lookbook files; gant rugger fall winter 2012

Now that San Diego has had a bout of the coldness, I've been parusing the fashionsphere for Fall/Winter inspiration. The Swedish American menswear powerhouse that is GANT RUGGER caressed my soul during Paris Fashion Week back in February of O-Twelve, so it was only fitting that their lookbook for F/W 2012 would add more vibes to my non campos menti (that means cray). The use of sensational wool and other winter fabrics for cold-day blazers, suits, and overcoats without the garments looking congested and bulky like most Fall/Winter items, well that's just secret agent greatness. When people ask if I'm cold in my blazer, I'll side-eye shank them because clearly they don't know the thread count in my GANT RUGGER blazer. Amateurs.

I'm a detail obsessed chap and this lookbook catalogs GANT's affinity for wondrous detailing. 

* Also, make sure to scroll down for the full lookbook- you don't want to miss out! *

Americana dapperness with Italiano Parisien gusto? Time to check out the going rate at the sperm bank! In the name of modern sartorial bliss, everything is fair. Rules. Of. The. Game.

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alexander mcqueen s/s 2012; the armour of the an etherial goddess warior.

Phenomenal. Otherwordly. Just oh-so McQueen! There's nothing more I can really say to describe how outrageously unbelievable this collection is. Sarah Burton is not only keeping Lee alive but also moving the house forward in glorious ways. The collection itself is a pantheon of romantically feminine & powerful goddess warriors decked out in lustrous golden metallics, valorous dark leathers, and ethereal lace masterpieces. And like any true powerhouse, the glory is within the ultra intricate detailing. I don't even understand how so such craftsmanship can be possible in this world. Again, otherworldly! 

Instead of bogging you down with how I'd sacrifice my teeth and my Missoni for Target cardigan (hey, bitches are buying that sold out shit for thousands of dollars on ebay!) to the Temple of Alexander McQueen, I'll leave you with an array of close ups of the rigorously magnificent details. If you want to see the whole collection just google it because I'm too obsessed with the details. Bite me. 

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take a dip under the sea with chanel s/s 2012.

There's always a ton of shows to pay attention to during fashion week, especially Paris Fashion Week. I know, I know... as a fashion loving chap (fashion blogger sounds stupid to me) I should be keeping up to date with it all, but I've got a life to drink away. While some collections get 10 minutes of my time, some get a whopping 2 hours of it. CHANEL is one of them.

This time around Karl Lagerfart decided to take us under, what I think to be, a winter wonderland Easter-esque sea promenade. The color ways were beautiful tones of faint blues, corals, sea foam greens that created siren creations of dresses (apparently the Chanel woman doesn't wear pantalones or shorts for the s/s 2012 season) in lightweight tweeds, leathers, and chiffon.

In general, I find every CHANEL piece to be very couture-like, even though it doesn't fall under the haute couture collections. The impeccable attention to detail by Lagerfart is always damn supreme. I literally spent 3 hours just zooming in and out of this collection and pretty much having an OCD visual orgasm. I digged the use of silently embedded pockets, the multi-purposeful useage of pearls as buttons, belts, and hair pins, and most importantly the stupefying manipulation of shredded & non-shredded chiffon and tweed to create the illusion of fish scales. Plus the use of iridescent chiffon in some of the creations was complete underwater genius.

Oh, and before I go, another thing I thoroughly cried in a "holy Baby Jesus, F I N A L L Y!!" praise was the decrease of ill fitting boxy & matronly shapes that I find CHANEL to be plagued with. Seriously, a lot of their past pieces look like bedazzled & printed potato sacks to me. But this time around I found slimmingly sensual silhouettes that would be fit for any fancy shmancy mermaid.

After the jump are 43 of my favorite sea monkey creations from the 80+ look set, enjoy:

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emanuel ungaro s/s 2012- some pieces to love.

I feel that a constant black cloud is always sitting on top of Emanuel Ungaro. It seems that it's always treading in water and waiting to come in at a disastrous last place at the Paris Fashion Week Olympics. Especially after the fashioncrowd mowled down it's Lindsay Lohan collection (I didn't find it THAT craycray to be honest) and since it's had an onslaught of creative directors come and go faster than Karl Lagerfeld can suck the youth out of his muses, it's hard for it not to be seen as a joke fixture of a house. It's really sad because Emmanuel Ungaro used to be such an iconic house in it's earlier days of the 80's and 90's. Anywho, I took a gander at their s/s 2012 collection and I found some pieces that I thought were quite spectacular in their own right:

I find these pieces to be very whimsical and beautifully sensual. I feel they'd make ladies looks absolutely stunning and coi. The blue/red watercolor-esque print pieces may have been used a bit too much - like, they said "I love this print... so let's make it into a pant, a dress, a jumpsuit, AND a thong, AND a babyseat cover, AND burka, AND a bathrobe, and everything we can!!" - but I rather enjoy them very much as independent pieces and also because they stay true to the bold color palette that made Ungaro a hard hitting phenomenon during it's prime. I guess I just want to believe that the House may jump back unto it's feet one day. I'm a sucker for heritage and tradition, and Ungaro has worked the fashion corners for 40 years to fall all the way apart. Please, someone save them. Please!

Here's to hoping the rain stops at the House of Emanuel Ungaro.

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pierre balmain diffusion line drops; lookbook included!

Once upon a blog post ago, I had told you guys about Balmain rolling out a diffusion line, aka charity case for the kinda-rich (the $180- $1,200 range is still a bit steep but do-able) has finally dropped! But just in case some of you have been ill and out of the fashionscope here's what the line is all about:

Now that we're all caught up to speed... the line is now alive and amongst us!! It was unveiled yesterday during Paris Fashion Week but sadly it wasn't in a form of a runway or presentation but rather just a simple viewing of the clothes in a showroom á la stylist style. But fortunately for those of us that aren't part of the fashion illuminati, Balmain has composited a lookbook of the entire collection for us. Rock on, mothalovahs!

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Anna Dello Russo is Fashion Week.

I love the shows but seeing the Vogue Nippon empress running around in the most ridiculously chic and mentally mindblowing fashion get ups is what truly gets me going. No one does fashion like Miss Dello Russo does! After you watch her interview with the Daily Telegraph, I'm sure you'll also be infected with the utter infatuation & respect that I have for her. If you don't... than I curse you to 365 days of bad style or in other words to Avril Lavigne's closet!

The only thing that I want to point out is that homegirl was doing Lady Gaga waaaaay before Gaga was contaminating her brain with peroxide. But that's my Anna, always so lovely. Plus, Anna's outfits are stylish and fashionable... Gaga's, not so much. 

Bonne weekend, mothalovahs!

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Karl brought les jardins de Versailles to Chanel S/S 2011!!

Waking up to pictures of Chanel S/S Port-A-Preter has been amazing. Nothing like a little Chanel to get the day going! I wish I had more time to write more about my love/hate relationship with Lagerfeld (today there's more love, for sure!) but I have a phatty exam to study for - I probably shouldn't be typing right now - but it's Chanel, it deserves at least 2 seconds of my time and I can't afford to have Coco herself disown me; I have major plans for us when I reach the retirement facility in the sky...  waay later on, of course! I totally dig how Lagerfeld brought a spunky edge yet enough flow and femininity to the collection- it's like an edgy lovely, right? The hole-ridden tweed suits that looked like they'd been devoured by generations of moths was spectacular! It totally brings to light Chanel's timelessness and utter powerhouse divatude! But the feathered and leathered clad garments were mon préféré and I totally wish Karl would've capitalized more on that- we all know he did it on purpose to frustrate me. Touché, Karlfart! Oh, well, I'll take my wins where I can. And having legendary top model and former exclusive Chanel model Ines de la Fressange close the show (the last time she graced a Chanel runway was almost 21 years ago!) was extraordinary. Goes to show ya that time does wonders to already gorgeous people. Karl sure knows how to throw a spectacle and his bringing of the Versailles gardens to the Grand Palais was the perfect touch for his already beautiful creations.

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Nothing like a lil Bad Romance by Courtney Love during PFW!!

She may be the hottest train wreck of all time (Lindsay, stop trying already!) but there is no denying that C-Love is always a showstopper with her badassness. I would have gone ultra rabid if I was within her presence when this shindig went down at the Givenchy party in Paris yesterday. Straight out RABID! Although kinda funny that she did a Gaga song. Remember when she told StyleList that she didn't find Gaga's music THAT compelling? Gawd, I love the crazies! Eitherway, I want both Courtney's and Givenchy's love and revenge, so it works for me. 

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SPOTTED: Anna Wintour at Nina Ricci

Who would've thought Anna had a lil craycray hilarity in her.

Glorious!

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CAUTION: Gareth Pugh S/S 2011 will blow your mind away!

This year Gareth Pugh decided to ditch the runway during Paris Fashion Week and instead wowed his pupil with a video presentation. If you don't have 11 uninterrupted minutes to spare, don't watch it now. It deserves your undivided attention, so come back when you do have free time. Yes, it's THAT glorious!

I don't even know where to begin... my brain is still trying to process the high level of greatness I just witnessed. I feel like I was sucked into the matrix and watched this super-cyborg-woman-samurai-assassin from the year 3050. And the movement, oh the mothaloving  movement!! It was crazy, intrusive, quixotic, and altogether grandiose. It made the architectonic cutting and fluidity of the clothes come both psychotically and mercurially alive. I was unquestionably hypnotized and dumbstruck. Gareth Pugh, Ruth Hogben (producer), and Kristen McMenamy (model), I give you a standing ovation for that blissful fashionable mindfuck!!! BRA-THEFUCKING-VO!!

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Studded, Safety Pin glory via Balmain!!!!

Christophe Decarnin, you are one radly EPIC son of a mothalovah!!! Maaaaaaan, I can't handle the amount of visual orgasms that I'm experiencing from these bombastic jacket creations directly via the Balmain Spring 2011 Port-A-Preter collection during Paris Fashion Week.

My eyes don't know what to fixate on. Every inch on every garment is just ridiculously orgasmic! The perfectly calculated mayhem is purely exhilarating to me. Love the marriage between studs and safety pins- it's like Pinhead from Hellraiser and an old photograph of the Mötley Crüe circa the '80s hooked up and had the most badass baby of all time. Strictly genius! I know the fashionloco's have mixed feelings about it and are even saying shit like "Oh, it's totally DIY, why buy one?" and I say, TohMahToe (the better way of saying tomato, obvi!!) cause even if people end up DIYing such awesomeness, Balmain still wins.Why? Two words: WORLD BALMAINATION.

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