You know, I do need to indulge in my food passion somewhere here and if it’s not a ‘What did I eat today’ blog in manner of the wonderful This is Naive (her photos make me drool on my keyboard…’nuff said…), I’m just going to have to relate fashion to food.
Well then, I’ll have to be blunt and say that Ivana K’s latest AW08-9 collection is like creamy heaven. I’m afraid I’m going to have to go into Nigella Lawson language and say it’s slinky, oozing and voluptuous. The lookbook was already appetising enough but when I went to the collection preview at Potassium (shame on me… the SOLE stockist of Ivana K in London and a store that I have never heard about…. ) last week, it was quite literally drool everywhere. Think ‘soft mounds’ as per what you need for mousse in dresses that drape, glide and have volume worked into them ever so discreetly. Soft and marshamallowey padding (and I mean VERY soft!) adorn the shoulders of dresses but not in a way that cries out Joan Crawford. The foundations of the collection though are still Ivana’s directional tailoring that carries all this measured softness. The tactile qualities in all the pieces are a result of Ivana’s judgement in fabrics so as embellishment goes, there is very little because it’s not needed….. behold the soft creamy mallow-like goodness…
Of course, on person, the soft volume is even more obvious…
Now, where is my fluffy-centred meringue (hard, chalky meringues are just wrong on so many levels)…. ?
I really want to be able to wear knee high stockings that easily!
You’re killing me with these posts, Susie. Two complete doozies in a row! I shall have to stop spending my money on Haribo and newspapers and start a fashion extravaganza fund. A lady needs her shoilders floaty…
B.
the jackets are fabulous!!!
Trendini is right: the jackets are fabulous. It’s amazing the difference in their looks when they’re on a person. I really like this approach.
On the hanger these looked beyond gorgeous, but then when I saw them on the model I thought they looked, well, sort of cheap. Somehow from hanger to person the effect got a little lost. Maybe it’s just the styling of the photo’s of course.
^^ Funny, I thought they looked much better on the model than on the hanger!
I love that first shrug/jacket on the model! Sublime!
yummy!
they remind me of prettier shoulder pads, actually. o_O
Shes my teacher lol!she teaches @ istituto marangoni in london!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!she graduated from the masters course marangoni too
oh wow… those photos are great, i just love how saucy the model is, and the pieces, they do look like meringue pie…