Winter's Unwithered Flowers

A touch of Spring also for Fall/Winter 2012-13 with romantic micro-patterns and abstract macro motifs

Saturated colors inspire the skirts by Burberry Prorsum to be paired with the patchwork-effect, 50s-style coat by Antonio Marras.

If you are dreaming of the sea in winter,Peter Pilotto chooses a tropical pattern in vibrant colors. The floral print top by Manoush is inspired by Brazilian flouncy dresses.

Don’t forget the more ethereal and natural version: the woman by Comme De Garcon is wrapped in her impalpable coat with flowers, worn with the necklace by Roberto Cavalli.

Peach-hued flowers are a favorite among designers: casual denim for the floral print pants by Goldesign, strapped shoes by Chie Mihara.

Diamond like flowers are also present, Corto Moliedo’s clutch bag and Bluegirl’s seablue belt adored with a shimmering bloom.

Winter Diving

Thermo-insulating and semi-waterproof materials. Ergonomic shapes that wrap the body into geometric structures. The only feminine touch is provided by the long dresses inspired by mythological figures like the mermaids.

Megalopolis She-Warriors

Eye popping lights, excited megalopolis to walk through like she-warriors dressed up in a provocative and cinematic period, with a desire for the unreal.

Blue Chanel

A metallic-hued pilgrim, luminescent, as envisioned by Chanel, in a blue also proposed – or better unsaddled – by Ann Demeulemeester’s cuts. Much digitalized like a screen concealing the secrets of a hacker, the blue haunted by thin stripes for a sportswear-style suit with jacket by Peter Pilotto.

Mary Katrantzou
 labyrinth-like print

Over-enhaced shoulders, shown at Fendi, like the power style of the Eighties, mixed in with the 40's elegance, like the long number by Mary Katrantzou, on which a labyrinth-like print complicate the already complicated retro-futuristic path of the new urban Avatars. A reinforced glamour, highly structured, with revisited and exaggerated neckline, shoulders, waist and hips, or otherwise fluid yet metallic, like in the tulle and pleats and obi-style dresses by Fendi, showing a liquid modernity.

10 years later, in 2007. Viktor&Rolf cage their models inside a device that make them glide,put into cages, with garments suspended just like their pace. Like Birds of Paradise of tomorrow, the women clad in Moncler Gamme Rouge and presented like living artwork – caged in showcases - at the Royal Palace, in Paris in February 2007.

Thierry Mugler's
"Les Insectes"

Thierry Mugler more than anyone else  exaggerates the already sexual aggressive mood of the Eighties and becomes iconic. Especially with the dress in tulle and patent leather, a boudoir-style corset including garter belts and long sleeves and gloves, with bare skin only on the thighs, between stockings and a corset. Or, back to the idea of the Bird of Paradise, his “Papillon” dress, plumage that explodes on the bare back with colored feathers, opened up forming a wide wing: summer 1997 Haute Couture, “Les Insectes” collection.

In collaboration with Swarovski,Hussein Chalayan, celebrates the 111 years of activity of the fashion house with a sequence of dresses that open up like flowers, thanks to mechanical internal devices, and also to summer 2008.

Cosmic Love

Untainted colors, geometric figures and voluminous structures: a woman becomes an elegant astronaut to revitalize the scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film by Stanley Kubrick.

The clothes evoke a 60s spacesuit: oversized volumes like in the jacket showcased by Peter Pilotto in London for A/W 2012/2013, with a more space-age spirit provided by the lame-effect fabric.

Mary Katrantzou chooses a dress with a geometric patterned mini-breast-plate, enhanced by an extremely rigid material.

Patterns are conceptual, like the wrap skirt by Leitmotiv or the jumpsuit with Korean collar, by Erdem.

An ample and capacious skirt for the metallic blue dress by Marc by Marc Jacobs and for the dress by Stella McCartney with patterns inspired by Starry Night, the painting by Van Gogh.