28 autumn fashion events

Wonderzine continues to release event guides that will make the coming autumn a little better. In this issue, everything related to the fashion industry: from the actual show at Weeks Abroad, in Russia and Ukraine to the Adidas and H & M collaborations, as well as exhibitions and books about American street brands and Isabella Blou.

Fashion weeks

The first of the major fashion weeks starts in 10 days. You should not expect anything extraordinary from her: here one after another, the classics of the American style are shown, for example, Diane von Furstenberg, Caroline Herrera and Michael Kors. From the expected show of a young wave of local designers - Alexander Wang, rag & bone and Proenza Schouler.

London fashion week

londonfashionweek.co.uk

September 13-17

The most interesting in terms of new names, the Week starts with Fyodor Golan and Ostwald Helgason, and ends with the shows of Meadham Kirchhoff and Simone Rocha. Major brands include Burberry, Christopher Kane and Mulberry. There will also be full-fledged shows of very young designers on the Fashion East and Fashion Scout platforms.

Milan Fashion Week

Cameramoda.it

September 18-23

Milan Fashion Week - the main one for the Russian fashion market Week: where else do Dolce & Gabbana, Max Mara and Prada consume so actively? In addition, Jil Sander, Marni, No 21 will appear. Special attention should be paid to the trade show within the framework of MFW - Pitti Super and White, where the new collections of 300 brands interesting to the mass buyers who are looking for new local brands will be presented.

Paris Fashion Week

modeaparis.com

September 24 - October 2

The last of the main Fashion Weeks is the key and most expected among industry professionals. It shows everything about whom they will talk in the next six months: the actual French brands Céline, Givenchy and Valentino, the Japanese Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto, the British Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood. We are especially waiting for the shows of young talents - Simon Port Jacmel and Yan Lee.

Ukrainian Fashion Week

fashionweek.ua

October 9-13

The first Fashion Week in Kiev - Ukrainian Fashion Week - focuses on the development of the local market, and also works with brands from the CIS countries. Thus, in the new season, the most famous Georgian designer Avtandil Tskvitinidze will appear in the UFW. From the usual participants from Ukraine - Artem Klimchuk, Vladimir Podolyan, Lilia Pustovit, Svetlana Bezva, Lilya Litkovskaya, as well as the duet of Kamenskaya and Kononova, and among the new names for the Ukrainian Fashion Week are Jean Gritsfeld and Ksenia Schneider.

Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days

mbkievfashiondays.com

October 17-20

In Kiev, there will be another series of shows - as part of the Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days event, which ideologist is the distributor of Nowfashion.com and Style.com sites Daria Shapovalova. The event features young designers, such as Anton Belinsky, Kostya Omelya and Sasha Kanevsky, as well as foreigners whose shows have already been held as part of world fashion weeks: last season they were Costume National and Marios Schwab. MBKFD will present collections of participants from the Fashion Scout Kiev platform, who will host a show at the London Fashion Week in September.

Aurora Fashion Week Russia

afwrussia.com

October 17-20

Georgian designers will also come to Russia: for example, in St. Petersburg Tamuna Ingorokva will show its collection. Local AFWR participants include Aleksandr Khrisanfov, lidia.demidova, Liza Odinokikh, oliamarcovich, Za-Za, and more famous designers Leonid Alekseev and Tatyana Parfenova. Olga Shurygina from Moscow, as well as two French brands, Nanthalat and Nytka, will give a presentation in St. Petersburg to the “Fresh Blood” heading. Northern Fashion Week is also waiting for a headliner from Britain: for example, last season it was the new brand Marques' Almeida.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia

mercedesbenzfashionweek.ru

October 26-30

A series of local shows will close the last Russian Week - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. Last season the sisters Alice and Julia Ruban, Oleg Ovsiev from Viva Vox and Alena Akhmadullina participated in it. Who will show their collections this time is still unknown, but we hope for the best.

Collaborations

Adidas continues to collaborate with Opening Ceremony, the brand of creative directors at Kenzo Carol Lim and Umberto Leon. In their third joint collection, you can see printed costumes, graphic sweatshirts and shoes, reminiscent of climbing shoes. Adidas, as always, uses high-tech materials: for example, a jacket with a basky stitched from a water-repellent and wind-resistant Climacool material. The line will be sold at the Tsvetnoy department store.

River Island x Rihanna

12-th of September

Rihanna showed her first collection for River Island at last London Fashion Week. In the new season the singer works with the brand again. Models Jordan Dunn, Tao Okamoto, Atai Deng and Bambi Northwood-Blyth pose for the autumn-winter advertising campaign in striped dresses, cropped sweatshirts and leather pants, which will soon appear in the Russian River Island stores.

H & M x Isabel Marant

November 14

One season, the H & M brand did not work with designers, but by the fall it had developed a collection with Isabelle Maran. The Frenchwoman will probably show t-shirts and sweatshirts with prints, mini-skirts with embroidery or fringe and, of course, wedge sneakers, which every second girl already wears. Good news for guys from designer lovers: Isabelle Maran will develop men's clothing for H & M for the first time.

Alexander McQueen x Damien Hirst

Mid november

Damien Hirst continues to monetize art. He created collections for Levi's and The Row brands, and now works with Alexander McQueen. Together with the creative director of the brand Sarah Burton, he draws prints with insects for as many as 30 shawls of silk and cashmere.

Adidas x Rick Owens

December

Following the Belgian Rough Simons with the sports brand Adidas collaborates Rick Owens. The designer, known for Neo-Gothic aesthetics, developed four pairs of sneakers for women and six for men. Shoes made of leather and nylon white, black and pearl color will come to Russia as well and will cost from 400 to 500 dollars.

Exhibitions

Isabella Blow has had a tremendous impact on fashion, and now the industry is giving it its due. Not long ago, a film and a book about the editor came out, and now Somerset House together with Central Saint Martins will devote an exhibition to it. The exposition will include hundreds of designer outfits like Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy and Hussein Chalayan, who switched from Isabella Blow to Daphne Guinness. The exhibition promises to be one of the most spectacular for the year. If you do not have a chance to visit her, order the accompanying catalog, the exhibits for which was shot by photographer Nick Knight.

Timeless mysi

Tokyo Station, Tokyo

Until the end of September

Louis Vuitton opens the exhibition with enviable consistency. In the near future, the French house has an exposition of its six muses: Kate Moss, Sofia Coppole, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Sagan, Charlotte Perin and the French Empress Eugenie de Montijo. It will be interactive and open at the refurbished metro station in Tokyo.

Hat -ology

Palazzo Morando, Milan

September 22

About a year ago, fashionable journalist and stylist Anna Piaggi, known for her eccentric style and work in Italian Vogue, passed away. Six months later, in Milan, the general public was shown her wardrobe. The exhibition Hat-ology, dedicated to the hats of the late journalist and stylist, will open there this fall. Piaggi was famous for the collection of hats of all shapes, and many of them were created for her by her friend and hatter Steven Jones. He was instructed to supervise this exhibition, where you can see both a baseball hat and Chanel couture. They will be on display in a space recreating Piaggi’s Milan apartment.

Comma, etc ... In The Footsteps of Roger Vivier

Palais de Tokyo Paris

October 2 - November 18

Roger Vivier died in 1998. At the Paris Fashion Week in Palais de Tokyo opens its retrospective. Within its framework, at least 140 pairs of shoes of the designer’s own brand, which is now headed by Bruno Frisoni, will be shown, as well as materials from the Roger Vivier archives.

From Philadelphia to Monaco: Grace Kelly, Beyond the Icon

Michener Art Museum, Philadelphia

October 28, 2013-26 January 2014

Few remember that Grace Kelly was born in little Philadelphia. One of the most significant local museums decided to dedicate an exhibition to her. She talks about the life path of the actress and Princess of Monaco. The fashion show is interesting to the fashion-showers by the clothes of Grace Kelly, which has become a landmark for her life: the Hermès bag, which is named for her piece, and the Yves Saint Laurent dress with the famous Mondrian print.

Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Until February 16, 2014

The exhibition tells about the influence of the London club scene on the younger generation of designers of the early 80s. The Club to Catwalk features nearly a hundred outfits created by John Galliano, Paul Smith, Betty Jackson and Jasper Conran at a time when they were just beginning to gain fame. One of the main objectives of the exhibition is to show how closely fashion and club life of the decade were connected. In addition, for the sake of the exhibition, they got covers from the archives of covers and photoshoot of the iconic magazines of the era - The Face, Blitz and i-D.

Russia in Vogue

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

From the end of November

In November, will release a collection number Vogue - Russia in Vogue. Prior to this, the publication has released Dance in Vogue and Nude in Vogue. Such issues are accompanied by photographic exhibitions, and Russia in Vogue will not be an exception. It is planned that the exhibition will include hundreds of photographs representing the picture of the influence of Russia and the Russian style on world fashion and culture. In Russia in Vogue there will be portraits of famous Russians who appeared on the pages of international versions of Vogue: Ida Rubinstein, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Gala Dali, Wassily Kandinsky. Also show collections and shooting, inspired by Russia. And even reports made by famous photographers in the USSR during the Iron Curtain.

Books

If you have long wondered why most of the street brands are so similar to each other, buy a book about the history of one of the oldest - Los Angeles FUCT. Eric Brunetti, the artist and father of the brand, himself tells how he created aesthetics that referred to the skateboard culture, which, in turn, inspired many designers and artists after him. You can learn first-hand how to create a logo, develop a corporate style and attract colleagues from other areas of pop culture to collaborations.

The World According to Karl

September 17

Karl Lagerfeld is known for his loud statements: he can say that the singer Adele is too fat, the Russian men are ugly, and the Greeks are corrupt. The irrelevant words of the designer Chanel and Fendi always became a reason for news and even inspired Flammarion to release a book with its quotes. In the English volume of The World According to Karl, Lagerfeld’s statements will be accompanied by eight dozen illustrations by artist Charles Amelin.

Dior Impressions: The Inspiration and Influence of Impressionism at the House of Dior

Florence Muller

September 17

The time to revive Dior's home is probably the best to learn more about the history of a great brand. If you tremble at the sight of roses on Raf Simons' dresses, trace the chain to the beginning: the Belgian found inspiration in the archives at home, while Christian Dior turned to the impressionist paintings of Monet, Renoir, Degas and Manet. Like light, nature, colors and movement in the works of artists reflected in the collections of Dior, says Florence Muller, a fashion historian and art curator.

The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do

Colin McDowell

September 30th

Why do we dress like this and not otherwise? A simple but exciting question is answered by one of the main fashion analysts Colin McDowell. In The Anatomy of Fashion, he talks about how cuts, fabrics and inspiration are chosen for each collection and how the story is related to this, where the relationship between the structure of a man’s body and his clothes and why beauty standards change every six months. All this already fascinating material is supported by more than 500 photographs and illustrations of brands: from Versace to Diesel, from Alexander McQueen to Carhartt.

In My Shoes: A Memoir

Tamara Mellon

October 1

In My Shoes is an honest story of the personal and career development of a woman who has built a multimillion-dollar business — Jimmy Choo. Is it worth it to invest in a creative project, how to resist the envious (even if it's own mother) and return with a new project after a protracted depression and rehab, she tells in her memoirs. The story is as dirty as inspiring.

Diana Vreeland Memos: The Vogue Years

Alexander Vreeland

October 15

In 2011, Diane Vreeland became the heroine of The Eye Has To Travel. Now about the editor Harper's Bazaar and Vogue 80s and 90s have written a book. Its author was the grandson of journalist Alexander Vreeland, and the editors of Vogue magazine helped him. In the book, in addition to their texts, Diana’s personal correspondence with fashion industry workers like Veruschka and Cristobal Balenciaga will be printed.

Chloé: Attitudes

Sarah Mauer and Mark Ascoli

29th of October

The book for those who are eager to learn how designers, among whom Karl Lagerfeld, Phoebe Faylo, Martin Sitbon and others were in different years, interpreted the concept of the Chloé house: create things that look expensive, but relaxed, and like a 60-year-old brand. history manages to broadcast the image of a young and successful girl. The important point is that it was written by two legendary people in the fashion industry: British journalist Sarah Mauer and art director Mark Ascoli, with whom we, by the way, spoke here. They can be trusted.

Valentino: Objects of Couture

Maria Grazia Curie and Pierre Paolo Piccioli

29th of October

Perhaps it is not even worth saying that the collection of Valentino couture creations for different years is eye-candy. The album was created by brand designers today - Maria Grazia Kyuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. They are one of the few who can make couture youthful and light, without neglecting traditional craftsmanship and embroidering every inch of the dress in such a way that it would be scary to breathe nearby. Actually, for this we love them.