My Role is to Seduce :: John Galliano Designer Profile featuring Malo
You probably haven't had the pleasure of witnessing couture culture's fight for survival, and it's even less likely that you've been one of the stylish few steering the couture ship, keeping handmade, traditionally-crafted custom clothing alive by adapting its painstaking detailing into a brave new pret-a-porter world.
John Galliano is has done both... a designer known for his stubborn flamboyance and his stubborn exhibition of clothing as art, he is also just as capable of playing to the rules of today's market. View fullscreen feature.
Neck & Neck featuring Malo
Collars and lapels were originally worn upturned in the early 1900s. Men's collars used to be worn detached and completely starched to the point of discomfort. Mass production eventually made the dress shirt and its upturned lapels available to all; and the frock coat collar was always worn turned up.
Since the invention of the tennis shirt, lapels and collars have been an aesthetic trademark for the 'preppy look.' Whether worn casual or in fur, embellished collars are the perfect canvas for brooches. From the trench to the shrunken blazer, and even the detached bejeweled collar, collars and lapels frame the face, and keep out the cold in style view fullscreen feature
New York Fashion Week Fall 2007:: Malo featuring Malo
Italian label Malo has long been heralded as one of the top names in cashmere, yet Malo's reputation as one of the more innovative forces behind knitwear steadily grows and has made them editors' darlings when it comes to knits. The designer duo of Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi gave dark, industrial textured looks inspired by abtsract expressionist painter Franz Kline. Kline's action painting and spontaneity pulls through in the highly stylized and dimensional looks appearing in muted shades of gray and neutrals. [Rania Abu Eid] more...