20 summer fashion events
We continue to talk about the heroes and events that will make this summer a little better. The next three months are a low season for the fashion industry. Perhaps the main phenomenon here is long-running sales, which start abroad and end in late Russian stores. But we will always find what it is worth looking at, be it fashion weeks with the most awaited shows, collaborations of designers with a mass market or new exhibitions. In this compilation - what will please us Ashish Gupta, Monki, Farrell Williams, RuArts, Annie Leibovitz, “Tsvetnoy” and others in the very near future.
Trade shows and fashion weeks
We have already told how fashion is formed for men and what role Pitti Uomo plays in this - the largest clothing exhibition twice a year in sunny Florence. SS 2015 collections will be shown here in a week. The new season will determine not only fashion trends that will promote all modern dandies, but also proclaim a new favorite game - ping-pong, which is devoted to the upcoming trade show. To the exhibition, thousands of brands that will showcase their collections in Fortezza da Basso, will add special shows and presentations that have always been famous for the Pitti Uomo. So, Z Zegna will be shown here, headed by the former creative director of YSL Stefano Pilati. Bonus - a series of events with brands like Salvatore Ferragamo and Ermanno Scervino in honor of the 60th anniversary of Italian fashion.
Men's fashion weeks
June 15-29
Following the Pitti Uomo trade show, men's fashion weeks begin. These are the same endless cycles of shows that women’s weeks. We are especially looking forward to the first London Collections: Men, where our compatriot Tigran Avetisyan is to appear, as well as a dozen new names will appear, if only through initiatives like MAN - a group show of the Fashion East organization. Then everything is as before: Milan Fashion Week with Gucci and Prada and Paris Fashion Week with Givenchy and Lanvin.
Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week
July 6-11
The most entertaining for women will be Paris Fashion Week. Couture seems to take on new forms: remember the show of traditional Chanel and Dior with sneakers - it is interesting not only for collectors to follow it. Each season this week is expected to be revived and returned, so, last season Schiaparelli and Viktor & Rolf returned. This time from the ashes will rise from haute couture Azzaro. The favorite of Dalida and Sophia Loren, Loris Azzaro left our world in 2003, and since then his house has been thrown from side to side. Now the responsibility for the revival lies on the shoulders of the duo Arno Mylar and Avar Castaillon. They have already shown a good cruise line, so there is definitely hope. Of the other high expectations - the show Ulyana Sergeenko.
Collaborations
Ashish Gupta has been working with the British Topshop for 10 years. The date, you see, is beautiful, so the designer launches a festive capsule for the mass market. It includes T-shirts and sweatshirts with inscriptions, transparent plastic backpacks and sneakers with LEDs. This line will be brought to Moscow on June 12 at the Yevropeisky shopping mall.
Études x RETROSUPERFUTURE
On sale from June 1
Pleasant clothing brand for men Études, based in Paris, produces a line of glasses in collaboration with RETROSUPERFUTURE, suitable for girls. On the rims, prints created for the French by contemporary artist Manuel Fernandez, impressed by the issue of globalization, will appear. You can purchase a pair in Études pop-up store in New York and at retrosuperfuture.com.
Medicom x Uniqlo
FOR SALE June 16
Uniqlo collaborations do not count, like some street brands Supreme or Vans. After the launch of the line under the leadership of Inés de la Fressange and Farrell Williams, the Japanese took on the toy brand Medicom. So there appeared cute striped T-shirts with figures of famous bears, which we hope will get to Russia. We already know for sure that the Uniqlo collection with the New York MoMA will come to us.
Bat for Lashes x YMC
On sale from June 1
Natasha Khan has never been reputed to be a big fashionista, but at one point she gave birth to joint collections with You Must Create. In the Bat For Lashes line are sweatshirts and t-shirts with tropical prints in two variations: color and black and white. The party about the launch of the line has already been, so now look for it in the flagships of YMC.
Nike x Patta
ON SALE from June 16
The famous Amsterdam store and the Patta brand, which we talked about, celebrates its 10th anniversary. The retailer has won respect in the world of streetwear and is now releasing one interesting collaboration after another. We liked the T-shirts Nike sportswear made for it - dark, with the words "I Am Tiempo". They will be able to buy those who, of course, is going to Amsterdam.
Farrell Williams x adidas
On sale from June 1
Our urchin has ripened everywhere - this is definitely about Farrell Williams. The musician not only writes down hits, but also made T-shirts for Uniqlo, and now sneakers for adidas. Williams customized the classic model Stan Smith, which gained popularity among designers like Phoebe Faylo and street fashion heroes. His version of the sneaker is hand-painted, released in 10 copies and sold in a Colette concert venue. If you do not get a pair, do not despair and take a look at the adidas x Colette collection - these are the same Stan Smith with a nice blue geometry.
Diana von Furstenberg x Google Glass
On sale from June 23
Diana von Fürstenberg, a classic of American fashion, was one of the first designers to use Google Glass interactive glasses on the show: they defiled models, and then based on the material they recorded they made a film. Now von Furstenberg is launching a special line with Google. Her models will be available closer to July on Net-A-Porter.com.
Cultural events
Gucci, a brand with almost a century of history, opened a temporary exhibition of its own museum in the center of Iguatemi, located in Sao Paulo. The interior of the exhibition completely repeats the interiors of the Gucci Museum in Florence. Here are the iconic items from the archives of the house: the first collections created by Guccio Gucci, including luggage and accessories for travel, lovers of the 50s, Gucci Premier Haute Couture dresses, designed by creative director of the house Frida Giannini.
Exhibition "Art of Sound"
Venice
June 7 - November 3
It is not for the first time that the Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli Foundation helps organizing exhibitions to outside curators. This time they support the Italian music critic Germano Chelanta. He will exhibit about 180 instruments and talk about music as an art and the role of musicians in a person’s life. "Art of Sound" takes place in little Venice at the Prada Foundation and will run until the fall of this year.
Hans Feuer Exhibition
Moscow
June 5 - July 5
Hans Feuer, who decided to take up fashion photography after a trip to Africa, shot for GQ and Vogue magazines and was remembered by the Kenzo textbooks. Now more than a hundred of his famous frames can be viewed in the Moscow gallery RuArts. The 80-year-old photographer personally opened his retrospective, and, by the way, he still continues to shoot - just recently he was filmed for Russian Vogue.
A series of shows and lectures Tsvetnoy Fashion Film Days
Moscow
June 19-20
The "Tsvetnoy" department store this summer is counting on fashion videos, the interest to which has already been stirred up by the British Council with workshop Alex Tervi and Grace Ladoya. Visitors to the Tsvetnoy Fashion Film Days will be able to see an exhibition telling about the history of fashion video from 1910 to the present day, watch the shootings at the Tsvetnoy site, watch a movie about British designers and listen to lectures by professionals. For example, there will be a speech by Nilgin Yusuf, a teacher at London College of Communication, and a round table with the participation of the editors of Russian Vogue.
Exhibition "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk"
London
April 9 - August 25
"The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" - the first major retrospective on Jean-Paul Gautier. The exhibition features about 500 works. Among them are 165 pieces of clothing created by the designer since 1976, when he released the first ready-to-wear collection, a lot of couture dresses sewn after the founding of the line in 1997, as well as photographs and paintings, including the work of Andy Warhol. Many archival materials with clients and comrades of the French enfan terribl: Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Pedro Almodovar. You can look at the shooting of David Lashapelya, Cindy Sherman and Peter Lindberg for JPG. For the first time, "From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" opened in 2011 in Montreal, and now she moves to London at the Barbican Center.
Exhibition "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Savage Beauty"
London
March 15 - July 19
One of the most successful fashion shows in history. It first opened in 2011 in the Metropolitan Museum, and is now moving home to the designer’s home in London, the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition will feature more than a hundred items from all of the designer’s collections: from debut Nihilism to posthumous Angels and Demons, which were collected by McQueen’s collectors and friends.
Books
Big ship - a great swimming, decided to master celebrity photography Annie Leibovitz and released a book of 50 to 70, covered with natural leather. Inside there are portraits shot by the main photographer of publications like Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. There is an art version of the book, with a whale haring print on the cover, and 4 versions a little simpler, with Whoopi Goldberg, Keith Haring himself, David Byrne and Patti Smith. To this book is attached stand, created by the famous industrial designer Marc Newson.
"Dior: The Legendary Images"
On sale from June 3
Exhibitions and books about Christian Dior's house appear like mushrooms after rain. New, "Dior: The Legendary Images", tells about the brand's connection with photographers. Guy Bourdin, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton and Horst P. Horst - only a small part of the stars of fashion photography, who worked for the brand. It is their pictures that are now on display at the Christian Dior Museum in Granville and are included in a book compiled by fashion historian Francis Muller.
