MY TAKE ON FASHION WEEK FALL/WINTER 22

LONDON FASHION WEEK. The primary focus has returned to physical shows, and there was a real buzz on the runways and at events throughout the capital this February 2022. London Fashion Week was once again a digital physical hybrid, but the emphasis has returned to physical shows, and there was a real buzz on the runways and at events throughout the capital. With a mix of rising designers and well-known labels, the five-day event featured 129 menswear and womenswear brands in 86 physical displays and presentations plus 61 digital activations. Big names like Ozwald Boateng, David Koma, Molly Goddard, and Vivienne Westwood were among the established designers this season. Conner Ives, Eftychia, Feben, Helen Kirkum, Labrum Londo, Matty Bovan, Nensi Dojaka, Per Götesson, Richard Quinn, Robyn Lynch, Roker, S.S. Daley, Saul Nash were among the designers featured in Newgen, the British Fashion Council's talent identification scheme that supports excellence in design and aims to build global brands.

Haute Couture Week, which takes place twice a year in Paris, provides a rare view into this opulent world, where aesthetic escapism, remarkable craftsmanship, and one-of-a-kind costumes with five-figure price tags are normal.Its most recent iteration, for the Spring-Summer 2022 season, has recently ended. While there is always glitz and grandeur, this year's event was unlike any other.With different shapes and sizes, it sizzled! New York and Milan on the other hand, dazzled in darker hades and an lineup of ig models.

TRENDS

-Color blocking

-Suits

- Oversized garments

Here are some of the highlights!

PRE FALL 2022

CAROLINA HERRERA. This Carolina Herrera pre-fall collection is influenced by dance, but not just ballet; there are pieces that have a Bob Mackie-dresses-Cher vibe to them, and others that convey Mrs. Herrera à la flamenco. Exuberance is the key takeaway.

VERSACE. The black and white Barocco print connected the women's and men's collections visually. Formal fabrics including flannel, Prince of Wales, houndstooth, and windowpane checkered wools were overprinted with curlicue designs and accentuated with metallic edges on traditional cut suits. An oversized puffer, matching boxy shirt, and surfer shorts were laminated in silver that corroded and peeled off at the same time. Despite the fact that it screamed Versace in all its peacocking grandeur, it signaled a shift away from the streetwear and loungewear craze and toward a more elevated, opulent vibe.

FALL 2022 READY - TO - WEAR

VERSACE. We declared the suit was back in New York, but after today in Milan, it's a done deal. Donatella Versace's 2018 collection began with a swaggering black pantsuit, with a boned corset cinching the jacket's midsection and emphasizing the fullness of its shoulders. She also included two satin top coats from her men's collection, one in brilliant pink and the other in electric blue, from her men's collection. That had to be the first time.

SPRING 2022

VALENTINO. Throughout, he demonstrated how couture can create a silhouette around the body and use dressmaking to either highlight or modify a person's shape. Because garments are constructed, it made a huge difference. One size does not fit all, and neither does one blueprint scaled up or down. We've all seen it on red carpets, where people with a different physique than the body who modeled the dress on the catwalk can wind up looking under- or overblown because the silhouette's measurements and adornments don't respond well to scale.

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER.Martens provided us with a wonderful, escapist exercise in what you can accomplish when you're allowed wild in the Gaultier workrooms' wunderateliers, and you're a designer who isn't afraid to go a bit innovative, maybe even a little crazy, with the creation and execution of your work.

FERRARI. SPRING 2022 READY-TO-WEAR.

A long awaited couture collection from the italian scuderia. The color palette was darker than i ve imagined, hoping for burning red, i encountered bold dark colors, nevertheless, classic couture, even though there were no upstanding pieces, it was a forgetable debut, unfortanely.

RESORT 2022

SAINT LAURENT

It's uninhibited: There's a great laid-back attitude here, with high-waisted, floor-sweeping flares, feathers a-plenty, flower power sequins, and hippie headbands; it's like Avenue Montaigne meets Haight-Ashbury—or vice versa. It's been set free: With LBDs and not-so-little LBDs bearing all kinds of cut-outs and cut-aways, breast-veiling, and other sorts of transparency, there's a confident, palpable sense of sexual strength.

VALENTINO.

Piccioli has been at the maison long enough to know the rules by heart; he has witnessed its glitzy heyday, when Valentino Garavani welcomed guests to his Château de Wideville, whose gardens were as immaculately groomed as the high-maintenance clientele who strolled through them. It was a fantastical universe that was also hidden and unreachable.

VICTORIA BECKHAM. With a sculpted floor-length dress featuring a dramatic cut-out above the décolletage, Beckham's pre-spring lookbook glided into her first take on a more egalitarian proposal: a clear declaration that "affordable" isn't the same as demure. The designer's directionality was evident in the tailoring and shirting, which were either nipped or exaggerated in all the fascinating places, but she emphasised that comfort had been at the center of the brand's "rebirth." She combined her two companies into one that is both economical and luxurious.