Fashion Week Favourites: Acne's Fluro Jumper
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As you know one of my favourite things to do during the fashion week month is looking at what everyone is wearing and finding popular, if ephemeral, trends. Last week I posted about the Reed Krakoff bags at New York Fashion week but today it's all about a jumper.

If I am not mistaken it was Kanye West who was first spotted wearing the Acne fluro knit during London Fashion Week. I must say he did look great in it and wore it pretty much how I would have (sans golden chains, of course). The other spottings of people in the jumper also happened during LFW. Funnily enough, after Kanye having his moment a few months ago in a Céline womenswear chemise this time women took to the menswear Acne knit.

Even though I absolutely loved the head-to-toe 'hospital green' look I can't figure out whether these people already had a wardrobe full of pieces in this colour or if they went and bought them to wear a sort of 'underliner total look'. In any case, I would say that apart from neutral colours, this is probably the most chic bold one to do a monochrome outfit with.

Are you a fan?

Runaway

When I first heard about Kanye West's latest video I got very confused as to what the nature of the video was. I could not quite figure out if it would have music and be played on MTV or if he had ventured into the difficult world of short films. As it turns out, he did both. The full version of Runaway is 34:32 minutes long but it's also been edited in a video version for TV, which runs for 4:38, and an extended video version, 8:29. My advice is to watch the full length version, put it on mute and play some nice music you like on the background. From a short film point of view it is a stunning piece of work, with incredible photography and beautifully produced. I was personally blown away by Kanye's directorial skills, which just as his dress sense, exceed his musical ability. The concept is a little sci-fi with the right amount of avant-garde and I was mesmerised by the colours and landscapes just as much as I was by the art direction and the costume design (by Phillip Lim and Martin Izquierdo).

















As a music video, however, it simply sucks. Not only the song is extremely monotonous and nonsensical but the part of the film chosen to go with it has the exact same characteristics so that you enjoy those 4:38 minutes as little as possible. Which is a shame because the ballet dancing is a fantastic part of the film and it feels very current set against the worn out green inside of a warehouse.Do turn back the sound at about 26:50 to listen to the only decent track throughout the whole film. It still sounds a bit like Kanye but it's a lot more Imogen Heap than him.
I definitely think he has found his path in life with this kind of thing. As much as it pains me to admit it he has a very good eye for art. So do us a favour, give up music and make more of these.
I'm off.

[Pictures: screen caps from video]

soVIP decade

A certain Welsh source whose name I can't reveal recently brought to my attention that this December wasn't only the end of 2009 but the end of the first decade of this new century. With this in mind, I started looking back both at soVIPzone's archive at at my immense iPhoto collection. I selected my celebrity fashion highlights of "noughties".

She has been flawlessly elegant for ten whole years thanks to an endless number of Armani gowns and her recent, more fashion-forward choices.

She got high. Then she got clean. Then she dumped Pete. Then she had a sandwich. Now she's just stunning.

Ash and MK became an iconic fashion duo and launched their diverse brands. But they also became individuals. Ashley recruited the slick dressers of the world while Mary-Kate took a more bohemian, yet chic, tangent.

Rachel Zoe went from creating style-clones of herself (see below) to being the first stylist celebrity and creating a clothing line, publishing a book and getting her own reality TV show.

In The O.C. you couldn't help but love Marissa and all the Chanel she wore to high school. And Mischa never disappointed red carpet-wise either, until Ms. Zoe was fired, that is. We enjoyed it while it lasted.

Fortunately, Nicole managed to collect or her Zoe wisdom and reinterpret it into a new style. One that successfully worked. She also parted ways with Paris and had a couple of offsprings that made her put on the few pounds she needed to make the most of her beauty.

Skinny, chubby, orange, white, knickers, drugs, biker jacket, leggings. They all work in many combinations when talking about Lindsay. She too, had her moment of fashion stardom courtesy of Rachel Zoe. But that moment was even shorter than Mischa's.

Both Summer and Rachel took longer than Marissa and Mischa to get interesting fashionably speaking but it was worth the wait. Rachel Bilson slowly turned into a ridiculously cute chic woman that didn't go off the rails.

Tom left the Gucci group. And the past ten years are history.

Anna and Carine went from signatures on the first page of Vogue to iconic fashion celebrities, filling the party section of Style.com and Scott Schuman's shots.

Victoria kept everyone talking about her diverse range of highly calculated everyday outfits. Whether we liked them or not, it was good entertainment.

She also kept us amused with her extravagant travelling ensembles. Let's make special mention of the hats and the black leather in its multiple shapes that are Beckham staples by now.

Katie had a cut and a beautiful mini-me. Contrary to popular annoyance soVIPzone was awestruck.

Kanye was cool for about 10 minutes. Then he opened his mouth.

Brad and Angelina made it official and turned the Jolie-Pitt family household into a United Nations orphanage. Plus, Brad wore a lot of Tom Ford.

Yves passed away and we lost one of the fashion geniuses of the century. Oh, and Stefano looked sharp at his funeral.

We got hooked to the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite. An addiction that is destined to outlive the decade.

Chuck Bass. Girls want him, guys want to be him.

Lauren Conrad took the hoodie off and ditched Laguna for LA. It was all amusing cute blonde locks and manis but the bad scripts and annoyance of the Heidi/Spencer combo made it too much.

We saw a new era of supermodels being born. Claudia and Linda were substituted by Daria and Anja. (And I didn't complain).

It all started with that dress on the left. It was all dashing smiles and spot-on fashion choices from then on.

Rihanna changed her umbrella for some YSL and ended up as a musical cross between a dominatrix and housewive with a quiff.

[Picture credtis: JustJared, Celebrity Gossip, Style.com]

I'm off.

round LFW

I am not going to have time to update much around here until after Sunday. I am currently doing some intern work at Luella during London Fashion Week and I have anything but spare time. However, I can find a moment to share with all of you one of the top moments of today. I was working at the Luella fashion show this morning and, apart from being mesmerized by Tim Blanks, Kate Lanphear, Scott Schuman, Suzy Menkes and so on, I took a picture with the man of the moment. Fair enough, he is too aware of the fact that he is cool but even so I would like to think I now share some of that coolness. Behold.

Kanye West et moi

I'm off.

PS. He said my shoes were cool. OM*G!