Fashion Archives - Smudgetikka

Two perfect mini fashionista Christmas gift books today. First up Terrific Timelines Fashion  just published by Laurence King Publishing Terrific Timelines Fashion. One of the Terrific Timelines series with pop out characters to make a timeline from antiquity to the 20th Century and beyond. This should keep the offspring occupied for hours on a wet winter’s day.

The Design Museum in London presents Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier, a major exhibition exploring the late designer’s unique creative talent and the timeless beauty of his work. Azzedine Alaïa superb use of contour is shown in vintage gowns that the couturier personally recut himself to fit the 6’11” mannequins used for display here were completed before his untimely death in November last year at the age ...

Minime Paris Halloween hats from Shan and Toad are quirky, fun, exquisite and perfect for a quick dress up look, made for women but available at the Shan & Toad webstore in child sizes too. From a young age Minime Paris founder Marie Marquet has loved creating accessories and clothing. As an adult, she is still a child fascinated by fairy tales, the imaginary, and pop surrealism.

Balenciaga : Shaping Fashion is pure fashion inspiration at the V&A Museum. One of this summer’s important exhibitions, the craft and sheer brilliance of the Balenciaga gowns is worth a visit alone. However they are married with work from current big name fashion designers and these often only seen on the catwalk creations are equally as inspiring for any would be fashionista’s too. Having also seen the Pink Floyd ...

Yorkshire school kids model the collections featured in the new exhibition and book Disobedient Bodies: J.W.Anderson Curates the Hepworth Wakefield and spotted on Dazed Digital. The shots were taken by Jamie Hawkesworth, and feature 123 pupils from local schools wearing both the designer J.W.Anderson’s  creations and other high fashion garments featured in the exhibition including Issey Miyake and Vivienne Westwood. The exhibition at the Hepworth/Wakefield ...

If you wanted the most stunning kids dresses in the world for your little one, no expense spared Mischka Aoki is where you would go. At prices that outdo even the luxury brands such as Dior and Dolce & Gabbana its no wonder that they have also launched a diffusion collection for the summer called Little Miss Aoki.

Wolf & Rita for spring 2017 spans adult and kids fashion with a homage to the great Louise Bourgeois. As long time admirers of her art and persona, they researched through ‘Bour- geois’ always surprising and vast oeuvre: drawings, tapestry and specially the embroidered works created from simple fragments of cloth. Inspired by Bourgeois’ work, they created the patterns and colour palette for the collection: strong reds and deep blues, from geometrical ...