Jean Paul Gaultier’s Pearl-Rock Exquisite Bracelet

Leave it to designer Jean Paul Gaultier to create something desired and unexpected! His collection are exquisite and always inspired by the most beautiful places and things on Earth. And his jewellery doesn’t fall much behind either. This pearl-rock bracelet mixes up the gentle pearls with the rock heavy chain. The bracelet costs $499 and it is made of a silver tone metal with crystal beads in either black or pewter. Available here.

Alexander McQueen Fall 2008 Ad Campaign

This is not just any ad campaign. It is the McQueen’s first ad campaign since 2003! The campaign is for Fall 2008 and it features red haired beauty, Alice McGibb. It is shot by Craig McDean in New York and the styling is by Tabitha Simmons. Alice poses as a Gothic bird and she is tangled among the sticks of a giant bird nest. A bit spooky and yet so addictive. And there is something so specially appealing about the softness of the dresses in these dark raw surroundings.

Paris Spring 2009: Jean Paul Gaultier

The cute show started out with a trio of modern dancers who danced on the runway. Gaultier’s favorite girl and one of my favorite models, Coco Rocha, reprised her Riverdance moment from Fall 2007 as she joined in the dance. She then took the stage wearing her dance shoes in a fuchsia dress which turned out to be a leotard. This was a ballet inspired collection featuring fitted suits, shirts tied in the back over high waist jersey pants, and flowing dresses. The hairstyles were really cute as the girls with their pinned up hairs under head wraps in true ballet fashion.

* Jean Paul Gaultier Paris Spring 2009

Spring 2009: The Most Dangerous Shoes

The runways are a scary place especially when it comes to the dangerously high heels, which seem to be more torturous than fashionably beautiful. The shoes can be either way too high or way too uncomfortable and combined with the runway experiments like a sandy runway or the plain extremely slippery ones, we get a horrifying combination of the hazardous runway shows.

This year, many models tripped during the shows of Rodarte, Pucci and who can forget Prada. And many more models stumbled at Dolce & Gabbana and BCBG and many others were petrified during Basso & Brooke, Marni, Gucci, Aminaka Wilmont and Christian Dior but miraculously survived. In any case, I think designers should start paying attention to this much more. It is one thing to bring fantasy and temptatious footwear to the runway, it is another to have models visibly scared, trembling or falling on the runway, there by distracting the audience from the clothes since the audience is merely too worried about the poor girls on the runway.

Below are some of the most horrifying, including the toe-less/sole-less shoes by Aminaka Wilmont, as well as Prada, Rodarte, Marni and Basso & Brooke in that order from left to right!

Victoria Beckham Shocks NY with Heel-Less Boots!

At the Beckhams’ perfume launch this weekend in New York, Victoria shocked all by wearing these PVC thigh-high heel-less boots by Antonio Berardi. A pair of these runs at about $5,600 and are made to order. The English-Italian designer started the heel-less shoe trend in the summer with the heel-less sandals which were actually bought by Uma Thurman, Gwyneth Paltrow and of course Posh Spice. These new made to order boots have already sold around 60 pairs worldwide.

Is this design impossible to wear? After all, heels alone make you feel enormous pain after long hours, then what will no heels do for your high-”heeled” shoes? Well, according to Berardi these shoes do not cause any pain.

“They are perfectly balanced. When the girls come for fittings, they look a bit daunted, but by the end they say it’s just like wearing a regular shoe. They are graceful and there is a ballerina nature about them. Having a heel is really just psychological.” The trick to the heel-less shoes is that they have a bigger platform sole which stretched back further than the ordinary heel shoes and this is what gives the needed support not to fall. However, when you walk you would need to step on your toes first. Medical experts of course disagree warning that if regularly worn, the shoes could cause permanent physical damage. I can see their appeal as they remind of the pointe ballerina shoes. But any ballerina would tell you that she would never wear her shoes unless she had to, no matter how appealing they are.

Would you wear the heel-less shoes? Is this the next dangerous footwear trend that everyone will start obssesing about?

Armani Presents Special Halloween Chocolates

Giorgio Armani’s sweetest line Armani Dolci will feature special Halloween chocolates which will be available starting this week until the end of October. The special Dolci are dark chocolate pralines all enclosed in white chocolate coating suggesting a “tiny ethereal ghost.”

Armani Dolci is a line mainly consisting of delicious pralines in five different flavors and it is made from the finest cacao in the world. Whether you chose white, milk or dark chocolate you can be sure to fall into the world of sweet temptations. True to Armani, the Dolci come packaged in very elegant boxes. Besides the heavenly tasty pralines, the line also features tea, jam, dragees, panettone, and torrone. Yummy!

Unfortunately, Armani Dolci cannot be found everywhere. Its limited access is within larger Armani shops worldwide, like the Milan flagshop on 31 via Manzoni and the Armani Chater House on 11 Chater Road, Central in Hong Kong.

Dangerous Footwear: Models Fall at Prada Show

Well, I guess I wasn’t the only one who could not concentrate on the Prada Spring 2009 show because of the intense fear that the models would permanently injure themselves. Many critics cited the extreme footwear as a “giant distraction from the clothes.” Two models actually fell on the runway and many more stumbled. According to Prada, the hazardous shoes would slippery because the models wore them with socks. Just because of the socks?

One of the models says to Telegraph newspaper, “I was having a panic attack, my hands were shaking. The heels were so high. Some of the girls were crying backstage they were so scared.” Poor models!

But a big applause goes to all of them, especially the ones that fell and then got back on their feet with their heads held high. Below is a short video of one of the girls falling.

* Model falls at Prada Show Spring 2009

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