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The new collection website of London based Australian design maestro Richard Nicoll is now online. It’s definitely a better developed website to showcase his remarkable work to this date. A much better typographic treatment to his name identity as well.

Richard Nicoll

The new Spring/Summer 2009 collection by Stephan Schneider will be an upcoming new story appearing on Monday.

A previous collection by Stefano Pilati for YSL but these are two standout pieces since the introduction of the current new Spring 2009 range:

Back in August, Nicola Finetti had conversed that rising Australian model Myf Shepherd was going to be very recognisable and do enormously well. The case has been that she has done marvelously as with the case of Stephanie Carta who was photographed in a feature shoot in Bhutan by Max Doyle and Abbey Lee Kershaw as well as Alice Burdeu, with Myf transforming herself overnight after not been recognised in having the qualities to be an actual model. Catherine McNeill unfortunately has not been around due to illness. So where are they now?

Abbey Lee earlier showed for the Resort 2009 collection of Gucci and showed in New York Fashion Week this year as well as Paris. Some of the shows she walked included the Spring 2009 Gucci show, Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Donna Karen, Daughters by Obedient Sons and Versace.

Stephanie Carta has very well. In particular, she walked for Raf Simons’ Jil Sander this season, Balenciaga’s Autumn/Winter 2008 show and Alberta Ferretti.

Myf Shepherd is seriously the new young gun. Exclusively shown in London based periodical 10 Magazine which also featured an in-depth focus on fellow Australian model Abbey Lee, she has already walked for numerous shows which have included Marc Jacobs, Jil Sander, Chanel, Balenciaga, Fendi, Prada, Gucci and Missoni (to name only a few!). At only 17 and looking to make a serious career inmodelling, her C.V. is sparkling.

Alice has done wonderfully. In most particular, she walked for Parisian Australian Martin Grant, Peter Jensen, Sonia Rykiel, Louis Vouiton earlier in the year and lastly but certainly not least, Richard Nicoll.

Congratulations to all of them for doing great so far.

Out And About

Lastly, please view some amazing photographs during the international fashion weeks of Milan and Paris by Scott Schuman at his Style.com page here.

To compliment the sparkling success of Thuy and Miho’s new dedicated menswear range of United Bamboo, these were some beautiful examples in their womenswear collection for Spring 2009 at this year’s New York Fashion Week.

Dark navy blue extended blazer and cropped shorts, silk orange top

Pleated full skirt with cropped structured jacket; transparent cordial orange blouse and drawstring waist pants

The merry-go round of international fashion weeks has come to a gradual end. Here is some light-hearted humour backstage of Australian fashion photographer Sonny Vandevelde, Robert Cavalli show at Milan Fashion Week. With thanks to Patty for the video. Go Sonny, go!

Yves Saint Laurent, Men A/W 2008/2009 - w/ ShowStudio

Stefano Pilati has opened the hearts and minds of all fashion enthusiasts. Charismatically, as a designer with Italian heritage he has essentially brought a deeper and direct flow of romance since his appointment as lead Creative Director of the Yves Saint Laurent collections. But he isn’t an old gun, one that should automatically fit in a mature mould to then design clothes out of touch for younger generations. He has sought to marry a collaboration with other designers from different creative fields, opening up a sense of new interaction and versaliity. For the AW 2008 collection for men, he directed a video installation close to eight minutes with directors Chris Sweeney and Sarah Chatfield; a collection presentation to seduce an embracing connection with the audience and strongly identifying YSL’s growing menswear market.

With a fresh mind and the power of youth on his side, he sought out to architecturally perfect the new season for womenswear. Audacious and with a powerful sense of feminine prowess, its allure was befitting in a range of key garment pieces. A fine net textured facade was set in a number of black dresses which sought to embody the voluminous trousers and an extended Japanese Kimono-like shoulder jacket. Translucent men’s top buttoned shirting was further reinforced by a richly textured golden brown drawstring jacket and billowing matched pants. A dark navy waist coat transformed itself into a working dress. This produced a picture moment of confidence structured by Stefano and outwardly enhanced the v-cut folds.

Complete pantsuiting was beautiful and sensual - slightly folded at bottom with cropped fold jacket and waist trousers with balance and proportion. Although architecture naturally pertains acute origins, Stefano provided rounded shouldering and overall the tailoring was luxuriously smooth. This was a collection that was well orchestrated and his propositions was a smooth melody.

Stefano as the head designer of YSL wants us to feel and understand the pragmatics and interactive emotion of the clothes and in the words of Massimo Vignelli, design should be meaningfully universal.

Nothing can be easily conversed of Ann’s talents and inward ability in her designed collections. Not as Belgian austere as previous, her new collection interjected pastel orange, deep vermilion and a mixed orange of yellow and magenta. Structured men’s tailoring and an outward set of cuts and edges of inner shirting followed the jersey cotton tucked shirting which looked scrunched and set as her key dresses.

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