests appearing more radiant than ever.
Another current trend incorporates the use of patterns in garments, which was popular among the red carpet as well. It is appropriate that this year’s red carpet was one of the most fashionable red carpet’s of the year, seeing as we were recognizing some of the most talented fashion designers in the industry.
Fashionistas from all around the world take this night to debut their best looks, and this year, the red carpet was a success. Some of the fashion designers who dominated this year on the red carpet included Kate Spade, Coach, Christian Siriano, and more.
Here are Downtown’s favorite looks from the 2017 CFDA Red Carpet.
Gigi Hadid in The Row
Josephine Skriver in Naeem Khan (with Naeem Khan)
Kerry Washington in Prabal Gurung
Janelle Monáe in Christian Siriano
Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen
Brooke Shields in Sachin & Babi
Sara Sampaio in J. Mendel
Lily Aldridge in Jason Wu
Olivia Palermo in Banana Republic
Olivia Munn in Tanya Taylor
Mandy Moore in Kate Spade
Elsa Hosk in Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini
Zhenya Katava in Nicole Miller (with Nicole Miller)
At the end of the day, the CFDA awards are more importantly recognizing pure expertise and triumph among fashion. Below are the results from the 2017 CFDA Awards.
Womenswear Designer of the Year: Raf Simons for Calvin Klein
Menswear Designer of the Year: Raf Simons for Calvin Klein
Accessory Designer of the Year: Stuart Vevers for Coach
Fashion Icon Award: Franca Sozzani
International Award: Demna Gvasalia for Vetements and Balenciaga
Founder’s Award In Honor of Eleanor Lambert: Pat McGrath
Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent: Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia for Monse
Swarovski Award for Positive Change: Kenneth Cole
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Rick Owens
Board of Directors’ Tribute: Cecile Richards, Gloria Steinem and Janelle Monáe
These winners, along with the other nominees, take authority of the current and prospective fashion. So sit back and applaud these hard-working recipients and see what they do with the future of fashion.
The 2017 Met Gala has come and gone. As per tradition, the Gala was on the first Monday of May at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and followed by the opening of the Costume Institute exhibition. Celebrities from everywhere flew to New York City for this event, having planned their attire months in advance with some of the world’s most renown designers.
This year’s theme for the exhibition and Gala is the following: “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons”. For the first time since 1983, the show focuses on a living designer. The opening of the Costume Institute exhibition will be held today, May 4th and will feature around 120 Comme des Garçons womenswear designs by Kawakubo.
Here are some of Downtown’s favorite looks from Monday night’s gala.
Spring is to fashion what New Year’s is to resolutions. If Jan. 1 is a time to rethink our choices and swear to shed bad habits and adopt new, better ones; spring is the time when closet spring cleaning takes place – we leave our foolish fashion choices behind and adopt new ones. As soon as the first heel clicks on Fashion Week runways, we know what will be in and what will be cast aside in the upcoming season.
So, let’s see what the near future holds for all the fashionistas, makeup junkies and hairdo lovers.
Alive and in Color!
If you have secretly been longing for the colors of the ‘80s, great news bright-hue lovers – pink is back and better than ever. Powerhouses like Balenciaga, Celine, Valentino and many others were proud to present a range of dresses ranging from frilly and feminine to straight and edgy geometric lines in all possible variations of pink. The best part – all of these looks are completely wearable and worthy of a million street-style hashtag likes.
Another unmissable presence were the evergreen stripes. Diagonal, horizontal, vertical, wide, narrow, monochromatic or colorful – take your pick. And they will make their mark on every single item of clothing, from dresses and pants to blouses and shorts. They will even make it as far as beachwear.
It is safe to say that it is time to get stripy.
Faux and real fur lovers – rejoice because the eternal style staple, the fur coat has been seen strutting down the runway with ready-to-wear looks.
Of course, we must not forget to mention the powerful feminist messages with shirts with “we should all be feminists” dominating the catwalk.
It is a great year to be a woman.
As for those who look for fashion inspiration for the upcoming season in the runways of New York, the Fashion Week of the Big Apple has shown us that simple and feminine lines will dominate the streets of Manhattan, in minimalistic cuts and colors, namely black and white.
According to one of the US’s influential designers, Marc Jacobs cheeky sweaters and insanely high platforms will rule the streets styles this spring, so if you were missing the ‘90s vibe, now you have an excuse to bring it back to life, while Ralph Lauren predicts the revival of the western cowboy theme.
Oh, My, Makeup!
We are in utter and complete awe of the variety of beauty looks slaying the runways of Paris, London and Milan fashion week. And while some of them were very artistic and almost conceptual, there were also those that are bound to dominate the urban landscape once makeup lovers head to the streets.
The Milan shows have showed that it is ok to be eclectic and electric, as the eyelids of models were beaming with day-glo fuchsia, neon-lavender, pastel blue across the entire lid (pretty bold),and also bright blue, and yellow hues done in a cutting-edge geometric style.
Ladies, if you did not dab in bright eye colors and pigments before, it is time to get bold, and get a serious upgrade in the makeup and cosmetics department. Since the focus on the Milan runways was mostly on bold eye looks, the lips were left almost untouched or simply with a healthy-looking balm pout.
If you look at the beauty dominating one of the most important fashion weeks – Paris, you will notice that the focus was also on the eyes, but in a somewhat different fashion. Precision was not the focal point and the smudged and vamp looks accompanied with dark eye shadows, liners and eye pencils were the rule.
There were however more natural looks as well, like the one on Gigi Hadid with her healthy, almost ethereally dewy look for the Isabel Marant show, so if you are a believer in the no-makeup makeup look, Gigi shows you how to rock it, supermodel style.
When it comes to the beauty looks, there is a lot of inspiration to draw from this season’s runways of New York. From natural no-makeup makeup looks of Ralph Lauren to bold lips and fierce dark blue smokey eyes seen on models walking for Mischka and vivid brights of Oscar De La Renta, there is a whole variety of looks to snag for yourself, so if there is anything you would like to try, now is the time to rethink your makeup and cosmetics choices and add new items to your shopping cart.
After seeing the crème de la crème of this year’s runway looks, the only question that needs answering is – Which one of these things did you miss, and will be stocking up on this spring?
Mia Taylor is a fashion and beauty enthusiast from Sydney and writer for www.highstylife.com. She loves writing about her life experiences. Traveling and enjoying other cultures and their food with her husband is a big part of her life. She is always on a lookout for new trends in fashion and beauty, and considers herself an expert when it comes to lifestyle tips. Check her out on Twitter and Facebook.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid is behind the lense of a new Versus Versace campaign featuring boyfriend Zayn Malik. Hadid was enlisted to capture Versace sub-label Versus Versace’s upcoming SS17 campaign, having taken the photos at the famous Chateau Marmot hotel in Los Angeles. Hadid shot using an iPhone and a mix of digital cameras with British model Adwoa Aboah also included in the campaign.
“It was sick to work with Versus. Donatella is a G,” said Malik. “It was extra special that Gigi shot the campaign.” The SS17 collection is scheduled to come out in June, followed by Malik’s own Versus line shortly after. Hadid recently starred in Reebok’s #neverperfect campaign.
