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Menswear Spring 09 Paris and Milan: Designers Play with Proportions Messaging Plays the Thing.

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Bottega Veneta Spring 09……………………………………………Dries VanNoten Spring 09

Many of the silhouettes for Menswear Spring 09 in Europe had that Great Gatsby era style to it, but more modern. One designer, Dries VanNoten, said, “I want him to be dapper, not dandy.” Mission accomplished.

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Prada Spring 09…………………..Junya Watanabe Spring 09

At the same time, designers played with proportions in the length of the pant, the size of the jacket, additional volume mostly with the pants but also with some jackets, socks are an important accessory and up to the knees (as well as argyle), and then this year designers took a page out of women’s collections and gussied up the shoes to match the jacket, the shirt, or the sweater through all manner of technique.

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John Galliano Spring 09

The sum total of it all for me was that men will, though serious as always, be letting their fun side show this spring.

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Moschino Spring 09

I don’t know if this means designers are planning for the recession to be over or for men to be needing some other form of self expression because let’s face it, the world-wide economic situation will have taken its mighty toll by Spring 09. Perhaps it’s just that men will finally let their hair down, and wear their pants up, or something like that.

Whatever the case may be, it’s cool, man, real cool.

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Bottega Veneta Spring 09…………Versace Spring 09

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all images Style.com except Denis Semachev, International Herald Tribute.

What is the best outfit to wear in this room?

According to New York Times fashion critic, Cathy Horyn, and “On the Runway” blog fame, Bill Blass once said you should dress for the room you will be in.

I’ve been pondering that sentiment for awhile now and finally needed to blog on it. Like what would the room look like that would match one of Balenciaga’s Spring 2008 pieces from the catwalks of Paris?

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And I decided this room would work with that color composition. It had to be at the very least contemporary….and white.

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But this room would work as well:

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How about you? Do you wear clothes that match the rooms you’ll be in?

The Color Wheel Keeps on Turning.

campana-sushi-iv-chair.jpgLOL. You all must realize how much I like color by now. A fun topic, it’s changing like crazy of late, which gives me much to talk and therefore write about.

Alas, its time to move on from red. So, where shall we go? From images of Maison Objet 2008 and the ever so creative and innovative Campana Brothers, it’s a little bit of everything with heavier influences of pink and purples which is putting the reds into blues and popping it with greens and yellows.

Campana Brothers Sushi Chairs: (above left: Sushi IV Chair) (below Sushi II Chair)

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Maison Objet 2008 (taken from NY Times article) and Dior Fall 2008 (Style.com):

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Maison Objet 2008 (Image taken from 3 Layer Cake blog):

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New York Gift Show 2008 (Pablo Pardo, images from Apartment Therapy):

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NY 2007 Gift Show: John Pomp Glass

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I want to talk more about the Campana Brothers, because those chairs are from 2003 and produced in limited editions. They’ve come out with some more recent stuff that I think will also have a waterfall effect in home design (next post). If you are wondering where to find the chairs featured here MossOnline, ExtremeMoss, carries them or you can go directly to the Campana Brothers website.

Prints, Satin, Loud Colors, Bad Taste in a Good Way. That’s a Wrap for Paris.

Christian Lacroix Prints Fall 08
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Balenciaga Prints Fall 08
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Dries Van Noten Prints Fall 08
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John Paul Gaultier Prints Fall 08
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Christian Lacroix Satin Color Fall 08
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Christian Dior Satin Color Fall 08
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Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcon Bad Taste in a Good Way Fall 08
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