Haute Fall 2011
Feb. 24, 2011-Milan-/FW/ Researched to the last detail, the Fall 2011 collection from Haute took its inspiration from the story of Papillon by Henri Charière. Based on the author’s life, Papillon starts off as a young gangster in 1930s Paris. Sentenced to life in prison, despite protesting his innocence, Papillon never lost his taste for freedom. Catherine Brickhill...
Haute Men Fall 2011: The Luxury Workers
MILAN, Jan 16, 2011 / — Blue collars in Thirties style, workers in steel mills, railwaymen: Haute men’s collection for the next Autumn-Winter, the first designed by Marcus Constable, takes inspiration from the working uniforms of the past. With a renewed spirit, in a contemporary and sophisticated version: in fact, while its cuts recall the workers uniforms’,...
Haute Fall 2010: Seducing through a single detail
MILAN, Feb 25, 2010 / FW/ — For Haute Fall 2010, designer Cristina Lombardi found inspiration of femininity in the 1940s, not a loud one but merely a whisper, discovered through a particular detail. That of a sleeve, a lapel… or possibly a jewel-collar bedecked by baguettes, which becomes an original decorative complement for daywear or evening. The clothes also...
Haute Men Fall 2010: Masculine Elegance
MILAN, Jan 19, 2010 / — For Fall 2010, it is all about masculine elegance at Haute. Inspired by the movies of James Ivory and Jane Campion in Portrait of a Lady, there are undercurrents of sexuality suggested by the luxe fabrics. Velvet plays the key role: “ processed and worsted”, it lays at the base of a strictly slim man’s suit. Experimenting in fabric brings...
Haute Spring 2010: It’s Vintage, It’s Original
MILAN, Sep 27, 2009 / FW/ — With a very subtle military reference, Haute merged different shapes using different materials, and thus ended up morphing them together so that the in the resulting permutation, it is hard to point out any particular reference. The new is old, the old is new; it is protective… it is also naked. The parka comes in transparent organza,...
