Carine's colourful farewell

It's that time late in the month when pictures from all the new month magazines start filtering into the Fashion Spot before they magazines actually come out. And, of course, this means I have to post about the new Vogue Paris. And I don't only have to do so because the March issue is particularly good (I am in love with Giovanna Battaglia's story) but because this is Carine's last issue as Rédactrice en Chef. After the big controversy of the Tom Ford issue Carine seems to be making up for all the advertisers she left out then by making incredible over-the-top styling on the spring editorials. My favourite, by far, is Pop Égerie, styled by Emmanuelle Alt and shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Not only they have used an obscene amount of Jil Sander (officially my favourite SS11 collection) but also those Prada stoles that are everywhere, a lot of Blumarine and Miu Miu all modelled by Daria Werbowy!. Do you love?

I'm off.

[Pictures: TFS]

Collage Sunday, 20.02.11: Phillip Lim 3.1

It's so hard to keep up to speed with posting about fashion week while one has a day job and attempts to make the most of the shows in London, which is why I am using this Collage Sunday to finish on the NYFW posts (for the moment anyway) and to be able to focus on London from tomorrow. I've been a big fan of Phillip Lim for years and I always love his simple approach to silhouettes and cuts. His FW11 collection was, as I see it, one of his best ever and most definitely the best from the last couple of seasons. The mixture of textures —wools, silks, leathers, furs, knits, PVC, you name it— and of colours —muted greys, beiges and navy contrasting with apple green, mustard and azure— added the edge minimalist cuts.

I'm off.

[Pictures: Style.com]